The Institute of Classical Studies is a research institution associated with the

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and a member of the

School of Advanced Study The School of Advanced Study (SAS), a postgraduate-only institution of the University of London, is the UK's national centre for the promotion and facilitation of research in the humanities and social sciences. It was established in 1994 and ...

. The institute is a national and international research institute in the languages, literature, history, art, archaeology and philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. The institute was founded in 1953 by the Senate of the

as a partnership between the university and the Hellenic and Roman Societies. The institute produces the ''Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies'' (''BICS''), an

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published by

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, and a monographic series of BICS Supplements. ''BICS'' is indexed by ''

L'Année philologique ''L'Année philologique'' (''The Philological Year'') is an index to scholarly work in fields related to the language, literature, history and culture of Ancient Greece and Rome. It is the standard bibliographical tool for research in classical st ...

''.

List of directors

Eric Gardner Turner Sir Eric Gardner Turner Order of the British Empire, CBE (26 February 1911 – 20 April 1983) was an English papyrologist and classics, classicist. Turner was born in Broomhill, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Broomhill, Sheffield. He was educated ...

(1953 to 1963) * (1964 to 1967) * Eric Handley (1967 to 1984) * John Barron (1984 to 1991) * Richard Sorabji (1991 to 1996) * Geoffrey B. Waywell (1997 to 2004) * Chris Carey (acting, 2004) * Tim Cornell (2004 to 2006) *Mike Edwards (2006 to 2011) *John North (acting, January 2012 to August 2014) * Chris Carey (acting, September 2014 to December 2014) *

Greg Woolf Gregory Duncan Woolf, (born 3 December 1961) is a British ancient historian, archaeologist, and academic. He specialises in the late Iron Age and the Roman Empire. Since July 2021, he has been Ronald J. Mellor Chair of Ancient History at Univ ...

(January 2015 to June 2021) * Katherine Harloe (October 2021 to present)

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External links

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