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

Current post

University of Cambridge Professor of Classics

Six Fellows of the British Academy make the case for the importance of the humanities and social sciences

20 Nov 2018

As part of the #howhumanities and #howsocialscience series, six fellows highlight the importance of these disciplines.

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor James Warren FBA

James Warren's research interests include Presocratic philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic philosophy and his publications range across themes in metaphysics, philosophy of mind and moral psychology, ethics, and political philosophy.

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Professor Catherine Steel FBA

The history of Rome during the Republican period; its political institutions, public speech and oratory

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Professor Gregory Hutchinson FBA

Greek and Latin poetry and prose, especially from c.750 BC to AD c.300; interests include: motion, attention, genre, prose-rhythm, poetry-books, papyri, inscriptions, relation of prose and poetry, Greek and Latin

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