Professor Francis Vian FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1980
Year of birth
1917
Year of death
2008
Honours
FBA

Current post

Professor Emeritus of Greek, University of Paris-X Nanterre

Other Fellows of the British Academy

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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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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Professor Katherine Dunbabin FBA

Art and society in the Roman Empire: Roman mosaics as documents of social and cultural history; the art of the Roman banquet; the imagery of spectacular entertainments

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