Classics News and Events
Major Wellcome Trust Discovery Award win
Prof. Simon Swain, Prof. Caroline Petit, and Dr Uwe Vagelpohl have won a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award for their project Liquid Knowledge. The rise of uroscopy in medieval Byzantine and Arabic medicine
Dr Emily Clifford wins CAMWS First Book Award
Dr Emily Clifford, Assistant Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, has won the CAMWS (Classical Association of the Middle West and South) ‘First Book Award’ for her monograph Figuring Death in Classical Athens: Visual and Literary Encounters (OUP 2025).
New on the Material Musings blog
In December's Material Musings, Chris Parr discusses the origins and significance of certain Egyptian obelisks in Rome, in an article titled: 'Points in Time: The Long Shadow of the Montecitorio Obelisk'.
You can read it here.
New on the Material Musings blog
In November's Material Musings blog article, Sue Walker discusses an unusual enamelled statuette from the western Roman cemetery at Cirencester in an article titled: 'The Cirencester Cockerel'.
You can read it here.
New publication - An ash-chest in an English country-garden
New study of a Roman ash chest at Sissinghurst Castle, Kent.