The Ancient World at UCL: staff

Peter Agócs	Greek lyric song, especially Pindar and Bacchylides; genre in ancient literature; narrative in Greek lyric; collective memory.
Valentina Arena	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.
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.
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
Fiona Leigh	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.
Tom Mackenzie	Greek literature, Presocratic philosophy (especially Parmenides and Empedocles), Latin literature, Didactic poetry, Greek religion. Iterdisciplinary approaches to ancient texts that combine philosophical and literary-critical methodologies.
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	Roman drama; Roman epic; Cicero's speeches; reception studies, esp. 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.
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.
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.
Riet van Bremen	The Greek world after Alexander, and in particular the history of Asia Minor.
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.
Maria Wyke	Latin literature, especially Roman love poetry; ancient gender and sexuality; reception studies, especially Julius Caesar, Rome on film, classics and popular culture.