The Ancient World at UCL

Academic and research staff across all departments

Study of the Ancient World is interdisciplinary, and universities often have different ways of organising it. At UCL Ancient History is in the History Department, Ancient Art and Archaeology in the Institute of Archaeology. We also work closely with the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, the Department of Philosophy, and others. We collaborate to provide an unparalleled range of teaching and supervision in all aspects of the ancient world and its reception in the modern world.

Name	Research area
Peter Agócs	Greek lyric song, especially Pindar and Bacchylides; genre in ancient literature; narrative in Greek lyric; collective memory.
Francesco Cassini	Ancient Roman history and Latin epigraphy
Paola Ceccarelli	Classical Greek history; space and identity in the ancient world; ancient performance culture; and Greek historiography.
Olivia Cockburn	Latin and Romance historical linguistics; Spanish historical sociolinguistics; translation and bilingualism in the ancient Mediterranean.
Stephen Colvin	Greek language, dialect and literature; Mycenaean Greek; historical linguistics and sociolinguistics.
Paul Davis	Translation and reception of the classics in England from the Civil War to the turn of the nineteenth century; the literature and culture of the Restoration; and ideas of poetic vocation and career between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment.
Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi	Ancient philosophy, virtue ethics, moral psychology.
Andrew Gardner	Archaeology of the Roman empire; archaeological theory.
Mark Geller	Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic; ancient magic and medicine; Hebrew and Jewish studies.
Nick Gonis	Documentary and literary papyrology; Egypt from Augustus to the Abbasids; later Greek poetry; early Christian literature
Andrew Gregory	Ancient and early modern science, ancient philosophy; the relation of magic and science.
Rosie Harman	Greek historiography and ethnography; identity; the politics of representation.
Yağmur Heffron	The history of the Anatolia and the ancient Near East.
Maddalena Italia	Sanskrit language and literature; Greek and Latin literature.
Lily Kahn	Hebrew, Yiddish, Ugaritic; comparative Semitic linguistics.
Borja Legarra Herrero	Aegean Prehistory; the later prehistory of South East Spain; landscape archaeology and survey methods.
Fiona Leigh	Ancient philosophy; the relation between structure and cause in Plato’s later metaphysics; art in Platonic moral psychology.
Miriam Leonard	Greek literature and philosophy; reception; history of modern European thought; critical theory,
Kris Lockyear	Late Iron Age and Roman archaeology, including numismatics; East European (especially Romanian) history and archaeology; ethnicity and nationalism; field methods; statistics in archaeology; typesetting and publication.
Fiachra Mac Góráin	Augustan poetry, especially Virgil; Virgilian exegesis; Dionysus in Latin poetry; intertextuality; the reception of Virgil in Ireland.
Mairéad McAuley	Early imperial Roman literature, especially Neronian and Flavian, tragedy and epic; gender and genre in Latin poetry.
Antony Makrinos	Homer; scholarship in Byzantium (esp. reception of the Homeric text with emphasis on allegorical interpretation); modern receptions.
Gesine Manuwald	Latin literature; Roman drama; Roman epic; Cicero’s speeches; reception studies, especially Neo-Latin.
Marigold Norbye	Medieval manuscripts; medieval chronicles; the history of history writing; medieval libraries; the transmission of ancient history.
Stephen Quirke	Professor of Egyptology.
Corinna Riva	Pre-Roman Italy and the central Mediterranean; east-west interaction and comparative archaeology of the 1st-millennium BC Mediterranean; theoretical approaches to cultural contact; Mediterranean ‘marginal’ landscapes and connectivity; archaeological survey and settlement studies.
Benet Salway	Later Roman history, Greek and Roman epigraphy and onomastics, Roman law, and travel and geography in the Graeco-Roman world.
Rachael Sparks	Material culture of the Bronze and Iron Age Levant; Egypt; the archaeology of empire.
Sacha Stern	Jewish history in Antiquity; calendars in Antiquity (Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian).
Julietta Steinhauer	Religion, religious minorities and migration in the Aegean during the Hellenistic period.
Jeremy Tanner	Greek and Roman art and architecture; sociology of art; art theory and criticism; comparative historical studies of art and religion.
Hans van Wees	The social and economic history of early Greece, archaic and classical Greek warfare, and the use of iconographical and comparative evidence in the study of the ancient Greek world.
Phiroze Vasunia	Greek literature and culture; imperialism and colonialism; the Classical tradition; conceptions of Greek prose; cross-cultural interaction in antiquity.
Todd Whitelaw	Aegean archaeology, landscape archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, complex societies, ceramics.
Mark Weeden	Hittite, Luwian, Akkadian, Sumerian; Anatolian hieroglyphs and the history and literature of the cuneiform world.
Karen Wright	Interdisciplinary approaches to archaeology (anthropology, history, materials science); Near Eastern archaeology; the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia.
Maria Wyke	Latin literature, especially Roman love poetry; ancient gender and sexuality; reception studies, especially Julius Caesar, Rome on film, classics and popular culture.

BA modules in the Ancient World at UCL