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 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 William Fitzgerald FBA

Latin poetry, reception of the ancient world, neoclassicism, comparative literature, music and literature.

Professor Katherine J. Clarke FBA

The relationship between space and time in ancient historical narratives; Greek and Roman geographical traditions as reflective of changing geopolitical realities; kingly power in the Roman Principate

Katherine J. Clarke FBA (credit Charlie Burnand)

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