Centre for Knowledge in Culture in Antiquity and Beyond
This Centre brings together research by colleagues in the discipline of Classics & Ancient History at the University of Exeter in specialised areas including ancient medicine, ancient science and the scientific imagination, metaphysics, philosophy, ethics, sexual knowledge, military strategy and political thought, and on ancient technical writings from across the Classical world.
Research areas within the Centre include:
- The Ancient Scientific Imagination
- Sexual Knowledge
- The Literary Sensorium
- The Brain in Early Hellenistic Medicine
- Ancient and Modern Approaches to Wellbeing
- Quotation Culture in Antiquity
- Space and Time in Latin Poetry
We share an intellectual concern in understanding how forms and systems of knowledge function within their cultural contexts, both in antiquity and in post-classical cultures up to the present day.
Distinctive features of the Centre include:
- Our common approach of broad-minded interdisciplinarity,
- Our ambition to maximise and explore the potential of Classics to speak across interdisciplinary boundaries,
- Our concern to disrupt and put into question boundaries between established disciplines and fields of expertise, both ancient and modern.
Centre members
| Centre staff | |
|---|---|
| Dr Katharine Earnshaw | Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History |
| Dr Giacomo Fedeli | Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History |
| Professor Rebecca Flemming | A.G. Leventis Chair in Ancient Greek Scientific and Technological Thought |
| Dr Gabriele Galluzzo | Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy (Aristotle, ancient and medieval metaphysics; ancient theories of truth; contemporary metaphysics) |
| Dr Daniel King | Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History |
| Professor Rebecca Langlands | Associate Professor (Latin literature; Roman cultural history; Roman ethics; exempla and exemplarity; sexuality and gender; Classical reception) |
| Dr David Leith |
Lecturer (Ancient medicine; philosophy; papyrology) |
| Dr William Short | Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History |
| Professor Matthew Wright | Professor of Greek |
Research projects
| Modelling Lexical Semantics in Ancient Languages | Dr William Short |
|
Mindful Classics: Embedding Contemplative Pedagogy into the Study of Antiquity |
Dr Irene Salvo |