Professor Dame Mary Beard FBA

The history, literature and culture of the classical world, and its impact on later periods

Elected 2010

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2010
Sections: Classical Antiquity
Website: http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/directory/mary-beard

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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor William Fitzgerald FBA

Latin poetry, reception of the ancient world, neoclassicism, comparative literature, music and literature.

Professor Eleanor Dickey FBA

Greek and Latin languages and literature; ancient scholarship; ancient bilingualism and second-language learning; politeness and forms of address in Latin and Greek; sociolinguistics of ancient languages

Professor Oliver Taplin FBA

Classics and Ancient History

Professor Dame Mary Beard FBA

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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor William Fitzgerald FBA

Professor Eleanor Dickey FBA

Professor Oliver Taplin FBA

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Professor Dame Mary Beard FBA

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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor William Fitzgerald FBA

Professor Eleanor Dickey FBA

Professor Oliver Taplin FBA

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