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15 May 2009: Her special gift as a writer, speaker and broadcaster is her ability to bring classical scholarship bang up to date, finding wonderfully inventive parallels between the ancient world and popular culture, ... Like Beard, Fara is fascinated by the big

13 Oct 2012: The decipherment of Linear B opened up, and indeed created, a whole new branch of scholarship. ... While celebrating what is often seen as the greatest advances in classical scholarship in the last 100 years, the scholars taking part are also looking at

Viewed as a whole, they bear witness to the enduring legacy of classical and Byzantine Greek culture and the lasting importance of Greek scholarship in Cambridge. ... There are texts of classical authors such as Aristotle, Sophocles and Homer, important

3 Jan 2024: He won a classical scholarship to Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, but before matriculating he served two years of National Service in the Duke of Cornwell’s Light Infantry, as a

He studied classical and quantum gravity with Professor Gary Gibbons and Professor Stephen Hawking at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. ... Awarded a JT Knight Essay Prize, Andrew successfully defended his thesis entitled

He studied classical and quantum gravity with Professor Gary Gibbons and Professor Stephen Hawking at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. ... Awarded a J T Knight Essay Prize, Andrew successfully defended his thesis entitled

3 Jul 2024: My father was a geneticist at Leeds University. At home he didn’t talk about his work but he took us walking in the Yorkshire Dales and to classical concerts. ... I learnt the piano and, when I was 18, I got a music scholarship to Jesus College,

My PhD focuses on pastoral competition after 1700. There is very little criticism on the singing contest trope outside of classical scholarship, particularly after the early modern period and especially compared ... It’s such a vibrant community to be

Barnes composed various works which blended classical and biblical scholarship, including Gerania, a new discovery of a little sort of people called pygmies (1675), before publishing editions of various classical texts

Probably the most celebrated work of classical scholarship to feature among the collections is the Greek dictionary produced by his son, Henri, the Thesaurus linguae Graecae of 1572, which was to ... and Joseph Spence's illustrated Polymetis, which

She was delighted to learn that she had been awarded the second Lady Stanley scholarship. ... She was great friends with Rose Aitken (1848–1923, Girton 1871), who had been awarded the first Lady Stanley scholarship, and they studied together for the

Empire) for Services to Classical Scholarship. ... Professor Diggle studied the Classical Tripos from 1962-1965 at St John’s, going on to complete his PhD in 1969, by which time he had been appointed a Research Fellow

3 Jul 2024: Alan followed in his footsteps not only by coming Jesus College but also as the Senior Classical Scholar. ... He was also awarded a Rustat Scholarship (£60). He graduated in 1914 with a 1st Class (2nd Division) in the Classical Tripos I.

5 Jul 2024: Anthropological scholarship of egalitarianism focuses as much on the creation of wealth, power, and prestige as on its redistribution.

the ancient Graeco-Roman world or to classical architecture of the Renaissance onwards.</p> <p>The aim of the Centre is to foster and promote research and scholarship in all aspects ... of classical architecture from the ancient Graeco-Roman world to the

24 May 2022: The Classical World. From the Renaissance until the end of the nineteenth century, classical learning underpinned scholarship in the humanities. ... A cut-away view of the Pantheon, from a collection of woodblocks of classical antiquities (Rome, 1599).

The donation to the St John’s College Library of a book used by Cheke gives us a vital insight into this extraordinary Renaissance relationship between classical scholarship and the workings ... A happy coincidence of scholarship and curiosity resulted

22 Dec 2008: This championship was won in 2007 by Cambridge’s first Rose Book-Collecting Prize winner, David Butterfield (Christ’s), with his collection ‘Landmarks of Classical scholarship’.

7 Nov 2017: awarding a Meek Scholarship to subjects in the biological and physical sciences, including mathematics, geography, technology, medicine, and veterinary medicine. ... Value. 6. The value of a Scholarship shall be determined by the Electors within a range

Chrysostom and Eusebius: the thesis painted a history of classical reception that was never straightforwardly classical. ... What were the distinctive features of an emergent English dramatic tradition forged in the wake of classical drama?