Professor John Matthews FBA

Classics and Ancient History
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1990
Subjects
Classics

Current post

Yale University John M Schiff Professor Emeritus of Classics and History

Past appointments

Departments of Classics and History, University of Cambridge Professor of Roman History

1996 -

Yale University John M Schiff Professor of History and Classics

1996 -

University of Oxford Professor of Late Roman History

1992 - 1996

University of Oxford University Lecturer in Middle and Later Roman History

1969 - 1992

Publications

The Journey of Theophanes: Travel, Business and Daily Life in the Roman East

John Matthews - Published in 2006 by Yale University Press

Laying down the law: a study of the Theodosian code

John Matthews - Published in 2000 by Yale University Press

The Roman Empire of Ammianus

John Matthews - Published in 1989 by Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.

Western aristocracies and imperial court AD 364-425

John Matthews - Published in 1975 by Clarendon Press

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Gian Biagio Conte FBA

Latin literature and textual criticism, especially of Latin poetical texts; literary theory and interpretation of Classical texts; history of scholarship

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Professor Terence Irwin FBA

Ancient Philosophy, especially Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism. Kant. Moral philosophy, especially its history

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Professor Sir Richard Sorabji FBA

Philosophy of Mind, Ethics, Philosophy of Physics, Metaphysics, History of Greek and Roman Philosophy (all branches) to 600CE, History of Islamic, Philosophy, Indian Philosophy, Philosophy of Church Fathers to 600CE

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