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 William Fitzgerald FBA

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

William Fitzgerald FBA

Professor Judith Lieu FBA

The New Testament, in particular the Johannine literature; early Christianity, its literature and thought, in the Graeco-Roman and Jewish first- and second-century contexts

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Professor Esther Eidinow FBA

Ancient Greek history and culture, especially religion and magic; interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to historical analysis.

Esther Eidinow FBA

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