Research Projects

The Department of Greek and Latin is part of a large UCL research establishment which, together with the Institute of Archaeology, the Department of History and the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, makes up a community of  around 30 researchers in the field of ancient world studies.

We have research strengths in Greek and Latin prose and verse from Homer to the Roman empire and in their reception through to the modern era. As well as being at the leading edge in their individual research, our staff are also engaged in major (inter)national collaborative projects, including the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, the Wellcome medical papyri project, and the Archimedes palimpsest publication.

Major funded research projects

• Freud in Antiquity
• Museum of Dream Worlds: Silent Antiquity Films in the BFI National Archive
• Oxyrhynchus Project

Other projects

• Graeco-Aegyptiaca: Greece in Egypt and Egypt in Greece
• Keeling Colloquia and Lectures
• London Centre for Ancient Philosophy
• Phoinix Platform for Studying Ancient Amuletic Jewellery

Past Projects

• Baroque Latinity
• Neo-Latin Poetry in Manuscript
• Dynamics of Civilisation
• Network on Ancient and Modern Imperialisms
• The Hawara Papyri
• Performing Aristophanes in Early Modern Translations
• Theophrastus (R.W. Sharples)