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

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Professor Robert A Kaster FBA

Robert A Kaster has taught and written primarily in the areas of Roman rhetoric, the history of ancient education, Latin textual criticism, and Roman ethics and the history of the emotions.

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Professor Catherine Steel FBA

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

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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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