Professor Dame Mary Beard FBA
- 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 Nicholas Purcell FBA
Roman social, economic and cultural history, combining the evidence of inscriptions, literary texts, and archaeology; the place of ancient history in the long-term history of the Mediterranean basin and its adjoining regions.
Professor Edith Hall FBA
Ancient Greek and Roman literature, especially epic, drama and literary aspects of philosophical prose; ethnicity, social class and gender in cultural history; the presence and impact of the ancient Mediterranean and Black Sea Worlds in the global imagination since the Renaissance
Professor Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer FBA
Greco-Roman literature, culture and philosophy; the reception of the Western classics, especially in China; translations of Seneca and Vergil; the symbiotic relationship of humanities and science, historically and at present.
