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Professor Edward Kenney FBA

Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1968
Year of birth
1924
Year of death
2019
Subjects
Classics
Sections
Classical Antiquity

Past appointments

Kennedy Professor of Latin Kennedy Professor of Latin

1974 - 1982

Peterhouse University of Cambridge Fellow and until 1974 Director of Studies in Classics

1953 - 1991

Publications

P Ouidi Nasonis Amores, Medicamina Faciei Femineae, Arts Amatoria, Remedia Amoris (1961)

The classical text. Aspects of editing in the age of the printed book (1974)

Apuleius. Cupid and Psyche (1990)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Ineke Sluiter FBA

Classics, in particular: ancient and medieval ideas on language; the use of value terms in public debate; cognitive approaches to Greek literature; innovation processes in antiquity, in particular their 'anchoring'

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Professor Alan Bowman FBA

Classics and Ancient History

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Professor Philomen Probert FBA

Greek, Latin and Anatolian languages and literatures; history of linguistics, especially Greek and Latin grammarians; Indo-European historical and comparative linguistics; linguistic theory, especially prosody and diachronic syntax.

Philomen Probert FBA

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