Professor Peter Garnsey FBA

Classics and Ancient History
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1993
Subjects
Classics

Current post

University of Cambridge Emeritus Professor of the History of Classical Antiquity

Jesus College, University of Cambridge Emeritus Fellow

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Professor of the History of Classical Antiquity

1997 -

University of Cambridge Lecturer; Reader in Ancient History

1973 - 1997

University of California, Berkeley Assistant Professor; Associate Professor

1967 - 1973

University College, Oxford Research Fellow

1964 - 1967

Publications

Ideas of slavery from Aristotle to Augustine

Peter Garnsey - Published in 1996 by Cambridge University Press

Famine and food supply in the Graeco-Roman world

Peter Garnsey - Published in 1988 by Cambridge University Press

Social status and legal privilege in the Roman Empire

Peter Garnsey - Published in 1970 by Oxford University Press

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Dr Dorothy Thompson FBA

Classics and Ancient History

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Professor Denis Knoepfler FBA

Ancient History of the Mediterranean world: Greek inscriptions and coinages focused on central Greece; Greek onomastics; archaeological excavations at Eretria-Amarynthos.

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Professor Bert Smith FBA

Ancient Greek and Roman art and visual history; marble sculpture and portraits; late antiquity; archaeology of Greek cities of Eastern Roman Empire

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