Professor Dame Mary Beard FBA
The history, literature and culture of the classical world, and its impact on later periods
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2010
- Subjects
- Classics
- Sections
- Classical Antiquity
Current post
University of Cambridge Professor of Classics
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Garth Fowden FBA
Intellectual currents and imperial horizons in the first millennium CE, from Augustus to Avicenna, Central Asia to the Atlantic. Emergent Islam in its late antique context
Professor Christopher Pelling FBA
Greek and Latin historiography and biography, especially the literary criticism of prose texts, in particular Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, and Tacitus
Professor Ian Charles Rutherford FBA
Ancient Greek poetry and comparative poetics; ancient religion, especially religious networks and pilgrimage; interactions between Greece and Ancient Western Asia, especially Hittite Anatolia; early Greek contact with Egypt; comparative religion
