You'll learn how to work with a wide range of evidence, including historical texts, inscriptions, papyri, coins, art and architecture.

You'll develop transferable professional skills through our dedicated research modules. You can also choose to study ancient Greek and Latin language, from beginners’ to advanced level.

Internationally recognised experts will teach you, and provide the opportunity to specialise in the topics relating to our research strengths.

Our areas of expertise include:

• the history of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece
• interactions between Greeks and non-Greek ‘barbarians’
• the experiences of immigrants, women, children and slaves
• Greek and Roman religion
• Alexander the Great
• Hellenistic kingship
• the Roman Republic and the high empire
• society and culture in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
• Late Antiquity
• relations between pagans and Christians
• ancient literacy
• Roman Law

Graduates have gone on to work in a diverse range of careers, including:

• museum and heritage work
• research
• marketing
• recruitment
• business development
• law and legal services