Research Students: completed theses

• Mateen Arghandehpour: Religion and politics in Achaemenid-Greek relations (2024)
• Danai Bafa: An edition of unpublished papyri of Greek prose from Oxyrhynchus (2016)
• Sofia Bongiovanni: Aspects of outrageous violence in Seneca’s letters and tragedies. A comparative analysis of the author’s use of extreme and violent death scenes (2024)
• Mathilde Bru: A study of variation and change in the Greek lexicon of the Post-classical period (2024)
• Raffaella Colombo: Liminary poems in Latin verse presentation manuscripts in England c. 1550-1650 (2022)
• Joyce Datiles: Heroism on Screen (2016)
• Joseph Dodd: Pietro Gaetano’s Oratio de origine et dignitate musices (2024)
• Bridget England: The treatment of Julius Caesar’s memory in Rome, 14 - 98 AD (2018)
• Rithu Fernando: The Mirror in Antiquity: An Interdisciplinary Study (2017)
• Susan Fogarty: An Edition of unpublished Documentary Papyri from Oxyrhynchus (2016)
• Biagio Gatto: The Syntax of Priscian in the cultural context of fifth-century Constantinople (2020)
• Alexandros Gkosevits: Tragic thinking: Tragedy and the tragic in German philosophy (2019)
• Charlotte Gregory: The receptions of Ancient Greek masculinities and sexualities in 21st century popular culture (2025)
• Kyriaki Ioannidou: A commentary on Menander’s fragmentary plays Heros and Theophoroumene (2016)
• Manuela Irarrazabal Elliott: Anger in Aeschylus’ Oresteia. Understanding the Emotion Through the Mind, Experience, and Society (2019)
• Trinidad Silva Irarrazaval: The sophos, the philosophos and the sophistes in Plato (2017)
• Xi Ji: Teleological mortality in Plato’s Timaeus (2017)
• Ioannis Kalofotis: Pythagoreanism and early Greek Philosophy (2025)
• Emily Chow-Kambitsch: Emotions in Ben-Hur from 1800-1931: A study of audience reception in the United States (2016)
• Tzu-I Liao: Patterns of communication in Demosthenes’ symbouleutic speeches  (2016)
• Henry Linscott: ‘Oral law’ and the emergence of written legislation in Archaic and Classical Greece (2021)
• Anne Mackay: Animals and Animal-Human Dynamics in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica (2019)
• Katherine McHugh: Voice and identity in the Imperial Greek novels (2025)
• Elizabeth McKnight: Ideas of the Rule of Law in Ancient Rome - from Republic to Empire (2018)
• Alexandra Meghji: A Thread of One’s Own: Phenomenology, Pluralism, and the Subversion of Classics in Novelistic Reworkings of Homer by Women in the Twenty-First Century (2025)
• Federica Micucci: Roman and Byzantine Papyri from Oxyrhynchus (2019)
• Angela Paschini: Religious exploration in Greek tragedy (2018)
• Marina Pavlidou-Elamin: The female-centredness of Sappho’s synaesthesia.
• Mélissa Pires Da Silva: The significance of ‘Family’ in Jean Giraudoux’s and Hermann Broch’s receptions of the Homeric and Virgilian epics (2025)
• Christine Plastow: The Rhetoric of Classical Athenian Homicide (2016)
• Tomaž Potočnik: How to say Yes in Latin: A Pragmatic Analysis of Positive Response Strategies in Roman Comedy (2024)
• Annemarie Schunke: The reception of Classical Antiquity in Anglophone Caribbean literature of the twenty-first century (2023)
• Oliver Schwazer: Nihil sine ratione facio: a Genettean reading of Petronius’ Satyrica (2016)
• Katharine Shields: Ancient Greek and Hittite Legal Language (2024)
• Skye Shirley: Four Collections of Latin Poetry by Women From the 17th Century (2025)
• Simon Smets: Authorship and Narrative Design in Renaissance Latin Letter Collections 1470-1520 (2024)
• Ffion Smith: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: The Presence of Greco-Roman Antiquity in the Broadway Musical (2026)
• Sharon Van Dijk: The Eclogues of Giles Fletcher the Elder: Composition, Circulation and Reception, c. 1560-1660 (2021)
• Amélie von Kuhlberg: Dionysus and regeneration in ancient literature (2025)
• Thomas Willis: W.H. Auden and antiquity (2025)
• Jill Woodberry: Reception of Horace in England 1630-70 (in English and Neo-Latin)

2005-2015

• Peter Agócs: The Language of Genre: A Study of Epinician Poetry (2010)
• Margarita Alexandrou: A Commentary on the Fragments of the Iambic Poet Hipponax (2015)
• Emmanuela Bakola: Cratinus and the Art of Comedy (2006)
• Giulia Biffis: Cassandra and the female perspective in Lycophron’s Alexandra (2012)
• Ljuba Bortolani: Greek magical hymns: Egyptian voices in Greek dress? (2012)
• Bellini Boyten: Epic Journeys: Studies in the Reception of the Hero and Heroism in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica (2010)
• Emma Cole: The Reception of Greek and Roman Tragedy in Postdramatic Theatre (2015)
• Manuela Dal Borgo: Thucydides: Father of Game Theory (2015)
• Daisy Dunn: Prometheus, Artist of the Ages: Prometheus’ Function in Ekphrastic Contexts in Latin Literature and North Italian Renaissance Stanzini (2013)
• Silvia Ferrara: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Cypro-Minoan Script (2006)
• Maria Fragoulaki: Kinship in Thucydides: xyngeneia and relatedness between cities and ethnic groups (2010)
• Nicholas Freer: Vergil and Philodemus (2014)
• Iphigeneia Giannadaki: A Commentary on Demosthenes’ Speech Against Androtion (Dem. 22) (2014)
• Brenda Griffith-Williams: A commentary on selected speeches of Isaios (2009)
• Ioanna Hadjicosti: Aeschylus and the Trojan Cycle: the lost tragedies (2008)
• Theodora Hadjimichael: Bacchylides and the Emergence of the Lyric Canon (2011)
• Ita Hilton: A Literary Commentary on Euripides’ Phoinissai (2011)
• Jean-Michel Hulls: The Role of Kingship in Statius’ Thebaid (2006)
• Maria Kanellou: Erotic Epigram: a study of motifs (2013)
• Adam Lecznar: Wole Soyinka’s adaptation of the Bacchae in its performative, cultural and political contexts (2013)
• Dimitra Kokkini: Euripidean men revisited: four case studies (2010)
• Ioannis Lambrou: Homer and the Epic Cycle: dialogue and challenge (2015)
• David Leith: Editions of a selection of Greek medical papyri from the Oxyrhynchus collection (2006)
• Antonios Makrinos: Eustathius’ commentary on Homer’s Odyssey (1379-1397) (2005)
• Kleanthis Mantzouranis: Wealth, Honour and Traditional Morality in Aristotle (2012)
• Skye McAlpine: Translations of Ovid’s Ars Amatoria in England from 1600 to 1700 (2015)
• Katerina Mikellidou: Fifth-century drama and the underworld (2014)
• Francesco Montarese: A Study of Lucretius, De Rerum Natura I, 635-920: Lucretius and his sources (2005)
• Athina Papachrysostomou: A Commentary on Selected fragments of Middle Comedy (2006)
• Diotima Papadi: Tragedy and Theatricality in Plutarch (2007)
• Styliani Papastamati: Gamos in archaic and classical Greek poetry: theme ritual, metaphor (2013)
• Emily Proctor: Beyond Persephone: a study of the twice-told tales in Ovid’s Fasti and Metamorphoses (2012)
• Richard Rawles: Simonides and the Role of the Poet (2006)
• Luke Richardson: Albert Camus and classical reception in Algeria (2014)
• Lorna Robinson: Magical Realism in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (2005)
• Aris Rogkotis-Kainamisis: Thucydides’ relation to Herodotus (2003)
• Ed Sanders: Envy and Jealousy in Classical Athens (2010)
• Antonia Sarri: Edition of Greek papyri from Oxyrhynchus (literary papyri with parts of the Kyrou Anabasis of Xenophon; and Greek documents of the Roman period from Oxyrhynchus) (2011)
• Carolyn Schofield: Kretan cult and customs, especially in the Classical and Hellenistic periods: a religious, social, and political study (2011)
• Naomi Scott: Beyond cross-dressing: masculinity and the πόλις in the plays of Aristophanes (2016)
• Andreas Serafim: Performing Justice: aspects of performance in selected speeches of Aeschines (2, 3) and Demosthenes (18, 19) (2013)
• Martin Skipper: Stoic unformed substance and its relation to Old Academic Ontology (2009)
• Aspasia Skouroumouni: Staging the female: studies in female space in Euripides (2011)
• Akrivi Taousiani: Sophocles’ Lying Tale: A study of dolos and fiction in the Philoctetes (2011)
• Monica Tobon: Apatheia in the Teachings of Evagrius Ponticus (2010)
• Michael Waters: The reception of ancient Greek tragedy in England 1660-1760 (2014)
• Chris Webb: Artificial amnesia and memory management: λήθη in the Sophoclean πόλις (2017)
• Linda Woodward: Diogenes of Babylon: A Stoic on music and ethics (2010)
• Bobby Xinyue: The divinity of Augustus in the poetry of Vergil, Horace and Propertius (2014)
• Vasiliki Zali: Reshaping Herodotean Rhetoric: A study of the speeches in Herodotus’ Histories with special attention to books 5-9 (2009)