People
Meet the academic, teaching, and professional services staff within the School of Classics.
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Dr Jon Hesk
Deputy Head of School
Reader
Homeric epic; Greek tragedy and comedy; Thucydides; Athenian oratory and Greek rhetorical theory; ancient democracy and its modern legacy; the application of political science and psychology to the texts and culture of Athenian democracy; the influence of ancient drama on contemporary British theatre.
Dr Alice König
Senior Lecturer
Latin literature, Roman Empire, Nerva/Trajan/Hadrian, intertextuality, literary interactions, cross-cultural interactions, technical writing, history of science, battle narratives, visualising war.
Prof Jason König
Professor
Greek literature and culture of the Roman empire; late Hellenistic, early Christian and late antique literature; place, landscape and environment in ancient and modern culture; ancient encyclopaedic, scientific and miscellanistic writing; the literature and culture of the symposium; ancient athletics.
Dr Myles Lavan
Reader
Political, social and cultural history of the Roman empire; imperialism; slavery; citizenship; quantitative methods
Dr Carlos Machado
Senior Lecturer
Rome and Italy; late antiquity; cities and civic life; Latin epigraphy; urban space.
Dr Nikoletta Manioti
Visiting Scholar
Sisters; Epic; Roman women; Myth; Representation of space in literature
