Research projects in the Department of Classics
Members of the Department of Classics are engaged in a wide range of research projects across the field of ancient world studies, including educational research, which have been successful at gaining funding. Some projects are based primarily at Nottingham; others are collaborative. Click on a project title below for further information.
Current projects
The Oath project has created a database of all references to oaths in Greek texts of all kinds, from the earliest alphabetic inscriptions down to 322 BC, and is analysing and interpreting this evidence in a two-volume study (to appear 2012).
Funding: A project funded by the Leverhulme Trust
Project director: Alan Sommerstein
This five-year project combines the study of Spartan social institutions in comparative perspective with examination of the appropriation of Sparta within European thought as a comparative model for contemporary societies.
Funding: A project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
Project director: Stephen Hodkinson
This project is producing a new edition of the fragmentary Roman Historians (writing in Greek as well as Latin) whose works are lost, but which survive in part through quotations and allusions in other authors.
Project directors:Tim Cornell, University of Manchester
Departmental contact: John Rich
Few archaeological sites in the world evoke such a sense of awe as the ancient Temple of Diana at Nemi in Italy. The online project Speculum Dianae has brought this ancient Roman temple back to life – in an interactive virtual temple featuring dozens of ancient objects unearthed from Nemi.
Project director: Katharina Lorenz
The Image in Crisis project aims to dissect prevalent approaches to the study of images in the Greek and Roman worlds, and to explore the development of the discipline in the 20th and 21st century, especially in the UK and Germany.
Funding: A project funded by Research Innovation Services
Project directors: Katharina Lorenz, Department of Classics, and Susanne Muth, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin