Professor Dame Mary Beard FBA
The history, literature and culture of the classical world, and its impact on later periods
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2010
- Subjects
- Classics
- Sections
- Classical Antiquity
Current post
University of Cambridge Professor of Classics
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Michael Silk FBA
Ancient Greek poetry and drama; the classical tradition, especially in English poetry and German thought; Nietzsche; poetics and poetic language; theories of literature
Professor Pierre Briant FBA
History, culture and societies in the Ancient Near East, during the Achaemenid period and the period of Alexander's conquests
Professor Judith Lieu FBA
The New Testament, in particular the Johannine literature; early Christianity, its literature and thought, in the Graeco-Roman and Jewish first- and second-century contexts
