Professor Patricia Easterling FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1998
- Subjects
- Classics
- Sections
- Classical Antiquity
Summary
Pat Easterling (née Fairfax) read Classics at Newnham College Cambridge 1952-1955, and worked on Greek manuscripts as a graduate student before moving to Manchester as an Assistant Lecturer from 1957-1958. She held posts at Newnham and in the Cambridge Classical Faculty until 1987, when she was appointed Professor of Greek at University College London. In 1994, she returned to Cambridge as Regius Professor of Greek and Professorial Fellow at Newnham, retiring in 2001.
The main focus of her research is Greek literature, particularly tragedy, its performance and reception in antiquity and in later cultures; and the study of manuscripts and their history continues to be a major interest. Since the early 1970s, she has been a general editor of Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, a commentary series now reaching its hundredth publication.
She is an Honorary Fellow of Newnham, University College London, and the Institute of Classical Studies, and has been honoured by the Universities of Athens, Bristol, Royal Holloway, Uppsala and Ioannina. She was elected associé étranger de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres at Institut de France in 2013 and Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Current post
University of Cambridge Regius Professor Emeritus of Greek
Past appointments
University of Cambridge Regius Professor of Greek
1994 - 2001
University College London Professor of Greek
1987 - 1994
Newnham College, Cambridge Teaching Fellow
1960 - 1987
Publications
Greek and Roman actors: aspects of an ancient profession
Patricia Easterling and Edith Hall - Published in 2002 by Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge companion to Greek tragedy
Patricia Easterling - Published in 1997 by Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge history of classical literature, vol I: Greek literature
Patricia Easterling and Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox - Published in 1985
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Tim Whitmarsh FBA
Ancient Mediterranean literature, culture and thought; Greek literature, especially of the Roman Empire; cultural contacts in the ancient world; ancient religion and scepticism; literary and cultural theory
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 Robert Fowler FBA
Greek historiography and mythography; Greek epic poetry; Greek lyric poetry; History of Classical Scholarship
