The Classics Department at Royal Holloway is a thriving and internationally recognised research centre. Royal Holloway has a vibrant research culture and an active graduate community drawing students from across the globe. As part of the University of London, we belong to the major research centre in the country and offer a distinctive postgraduate experience.
Academic staff teach and research across the range of Classical Studies from Homeric Greece to the very end of the Roman Empire. We have major research clusters in Classical Reception, Greek Law and Ancient Rhetoric, and Greek and Latin literature in addition to the individual research interests of staff. Our 14 staff currently supervise more than 35 research students and provide three different MA programmes.