Selected Recent Publications
- 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)
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 in the 2012 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.
Thursday 17 May 2012
- Materiality, Text, and Graffiti 11:30am , Ritson Room/CL007, Department of Classics and Ancient History, 38 North Bailey , Claire Taylor (Newcastle University)
Thursday 24 May 2012
- Sibyl(s) and Cave(s): New Thread for an Old Labyrinth 5:30pm , Ritson Room/CL007, Department of Classics and Ancient History, 38 North Bailey , Nicholas Horsfall (Durham University)
Thursday 31 May 2012
- Love as Visual Pathogen in Roman Erotic Poetry 11:30am , Ritson Room/CL007, Department of Classics and Ancient History, 38 North Bailey , E. Del Chrol (Marshall University)
Thursday 7 June 2012
- Invitation to the Dance: Choral Poetics, Poiêsis, and Graphology 11:30am , Ritson Room/CL007, Department of Classics and Ancient History, 38 North Bailey , Deborah Steiner (Columbia University)
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