Murray Edwards College’s webinar series returns for 2025 and will run weekly from January until June.
If you want to learn what it would be like to study at Cambridge, explore the webinars on offer and sign up to register your interest in attending.
Doctor Hannah Willey - Classics
The first webinar in our series will be delivered by Associate Professor of Classics, Dr Hannah Willey: a specialist on the topics of Greek religion and society; Greek law; historiography; and non-citizens in the ancient world.
Classical Athens is often held up as a paragon of freedom – freedom of thought and expression. At the same time, as has long been recognised, this freedom was inextricably tied up with and reliant upon oppression, of women, of non-citizens, and, in particular, of the enslaved. In this webinar, we’ll explore the evidence for Athenian slavery, asking what sort of attitudes to slavery were found among Greek slave holders and how similar or different they were to the attitudes of slave holders in later historical periods. At the same time, we’ll look for echoes of the voices and agency of the enslaved – how far can we reconstruct the experience of slavery in the Greek world and put flesh on the bones of the theoretical approaches found in the works of philosophy and social commentary?
This webinar is suitable for students studying Classics, History, Archaeology and Politics.
For more information, about our webinar series, visit the Murray Edwards College website . Register your interest here.
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