The MSc by Research in Classics provides a grounding in the methods and techniques of sustained research, while at the same time allowing students to pursue their own project and complete an extended thesis.

University of Edinburgh welcomes applications from anyone keen to work on topics that overlap with the research interests of the academic staff. Major research interests include:

Homer and early Greek poetry
Greek philosophy
Greek drama
Hellenistic and Roman poetry
classical Greek and Hellenistic history
the ancient economy
Archaic and Classical Greek archaeology
Judaism in the ancient world
Byzantine history and literature
the Roman republic
the Hellenistic and Roman Near East
Roman imperial history
Greek literature of the Roman empire