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Here you'll find information about our current PhD students and the research projects they're working on.

Charalampos Papathanasiou

Title of thesis: Empathy in the ancient novel: strategies on shaping morals

Supervisors: Professor Ian Rutherford and Dr Christa Gray

Year joined: 2021

c.papathanasiou@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Sorian Verterius

Title of thesis: Pinning down language learning in ancient education

Supervisors: Professor  Eleanor Dickey and Professor Suzanne Graham

Year joined: 2021

s.s.verterius@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Eleanor Goddard

Title of thesis: The ‘daughters’ of Hecuba (Andromache, Cassandra and Polyxena) in Euripides’ Trojan cycle and their receptions in the ‘golden’ and ‘silver’ ages of Latin literature

Supervisors: Professor Barbara Goff and Dr Christa Gray

Year joined: 2020

e.f.goddard@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Edward Ross

Title of thesis: A crucible of religious interchange: understanding the evolving spirituality of the Hellenistic Far East

Supervisors: Professor Rachel Mairs and Professor Ian Rutherford

Year joined: 2020

e.a.s.ross@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Meryt Ramble-Wallace

Title of thesis: Middle voice: media tantum, verbal categorisation, and the evolution of ancient Greek thought

Supervisors: Professor Eleanor Dickey and Professor Ian Rutherford

Year joined: 2020

m.ramble-wallace@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Personal webpage

Cheryl Gupta

Title of thesis: The symbolism of the defeated bull in ancient Greek mythology

Supervisors: Dr Emma Aston and Professor Ian Rutherford

Year joined: 2019

c.gupta@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Becca Grose

Title of thesis: Changing presentations of virtue in the region of Burgundian hegemony: epigraphic evidence from the IV-VII centuries AD 

Supervisors: Dr Arietta Papaconstantinou and Dr Richard Flower

Year joined: 2017

r.c.grose@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Doukissa Kamini

Title of thesis: Killing in the name of power: political interpretations and intra-familial violence in the story of Orestes

Supervisors: Professor Barbara Goff and Professor David Carter

Year joined: 2017

d.kamini@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Personal webpage

Jessica Feito

Title of thesis: Regional variation in diet and crop choices: a comparison of Roman Italy and the Near East

Supervisors: Professor Annalisa Marzano and Dr Gundula Müldner

Year joined: 2016

j.n.feito@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Personal webpage

Rosanagh Mack

Title of thesis: The role of the horse on Thessalian coinage 479-320 BC

Supervisors: Dr Emma Aston and Professor Rachel Mairs

Year joined: 2016

r.m.b.mack@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Personal webpage

Seongmee Yoon

Title of thesis: Archaeological and socio-cultural studies on remains and burial excavated in Lowbury Hill.

Supervisor: Prof. Amy Smith

Year joined: 2021

s.m.yoon@pgr.reading.ac.uk