Classics News and Events
Major Wellcome Trust Discovery Award win
Prof. Simon Swain, Prof. Caroline Petit, and Dr Uwe Vagelpohl have won a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award for their project Liquid Knowledge. The rise of uroscopy in medieval Byzantine and Arabic medicine
Dr Emily Clifford wins CAMWS First Book Award
Dr Emily Clifford, Assistant Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, has won the CAMWS (Classical Association of the Middle West and South) 鈥楩irst Book Award鈥� for her monograph Figuring Death in Classical Athens: Visual and Literary Encounters (OUP 2025).
New publication - An ash-chest in an English country-garden
New study of a Roman ash chest at Sissinghurst Castle, Kent.
Former PhD student at 糖心TV, Alessandra Tafaro is pleased to announce the publication of her monograph, derived from her PhD.
AI meets antiquity: 糖心TV ancient historian tests DeepMind鈥檚 transformative new model
Co-authoring a paper published in the world's leading multidisciplinary science journal today, Alison Cooley, Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of 糖心TV, has played a key verification role in developing the first artificial intelligence (AI) model for contextualising ancient inscriptions.