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Ancient Greek ‘pop culture’ discovery rewrites history of poetry and song

08 Sep 2021

New research into a little-known text written in ancient Greek shows that ‘stressed poetry’, the ancestor of all modern poetry and song, was already...

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Professor James Diggle in Cambridge's Museum of Classical Archaeology

Epic dictionary re-defines Ancient Greek including the words which made the Victorians blush

27 May 2021

For 23 years a team from Cambridge’s Faculty of Classics has scoured Ancient Greek literature for meanings to complete the Cambridge Greek Lexicon ...

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Cambridge and Heidelberg announce major project to digitise treasured medieval manuscripts

27 Mar 2019

Centuries-old manuscripts feature the works of Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles and Euripides.

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Epic issues: epic poetry from the dawn of modernity

02 Aug 2018

Epic poems telling of cultures colliding, deeply conflicted identities and a fast-changing world were written by the Greeks under Roman rule in the...

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Terme Boxer makes an entrance at the Museum of Classical Archaeology

19 Dec 2015

A heavyweight addition has joined the ranks at the Museum of Classical Archaeology after a cast of the Terme Boxer was placed on display.

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An over-dressed Victorian man looking at the nude Venus de Milo.

How classical sculpture helped to set impossible standards of beauty

18 Jul 2015

What do we mean when we say that someone has ‘classical’ good looks? Are male nudes in art appropriate viewing for family audiences? In looking at...

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"Maccari-Cicero" by Cesare Maccari. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Understanding the ancient world through language

22 May 2015

James Clackson's new book looks at what language use can tell us about ancient societies.

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It’s all (New Testament) Greek to Divinity students

05 Sep 2014

A project and website to help Divinity students (and any other keen language students) learn New Testament Greek will launch this month.

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Federico Barocci’s portrayal of Aeneas fleeing the burning Troy, from 1598

Enter the world of Aeneas in a powerful new drama

29 Jan 2014

With powerful themes of anger, hate, devotion, love, death and survival, a new play tells the story of one of the great heroes of the Classical world...

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Herodotus

Hay gears up for Greek marathon

23 Apr 2012

Following a successful talk at Hay in 2010, Professor Paul Cartledge will be playing a major part in a series of 10 discussions on Ancient Greece at...

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Michael Scott

The question of life in the ancient world

09 Feb 2012

Just what was life like in the ancient world? Dr Michael Scott, Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics and Research Associate at Darwin...

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A manuscript of Samuel Butler’s translation of the ancient Greek poem, the Odyssey (Butler/II/3/4).

‘Picture This #6′ – Samuel Butler's translation of the 'Odyssey', St John's College.

28 Sep 2011

Samuel Butler was a man with big ideas and a big imagination. He wrote on literature, science, art and religion, always thinking outside the box and...

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