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Mary Beard

The Classicist who wants the ancient world to have a radical future

22 Feb 2023

Mary Beard says the Greeks and Romans have more to say about modern society than we might think. A new set of films, aimed at teenagers whose schools...

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Ancient statues with students

Classics shorts with Mary Beard

19 Feb 2023

Celebrity guests join Professor Mary Beard and colleagues in a new series of films, that explore modern day classroom themes, through the lens of the...

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Characters from the Cambridge Latin Course, Book One

New Cambridge Latin course reflects diversity of the Roman world

11 Jul 2022

The latest edition of the leading Latin course has been designed to more accurately depict the roles of women, minorities and enslaved people in the...

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'Romans go home'. Mocked-up Roman graffiti, referencing Monty Python’s Life of Brian, at the Hull and East Riding Museum

Lessons from modern languages can reboot Latin learning

07 Apr 2022

A new guide calls for a broader approach to teaching Latin, one that draws on modern languages education, involving speaking, music and storytelling.

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Portrait of Sappho

Students taking GCSE Ancient History worry they appear ‘elitist’ to friends and family

04 Mar 2022

The tiny minority of state-educated students who take Ancient History at GCSE worry that the subject’s exclusive reputation will brand them ‘elitist...

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View of the city of York in England including walls and cathedral

Road radar to reveal York's Roman secrets

01 Mar 2022

The biggest investigation ever undertaken into Eboracum, the Roman city buried beneath York, is set to begin this summer. Ground penetrating radar...

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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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The museum technician who found her place among ancient faces

22 Jan 2020

When Charis Millett realised that being a museum technician was the job for her, she worked day and night to make it happen. She speaks about her...

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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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The sundial pictured after excavation

Archaeologists uncover rare 2,000-year-old sundial during Roman theatre excavation

08 Nov 2017

A 2,000-year-old intact and inscribed sundial – one of only a handful known to have survived – has been recovered during the excavation of a roofed...

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Example of a modified skull, a practice assumed to be Hunnic that may have been appropriated by local farmers within the bounds of the Western Roman Empire.

Tiller the Hun? Farmers in Roman Empire converted to Hun lifestyle – and vice versa

22 Mar 2017

New archaeological analysis suggests people of Western Roman Empire switched between Hunnic nomadism and settled farming over a lifetime. Findings...

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Praetorian guards - Louvre Lens, France.

Opinion: How to climb the social ladder in ancient Rome

22 Nov 2016

Jerry Toner, Director of Studies in Classics, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, discusses the stratification of Roman society.

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