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.

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2007
Subjects: Classics
Sections: Classical Antiquity
Website: http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/nicholaspurcell.html

Current post

Brasenose College, Oxford Camden Professor of Ancient History

Past appointments

St John's College, Oxford Official Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History

1979 - 2011

All Souls College, Oxford Fellow by Examination

1977 - 1979

Publications

Rome and it's development under Augustus and his successors

Nicholas Purcell Peregrine Horden - Published in 2008 by Cambridge University Press

The Cambridge Ancient History Volume 10. The Augustan Empire, 43 BC–AD 69. Second edition

Other Fellows of the British Academy

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.

Professor Judith Lieu FBA

The New Testament, in particular the Johannine literature; early Christianity, its literature and thought, in the Graeco-Roman and Jewish first- and second-century contexts

Professor Jas Elsner FBA

Greek, Roman, early Christian and Byzantine art and archaeology; the reception of material culture in texts, museums and collecting; art and text; art and religion; the history of art history

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