Professor John Davies FBA

Classics and Ancient History
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1985
Subjects
Classics

Current post

University of Liverpool Emeritus Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology

Past appointments

University of Liverpool Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology

1977 - 2004

Oriel College University of Oxford Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History

1968 - 1977

University of St Andrews Lecturer in Ancient History

1965 - 1968

Publications

Democracy and classical Greece

John Davies - Published in 1978 by Fontana Press

Athenian propertied families, 600-300 BC

John Davies - Published in 1971 by Oxford University Press

Other Fellows of the British Academy

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 Catherine Steel FBA

The history of Rome during the Republican period; its political institutions, public speech and oratory

Catherine Steel FBA

Professor Emily Greenwood FBA

Ancient Greek literature and cultural history in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE; responses to Greek and Roman classics from the 19th century to the present, especially in Black cultures.

Emily Greenwood FBA (credit David Milne)

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