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 Bert Smith FBA

Ancient Greek and Roman art and visual history; marble sculpture and portraits; late antiquity; archaeology of Greek cities of Eastern Roman Empire

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Professor Esther Eidinow FBA

Ancient Greek history and culture, especially religion and magic; interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to historical analysis.

Esther Eidinow FBA

Professor Robert A Kaster FBA

Robert A Kaster has taught and written primarily in the areas of Roman rhetoric, the history of ancient education, Latin textual criticism, and Roman ethics and the history of the emotions.

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