Classics Research

Overview
REF rankings 2014: 3rd in the country according to the ‘power’ metric, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity. The Department also received an outstanding score for the impact of its research. Overall, 76% of our research was rated 3* or 4* indicating internationally excellent and world-leading quality.
Research income: as well as funding for four major research projects, recent awards include, British Academy Postdoctoral and Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowships, a Philip Leverhulme prize, and substantial grants from the AHRC, Getty Foundation, Humboldt Foundation, and Leverhulme Trust.
Current number of academic staff: 24.
Current number of research students: 58.
Partner organisations: British Museum.
Recent publications:
A companion to the Neronian age;
Contextual Archaeology of Burial Practice: Case Studies from Roman Britain;
Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres;
Local History of Greek Polytheism: Gods, People and the Land of Aigina, 800-400 BCE;
Anatomizing Civil War: Studies in Lucan's Epic Technique;
Horace, Odes, Book I;
The Freedman in the Roman World;
The Iliad in a nutshell: visualizing epic on the Tabulae Iliacae;
The art of the body;
Cratinus and the Art of Comedy;
Jonson, Horace and the Classical Tradition;
The art of art history in Greco-Roman antiquity;
Truly beyond wonders: Aelius Aristides and the cult of Asklepios;
Mystery Cults in the Ancient World.
The Return of Ulysses. A cultural history of Homer’s Odyssey
Iphigenia in Tauris
Neo-Latin Literature
Sex: Antiquity and its Legacy
Variety: The Life of a Roman Concept