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
- Sections
- Classical Antiquity
Current post
King's College London Emeritus Professor of Classical and Comparative Literature
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Catharine Edwards FBA
Roman cultural history and Latin prose literature (particularly Seneca and Cicero); the reception of Roman antiquity in the 19th century
Professor Emily Greenwood FBA
Ancient Greek literature and cultural history in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE; responses to Greek and Roman classics from the 19th century to the present, especially in Black cultures.
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
