Angharad Derbyshire
Cambridge PhD Student
Faculty of Classics
My research explores Ancient Greek fictional travel narratives written under the Roman Empire (c.1-3rd c. AD). These texts tend to be eccentric, unpredictable, and playful, using fictional space as an imaginative arena for authors interested in contesting or probing notions of Greek identity and cultural history. I hope to bring together understudied texts to survey how the same questions are asked again and again by authors in this period, and fictional experimentation is used to provide various answers. The project is supervised by Dr Rebecca Laemmle.
My award is generously co-funded by the OOC DTP and Trinity College, Cambridge.
