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 Andrew Wallace-Hadrill FBA

Latin Language and Literature History of Rome, Italy and the Roman Provinces Art and Archaeology of Rome, Italy and the Roman Provinces Classical Art and Archaeology Southern Europe

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Professor Garth Fowden FBA

Intellectual currents and imperial horizons in the first millennium CE, from Augustus to Avicenna, Central Asia to the Atlantic. Emergent Islam in its late antique context

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