The Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies

The Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies brings together the study of Greek language and culture across the University of Cambridge, creating connections between fields that have too often been separated by chronology, discipline and institutional boundaries.

Our perspective begins with the Greek world of today and reaches back through its medieval and Byzantine histories to antiquity. We are interested in each of these worlds in its own right, but also in what becomes visible when they are studied together: continuities and ruptures in language; the transmission and reinvention of texts and ideas; changing identities and communities; and the movement of people, objects and cultures across geographical as well as chronological boundaries.

Greek Studies at Cambridge already draws upon an extraordinary range of expertise. Scholars work across language and linguistics, literature, history, archaeology, philosophy, art, religion, politics and reception, distributed across faculties, departments, museums, libraries and colleges. CCGS does not seek to contain that activity within another disciplinary structure. It exists to connect it.

Modern and Medieval Greek Studies occupy a particularly important place in that mission. The Centre supports the study and teaching of Modern Greek language and culture, encourages research into the Byzantine and post-Byzantine worlds, and connects these fields with Cambridge's exceptional strengths in Classical Greek and the ancient world. Greek language itself provides one remarkable thread through that long history, offering opportunities to investigate processes of linguistic continuity, variation and change over more than three millennia.

But chronology is only one way of making connections. CCGS brings researchers into conversation across disciplines and institutions, and Cambridge into conversation with scholars internationally. The Lewis-Gibson Visiting Fellowships bring researchers from around the world into the University's intellectual community; Greek Dialogues creates a forum for scholarly exchange and debate; and our conferences, workshops and collaborations provide space in which new questions and partnerships can develop.

The Centre was founded on the belief that Cambridge's considerable strengths in Greek Studies could achieve more together than separately. That remains our purpose: to connect disciplines, periods and people in ways that open new questions, new collaborations and new directions for the field.