Classics and Ancient History MPhil/PhD

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MPhil/PhD

3-4 years full-time;
Up to 7 years part-time

29 September 2025

Classics and Ancient History

University of Warwick

The MPhil/PhD in Classics and Ancient History allows you to immerse yourself in a chosen research field from our wide range of expertise. Study at the University of Warwick, ranked 3rd in the UK in Classics (REF 2021). Enhance your research skills and develop as a specialist in your chosen area in a stimulating and supportive research community.

You will work independently under the close guidance of an academic supervisor. Training in research methods as well as in ancient Greek and/or Latin are provided, as required. Additional skills training and career talks and workshops are built in our programme.

Teaching and learning

Training in research methods as well as in ancient Greek or Latin is provided, as required. Additional skills training and career talks and workshops are built in our programme.

The Department offers expertise in a wide range of research areas, including:

• Ancient economies
• Ancient medicine
• Ancient rhetoric
• Ancient sexuality and gender
• Archaeology of the Roman provinces (Syria, Sicily and North Africa, Greece)
• Ceramics and craft
• Classical Reception
• Epigraphy
• Geography and space in Greek and Latin literature
• Greek and Roman art, visual and material culture
• Greek historiography
• Greek literature, especially lyric poetry
• Greek political history
• Greek religion and Greek sanctuaries
• Greek social and cultural history
• Greek theatre
• Latin literature (Republican and Imperial poetry and prose)
• Numismatics
• Race and ethnicity in the Greco-Roman world
• Roman cultural history
• Roman imperial history
• Roman philosophy
• Theoretical approaches to classical literature

Full details of our research interests are listed on the Classics and Ancient History web pagesLink opens in a new window.

You can also read our general University research proposal guidance.Link opens in a new window

Find your supervisor using the link below and discuss with them the area you'd like to research.

Explore our Classics and Ancient History Staff Directory where you will be able to search by research area.

You can also see our general University guidance about finding a supervisor.

Applicants will need to have achieved a First or high upper Second Class BA degree in Classics/Ancient History/Archaeology, and to have achieved or be expecting to achieve at least a high merit mark on a Master’s degree in a relevant subject to be considered for entry.

Standard offers for successful applicants will typically be conditional on achieving a merit mark in a Master’s degree (where applicable).

• Band B
• IELTS overall score of 7.0, minimum component scores of two at 6.0/6.5 and the rest at 7.0 or above.

There are no additional entry requirements for this course.