Research in UCD School of Classics
Staff Research Interests
Martin Brady, PhD (Bristol): Augustan poetry, esp. Ovid, and the ancient epic tradition.
Helen Dixon, PhD (Cantab): transmission and reception of Latin literature (especially in the fifteenth-century), Latin palaeography, history of classical scholarship.
Aude Doody, PhD (Cantab): Ancient Scientific and Medical Writing, Pliny the Elder, History of Encyclopaedism, Classical Reception, Ancient Technical Writing, Roman Historiography.
Philip de Souza, PhD (London): Greek and Roman social and economic history, esp. warfare and piracy.
Christina Haywood, PhD (Liverpool): Greek Bronze Age and Early Iron Age; the archaeology of the Ionian Islands; archaeological fieldwork.
Michael Lloyd, DPhil (Oxon): Greek epic and drama; sociolinguistic approaches to Greek literature, esp. politeness theory; Irish versions of Greek tragedy.
Andrew Smith, PhD (Hull), MRIA: Ancient Philosophy, esp. Neoplatonism.
Alexander Thein, PhD (Univ. of Pennsylvania): Roman Archaeology, esp. the topography of the city of Rome; Roman Republican History, esp. the Sullan Dictatorship.
Theresa Urbainczyk, PhD (Birmingham): Historiography, slavery, social and economic history.
