Lectures:

This term's Lecture Lists and today's lectures

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Conferences:

Oratory and Politics in the Roman Republic
An international conference to be held at Oxford, 1-3 September 2010. For further details see http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/oratory

Rethinking The Gods: Post-Classical Approaches To Sacred Space
An international conference to be held at Oxford, 21-23 September 2010. For further details see http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/rethinkingthegods

Dining and Death: interdisciplinary perspectives on the 'funerary banquet' in ancient art, burial and belief
An international conference to be held at Oxford, 25-26 September 2010. For further details see http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/dininganddeath

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Prizes:

The 2010 Conington Prize will be offered for a dissertation on a subject chosen by the writer and approved by the Board of the Faculty of Philosophy within the field of Ancient Philosophy and Ideas. The value of the prize will be about £1,000.
For further details see Conington Prize 2010

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Update on graduate funding:

see Funding

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Information for Schools & Colleges:

Visit our outreach website : Classics Outreach Website

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Information for staff : The Oxford Research Archive (ORA)

The Oxford Research Archive is a permanent and secure online archive of research output/materials produced by members of the University of Oxford. ORA provides a means of storage, access to and re-use of the full content of Oxford research publications and other output/materials. click here for more information...

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New Research Projects:

Social and Cultural Construction of Emotions: The Greek Paradigm
The project ‘Social and Cultural Construction of Emotions: The Greek Paradigm’, is funded by an Advanced Investigator Grant awarded to Professor Angelos Chaniotis (All Souls College) by the European Research Council (2009-2013). The project aims at contributing to a more reliable, nuanced, and comprehensive history of emotions in the Greek world through the study of paradigms from Classical antiquity and a dialogue with the historical, social, and natural sciences. Further information

The World of Inner Anatolia:
The Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (CSAD) is home to a major new research project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua XI project is focused on the monuments, history and culture of the remote highlands of inner Anatolia in the Roman and Byzantine periods.
For the MAMA XI website, click here : The Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua XI (MAMA XI) Project

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New Websites:

Lefkandi The British School of Athens began excavations at Lefkandi in 1964 under the direction of Mervyn Popham and Hugh Sackett. The site was spotted by the two archaeologists after surveying the island of Euboea to find suitable sites for excavation.