APPENDIX 1: DISSERTATION GENERAL TIMETABLEN.B. You can make appointments to see your supervisor at other times, if needed.

When? What?February - April (stage 1) Meet with members of staff to discuss

ideas (book appointments with them);By 25 April (stage 2) Have submitted the Classics Dissertation

Proposal Form confirmed by a member of staff to get approval of your topic before the summer (if necessary, revise and resubmit until approval given).

Once approval is obtained Start work on your literature survey and the extended dissertation proposal

Summer vacation Work on your literature survey and extended dissertation proposal. Do background reading and familiarise yourself with your primary sources. (See Guidelines Document)

End of Summer vacation Supervisors will be confirmed by Director of Education.

Monday 18 September First day of term (the week BEFORE you start classes)

Submit your 2,000 word extended dissertation proposal to the Departmental Administrator: classics@exeter.ac.uk

Early/October (stage 3) Extended dissertation proposal approved and supervisors assigned:Meet with your supervisor to discuss progress and identify targets.

Late November/early December/January Meetings with supervisor for feedback on your work and finalising of the dissertation plan. Discussion of general issues pertinent to dissertations. Feedback on first drafts of written work

January - February Dissertation Conference/SymposiumFebruary Meeting with supervisor. You should now

be able to describe the content and structure of your work in detail.Conclusions should have been emerging. Ideally, you should have written a first draft of at least some chapters by now and you should have made a start on illustrations (where applicable).

March Meeting with supervisor before the end of term. Do not assume that your supervisor will be available for consultation during the Easter vacation

First Tuesday of the Summer Term Hand in dissertation. N.B. leave plenty of spare time – malfunctioning computers, printers etc. will not be taken as a valid excuse for being late.

APPENDIX 2: MEMBERS OF STAFF AND AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Below is a guide to the general expertise of potential dissertation supervisors.See the departmental web pages for more details. Some staff are on leave doing research next year supported by grants and research fellowships, their subjects will be taken up by other members of staff.

Barbara E Borg Greek and Roman art and iconography; Topography of Rome; Roman tombs and burial customs; art and text; Roman Egypt

Katharine Earnshaw Latin hexameter poetry (esp. Lucan, Virgil, Lucretius); space and landscape; cognitive humanities; Classical reception in the long eighteenth century

Richard Flower Roman and late Roman history; religious identity; late-antique and Christian 'patristic' literature, especially invective and heresiology; the many and various forms of authority

Gabriele Galluzzo Aristotle, ancient and medieval metaphysics; ancient theories of truth; contemporary metaphysics

Claire Holleran Roman social and economic history; the city of Rome; ancient retail; demography; labour history; urban economies

Elena Isayev Human mobility; Migration; Identity and memory; PreRoman Italy; Roman Republican history; Archaeology and material culture; Fine art; Citizenship; Spatiality; Place; Connectivity; Sanctuary

Daniel King History of the body; ancient medicine; history of emotion; pain; literary and cultural theory; classical reception

Rebecca Langlands Latin Literature; Roman culture; topics relating to gender and sexuality; reception of Classics in later eras

David Leith Ancient Medicine, Science, Papyrology

Sharon Marshall Latin literature (especially epic, elegy and the novel); Translation Studies; the reception of Latin literature in Early Modern France; women writers; the history of the book

Katherine McDonald Ancient Italy; fragmentary languages of ancient Italy, especially Oscan, Venetic and Etruscan; linguistic and cultural contact in the ancient world; ancient migration; personal names; Greek and Roman comedy; epigraphy

Lynette Mitchell Greek politics; the intersection of Greek social and political history; Greeks and barbarians; Panhellenism and identity; Greek constitutional forms

Neville Morley Ancient economic and social history; the reception and influence of ancient texts and examples in the modern world; reception of Thucydides; theoretical and methodological approaches to ancient history

Karen Ni-Mheallaigh Ancient fiction; book-culture; lunar narratives; Lucian; Greek and Roman novel

Daniel Ogden Traditional narratives in antiquity; ancient religion and magic; Macedonian and Hellenistic dynasties

Martin Pitts Roman archaeology (esp. Britain); globalization; consumption practices; material culture (esp. pottery); health & inequality; quantitative methods

Christopher Siwicki Classical architecture; ancient built environments; the cultural role of architecture; the concept of heritage in Roman societyMatthew Wright Greek literature and drama; ancient literary criticism; Roman poetry and drama

If unsure of who to go to speak to your personal tutor or see the Dissertation coordinator:

Elena Isayev, Amory Room 382 : e.isayev@exeter.ac.uk (Office Hours Wed. 3-4)