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Faculty of Classics

 

C: ANCIENT HISTORY

Michaelmas Term 2024

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

All Welcome.

October 28
Dr Ed Bispham (Oxford)
‘The Goddess in the Middle? Thoughts on Approaching the Cult of Mefitis in Pre-Roman and Roman Italy’.

November 4
Dr Rosie Harman (University College London)
‘Imperialism and Spectacle in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia’.

November 11
Dr John Patterson (Cambridge)
‘Italians in the Emperor’s Service: the Case of the Praetorian Guard’.

November 18
Prof. Seth Bernard (Toronto)
‘Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Pompeii’.

November 25
Dr Bart Danon (Groningen)
‘Roman Italy: More or Less Unequal?’

December 2
Dr Marta García Morcillo (Newcastle)
‘For What It’s Worth: Ideas and Constructions of Price and Value in Ancient Rome’.

Latest news

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...

Exhibition awarded 5 stars

23 July 2024

The new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Paris 1924: Sport, Art, and the Body , Co-curated by Classics' Carrie Vout has been awarded 5 stars by the Guardian. "Timed to coincide with next week’s return of the Olympics to the French capital – is a revelation from first to last. You soon begin to realise that those Games...

Celebrating ECR successes

1 May 2024

The Faculty of Classics would like to congratulate our Early Career Researchers who have secured new positions elsewhere in the UK and abroad. We thank Il-Kweon, Michael, Tom, Ludo, and Lea for all their contributions to our Classics community and wish them the very best for the next steps in their careers. Dr Il-Kweon Sir...

Dr Richard Duncan-Jones FBA 1937-2024

19 May 2024

The Faculty is saddened by news of the death of Dr Richard Duncan-Jones FBA FSA. He had been a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College since 1963 where he was a college lecture in Classics and Director of Studies for many years.