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 Jane Lightfoot FBA

The exploration, through editions, commentaries, and exegeses, of un- or under-explored classical texts: mythography, ethnography, geography, oracular literature, astrology, medicine; Hellenistic and imperial poetry and prose

Professor Christopher Pelling FBA

Greek and Latin historiography and biography, especially the literary criticism of prose texts, in particular Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, and Tacitus

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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