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• Dr Anja Ulbrich
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• Oxford University Press reissues the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources
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• Gillian Hamnett
• American Poet A.E. Stallings Launches New Translation of Hesiod
• Lead pollution in Greenland ice shows rise and fall of ancient European civilizations
• Portrait of Professor Donald Russell unveiled
• University Open Days 2018
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• The Labourers of Herakles: a performance of the play by Tony Harrison
• Anna Jackson: I, Clodia and Other Portraits
• International Summer School in Greek Palaeography: Nigel Wilson, The Rewards of Palaeography
• International Summer School in Greek Palaeography: Georgi Parpulov, A Private Collection of Byzantine Miniatures
• International Summer School in Greek Palaeography: Michael Jeffreys, From Thucydides to Procopius to Popular Byzantine Literature and Beyond: The Progressive Irrelevance of Traditional Editorial Methods
• International Summer School in Greek Palaeography: Michael Zellmann-Rohrer, Byzantine and Later Greek Manuscripts for the Occult Sciences: an Introduction
• Ethiopian and Eritrean Ge’ez Manuscripts Discovery Day
• Ashmolean Classics A-Level Study Day
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• Dr Nino Luraghi
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• Professor Jane Lightfoot elected Fellow of the British Academy
• Performing Plato: A public lecture by Sara Monsoon (Northwestern)
• Gestures and Postures: The construction of the tragic in Jean-Georges Noverre's dance-drama Agamemnon Vengé
• 25 Years of The Actors of Dionysus
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• The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Continuities and Transformations
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• Ms Jo Armitage
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• Dr Guy Westwood
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• Dr Amin Benaissa awarded Philip Leverhulme Prize
• Professor Lucia Prauscello
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• New Voices from Roman Britain
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• Myres Lecture 2019
• Babel: Adventures in Translation (Bodleian Library 2019)
• Roman Receptions of Sappho (OUP 2019)
• Ovid Fasti Book III (CUP 2019)
• Rome after Sulla (Bloomsbury 2019)
• Xenophon Anabasis Book III (CUP 2019)
• Socrates in Love The Making of a Philosopher (Bloomsbury 2019)
• The Kingdom of Priam (OUP 2019)
• Servilia and her Family (OUP 2019)
• Asia Minor in the Long Sixth Century (Oxbow Books 2019)
• Polis Histories, Collective Memories and the Greek World (CUP 2019)
• Recent Books
• It is with regret that the Faculty of Classics announces the passing of Dr Judith McKenzie
• New College Greek Play - Aeschylus' Agamemnon
• University Open Days | July 2019
• Ancient Worlds Programme - Applications Now Open
• Exhibition: Languages of God: Sacred Scripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea
• Professor Sir Fergus Millar, 1935-2019. An obituary by Professor Alan Bowman
• Newsletter 2019
• The Classics Faculty Newsletter 2019 has been published
• Professor Peter Parsons FBA awarded prestigious British Academy medal
• The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek (CUP 2019)
• Greek Elegy and Iambus: A Selection (CUP 2019)
• Historical Consciousness and the Uses of the Past in the Ancient World (Equinox 2019)
• Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World (CUP 2019)
• Vergil's Green Thoughts: Plants, Humans and the Divine (OUP 2019)
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• Dr Tuna Şare Ağtürk
• Congratulations to Professor Jo Quinn for winning the Goodwin Award of Merit for her book ‘In Search of the Phoenicians’
• Dr Emma Greensmith
• Latin Grammarians on the Latin Accent (OUP 2019)
• Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection (Eisenbrauns 2019)
• Formes et Fonctions des Langues Littéraires en Grèce Ancienne (Fondation Hardt 2019)
• Treasures of Ethiopia and Eritrea in the Bodleian Library (Manar Al-Athar, University of Oxford 2019)
• Making and Rethinking the Renaissance: Between Greek and Latin in 15th-16th Century Europe (de Gruyter 2019)
• Seamus Heaney and the Classics (OUP 2019)
• La Ceramicá Ática y su Historiografía (UC 2019)
• Rediscovering E.R. Dodds (OUP 2019)
• Herodotus and the Question Why (University of Texas 2019)
• Josephus's The Jewish War (PUP 2019)
• Congratulations to Constanze Güthenke, Jo Quinn, and Peter Thonemann on their Professorships
• Classics DPhil student Thea Sommerschield and DeepMind AI assist historians in restoring damaged ancient Greek inscriptions
• Inaugural Lecture - Professor Nino Luraghi - 31st October
• Professor Nino Luraghi's Inaugural Lecture
• Graduate Open Day 2019
• Changing Names (OUP 2019)
• The Oxyrhynchus Papyri vol. LXXXIV (London 2019)
• Publications 2019
• The Guardian has published an obituary of Professor Jasper Griffin
• Dr Alexandre Johnston
• Martin West Memorial Lecture 2020
• Ellie Galloway
• Anachronism and Antiquity (Bloomsbury 2020)
• The Faculty is very sad to announce the death of Professor Donald Russell, FBA
• A Landscape of Conflict: Battlefield Archaeology in the Territory of Ancient Fregellae / Modern Ceprano (FR, Lazio, Italy)
• Dr Janet DeLaine
• CANCELLED Oxbridge Open Day
• Cyprus in the Long Late Antiquity
• Congratulations to Professor Andrew Meadows on the award of an ERC Consolidator Grant
• Congratulations to Professor Jonathan Prag on the award of a European Research Council Advanced Grant
• We are delighted to announce the publication of Fiona Macintosh and Justine McConnell's new book
• Motion in Classical Literature (OUP 2020)
• Batrachomyomachia (Battle of the Frogs and Mice) (OUP 2019)
• Performing Epic or Telling Tales (OUP 2020)
• We are delighted to announce the publication of Gregory Hutchinson's new book.
• Feeling and Classical Philology (CUP 2020)
• The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines (OUP 2020)
• Daniel Etches Jones
• Statement on Racism
• Lucretius and the Language of Nature (OUP 2020)
• We are delighted to announce the publication of Barnaby Taylor's New Book.
• Beyond the Polis. Rituals, Rites and Cults in Early and Archaic Greece (12th – 6th centuries BC)
• A Companion to The Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean (Wiley Blackwell)
• Agamemnon, a Performance History (Apple Books)
• APGRD Researchers Launch Second Multimedia Ebook
• We are delighted to announce the publication of Beyond the Polis, edited by Irene Lemos
• We are delighted to announce the publication of A Companion to The Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean, edited by Irene Lemos
• Revisiting the Codex Buranus (Boydell Press)
• We are delighted to announce the publication of Revisiting the Codex Buranus, edited by Tristan E. Franklinos
• Virtual Open Day
• Virtual Open Day
• Virtual Open Day
• Homer: Iliad Book III (CUP 2019)
• Classics in Communities wins Vice Chancellor's Award
• First Online Open Day
• The Colour of White - When did Greek Statues become White?
• UNIQ - Classical Archaeology
• UNIQ - Classics: Rome
• UNIQ - Classics: Ancient Greece
• UNIQ: Classical Archaeology
• UNIQ - Classics: Rome
• Congratulations to Ursula Coope, Rosalind Thomas, and Andreas Willi to their election to the fellowship of the British Academy.
• UNIQ - Classics: Ancient Greece
• Pandemic insights from fifth century B.C. Athens
• Congratulations to Professor Jonathan Prag who is the Winner of the Building Capacity category in the Vice-Chancellor Innovation Awards
• OxLat Update
• The Beauty of Living: E.E Cummings in the Great War (W.W. Norton)
• Metalepsis: Ancient Texts, New Perspectives (OUP)
• Constructing Authors and Readers in the Appendices Vergiliana, Tibulliana, and Ouidiana (OUP)
• The Global Connections of Gandhāran Art
• Bridging Course / Opportunity Oxford
• Bridging Course: We are delighted to welcome 19 new undergraduates.
• Virtual Open Day welcomes applicants from across the world
• Pots! Pots! Pots! Beazley Archive Pottery Database (BAPD) reaches 120,000 records.
• Eleonora Colli
• UCAS deadline for undergraduate applications
• Dr Neil McLynn
• Research and Public Policy Partnership
• Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity: Histories of Art and Religion from India to Ireland (CUP)
• A Catalogue of the Sculpture Collection at Wilton House (Archeopress)
• Oxford’s first woman don, classicist Annie Rogers, has been commemorated for her work as a ceaseless campaigner for women’s full membership of Oxford University.
• The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic (CUP)
• The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt (OUP)
• We are delighted to announce the publication of The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt edited by Alan Bowman and Charles Crowther
• We are delighted to announce the recent publication of Dr Emma Greensmith's new book
• Dr Kathryn Stevens
• Dr Roel Konijnendijk
• Dr Olivia Elder
• Dr Simona Stoyanova
• Dr Sofia Kravaritou
• Professor Sir Fergus Millar (1935-2019): A collection of tributes
• Ten Top Tips for Classics Admissions Tests
• Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships 2021
• Congratulations to Bill Allan, Armand D'Angour and Peter Stewart on their Professorships
• Newsletter 2020
• Graduate Virtual Open Day 2020
• A People's History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939 (Routledge, 2020)
• The Classics Faculty Newsletter 2020 has been published
• The Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents has just published Newletter 25.
• The Athenian Empire. Using Coins as Sources.
• *Update March 2021* Classical Conversations
• Conference: Apocalyptic Thinking
• Dr Valentina Mignosa
• Being 'in-Christ' in the Letters of Paul
• Eleanor Newman
• Anna Dalgkitsi
• Miranda Gronow
• Vittorio Remo Danovi
• James Hua
• Ollie Croker
• Congratulations to Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson on becoming a Knowledge Exchange Fellow
• Blaga Atanassova
• Dr Victoria Fendel
• Giorgia Capra
• David Kaufman
• Stephan Nitu
• Zoe Jennings
• Matthew Ball
• Abigail Allan
• Raymond Ngoh
• Congratulations to Prof. Andrew Meadows. Announced today, AHRC funds international OXUS-INDUS Project.
• Conference: The Fascist Archive in Performance: Classical Reception in Film and Live Events under Mussolini
• Lecture: 'The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro: New Visions of Tragedy in 21st-Century America'
• Lecture: 'Tragic Form in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire'
• Conference: Poetics, Politics and the Ruin in Cinema and Theatre since 1945
• Angela Falezza
• Serra Somersan
• Speak for change: Enriching the Oracy All-Party Parliamentary Group inquiry and report
• Buddhist Artistic Expressions of Enlightenment
• Kristen Millions
• Dr Henry Spelman
• The Rediscovery and Reception of Gandharan Art
• Dr Alfonso Moreno
• Digital Resources
• The Cambridge Companion to Sappho (CUP)
• Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology (CUP)
• Congratulations to Irene Lemos on 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic
• Deputy Head of Administration and Finance
• Mr Paul Tappin
• Overview
• Creative Writing Competition 2021
• Marina Carr and Patrick O'Kane in conversation about Girl On An Altar
• New lines: contemporary poets and the classics
• Oxford and Cambridge Classics Virtual Open Day
• Professor Jacob L. Dahl
• Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions
• OXUS - INDUS project: a new typology of Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek coinage
• CHANGE: the development of the monetary economy of ancient Anatolia circa 630 - 30 BC
• Crossreads: Text, materiality and multiculturalism at the crossroads of the ancient Mediterranean
• The ARCH project
• Call for Papers: The Senses, Pleasure and Self-Discipline in Antiquity and Late Antiquity
• Faculty of Oriental Studies Projects and Online Resources
• Dr Lewis Webb
• Peter Olive
• Professor Mark Edwards
• Dr Richard Finn
• Dr Phil Booth
• Professor Bryan Ward-Perkins
• Dr Roger Tomlin
• Dr Conrad Leyser
• Dr James Howard-Johnston
• Professor Martin Goodman
• Professor Alison G Salvesen
• Dr David G.K Taylor
• Dr Maren Schentuleit
• Dr Elizabeth Frood
• Professor Richard Bruce Parkinson
• Dr Frances Reynolds
• Professor Ursula Coope
• Professor Anna Marmodoro
• EAMENA: Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa
• Publications 2020
• Holly Hunt
• OPEN Leaders 2021
• Oxford Classics professors go online for schools in lockdown
• The Ancient Drama Prize – calling all budding performers and lovers of ancient drama!
• Virtual Classics Open Day
• Dimitris Karampas
• The 2020-2021 Gandhara Connections Lecture: Rory Stewart - 'Walking in Afghanistan'
• Professor Carol Harrison
• Professor Marc Lauxtermann
• The Classics and English Annual Lecture by Jenny Wallace, 'Tragedy after 9/11'
• The Oxford Greek Play, Orestes
• Congratulations to Professor Teresa Morgan
• Congratulations to Robin Lane Fox
• Classics Admissions Test
• UCAS Application
• Interview and Offers
• Written Work
• Kevin Willmott in conversation with Edith Hall
• Yaël Farber in conversation with Helen Eastman
• Inua Ellams in conversation with Helen Eastman
• Book Launch: Kathryn Bosher’s Greek Theatre in Ancient Sicily
• Greek Tragedy Masterclass on Film: Antigone
• Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions (OUP)
• Fiona Phillips
• Offer Holder Day 2021
• Dr Justine Potts
• New discoveries of Gandharan Buddhist archaeology at Gunyar - Fozia Naz online seminar
• New Lines: Poetry Reading with Live Canon
• Classical Conversations with Year 12s in Liverpool
• 21st Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Drama
• Ghosts: From Aeschylus’s The Persians to Wajdi Mouawad’s The Blood of Promises. A public lecture by Professor Clare Finburgh-Delijani (Goldsmiths)
• Collective Trauma and Contemporary Crises in Performances of Ancient Tragedies
• British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships
• University Open Day 2021
• University Open Day 2021
• New project aims to show prospective students that Classics is for everyone
• Virtual Open Day 2021
• Winners Announced: Creative Writing Competition
• UNIQ 2021
• Bridging Course 2021
• September Open Day
• Classics in Communities at Teaching and Learning Showcase
• Council Members elected for Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
• Lockdown Latin Club
• UNIQ 2021
• Professor Gregory Hutchinson elected Fellow of the British Academy
• Clare Gardom
• Jermyn Street Theatre's Tom Littler and Indra Ové in conversation about 15 Heroines
• A.E. Stallings: talk and performance
• Disciplinarity (Receptions and Comparatisms Seminar, online)
• Temporalities (Receptions and Comparatisms Seminar, online)
• What is a language? (Receptions and Comparatisms Seminar, online)
• Orality and script worlds (Receptions and Comparatisms Seminar, online)
• Decolonisation (Receptions and Comparatisms Seminar, online)
• Decoloniality (Receptions and Comparatisms Seminar, online)
• Posthumanism (Receptions and Comparatisms Seminar, online)
• Anthropocene (Receptions and Comparatisms Seminar, online)
• Regional Classics Podcast - Northern Ireland
• The Glory and the Grandeur: John Clarke Stobart and the Defence of High Culture in a Democratic Age
• Créer le choeur tragique
• Herculaneum Society Talks
• In partnership with the University of Ibadan and University of Reading: Femi Osofisan (playwright and poet) in conversation
• Professor Andreas Willi (Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology) is one of the winners of the 2021 Goodwin Award of Merit
• Winners of Philip Leverhulme Prize
• Premio Mantua of the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana di Mantova
• £1.34m gift to Classics for graduate students and outreach activities
• Book launch: Créer le Chœur Tragique by Estelle Baudou
• Dr Thomas Nelson
• Thomas Gavin
• Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships 2022
• Gandhara Connections 2022 online workshop: Gandharan Art in its Buddhist Context
• Vidya Dehejia - ARTIST, SCRIBE, MONK/NUN, VIEWER: Visual Narratives at Early Buddhist Sites'
• Newsletter 2021
• The Classics Faculty Newsletter 2021 has been published
• Dr Alex Bown
• Dr Thea Sommerschield has won the 2020 Giuseppe Nenci award for her outstanding DPhil dissertation!
• Classicists inspire in Liverpool
• Lorne Thyssen Graduate Scholarship in Classics
• Oxford Academics at Virtual Classics Conference
• Congratulations to Jonathan Prag for winning funding in the latest round of the German-UK funding initiative for the humanities.
• CSAD Newsletter/26 now available here
• David Raeburn Prize Deadline
• Oxford and Cambridge Classics Open Day 2022
• Being Human 2022
• Brecht and Tragedy by Martin Revermann: online book launch
• The Early Greek Alphabets: Origin, Diffusion,Uses (OUP)
• A new ebook, The Manual of Roman Everyday Writing by Dr Alex Mullen and Prof. Alan Bowman is published today
• Manual of Roman Everyday Writing, Volume I : Scripts and Texts
• Congratulations to Tristan Franklinos, Milena Melfi and Michele Bianconi on being awarded Fellowships
• Congratulations to Katherine Clarke, Bruno Currie and Maria Stamatopoulou on their Professorships
• Dr Alison John
• Phoenician language course, March 14-19, 2022.
• APGRD, Oxford/ Institut für Theaterwissenschaft FU Berlin Partnership
• New Lines: Poetry Reading with Live Canon
• Book launch: Tony Harrison and the Classics
• Josephine Balmer and Lesley Saunders: Poetry Reading
• Crossreads, I.Sicily and the Regione Siciliana
• DIGITAL GANDHARAN TEXTS: A special seminar by Mark Allon and Ian McCrabb
• A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic
• Eugenia Vitello
• Joe Barber
• Huiling Zhang
• Alexander Moore
• Crete and Euboea in an interconnecting world (12th - 6th c. BC). The role of coastal settlements in short and long-distance networks of exchange.
• Hayley Merchant
• Greek and Beyond: Colloquium in honour of M.S. Silk
• Vanda Strachan
• Winners Announced - Ancient Drama Prize
• Book Giveaway
• Nikki Vellidis
• T O Moller
• Cristina Laurenti
• Connor Beattie
• Joshua Werrett
• Maxwell Hardy
• Allia Benner
• Marianna Leszczyk
• Victoria Lansing
• FAIR Epigraphy AHRC-DFG
• The Oxyrhynchus Papyri vol. LXXXVI
• Lucian: Alexander Or The False Prophet
• Book Giveaway Winners
• Dr Leah Lazar
• Book launch: The Painted Reliefs of Tetrarchic Nicomedia by Tune Şare Ağtürk 7 March, 18.30pm, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles, Oxford
• The Painted Tetrarchic Reliefs of Nicomedia
• The ARCH Project Conference: Crossing the Mountains
• Historians apply state-of-the-art AI to transform the study of ancient texts
• Teos and Abdera: Two Cities in Peace and War (OUP)
• The David Lewis Lecture no. 24, 'Beyond Datis: More Persians in Greek and Elamite'.
• The British Epigraphy Society Spring Meeting 2022
• Classics and English Annual Lecture: Actors and the remains of the dead (online)
• Kathleen Riley: Imagining Ithaca
• Dido's Ghost: Errollyn Wallen, Wesley Stace, and Tom Sapsford in conversation (online)
• Hexameters beyond the canon: new poetry on papyri from Roman and Byzantine Egypt
• The Gaisford Lecture
• We are pleased to announce the launch of a new AHRC-funded project, Hexameters beyond the canon: new poetry on papyri from Roman and Byzantine Egypt.
• Black Classicists Exhibition
• Dr Alessia Coccato
• Exploring Classics
• Professor Giuseppe Pezzini
• Tiancheng Wang
• Matthew Bowerman
• Oxford & Cambridge Classics Open Day 2023
• University Open Day
• University Open Day
• University Open Day
• Coin Hoards and Hoarding in the Roman World (Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy)
• Antigone in Palermo: Survival and Disobedience in Ubah Cristina Ali Farah’s and Sutta Scupa's Antigone Power
• Survival and Disobedience in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama The 22 annual joint APGRD / University of London postgraduate symposium
• The Semantics of Word Division in Northwest Semitic Writing Systems
• Song and Poetry in Greece and the Near East: Re-framing Orality
• Call for Papers: Dialectology Oxford 2023
• Professor Christopher Howgego
• How can Humanities researchers engage with Parliament?
• Creative Writing Winners 2022
• Open Days 2022
• Congratulations to Fiona Macintosh on award of Honorary Doctorate
• Drama Prize Podcast
• UNIQ 2022
• CARC Workshop – Beazley for the 21st Century
• Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson’s policy engagement featured in University film
• EDI Resources
• Oxford’s Antiquity: a Critical Reappraisal of the Study of Classics in Oxford
• Open Day - September 2022
• The Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, Ashmolean Museum, and American Numismatic Society launch Coins of the Bactrian and Indo-Greek Rulers (BIGR)
• Nikki Carter
• Ludovico Oddi
• Lara Berry
• Marcella Giobbe
• Xenofon Kalogeropoulos
• Dr Marco Santini
• Leo Kershaw
• Marie Theres Wittmann
• Professor Laura Swift
• Christina Monroe
• Calypso Herrick-Doyle
• Filippos Roussos
• Dr Joshua Thomas
• Demetrias in Thessaly: The archaeology of a multi-ethnic port royal port city in the Hellenistic Aegean
• ‘Warriors Stele’ (Volos Λ235)
• Tombstone of Aristokydes son of Xenokles, from Keos (Volos Λ230)
• Tombstone of Taroulas and his brothers, from Thrace (Volos Λ247)
• Tombstone of Sosibios, the hero (Volos Λ237)
• Tombstone of Demetrios, son of Olynpos (Volos Λ351)
• Tombstone of Theudoros, son of Arisstokles (Volos Λ126)
• Tombstone of Ouaphres, son of Horus, a priest of Isis from Bousiris in Egypt (Volos Λ52)
• Tombstone of Menelaos, son of Hegesidemos, from Amphipolis (Volos Λ356)
• Tombstone of Metrophanes, son of Protos (Volos Λ298)
• Tombstone of ‘Choirile’ (Volos Λ55)
• The figured scene of the tombstone of Bio, daughter of Zenon (Volos Λ22)
• Tombstone of Aphrodeisia, daughter of Theudoros, from Epirus (Volos Λ28)
• Tombstone of Archidike, daughter of Aristomachos, from Tylissos on Crete (Volos Λ20)
• Tombstone of Hediste (Volos Λ1)
• Charlotte Susser
• Inua Ellams in conversation
• Tragic Mothers - workshop 1/2
• Tragic Mothers - workshop 2/2
• Clare Pollard in conversation
• New Lines: Poetry Reading with Live Canon
• Dr Imran Asif
• Kelly McClinton
• Karl Berg
• Daniel Whittle
• Demetrias: the archaeology of a multi-ethnic royal port city in the Hellenistic Aegean
• Elena Limongelli
• Tombstones from Demetrias
• Technical Imaging
• The painted tombstones of Demetrias
• Demetrias 
• Tragic Mothers: An APGRD public lecture with Olga Taxidou (Edinburgh/NYU)
• Joel Pollatschek
• Ben Broadbent
• Dr Michele Bianconi
• The Lives of Ancient Villages: Rural Society in Roman Anatolia
• Simulating Roman Economies: Theories, Methods, and Computational Models (Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy).
• Presbeus: Studies in Ancient Coinage Presented to Richard Ashton
• Xenophon’s “Anabasis” and its Reception
• Cyprus in the Long Late Antiquity. History and Archaeology Between the Sixth and Eighth Centuries
• Constance Everett-Pite
• Cicero's Academici Libri and Lucullus
• Cicero: Academica (Academicus Primus, Fragmenta et Testimonia Academicorum Librorum, Lucullus)
• Congratulations to Wolfgang de Melo on Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship
• New Department for Education report on Ancient Languages in Primary Schools
• The Latin Works of Piccolomini (PP Pius II): A Colloquium
• Human-Animal Relations in Bronze Age Crete
• Roman Provincial Coinage VII.2. From Gordian I to Gordian III (AD 238–244): all provinces except Asia (London – Paris, 2022)
• Conington Prize 2023
• Ariadne Pagoni
• Finn Conway
• Oxford Ancient History Faculty Seminar Hilary Term 2023
• The Neighbourhoods of Roman North Africa
• The Production of Memory Lane in North Africa
• Reconquering Africa: Roman imperialism and the City in the Age of Justinian
• The Story of Cyrenaican Horses in the Greek and Roman Periods and its Reality
• Landscapes of Enmity: Rome, Africa, and the Places in Between
• Stelae and the Semiotics of Sacrifice: Worship Traditions in Roman Africa
• Numidia between Micro-regionalism and Global Trends. A New Archaeological approach to North African Urbanism and Settlement Hierarchy
• The Business of Being Roman: Power, Citizenship, and Provincial Administration in North Africa
• Council of University Classical Departments (CUCD) call for Microgrants to support EDI initiatives
• The Classics Faculty Newsletter 2022 has been published
• Newsletter 2022
• 'Classical Art and Ancient India'
• Teacher Day 2023
• Teachers' Day 2023
• Studies in Byzantine Epigraphy 1
• The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography
• Recordings from Oxford’s Antiquity: A Critical Reappraisal of the Study of Classics in Oxford
• Luka Milkovic
• Greg Waiting
• Rosie Saracino
• Richard Carpenter
• The call for applications for the Practical Epigraphy Workshop 2023 will close on Friday 27th January at noon!
• Dr Andrew Shapland
• Publications 2021-2022
• UNIQ Research Internship Programme 2023
• Precarity, Vulnerability, and Power in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama: the 23rd annual Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Drama, June 2023
• What makes a 'Classic'? Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop
• Rita Dove in conversation with Helene Foley
• Classics and English Annual Lecture: Anne Carson’s Euripides & the Combustion of Thought
• The 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies Material Religion in Byzantium and Beyond
• The 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies Material Religion in Byzantium and Beyond
• Sicco Polenton and his Scriptores illustres
• Faculty of Classics Alumni Day
• Classics Alumni Day
• Creative Writing Competition 2023
• Dr Krishnan Ram-Prasad
• Current Research at Knossos
• IN OUR TIME: SOLON THE LAWGIVER
• Dr Timothy Penn
• Recognised Students
• Performance in Antiquity
• Finding the Snake goddess: new poems by Ruth Padel
• Creative Precarities: Performing Ruins in the 21st century
• All-Night Epic
• Greek Dialectology conference
• The Annual David Lewis Lecture no. 25, Anna Magnetto, 'Cyme in Aeolis. Preliminary remarks on a new inscription.'
• Shadows and songs: the fragment as creative impulse
• The Gods in Literature: Myth, Theology, and Belief in Ancient Near Eastern and Greek Poetry
• The New Athenian Empire
• The (in)congruence of theory and practice in Greek oratory
• Dr Timothy Smith
• Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry
• Queer desire from Sappho to Serapiakos
• The Gaisford Lecture 2023, A. Purves, ‘In the Depths: Homer and the Underwater Imaginary’
• Adam Burge
• A Landscape of Conflict? Rural Fortifications in the Argolid, (400-146 BC)
• Greek Inscriptions on the East Bank
• “Recent Discoveries, New Thinking: Deliberations in Honour of Bert Smith”
• Congratulations to Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson MBE
• Art under the Seleukid Empire: New Perspectives
• Sunny Pydugadu
• Re-Imagining Tragedy Across Africa and the Global South
• Professor Katherine Clarke elected Fellow of the British Academy
• More Classical Constructions – A conference to celebrate Peta Fowler
• Farishta Mirbacha Naderi
• Ancient and Medieval Thought on Greek Enclitics
• Dr Martina Astrid Rodda
• Dr Marion Durand
• Ancient Rome, The Definitive Visual History
• Paterson Joseph in conversation
• Dr Cynthia Liu
• New Voices on Anatolia conference
• Congratulations to Amin Benaissa on his Professorship
• Dr Daniel Jolowicz
• Dr Marcus Chin
• The Making of Books: A Colloquium in honour of Gregory Hutchinson
• Dr Alison Pollard
• Milly Cox
• Valentina Brizio Falletti Di Castellazzo
• Elizabeth Weinberg
• Thomas Lister
• Charles Baker
• Anna Coopey
• Katherine Halcrow
• Mads Sondre Stryger Prøitz
• Oxford Mosaic Accessibility Statement
• Sarah LaPorte
• Benjamin Willstead
• Daria Kwiatkowski
• Chloe Harper
• Megan Bowler
• The Ronald Syme Lecture 2023
• Greta Lunder
• Shu Susan Chai
• Leah Mitchell
• The National Theatre's Odyssey: Emily Lim in conversation with Lucy Jackson
• Dr Alexandra Hardwick
• Marina Paschalidou
• A New Translation of Euripides MEDEA The Oxford Greek Play 2023
• Magdalena Zira: Recovering Dido
• Meet our students!
• Leonie Defonteyne
• Eve Harrington
• Simona Thompson
• Dr J W Hanson
• Horace: A Very Short Introduction
• Pseudo-Manetho, Apotelesmatica Books, Four, One and Five
• Pseudo-Manetho, Apotelesmatica, Books Two, Three, and Six
• Architectures of the Roman World Models, Agency, Reception
• The Economy of Roman Religion
• Religion in Roman Phrygia from Polytheism to Christianity
• Gandharan Art and the Classical World A Short Introduction
• Foundation Year
• AVREVS. Le Pouvoir de l'or / The Power of Gold
• Pindar’s First Pythian Ode
• Max Buckby
• Newsletter 2023
• Faculty of Classics receives Athena Swan Bronze award for gender equality efforts
• Dr Penny Coombe
• Faculty of Classics Newsletter 2023
• Violence, Justice, and Law in Classical Antiquity: Collected Papers of Andrew Lintott
• Mapping Medea: Revolutions and Transfers 1750-1800
• Alexa Piqueux (Paris Nanterre): The Comic Body in Ancient Greek Theatre and Art
• AVREVS. Le Pouvoir de l'or / The Power of Gold
• Mapping Medea - online book launch
• Performances of Classical Antiquity under Fascism - publication launch
• Reworking Epic: Across Time, Media and Cultures
• Mr Test
• Hannah Biddle
• Professor Alan Bowman
• Christopher Colby
• Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC
• Euripides’ Bacchae
• Essays on Propertian and Ovidian Elegy
• Dimitris Papaioannou in conversation
• A portrait of Alexander the Great in Fannius Sinistor's Villa at Boscoreale
• Classics Teachers’ Day 2024
• Homer Through Numbers
• Alexander the Great and the East. New insights and discoveries for an exhibition (Naples Museo Archeologico Nazionale, 2023).
• Visions of Utopia in Ancient Greece
• Plots and Painted Tyrants: Performing Hecuba in the sixteenth century Carla Suthren Classics and English Annual Lecture
• Dr Ugo Mondini
• Faculty of Classics: Use of cookies on this website
• Classics and Modern Languages Course Options
• Turning Epic and Epic Turns
• Bodies and Voices in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception
• The three changes of scene in extant Greek tragedy, with special attention to the suicide of Aias
• Book Launch: Democracy, Theatre
• Martin West Memorial Lecture 2024
• David Lewis Memorial Lecture no. 26 'Remembering a Roman Life'
• Book Launch: Facing Down the Furies
• Dr Sarah Cullinan Herring shortlisted for the Vice Chancellor’s EDI award
• Madelyn Mezzell
• Pierre-Louis Pestre
• The Medieval Poetry Reading Group Talks Trinity term
• Binding the World, Withholding Life: Poetry Books in the Medieval Mediterranean
• Virgilio De Sousa
• The 2024 Gaisford Lecture
• Antonie Brenne
• Ancient History and Classical Archaeology Admissions Test
• Parthian Art and The Graeco-Roman World
• Voicing Unacoustics in Sophocles’ Ichneutai
• Classics Fellowships Announcement
• Professor Philomen Probert elected Fellow of the British Academy
• Oxford launches essay prize for state school students passionate about history and Classics
• New papyrus of lost Greek plays
• Oxford Classics Faculty launch the Janus Project
• Didier Natalizi Baldi
• Inclusive Theatre, Community-Building, and Aristophanes: Giovanna Di Martino in Conversation with Dave Carey and Marco Martinelli
• Sanctuary Study Day
• Thomas Kelly
• Dr Charlotte Spence
• Dr Simon Shogry
• Professor Pantelis Michelakis