Professor Jane Lightfoot FBA

The exploration, through editions, commentaries, and exegeses, of un- or under-explored classical texts: mythography, ethnography, geography, oracular literature, astrology, medicine; Hellenistic and imperial poetry and prose
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2018
Subjects
Classics

10-Minute Talks: Disastrous: Thoughts on a pandemic inspired by ancient astrology

8 Sep 2021 Professor Jane Lightfoot FBA

Jane Lightfoot considers what a particular corner of the classical world, astrology, thought about disease.

Nine Fellows of the British Academy on how their subjects could shape the 2020s

24 Jan 2020

Leading professors in the humanities and social sciences set out the challenges and opportunities facing their subjects in the 2020s.

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill FBA

Latin Language and Literature History of Rome, Italy and the Roman Provinces Art and Archaeology of Rome, Italy and the Roman Provinces Classical Art and Archaeology Southern Europe

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Professor Timothy Barnes FBA

The history, culture & religions of the Roman Empire from the first to the fifth centuries, with an emphasis on Christianity; the Theodosian Code

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Professor Edith Hall FBA

Ancient Greek and Roman literature, especially epic, drama and literary aspects of philosophical prose; ethnicity, social class and gender in cultural history; the presence and impact of the ancient Mediterranean and Black Sea Worlds in the global imagination since the Renaissance

Edith Hall FBA

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