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Professor Eleanor Dickey FBA

Greek and Latin languages and literature; ancient scholarship; ancient bilingualism and second-language learning; politeness and forms of address in Latin and Greek; sociolinguistics of ancient languages
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2014
Subjects
Classics, Education, Linguistics
Sections
Classical Antiquity , Linguistics and Philology , Education
Website
http://www.reading.ac.uk/classics/about/staff/e-dickey.aspx

Current post

University of Reading Professor of Classics

Publications

Learning Latin the Ancient Way

Eleanor Dickey - Published in 2016 by Cambridge University Press

The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana I and II

Eleaonor Dickey - Published in 2012-15 by Cambridge University Press

Colloquial and Literary Latin

Eleanor Dickey - Published in 2010 by Cambridge University Press

Ancient Greek Scholarship: A Guide to Finding, Reading, and Understanding Scholia, Commentaries, Lexica, and Grammatical Treatises

Eleanor Dickey - Published in 2007 by Oxford University Press

Latin Forms of Address

Eleanor Dickey - Published in 2002 by Oxford University Press

Greek Forms of Address

Eleanor Dickey - Published in 1996 by Oxford University Press

How the invention of the book changed how people read

29 Aug 2019 Professor Eleanor Dickey FBA

Before the Roman invention of the codex, people would read from long bookrolls. Professor Eleanor Dickey FBA explains how the invention of the codex impacted the way people read.

Other Fellows of the British Academy

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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Dr Stephanie West FBA

Classics and Ancient History

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Professor Jane Lightfoot FBA

The exploration, through editions, commentaries, and exegeses, of un- or under-explored classical texts: mythography, ethnography, geography, oracular literature, astrology, medicine; Hellenistic and imperial poetry and prose

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