Professor Ian 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
Professor Ian Charles Rutherford FBA
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2023

Current post

University of Reading Professor of Greek

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Robert A Kaster FBA

Robert A Kaster has taught and written primarily in the areas of Roman rhetoric, the history of ancient education, Latin textual criticism, and Roman ethics and the history of the emotions.

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Professor Ursula Coope FBA

Ancient Greek philosophy (especially Plato, Aristotle and Neoplatonism); philosophy of action

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Sir Geoffrey Lloyd FBA

Ancient Greek and Chinese philosophy and science

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