Classics and Ancient History at Durham University belongs to the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and is one of the most vibrant Classics departments in the UK. Our academic staff specialise in a wide range of artistic, historical, literary, linguistic, cultural and philosophical aspects of the Graeco-Roman world. In the latest Research Assessment Exercise (2008) we were ranked tied third for internationally excellent research: 65 % of our research has been rated as 4*, world leading (25%), and 3*, internationally excellent (40%).We are consistently ranked amongst the top Classics departments in the UK: Third (for the second year in a row) in the 2013 Times Good University Guide, and third, for the third year in a row, in the 2013 Complete University Guide. We are especially proud of the fact that, in both tables, we hold first place for the employment prospects of our graduates.

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Selected Recent Publications

• George Boys-Stones and Christopher Rowe, The Circle of Socrates. Readings in the First-Generation Socratics (Hackett 2013)
• Edward M. Harris, The Rule of Law in Action (OUP 2013)
• Ted Kaizer, Anna Leone, Edmund Thomas and Robert Witcher (eds), Cities and Gods. Religious Space in Transition (Peeters 2013)
• P. A. Low, G. J. Oliver & P. J. Rhodes (eds), Cultures of Commemoration: War Memorials: Ancient and Modern (OUP 2012)
• Christopher Rowe (ed. and trans.), Plato, Republic (Penguin 2012)
• Jennifer Ingleheart (ed.), Two Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile After Ovid (OUP 2011)
• Barbara Graziosi (introduction and notes) and Anthony Verity (translation), Homer: The Iliad (OUP 2011)
• Mark Woolmer, Ancient Phoenicia: An Introduction (Bristol Classical Press 2011)
• Olivier Hekster and Ted Kaizer (eds), Frontiers in the Roman World (Brill 2011)
• Ingo Gildenhard, Creative Eloquence:The Construction of Reality in Cicero's Speeches (OUP 2011)
• Manuel Baumbach, Andrej Petrovic, Ivana Petrovic (eds), Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram (CUP 2010)
• Christopher Rowe (trans.), Plato: The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classic 2010)
• Barbara Graziosi and Johannes Haubold, Homer: Iliad VI (CUP 2010)
• Luca Castagnoli, Ancient Self-Refutation: The Logic and History of the Self-Refutation Argument from Democritus to Augustine (CUP 2010)
• Jennifer Ingleheart, A Commentary on Ovid, Tristia, Book 2 (OUP 2010)
• Ted Kaizer and Margherita Facella, Kingdoms and Principalities in the Roman Near East (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010).
• George Boys-Stones and Johannes Haubold (eds), Plato and Hesiod (OUP 2010)
  
• George Boys-Stones, Barbara Graziosi, and Phiroze Vasunia, The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies (OUP 2010)
• Edward M. Harris, Delfim F. Leão and P. J. Rhodes (eds), Law and Drama in Ancient Greece (Duckworth, 2010)