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

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

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 Robert Fowler FBA

Greek historiography and mythography; Greek epic poetry; Greek lyric poetry; History of Classical Scholarship

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Professor Debra Myhill FBA

Writing and the teaching of writing, particularly linguistic and metalinguistic development; the composing processes involved in writing; the talk-writing relationship; the teaching of grammar; and creative writing

Debra Myhill FBA

Professor Gregory Hutchinson FBA

Greek and Latin poetry and prose, especially from c.750 BC to AD c.300; interests include: motion, attention, genre, prose-rhythm, poetry-books, papyri, inscriptions, relation of prose and poetry, Greek and Latin

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