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Selected Recent Publications

  • George Boys-Stones and Barbara Graziosi with Phiroze Vasunia, The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies.
  • Edward Harris, Demosthenes: Speeches 20-22
  • Edward Harris with Gerhard Thür, Papers on Greek and Hellenistic Legal History.
  • Ted Kaizer, The Variety of Local Religious Life in the Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods.
  • Ivana Petrovic with H. Krasser and D. Pausch, Triplici invectus triumpho. Der römische Triumph in augusteischer Zeit.

Classics and Ancient History at Durham University is one of the six departments in 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: 5th in the 2009 Times 'Good University Guide' and 4th the Independent's 'Complete University Guide' for 2010.

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