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 Jas Elsner FBA

Greek, Roman, early Christian and Byzantine art and archaeology; the reception of material culture in texts, museums and collecting; art and text; art and religion; the history of art 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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Professor Alan Bowman FBA

Classics and Ancient History

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