The Faculty of Classics, previously the Faculty of Literae Humaniores, is a subdivision of the

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concerned with the teaching and research of

classics Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

. The teaching of classics at Oxford has been going on for 900 years, and was at the centre of nearly all its undergraduates' education well into the twentieth century. The Faculty was renamed "Classics" in 2001 after

Philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. ...

, which had previously been a sub-faculty, became a faculty in its own right. The Faculty of Classics is divided into two sub-faculties of Classical Languages & Literature, and Ancient History & Classical Archaeology. The Faculty organises teaching and research - the main undergraduate programme being known as Literae Humaniores. It also runs a BA programme in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History. The Faculty of Classics is part of the Humanities Division. It runs projects including the Oxyrhynchus Papyrus Project and the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama. It is the largest Classics department at any university in the world.

Location

The Faculty is based at the Ioannou School for Research in Classical and Byzantine Studies on St. Giles', next to the

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and Sackler Library. These three therefore form an informal 'Classics Triangle' in Oxford. The Stelios Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies was opened in 2007 and designed by

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. It provides research and teaching facilities for the Faculty and involved demolishing the old subsidiary buildings, while the significant parts of the existing buildings were retained to create a new central atrium.

Research

The Faculty runs a large number of research projects, including: *

Oxyrhynchus Oxyrhynchus (; grc-gre, Ὀξύρρυγχος, Oxýrrhynchos, sharp-nosed; ancient Egyptian ''Pr-Medjed''; cop, or , ''Pemdje''; ar, البهنسا, ''Al-Bahnasa'') is a city in Middle Egypt located about 160 km south-southwest of Cai ...

Papyri *Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources *Classical Art Research Centre (which includes the

Beazley Archive Sir John Davidson Beazley, (; 13 September 1885 – 6 May 1970) was a British classical archaeologist and art historian, known for his classification of Attic vases by artistic style. He was Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the U ...

) *Lexicon of Greek Personal Names *Roman Inscriptions of Britain *Sphakia Survey * Byzantine Ceramics *Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents * Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama *Bibliotheca Academica Translationum *Roman Provincial Coinage in the Antonine Period *Research Archive for Greek and Roman Sculpture *Greek Literary Hands of the Roman Period *Imaging Papyri *Reception of Greek Literature 300 BC-800 AD: Traditions of the Fragment *e-Science and Ancient Documents Project *The Oxford Roman Economy Project (OxRep) *The Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua XI *Social and Cultural Construction of Emotions: The Greek Paradigm * Manar al-Athar photo archive

Notable academics

Statutory Professors: * Camden Professor of Ancient History (currently Nicholas Purcell) *

Corpus Christi Professor of Latin The Corpus Christi Professorship of the Latin Language and Literature, also known simply as the Corpus Christi Professorship of Latin and previously as the Corpus Professorship of Latin, is a chair in Latin literature at Corpus Christi College, Un ...

(currently

Tobias Reinhardt Tobias Reinhardt (born 31 August 1971) is a German classical scholar, specialising in Latin literature and ancient philosophy. Since 2008, he has been the Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Corpus Christi ...

) *

Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art The Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art is a chair at the University of Oxford, England. It is associated with Lincoln College, Oxford. Holders of the Chair * William Mitchell Ramsay (1885 to 1886); first incumbent * Percy Gard ...

(currently R.R.R. Smith) * Regius Professor of Greek ( Gregory Hutchinson) *

Wykeham Professor of Ancient History The University of Oxford has three statutory professorships named after William of Wykeham, who founded New College. Logic The Wykeham Professorship in Logic was established in 1859, although it was not known as the Wykeham chair until later. I ...

(currently

Nino Luraghi Nino Luraghi (born 30 November 1964) is an Italian historian of ancient Greece, who holds the Wykeham Professorship of Ancient History at Oxford University. Life Luraghi is the son of Raimondo Luraghi (1921–2012), an Italian resistance fight ...

) Other notable current academics: *

Rhiannon Ash Rhiannon Ash is a British classical scholar specialising in Latin literature and Tacitus. She is professor of Roman Historiography in the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. She was formerly a lectu ...

* Anna Clark *

Ursula Coope Ursula Charlotte Macgillivray Coope FBA (born 31 July 1969) is a British classical scholar, who is an expert in the study of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle's physics, metaphysics, and ethics, as well as on Neoplatonism. She is Professor o ...

, Professor of Ancient Philosophy * Martin Goodman * Stephen Harrison *

Simon Hornblower Simon Hornblower, FBA (born 1949) is an English classicist and academic. He is Professor of Classics and Ancient History in the University of Oxford and senior research fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Biography Born in 1949, he was educate ...

* Christopher Howgego * Irene Lemos * Jane Lightfoot * Fiona Macintosh, Professor of Classical Reception * Catherine Morgan * Rosalind Thomas, Professor of Greek History * Andrew Wilson Notable former academics: * John Boardman *

Myles Burnyeat Myles Fredric Burnyeat (1 January 1939 – 20 September 2019) was an English scholar of ancient philosophy. Early life and education Myles Burnyeat was born on 1 January 1939 to Peter James Anthony Burnyeat and Cynthia Cherry Warburg. He rece ...

Averil Cameron Dame Averil Millicent Cameron ( Sutton; born 8 February 1940), often cited as A. M. Cameron, is a British historian. She was Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History at the University of Oxford, and the Warden of Keble College, Oxford ...

Barry Cunliffe Sir Barrington Windsor Cunliffe, (born 10 December 1939), known as Barry Cunliffe, is a British archaeologist and academic. He was Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford from 1972 to 2007. Since 2007, he has been an Emeri ...

Jasper Griffin Jasper Griffin (29 May 1937 – 22 November 2019) was a British classicist and academic. He was Public Orator and Professor of Classical Literature in the University of Oxford from 1992 until 2004. Early life Griffin was born on 29 May 1937. H ...

Terence Irwin Terence Henry Irwin FBA (; born 21 April 1947), usually cited as T. H. Irwin, is a scholar and philosopher specializing in ancient Greek philosophy and the history of ethics (i.e., the history of Western moral philosophy in ancient, medieval, and ...

* Elizabeth Jeffreys * Donna Carol Kurtz *

Robin Lane Fox Robin James Lane Fox, (born 5 October 1946) is an English classicist, ancient historian, and gardening writer known for his works on Alexander the Great. Lane Fox is an Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford and Reader in Ancient History, U ...

* Hugh Lloyd-Jones *

Fergus Millar Sir Fergus Graham Burtholme Millar, (; 5 July 1935 – 15 July 2019) was a British ancient historian and academic. He was Camden Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford between 1984 and 2002. He numbers among the most infl ...

Christopher Pelling Christopher Brendan Reginald Pelling, (born 14 December 1947) is a British classical scholar. He was the Regius Professor of Greek, at Christ Church, Oxford, from 2003 to 2015. He was President of the Hellenic Society from 2006 to 2008. His res ...

* Donald Russell * Oliver Taplin *

Susan Treggiari Susan Treggiari is an English scholar of Ancient Rome,John Simon Guggenheim Memoria ...

Martin Litchfield West Martin Litchfield West, (23 September 1937 – 13 July 2015) was a British philologist and classical scholar. In recognition of his contribution to scholarship, he was awarded the Order of Merit in 2014. West wrote on ancient Greek music, ...

* Stephanie West

References

External links

Official Website

Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources
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Classics Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

2001 establishments in England