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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
Sections
Classical Antiquity
Website
https://www.new.ox.ac.uk/node/998

Summary

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

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.

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Dr Stephanie West FBA

Classics and Ancient History

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Professor John Scheid FBA

Religion & institutions of ancient Rome, between the IIId c. BC & the IIId c.AD (Epigraphy, history & archaeology).

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Professor Michael Winterbottom FBA

Classics

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