Classics & joint degrees

Peta Fowler is Worcester’s Fellow Lecturer in Latin.

Dr Peramatzis’ specialities are ancient philosophy, especially Aristotle’s metaphysics, logic and epistemology and Plato’s metaphysics and epistemology.

I work on Mediterranean history and archaeology, with particular interests in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods, the Phoenicians, and ancient North Africa. I’ve published articles on topics from Roman imperialism to Athenian sculpture to Numidian architecture to Edwardian education, and I’ve co-edited volumes of essays on ‘The Hellenistic West’ (with Jonathan Prag) and ‘The Punic Mediterranean’ (with Nicholas Vella), as well as the collected articles of the late Peter Derow (with Andrew Erskine). My book In Search of the Phoenicians was published by Princeton University Press in January 2018. My latest book, How the World Made the West, was published by Bloomsbury in February 2024.

I teach a range of ancient history and archaeology papers at the undergraduate level, and I am currently supervising doctoral students working on feigned madness, sex scandals, and ancient Bactria.

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Scott Scullion is Fellow & Tutor in Classics at Worcester. His primary specialty is Greek tragedy and he also works on Greek religion and Greek textual criticism.

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I studied Ancient History and Classics at Durham University, followed by a Master’s and DPhil in Classical Archaeology at the University of Oxford. From 2013-18, I was part of the Empires of Faith project, based jointly at the University of Oxford and the British Museum, working on the 2017-18 exhibition, ‘Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions’ hosted by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Since 2018 I have been an Assistant Director of the joint Oxford-Messina archaeological excavations at Halaesa, Sicily under the direction of Prof. Jonathan Prag (Oxford) and Prof. Lorenzo Campagna (Messina).

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Open University, where I am working as part of the The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion, looking at constructions of gods in the ancient world.

I currently edit and contribute to a blog (Curation Space), discussing permanent and temporary exhibitions, galleries, gardens and everything in between.

My work focuses on the study of the ancient world, in particular religion, through the visual and material record. I am interested in how people communicate through ‘stuff’ and in turn, how this effects how people live, think and interact with each other. This raises a lot of questions about how we analyse material culture and how we, in turn, communicate what we find.

Since my undergraduate, I have had a strong interest in the Near East (Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel/Palestine) from the late Hellenistic period into Late Antiquity, and in ancient religion. My doctoral thesis, ‘Making Gods, Moving Gods Material and Textual Propositions of the Divine from first century BC Commagene to the Roman Empire in the third century AD,’ was a study of the ways in which the divine were objectified in the ancient Mediterranean, and the importance of objectification for our understanding of ancient religion. I am currently working on an extension of this project that looks at iterations of Jupiter / Zeus in the Late Hellenistic and Roman Imperial periods.

I have also been working on Sicily in an archaeological capacity for several years, having carried out excavations at the Hellenistic and Roman site of Halaesa Arconidea.

Andreas Willi  studied Classics, Slavonic Languages and Literatures and Historical-Comparative Linguistics at the Universities of Basel, Lausanne, and Fribourg in Switzerland as well as at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. After writing his doctoral thesis on sociolinguistic variation in Ancient Greek at the University of Oxford, he worked as Oberassistent in Classics (Latin and Greek Philology) at the University of Basel, before becoming a member of the Swiss Institute at Rome and then moving back to Oxford in 2005 to take up the Diebold Chair of Comparative Philology. In 2020 he was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.

Andreas Willi has worked extensively on sociolinguistic and dialectal variation in Ancient Greek, on language contact and the language-literature-culture interface in the ancient world, with a special focus on Sicily, and also on Classical (Greek and Latin) literature. At present one of his main interests on the linguistic side is the history and prehistory of the Greek (and Indo-European) verbal system, in particular the development of tense-aspect categories both from a formal (reconstructive) and a functional (philological) point of view. This focus is supplemented by — mainly morphological and etymological — work on other ancient Indo-European languages, especially those of Italy (Latin, Sabellic).