Professor Dr Irene De Jong FBA

Ancient Greek narrative, especially epic and historiography; the application of modern literary theory, especially narratology, on ancient texts; Greek literary history
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Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2022
Subjects
Classics

Current post

University of Amsterdam Emeritus Professor of Ancient Greek

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Kathleen Coleman FBA

Latin literature of the Flavian and Trajanic periods; Roman social history, especially spectacle and punishment

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Professor Garth Fowden FBA

Intellectual currents and imperial horizons in the first millennium CE, from Augustus to Avicenna, Central Asia to the Atlantic. Emergent Islam in its late antique context

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Professor Vivian Nutton FBA

The history of medicine from the ancient Greeks to the 17th century, especially Galen (129-216 C.E.) and the Galenic tradition, including editions and translations of Latin and Greek texts

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