PhD in Classics and Ancient History

Central Campus, Coventry, United Kingdom

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36 monthsProgram duration

Classics and Ancient HistoryMain Subject Area

Program overview

Main Subject

Classics and Ancient History

Degree

PhD

Study Level

PHD

Department of Classics and Ancient History offers supervision in these areas: Epigraphy; Numismatics; Visual and Material Culture; Art; Ancient Medicine; Ancient Athletics; Greek Social and Cultural History; Sexuality and Gender; Ancient Rhetoric; Augustus and the Early Principate; Greek Religion and Greek Sanctuaries; Greek theatre; Greek Literature, especially lyric poetry; Greek Political History; Latin literature (Republican and Imperial poetry and prose); the ancient novel; Geography and space in Greek and Latin literature; Classics and Theory; Roman philosophy; Reception of Greek Thought in Arabic Culture; Platonism in the Renaissance; Roman cultural history; Roman Economy; Roman Syria; Sicily and North Africa; The Western Mediterranean.

Program overview

Main Subject

Classics and Ancient History

Degree

PhD

Study Level

PHD

IELTS

Bachelor GPA

Starting Month(s)

Jan-2000

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