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

Current post

University of Cambridge Professor of Classics

Six Fellows of the British Academy make the case for the importance of the humanities and social sciences

20 Nov 2018

As part of the #howhumanities and #howsocialscience series, six fellows highlight the importance of these disciplines.

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Judith Lieu FBA

The New Testament, in particular the Johannine literature; early Christianity, its literature and thought, in the Graeco-Roman and Jewish first- and second-century contexts

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Professor Stephen Oakley FBA

Latin literature and Roman history; Livy, the transmissions and textual traditions of Latin authors, and the topography of pre-Roman Italy

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Professor Denis Feeney FBA

Roman history and Latin literature of the Republic and early Principate, with a special interest in time, religion, and institutions of literary culture

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