Professor Amelie Kuhrt FBA

My areas of expertise lie in the social, cultural and political history of the ancient Middle East (c.3000-100 BC), especially the Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian and Seleucid empires.
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2001
Year of death
2023
Subjects
Classics

Last post

University College London Professor Emeritus of Ancient Near Eastern History

Past appointments

University College London Lecturer, Reader, Professor of Ancient Near Eastern History

Publications

The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period

Amelie Kuhrt - Published in 2009 by Routledge

From Samarkhand to Sardis

Amelie Kuhrt and Susan Sherwin-White - Published in 1993 by Gerald Duckworth & Company

The ancient Near East, c.3000-330 BC (2 vols)

Amelie Kuhrt - Published in 1995 by Routledge

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Richard Hunter FBA

Greek and Latin literature, particularly of the Hellenistic and imperial periods, and the ancient reception and criticism of classical texts

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Professor Chris Carey FBA

Early Greek poetry, Greek drama, oratory & historiography of the classical period, ancient Greek law.

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Professor Ingrid De Smet FBA

Renaissance and Early Modern intellectual culture, especially in France and the Low Countries; sixteenth and early-seventeenth century French literature; Neo-Latin Studies; the Republic of Letters; the Classical tradition

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