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Professor Douglas Cairns FBA

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2018
Subjects
Classics
Sections
Classical Antiquity
Website
https://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/about-us/staff-profiles/profile_tab1_academic.php?uun=dcairns

Current post

University of Edinburgh Professor of Classics

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History, culture and societies in the Ancient Near East, during the Achaemenid period and the period of Alexander's conquests

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Philosophy: Ancient philosophy especially Plato's metaphysics, epistemology and ethics; ethics; the philosophy of medicine

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Professor Christopher Pelling FBA

Greek and Latin historiography and biography, especially the literary criticism of prose texts, in particular Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, and Tacitus

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