Faculty of Classics
Early Greece; funerary archaeology; the Boeotia Survey
Early Greek armour and weapons (Edinburgh UP, 1964)
Arms and armour of the Greeks (Thames & Hudson, 1967)
The dark age of Greece (Edinburgh UP, 1971)
Archaic Greece: the age of experiment (J.M.Dent, 1980)
An archaeology of Greece (Univ. of California Press, 1987)
Homer and the artists (Cambridge UP, 1998)
Archaeology and the emergence of Greece (Collected papers 1965-2002, Edinburgh UP, 2006)
[with J.L.Bintliff and P.Howard] Testing the hinterland: the work of the Boeotia Survey 1989-1991 (McDonald Institute Monographs, 2007)
9 May 2024
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship Acquiring the Mediterranean: exploring local agencies in the acquisition of antiquities from Greece and the Ottoman Empire by Charles Newton at the British Museum, 1861–1886. The Faculty of Classics and the British Museum are excited to announce a fully funded...
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 and Ludo 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 has...
Professor Caroline Vout's Olympic Exhibition in the News
18 April 2024
This summer Professor Caroline Vout is co-curating an Olympic Exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, 'Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body' which looks back on the pivotal moment, 100 years ago, when traditions and trailblazers collided, fusing the Olympics’ classical legacy with the European avant-garde spirit. It was a...
Mary Beard to give The Sir Robert Rede’s Lecture 2024
18 April 2024
This year Professor Dame Mary Beard is due to give The Sir Robert Rede's Lecture on Friday 3 May 2024. She will speak on the topic 'The boy who breathed on the glass at the British Museum': what, or whom, is the past for?' If you would like to attend the event, you are most welcome but booking is essential: register for...
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