Classics

Browse history and philosophy courses in UK

School of History, Classics and Archaeology · Historical, philosophical and religious studies

The PhD in Classics offers you the opportunity to study classics at an advanced level through independent research. Classics at the University of — with its broad range of supervisors and stimulating and supportive intellectual environment, can offer you a first-class experience in focused and sustained research. We welcome applications from anyone keen to work on topics that overlap with the research interests of our academic staff, including: - Homer and early Greek poetry - Ancient philosophy - Greek drama - Hellenistic and Roman poetry - classical Greek and Hellenistic history - the ancient economy - Archaic and Classical Greek archaeology - Jewish history in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods - Byzantine history and literature - the Greek East under Rome - the Hellenistic and Roman Near East - Roman imperial history - Greek literature of the Roman empire - late Roman literature and history - Christianity in the Roman empire - ancient slavery - ancient law - epigraphy - gender in antiquity - Greek sculpture - mythology in art - Roman and late antique archaeology Our strong relationship with other subjects such as Archaeology, History, Philosophy and Law, means that interdisciplinary study and supervision can be arranged. Each student is allocated at least two supervisors, allowing us to combine thematic, chronological and disciplinary expertise in the supervisory team.

Course details as published by the university. No graduate-outcome statistics are published for UK postgraduate courses, so none are shown.