Department of Classics and Ancient History

Staff Research Interests

Staff research interests are broad in geographical, chronological and disciplinary terms, including ancient philosophy and science, the ancient near east, and late antiquity, alongside strengths in classical literature and history.

Research track staff interests

Name	Research Interests
Dr Caroline Barron	Latin epigraphy, epigraphic forgery, the history of collecting, the city of Rome, Roman Tripolitania and the provincial experience under Rome.
Dr Erica Bexley	Seneca, Lucan, Roman Tragedy, Roman Comedy, Neronian Rome, Stoic Philosophy, performance theory (ancient and modern)
Dr Giulia Bonasio	Ancient philosophy, ethics, epistemology, moral psychology, ancient Greek literature, ancient Greek lyric poetry, history of emotions, Medieval philosophy, reception of Aristotle's philosophy, virtue ethics and virtue epistemology.
Prof. Serafina Cuomo	The history of science and technology in the ancient Greek and Roman world
Dr Chris De Lisle	Greek epigraphy, numismatics, Hellenistic history, ancient Sicily, Athens under Rome
Dr George Gazis	Archaic Greek epic and lyric in general and the Homeric epics, also Athenian drama
Prof. Roy Gibson	Augustan poetry, Ovid, Propetius, Greek and Roman epistolography, Pliny the Younger, the Ad Familiares of Cicero, and modern commentaries on ancient texts.
Dr Nathan Gilbert	Cicero's philosophical works, Epicureanism and the herculaneum papyri, Metrodorus, the social history of ancient philosophy particularly in Republican Rome
Prof. Nora Goldschmidt	Latin poetry, Classical reception, cultural memory, biography and biofiction, fragments and fragmentation, Classics' after theory', interdisciplinary approaches to Classics
Prof. Peter Heslin	Latin Poetry, reception of Latin poetry, Roman painting, humanities computing
Prof. Phil Horky	Ancient Philosophy, Metaphysics & Epistemology, Cosmology, Intellectual History, Political Philosophy, Ancient Greek Literature
Prof. Jennifer Ingleheart	Ovid, Ovidian exile and its reception, Politics and Latin poetry, Reception of Latin poetry, Reception of Roman homosexuality, Sex and censorship, The history of homosexuality, Catullus
Dr Lucy Jackson	Greek drama in the Classical period (c500-323 BCE), ancient Greek choral performance, ancient Greek literature, Classical receptions of the 21st century, theatre history
Prof. Ted Kaizer	Local identities in the Classical Levant, Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, Social and religious history of the Roman Near East
Prof. Polly Low	Epigraphy, Greek historiography, particularly Thucydides, Greek political history
Dr Katherine McDonald	Ancient linguistics, languages and epigraphy of ancient Italy, history of multilingualism and migration
Prof. Ed Richardson	Classical Reception Studies, Alexander the Great, Historiography, Tragedy and Performance
Dr Alberto Rigolio	Late Antiquity, Syriac Studies, Early Christianity, Greek Imperial Literature and Philosophy, The Graeco-Syro-Arabic Translation Movement
Dr Edmund Thomas	Roman Architecture, Monumentality, Roman Epigraphym ,Ancient Aesthetics, Roman Sarcophagi, Classicism, Vitruvius, Light in Architecture, Spirally fluted columns
Dr Ioannis Ziogas	Latin Poetry, Greek Epic, Hellenistic Poetry, Law and Literature, Reception Studies, Intertextuality,Narratology, Gender studies