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Department of Greek and Latin
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.
| Peter Agócs | Greek lyric song, especially Pindar and Bacchylides; genre in ancient literature; narrative in Greek lyric; collective memory. |
| Roman history, especially the Republican period from the foundation of Rome to the principate of Augustus, with a particular emphasis on the study of politics and political concepts. | |
| Georgina Barker | Classical literature and culture; their reception in Russia; Russian literature and culture. |
| 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. |
| Amber Gartrell | Ancient Roman history from the mid-Republic to early empire, Roman religion. |
| Mark Geller | Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic; ancient magic and medicine; Hebrew and Jewish studies. |
| Nikolaos 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. |
| Richard Marshall | Roman Republican Antiquarians: the scholarship of Republican and early Imperial Rome. Ancient historiography and pedagogy, the history of the book, and ancient mathematics. |
| Victoria Moul | Classics and English; the translation and reception of Latin and Greek lyric poetry in English poetry from the sixteenth century to modernity; Renaissance and early modern ('neo'-) Latin literature. |
| 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. |
| Eleanor Robson | Science, technology and medicine in the ancient and medieval Middle East, history of mathematics, Assyriology and Middle Eastern archaeology. |
| Benet Salway | Later Roman history, Greek and Roman epigraphy and onomastics, Roman law, and travel and geography in the Graeco-Roman world. |
| Rachel 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. |