Professor Christopher Pelling FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2009
- Subjects
- Classics
- Sections
- Classical Antiquity
Summary
Christopher Pelling was Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University from 2003-2015. Before that he was McConnell Laing Fellow and Praelector in Classics from 1975-2003 at University College Oxford, where he is now an Honorary Fellow. He has also held visiting professorships at Utah State University, Washington and Lee University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has been President of the International Plutarch Society and President of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. He has written extensively on Greek and Roman historiography and biography, Greek tragedy, and Roman History. In 2014, he was appointed by Michael Gove to lead a DfE initiative to promote the teaching of Latin in state schools.
Current post
University of Oxford Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek
Past appointments
Christ Church, Oxford Regius Professor of Greek
2003 - 2015
University College, Oxford McConnell Laing Fellow and Praelector in Classics
1975 - 2003
Publications
Twelve Classical Voices: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times
Christopher Pelling and Maria Wyke - Published in 2014 by Oxford University Press
Plutarch and History: Eighteen Studies
Christopher Pelling - Published in 2002 by Classical Press of Wales
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor William Fitzgerald FBA
Latin poetry, reception of the ancient world, neoclassicism, comparative literature, music and literature.
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
Professor Esther Eidinow FBA
Ancient Greek history and culture, especially religion and magic; interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to historical analysis.
