Information on resources for studying the Ancient World, along with news and updates from the Faculty of Classics Library, University of Cambridge.
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ALT A sand-coloured poster for the Faculty's new tote bag. In the middle is a photo of the tote bag which has a glamorous sketch of Athena with laurels next to a shield with Medusa on it, her tongue poking out. The shield has Greek symbols and Cambridge Classics written on it. Beside the photo are two golden laurels and sketched black laurel wreaths are above and below. The poster says in bold at the top: New faculty tote bag. Underneath is written: £5 cash only. Available from the Library and Museum. Under the photo it says: The money goes to faculty access and outreach.
ALT The image shows a sculpted hippopotamus' head with the mouth wide open. The sculpture is on a table in a library. The background shows some shelves with coloured books.
ALT A library display table with several open rare books and documents, some supported by cushions and stands, surrounded by bookshelves.
ALT Two old books with worn pages are open on a cushion, with more books and documents spread out on a table in the background.
ALT An illustrated book displaying images of individuals and different types of buildings in Pompeii
ALT Promotional graphic for "Which 3 Books" series, featuring Daniel Sutton, with an open book in the foreground and bookshelves in the background.
ALT A text with bookshelves in the background. A photo of the first book picked by Daniel: Logos and Ergon in Thucydides, by Adam M. Parry.
ALT A text with bookshelves in the background. A photo of the second book picked by Daniel: 'Athens, 403 BC: A Democracy in Crisis?' by Vincent Azoulay and Paulin Ismard.
ALT A text with bookshelves in the background. A photo of the third book picked by Daniel: 'Epistemic Injustice' by Miranda Fricker.
ALT Daniel's profile photo and short bio: Daniel is a Research Fellow at Peterhouse. He mostly works on Ancient Greek and Roman historiography (history-writing); he is especially interested in the ways historiography interacts with political thought. Most of his work involves reading parts of an ancient historian’s text alongside some modern political philosophy to see how they might illuminate each other. Daniel is coming towards the end of a project looking at how ancient historians associated language change with civil conflict; he is now starting to explore the ways they thought democracies might collapse. The question which drives his research is how far studying ancient worlds—often so different from ours, yet at times strangely similar—can unsettle concepts and assumptions we hold today.
ALT Promotional graphic for "Which 3 Books" series, featuring Emma Arnold, with an open book in the foreground and bookshelves in the background.
ALT A text with bookshelves in the background. A photo of the first book picked by Emma: Why Read the Classics?, by Italo Calvino.
ALT A text with bookshelves in the background. A black-and-white photograph of Italo Calvino who is seated at a desk and looking directly into the camera. He's dressed in a suit and tie, his right hand resting on his forehead, and his left hand holding a pen, writing on a notebook filled with handwritten notes.
ALT A text with bookshelves in the background. A photo of the second book picked by Emma: Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire, edited by Jason König and Tim Whitmarsh.
ALT A text with bookshelves in the background. A photo of the third book picked by Emma: Aesop's Fables, newly translated and annotated by Robin Waterfield (Basic Books, 2024).
ALT A text with bookshelves in the background. There is a black and white illustration depicting a fox looking up at a crow perched on a tree branch. The crow appears to be holding something small in its beak.
ALT Emma's profile photo and short bio: Emma is currently an MPhil student at King's College. Her research focuses on the representation of animals in Greek prose literature of the Imperial Period. Other interests include Platonism, the pastoral genre, and narratology.
ALT Cambridge University Library tower on a sunny October day. Autumnal red leaves are seen in the foreground.
ALT The Great Greek Olympic Games. 2 Aug, 12-4pm.
ALT Promotional graphic for "Which 3 Books" series, featuring Dr Matthew Ward, with an open book in the foreground and bookshelves in the background.
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ALT A text with bookshelves in the background. A photo of the first book picked by Matt: Homer's living language: formularity, dialect, and creativity in oral-traditional poetry, by Chiara Bozzone (CUP, 2024).
ALT A text with bookshelves in the background. A photo of the second book picked by Matt: John T. Hamilton, Philology of the flesh (The University of Chicago press, 2018).
ALT A text with bookshelves in the background. A photo of the third book picked by Matt: Charles H. Stocking's Homer's Iliad and the problem of force (OUP, 2023), which offers the first full-scale treatment of the language of force in the Iliad from both philological and philosophical perspectives.
ALT Matt's profile photo and short bio: Matthew is W.H.D Rouse Junior Research Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge. Somehow he reads Homer for a living.
ALT Promotional graphic for "Which 3 Books" series, featuring Dr Giulia Maltagliati, with an open book in the foreground and bookshelves in the background.
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ALT A text with bookshelves in the background. A photo of the first book picked by Giulia: Claire Bubb and Michael Peachin (eds.), Medicine and the law under the Roman empire (OUP, 2023).
ALT A text with bookshelves in the background. A photo of the second book picked by Giulia: Law's cosmos: juridical discourse in Athenian forensic oratory, by Victoria Wohl (CUP, 2010).
ALT A text with bookshelves in the background. A photo of the third book picked by Giulia: A new handbook of rhetoric: inverting the classical vocabulary, edited by Michele Kennerly (Penn State University Press, 2021).
ALT Giulia's profile photo and short bio: Dr Giulia Matagliati is College Associate Professor and Fellow in Classics at Downing College. She specialises in the field of Greek prose, with a focus on Attic oratory, rhetorical theory, and ancient medical texts. Her work interrogates the role of rhetoric at the junction between knowledge and ignorance.