How did the Greeks and Romans live? What were they fighting over? What does their art symbolise? Discover the answers on our fascinating Classical Civilisation study course.
Become au fait with Latin culture and look at the problems of running an empire, or appreciate and evaluate Homer’s poetry.
Match your passion to your academic pursuit. Find a course that makes you never want to stop learning.
Learn everything there is to know about ancient leaders, artists or philosophers and why their ideas are still so prevalent in Western culture.
Our highly established tutors will introduce you to classical culture and society plus discuss the major historical events that defined these periods – such as the Peloponnesian War.
From textual analysis to learning about cultural norms, we revisit the thrilling stories of the past, understanding their important lessons and the impact they’ve had on our modern lives.
As current and past alumni of top universities, they’re highly specialised, recognised and knowledgeable in their chosen fields and can transfer their academic wisdom to you through interactive learning, independent study, seminars, and tutorials, depending on your age group.
Each week, you’ll be able to collaborate with leading academics mirroring the teaching method of the iconic, world-renowned and most respected educational establishments in the UK.
Arianna is a doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford. After completing her undergraduate degree, she decided to pursue a career in Archaeology. She now has a solid background both in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, which form the basis of her research interests. Outside of her research, Arianna has worked as a tutor of Latin and Italian for GCSE students in the UK, and previously as a tutor in Italy.
Giulia has obtained a PhD in Classics from the University of Cambridge, with her doctoral research focusing on Latin literature. Alongside research, Giulia has extensive teaching experience in the past five years: she taught undergraduate students in Cambridge (Greek and Latin language and literature) and for summer schools in Oxford, tutoring for both Classical Civilization and Greek language. More recently, she has been Stipendiary Lecturer in Classics at St John’s College, Oxford and Instructor in Greek and Latin at the Faculty of Classics.
Nicolas specialises in the literature of imperial Rome and late antiquity, and his interests span from early Greek poetry to classical reception in contemporary literature. He has taught in a variety of different contexts and find it the best and most rewarding way to circulate knowledge. He’s currently studying for his DPhil in Classics at the University of Oxford, and holds an MSt in Latin Language and Literature from the university too.
Ursula came to Oxford in 2015 to take up an Ertegun Scholarship for her MPhil at the University of Oxford. Throughout her earlier studies she became increasingly interested in the interactions between Greek, Roman, and Jewish ideas and historiography in antiquity. For this reason, her doctoral research (also at University of Oxford) examines the portrayal of Moses in the Antiquities of Josephus, a Jewish historian who wrote in Greek while living in Rome in the final quarter of the first century.
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