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Faculty of Classics

 

C: ANCIENT HISTORY

Lent Term 2025

Meetings will take place on Mondays at 5:15pm in Room G.21, Faculty of Classics.

All Welcome.

 

27 January
Dr David Pickel (Warsaw)
‘Malaria Landscapes in Roman Italy: The View from Poggio Gramignano (Lugnano in Teverina, Umbria)’.

17 February
Dr Matthias Simperl (Augsburg)
'Criticism of the Pope in the Roman Liber Pontificalis: Possible Backgrounds'

24 February
Dr Mathijs Clement (Cambridge)
‘Asceticism and the space of paideia in Gregory of Nazianzus’.

3 March
Prof. Andy Merrills (Leicester)
‘Making History of Epic (and epic of history): Corippus and imperial power in sixth-century Africa’.

10 March
Christiane-Marie Cantwell (Cambridge)
‘The belief economy: the application of social economics to religious practice in Roman Gaul’.

17 March
Prof. Olivier Hekster (Nijmegen)
‘The global Roman Senate’

 

Latest news

Teaching Associate in Greek literature (Temporary Cover)

6 February 2025

The Faculty of Classics is seeking to appoint a Temporary Teaching Associate in Classics (Greek literature) from 1 October 2025 for two years. This post is open to those, at any stage in their career, with a primary research and teaching interest in ancient Greek literature. The successful applicant will benefit from the...

Assistant Professor in Classics (Ancient Greek History)

4 February 2025

The Faculty of Classics is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Classics (Ancient Greek History) from 1 September 2025. The role is open to those, at any stage in their career, with a primary research interest in Archaic/Classical/Hellenistic Greek History. The successful candidate will have the ability, or be...

Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2024

18 October 2024

The Faculty is delighted to announce that both Dr Lea Niccolai and Dr Henry Spelman have been awarded Philip Leverhulme Prizes in the 2024 competition. Professor Anna Vignoles, Director of the Leverhulme Trust, said: “Now in its twenty-third year, this scheme continues to attract applications from extraordinarily high...

Elen Wynne Vanstone Award

3 October 2024

The Faculty would like to congratulate Sólveig Hilmarsdóttir for winning the The British Federation of Women Graduates' Elen Wynne Vanstone Award for her work Talis homo qualis oratio: social status and its connection to the language of Roman writers. Sólveig works on the interface between Latin linguistics and Latin...