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Leiden University places sixth in QS Ranking Classics and Ancient History 26 June 2020
The faculty of Humanities scores well in the anual QS World Universities Ranking By Subject list. This year we have placed sixth in the category Class...
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What politicians can learn from Cicero and Dionysius 17 October 2019
'How do you write a slogan to win an election?' Steven Ooms answers this question in his PhD research into ideas about good prose in the time of Caesa...
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Leonie Henkes wins the OIKOS thesis award 14 February 2018
Leonie Henkes will be honored with the OIKOS Thesis Award 2017!
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Still learning from the Ancient Greeks 09 October 2017
There are still things we can learn from the Ancient Greeks. How they managed to make sure that innovations were accepted, for example. A group of cla...
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Ineke Sluiter appointed Corresponding Fellow British Academy 24 July 2017
Ineke Sluiter, Professor of Greek Language and Literature, has been appointed Corresponding Fellow by the British Academy. Every year the Academy sel...
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Hyperlinks to antiquity 13 September 2016
Until the 18th century, Latin annotations of well-known classical texts were an important source of scientific knowledge, but over the course of time ...
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Eleven Vidi grants for Leiden 13 May 2016
NWO has awarded eleven Leiden researchers a Vidi grant of 800,000 euros. The research subjects range from Cicero and muscle dystrophy to the archaeolo...
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'Dionysus never looked so beautiful' 10 December 2015
The renovated National Museum of Antiquities will re-open for the public on 15 December. Conservator Ruurd Halbertsma, Leiden Professor of Archaeology...
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What Spinoza winners Ellemers, Sluiter and Franx will do with €2.5 million 27 September 2010
On Monday 27 September 2010 Spinoza prize winners Naomi Ellemers, Ineke Sluiter, Marijn Franx (Leiden) and Piet Gros (Utrecht) announced their plans f...
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‘Funding is often hard to find. But not this time!’ 07 June 2010
‘It is a fantastic sum of money,’ enthuses classicist Professor Ineke Sluiter. ‘It gives me not just an award, but a task as well. And in all honesty,...