Professor Douglas Cairns FBA

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2018
Subjects
Classics

Current post

University of Edinburgh Professor of Classics

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Stephen Oakley FBA

Latin literature and Roman history; Livy, the transmissions and textual traditions of Latin authors, and the topography of pre-Roman Italy

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Professor Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer FBA

Greco-Roman literature, culture and philosophy; the reception of the Western classics, especially in China; translations of Seneca and Vergil; the symbiotic relationship of humanities and science, historically and at present.

Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer FBA

Professor Richard Hunter FBA

Greek and Latin literature, particularly of the Hellenistic and imperial periods, and the ancient reception and criticism of classical texts

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