Professor Michael Silk FBA

Ancient Greek poetry and drama; the classical tradition, especially in English poetry and German thought; Nietzsche; poetics and poetic language; theories of literature
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2009
Subjects
Classics

Current post

King's College London Emeritus Professor of Classical and Comparative Literature

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Gregory Hutchinson FBA

Greek and Latin poetry and prose, especially from c.750 BC to AD c.300; interests include: motion, attention, genre, prose-rhythm, poetry-books, papyri, inscriptions, relation of prose and poetry, Greek and Latin

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Professor Sir Richard Sorabji FBA

Philosophy of Mind, Ethics, Philosophy of Physics, Metaphysics, History of Greek and Roman Philosophy (all branches) to 600CE, History of Islamic, Philosophy, Indian Philosophy, Philosophy of Church Fathers to 600CE

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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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