Centre for Knowledge in Culture in Antiquity and Beyond

Description

This Centre brings together research by colleagues in the discipline of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter in specialised areas including ancient medicine, ancient science and the scientific imagination, metaphysics, philosophy, ethics, sexual knowledge, military strategy and political thought, and on ancient technical writings from across the Classical world.

Research areas within the Centre include:

• The Ancient Scientific Imagination
• Sexual Knowledge
• The Literary Sensorium
• The Brain in Early Hellenistic Medicine
• Ancient and Modern Approaches to Wellbeing
• Quotation Culture in Antiquity
• Space and Time in Latin Poetry Members share an intellectual concern in understanding how forms and systems of knowledge function within their cultural contexts, both in antiquity and in post-classical cultures up to the present day.

Distinctive features of the Centre include:

• A common approach of broad-minded interdisciplinarity,
• Ambition to maximise and explore the potential of Classics to speak across interdisciplinary boundaries,
• Concern to disrupt and put into question boundaries between established disciplines and fields of expertise, both ancient and modern.

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

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University of Exeter
Streatham Campus
Northcote House
Exeter
EX4 4QJ