Research Areas in Classics
The research activity of classics covers the full ranges of topics in classics and ancient history and boasts concentrated research strengths in the following areas:
- Ancient Science and Medicine (Rutten, van der Eijk, Creese)
- Rhetoric and Historiography: The Ancient Arts of Description and Persuasion (Moles, Wisse)
- Ancient Philosophy (Moles, Rutten, Smith, van der Eijk, Creese, Wisse)
- The Reception and Recreation of Ancient Texts (Phillippo, Moles, Rutten, van der Eijk, Creese, Wisse)
- Ancient Concepts of Divinity (Moles, Phillippo, Rutten, Smith, van der Eijk, Creese)
These strengths can be broken down in greater detail as follows:
- The history of Greek and Roman medicine and its reception in the medieval and early modern period (Philip van der Eijk, Thomas Rütten) (See also Centre for the History of Medicine)
- Greek tragedy and its reception in 17th century France (Susanna Phillippo)
- Greek and Roman historigraphy and biography (John Moles, Jaap Wisse, Philip van der Eijk)
- Greek and Roman rhetoric, esp. Cicero (Jaap Wisse)
- Intellectual life in the Roman Empire, esp. Atticism and the Second Sophistic (Jaap Wisse, John Moles, David Creese)
- Latin epic (esp. Ovid and Statius) and lyric poetry (esp. Horace) (John Moles)
- Ancient philosophy, in particular Aristotle and the Peripatos (Philip van der Eijk, David Creese,) Plato (David Creese,), Neoplatonism (Rowland Smith , Philip van der Eijk,) Cynicism (John Moles,) Cicero (Jaap Wisse) and Galen (Philip van der Eijk)
- The History of ancient Persia (Maria Brosius)
- Politics, religion and thought in late Antiquity (Rowland Smith)
- Greek art and archaeology (Tony Spawforth)
- Roman Greece and Roman Hellenism (Tony Spawforth)
- Greek epigraphy and onomastics (Tony Spawforth)
- Ancient archives, their structure, organisation and tradition (Maria Brosius)
- Early Christian culture, literature and thought, patristics (Jeremy Paterson, Rowland Smith , Philip van der Eijk)
- The mathematical sciences in Greek and Roman antiquity (David Creese)
- Greek and Roman music (David Creese)
Find out more about the current research projects in classics and our research staff.
