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 Stephen Oakley FBA

Latin literature and Roman history; Livy, the transmissions and textual traditions of Latin authors, and the topography of pre-Roman Italy

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Professor Tim Whitmarsh FBA

Ancient Mediterranean literature, culture and thought; Greek literature, especially of the Roman Empire; cultural contacts in the ancient world; ancient religion and scepticism; literary and cultural theory

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Professor Gillian Clark FBA

The social & intellectual history of late antiquity, & early Christian (patristic) studies, in the Mediterranean world of the third to the seventh century

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