Professor Peter Parsons FBA

Classics and Ancient History
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1977
Year of birth
1936
Year of death
2022
Subjects
Classics

Last post

University of Oxford Regius Professor of Greek Emeritus

Past appointments

University of Oxford Regius Professor of Greek

1989 - 2003

University of Oxford Lecturer in Papyrology

1960 - 1989

Publications

City of the Sharp-nosed Fish

Peter Parsons - Published in 2007 by W&N

Supplementum Hellenisticum

Peter Parsons and Hugh Lloyd-Jones - Published in 1983 by De Gruyter

The Oxyrhynchus papyri, vol XLII

Peter Parsons - Published in 1973 by Egypt Exploration Society

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Professor Catherine Morgan FBA

Classical archaeology of the Mediterranean, the Adriatic and the Black Sea; Greek political organisation; Greek religion; island studies; Archaic poetry

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Professor Philomen Probert FBA

Greek, Latin and Anatolian languages and literatures; history of linguistics, especially Greek and Latin grammarians; Indo-European historical and comparative linguistics; linguistic theory, especially prosody and diachronic syntax.

Philomen Probert FBA

Professor Kathleen Coleman FBA

Latin literature of the Flavian and Trajanic periods; Roman social history, especially spectacle and punishment

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