Course summary

The MSc by Research in Classics provides a grounding in the methods and techniques of sustained research, while at the same time allowing you to pursue your own project and complete an extended thesis. Research topics We welcome applications from anyone keen to work on topics that overlap with the research interests of our academic staff. Major research interests include:

• Homer and early Greek poetry

• Greek philosophy

• Greek drama

• Hellenistic and Roman poetry

• classical Greek and Hellenistic history

• the ancient economy

• Archaic and Classical Greek archaeology

• Judaism in the ancient world

• Byzantine history and literature

• the Roman republic

• the Hellenistic and Roman Near East

• Roman imperial history

• Greek literature of the Roman empire

• late Roman literature and history

• Christianity in the Roman empire

• ancient slavery

• ancient law

• epigraphy

• gender in antiquity

• the reception of classical antiquity

• Greek sculpture

• mythology in art

• Roman and late antique archaeology