Professor Michael Winterbottom FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 1978
- Subjects
- Classics
- Sections
- Classical Antiquity
Summary
Michael Winterbottom was born in Sale, Cheshire in 1934. His family spent the war first in Torquay, then in Walsall, before moving to London, where he attended Dulwich College. Except for National Service (1956-8) and a period as lecturer at University College London (1962-7), he has lived in Oxford, where he was scholar of Pembroke College (1952-6), fellow and tutor in classics at Worcester College (1967-1992), and finally Corpus Professor of Latin 1992-2001.
His research began on Quintilian, but eventually extended to a wide range of Latin prose texts in the classical, late antique and medieval periods. For 30 years he collaborated with R. M. Thomson (Hobart) in editing and translating the major works of William of Malmesbury. Since 2000 he has been closely involved in the Cassino project on the so-called Major Declamations wrongly attributed to Quintilian.
Current post
University of Oxford Emeritus Corpus Professor of Latin
Corpus Christi College, Oxford Emeritus Fellow
Past appointments
University of Oxford Corpus Christi Professor of Latin
1993 - 2001
Worcester College, Oxford Fellow and Tutor in Classics
1967 - 1992
Publications
William of Malmesbury. Gesta Regum Anglorum
R. A. B. Mynors, R. M. Thomson, Michael Winterbottom - Published in 1998 by Clarendon Press
The Minor Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian
Michael Winterbottom - Published in 1984 by De Gruyter
Problems in Quintilian
Michael Winterbottom - Published in 1970 by University of London, Institute of Classical Studies
Other Fellows of the British Academy
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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.
Professor Phiroze Vasunia FBA
Greek and Latin literature; the classical tradition; comparative literature; colonialism.
Professor David Langslow FBA
Latin, Greek and Indo-European languages and their descriptive, historical and social linguistics; ancient special and technical varieties, especially as reflected in the translation and transmission of ancient medical texts
