Michael Taurian is a classicist and law graduate from Sydney. His undergraduate degrees were at the University of Sydney, where he completed a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Latin and Ancient Greek and graduating with First Class Honours and the University Medal. Michael is also an experienced rower and a classically trained oboist and pianist. With his World Universities Ramsay Postgraduate Scholarship, Michael will study an MPhil in Classics at Cambridge. His research will focus on the fragmentary remains of Hellenistic epic poetry and examine how civic discourse and shifting political climates shaped the genre’s poetic reception of an even earlier classical past. Michael intends to follow his MPhil with a PhD, and a career in research and teaching. Through his work, he hopes to share some of ancient literature’s abiding insights into the human condition and its crucial lessons on how we might develop our cultural and political life.