Professor Amelie Kuhrt FBA

My areas of expertise lie in the social, cultural and political history of the ancient Middle East (c.3000-100 BC), especially the Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian and Seleucid empires.

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2001
Year of death: 2023
Subjects: Classics
Sections: Classical Antiquity
Website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/about_us/academic_staff/professor_kuhrt

Last post

University College London Professor Emeritus of Ancient Near Eastern History

Past appointments

University College London Lecturer, Reader, Professor of Ancient Near Eastern History

Publications

The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period

Amelie Kuhrt - Published in 2009 by Routledge

The Achaemenid Empire: a Babylonian perspective, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society (34)

Amelie Kuhrt - Published in 1988 by Cambridge University Press

From Samarkhand to Sardis

Amelie Kuhrt and Susan Sherwin-White - Published in 1993 by Gerald Duckworth & Company

The ancient Near East, c.3000-330 BC (2 vols)

Amelie Kuhrt - Published in 1995 by Routledge

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Professor Stephen Halliwell FBA

Greek literature, especially drama; ancient poetics and aesthetics, especially in Plato, Aristotle and Longinus

Professor Terence Irwin FBA

Ancient Philosophy, especially Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism. Kant. Moral philosophy, especially its history

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