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
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2023
- Sections
- Classical Antiquity
Current post
University of Reading Professor of Greek
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
Professor Katherine J. Clarke FBA
The relationship between space and time in ancient historical narratives; Greek and Roman geographical traditions as reflective of changing geopolitical realities; kingly power in the Roman Principate
Professor Roger Bagnall FBA
History of the Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Antique Near East; Graeco-Roman Egypt; Papyrology; Epigraphy
