Classics

 

Mr Robert Barnes
Greek and Roman philosophy and religion, ancient Judaism, early Christianity, Roman social history; bibliography, history of books and libraries.

Professor Graeme Clarke
Roman Imperial History (especially of the Third Century), Early Church History/Patristic Studies, Archaeology of the Levant in the Classical Period.

Dr Claire Jamset
Latin epic poetry, especially Virgil, Statius and Lucan; masculinity in Latin poetry; Latin elegiac poetry, especially Catallus and Ovid.

Dr Benjamin Kelly
Roman history, especially political, religious and social history, from the late Republic to the end of the Principate. Roman law in its social and political contexts. The history of Graeco-Roman Egypt. The historiography of the late Republic and Principate.

Dr Doug Kelly
Greek history and historical writing, especially Xenophon and Sparta; advocacy in the Athenian legal system. The late Roman republic, epecially Cicero's speeches and letters.

Dr Elizabeth Minchin
The Homeric epics as oral poetry; the composition of the Homeric epics; Homer and memory; Homer's narrative; the speech Homer attributes to his characters; the prose narrative of novels (in Greek Longus, Daphnis and Chloe; in Latin Apuleius, Metamorphoses).

Dr Ann Moffatt
Byzantine Studies; the classical tradition; Greek and Roman art.

Professor Beryl Rawson
Roman history, especially social and political history of the late Republic and first three centuries of the Empire; Iconography. In particular, 'The Roman Family' and 'Children and Childhood in Ancient Rome'.