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 Simon Hornblower FBA

Classics and Ancient History Greek Language and Literature History of Greece and the Greek World Southern Europe Greece

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Professor Edith Hall FBA

Ancient Greek and Roman literature, especially epic, drama and literary aspects of philosophical prose; ethnicity, social class and gender in cultural history; the presence and impact of the ancient Mediterranean and Black Sea Worlds in the global imagination since the Renaissance

Edith Hall FBA

Professor Catharine Edwards FBA

Roman cultural history and Latin prose literature (particularly Seneca and Cicero); the reception of Roman antiquity in the 19th century

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