Professor John Davies FBA

Classics and Ancient History
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1985
Subjects
Classics

Current post

University of Liverpool Emeritus Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology

Past appointments

University of Liverpool Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology

1977 - 2004

Oriel College University of Oxford Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History

1968 - 1977

University of St Andrews Lecturer in Ancient History

1965 - 1968

Publications

Democracy and classical Greece

John Davies - Published in 1978 by Fontana Press

Athenian propertied families, 600-300 BC

John Davies - Published in 1971 by Oxford University Press

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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 Terence Irwin FBA

Ancient Philosophy, especially Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism. Kant. Moral philosophy, especially its history

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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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