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
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2009
Subjects
Classics

Current post

King's College London Emeritus Professor of Classical and Comparative Literature

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Greg Woolf FBA

Ancient economies, societies, civilizations. The archaeology and history of the Roman Empire and its neighbours at the very large scale

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Professor Denis Feeney FBA

Roman history and Latin literature of the Republic and early Principate, with a special interest in time, religion, and institutions of literary culture

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Professor Robert A Kaster FBA

Robert A Kaster has taught and written primarily in the areas of Roman rhetoric, the history of ancient education, Latin textual criticism, and Roman ethics and the history of the emotions.

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