People
Meet the academic, teaching, and professional services staff within the School of Classics.
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Dr Jon Hesk
Reader
Homeric epic; Greek tragedy and comedy; Thucydides; Athenian oratory and Greek rhetorical theory; ancient democracy and its modern legacy; the application of political science and psychology to the texts and culture of Athenian democracy; the influence of ancient drama on contemporary British theatre.
Prof Alice König
Director of Impact
Professor
Latin literature, Roman Empire, Nerva/Trajan/Hadrian, intertextuality, technical writing, history of science, conflict narratives, war, peace.
Prof Jason König
Professor
Greek literature and culture of the Roman empire; late Hellenistic, early Christian and late antique literature; place, landscape and environment in ancient and modern culture; the history of mountains and mountaineering from antiquity to the present; ancient encyclopaedic, scientific and miscellanistic writing; the literature and culture of the symposium; ancient athletics.
Prof Myles Lavan
Head of School
Professor
Political, social and cultural history of the Roman empire; imperialism; slavery; citizenship; quantitative methods
Prof Carlos Machado
Professor
Rome and Italy; late antiquity; cities and civic life; Latin epigraphy; urban space.
Dr Brian Martens
Lecturer in Archaeology & Ancient History
Greek and Roman archaeology and art; monuments and topography of Athens and Attica; Greek and Roman sculpture; making art in antiquity
Dr A. Sophie Schoess
Director of Teaching
Lecturer
Greek literature and culture, especially Imperial and late-antique epic poetry; the relationship between image and text; interactions between Latin and Greek poetry in Late Antiquity; classical myth and its reception.
Prof Elizabeth Craik
Honorary Professor
Greek tragedy, especially Euripides; Greek medicine, especially Hippocrates
Dr Nikoletta Manioti
Visiting Scholar
Sisters; Epic; Roman women; Myth; Representation of space in literature
