Classics and Ancient History Postgraduate Research Students

Jerome Ruddick

Jerome Ruddick's PhD project title is 'Olympian Shackles: An Examination of the Relationship Between Greek Mythology, Identity and Material Culture in Hellenistic Greece'. Read more.

Elisa Antonella Polignano

Elisa Antonella Polignano's PhD is 'Marcus Argentarius: critical edition, translation, and commentary. Read more.

Emiliano Panciera

Emiliano Panciera's PhD project title is, 'Aristocratic Networks and Pythagoreanism: Roman Foreign Policy, Cultural Interactions, Family Agendas'

Tom Smith

My project invstigates the identity of people living in the Indian subcontinent and Afghanistan during the Hellenistic period, with a specific focus on the role of belief in the development of an identity. Belief here encompasses what has traditionally been labelled as religion, alongside the philosophical traditions of both India and the Hellenic world, with a particular focus on Dharmaguptaka Buddhism and Pyrrhonism.

Daisy Dorrington

Daisy Dorrington's PhD project title is 'The Literary She-Wolf: An Analysis of the Representation of the lupa in Latin Literature'

Eleanor McEvedy

Eleanor's project explores Apollonius's 'Argonautica'. Her PhD title is: The Poetics of Light in Apollonius' Argonautica

Sara Borrello

Sara Borrello's subject area is classics. Her PhD project title is 'Children in Politics. Family Strategies During the Roman Republic (3rd-1st Century BCE)'. Read more about Sara's research.

Jordan Bayley

Jordan Bayley's PhD project title is 'British Histories: The reception of Herodotus’ Histories into British domestic life throughout the long nineteenth century'. Read more about it.

Juan García González

Juan's subject area is classics. His PhD project title is 'The Exiles of the Sullan Regime and the Elites of the Empire: Interaction, Discourse, Politics and Integration in the 70s BC'. Read more.