Research projects

This project seeks to examine in tandem, with equal focus on structural parallels and divergences, the conscious revival and subsequent dialectics of classicising learning in middle and later Byzantium (c.800–1350) and Tang/Song China (618–1279).

​​​​​​​'Honour in Classical Greece: esteem, status, identity, and society in ancient Greek literature, life, and thought' is a Horizon 2020-EU.1.1 Excellent Science project funded by the European Research Council. This five-year project will run from 2018 to 2022. 

Earthen Empire: Earth and Turf Building in the Roman North-West was a Leverhulme-funded research project directed by Professor Ben Russell (Classics) and Dr Chris Beckett (Engineering), which explored earthed building traditions in the Roman North.

The Aeclanum excavations are a collaboration between the University of Edinburgh and the Apolline Project and are directed by Dr Ben Russell and Dr Girolamo F. De Simone.

This project aims to consolidate the scholarly gains of previous generations on later Latin literature, but also to ask new questions and invite new directions for the future. (Published 5 June 2017)

This three year project, led by Dr Ulrike Roth, explores the role of child slavery in the Roman world, testing the hypothesis that Roman slavery was largely child slavery.

A 3 year project, funded by the AHRC, exploring historical expressions of the philosophical notion that cognition is distributed across brain, body and world.

An International Network, hosted by the School of History, Classics & Archaeology, is working towards a comprehensive commentary on the works of the 5th-century Gallo-Roman poet and letter-writer Sidonius Apollinaris.

This project sets out to investigate popular culture in Late Antiquity, focusing largely on the Latin West.

This project is an archaeological excavation and field survey in South Italy.

Prof Eberhard Sauer has been exploring Northern Iran’s late antique frontier walls since 2005.