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
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2018
Subjects
Classics

10-Minute Talks: Disastrous: Thoughts on a pandemic inspired by ancient astrology

8 Sep 2021 Professor Jane Lightfoot FBA

Jane Lightfoot considers what a particular corner of the classical world, astrology, thought about disease.

Nine Fellows of the British Academy on how their subjects could shape the 2020s

24 Jan 2020

Leading professors in the humanities and social sciences set out the challenges and opportunities facing their subjects in the 2020s.

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Philomen Probert FBA

Greek, Latin and Anatolian languages and literatures; history of linguistics, especially Greek and Latin grammarians; Indo-European historical and comparative linguistics; linguistic theory, especially prosody and diachronic syntax.

Philomen Probert FBA

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 William Fitzgerald FBA

Latin poetry, reception of the ancient world, neoclassicism, comparative literature, music and literature.

William Fitzgerald FBA

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