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 Tim Whitmarsh FBA
Ancient Mediterranean literature, culture and thought; Greek literature, especially of the Roman Empire; cultural contacts in the ancient world; ancient religion and scepticism; literary and cultural theory
Professor Catherine Steel FBA
The history of Rome during the Republican period; its political institutions, public speech and oratory
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
