Professor Eric Handley FBA
Classics and Ancient History
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1969
- Year of birth
- 1926
- Year of death
- 2013
- Honours
- CBE, FBA
- Sections
- Classical Antiquity
Current post
Formerly Regius Professor of Greek, University of Cambridge; Professor of Ancient Literature, Royal Academy of Arts
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Caroline Humfress FBA
Late Antique and Early Medieval history; Christianity and Roman law; comparative histories of law; analysing historical questions in dialogue with current legal, anthropological and sociological research
Professor Bert Smith FBA
Ancient Greek and Roman art and visual history; marble sculpture and portraits; late antiquity; archaeology of Greek cities of Eastern Roman Empire
Professor Ian Charles Rutherford FBA
Ancient Greek poetry and comparative poetics; ancient religion, especially religious networks and pilgrimage; interactions between Greece and Ancient Western Asia, especially Hittite Anatolia; early Greek contact with Egypt; comparative religion
