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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Greek literature, especially drama; ancient poetics and aesthetics, especially in Plato, Aristotle and Longinus

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Professor Emily Greenwood FBA

Ancient Greek literature and cultural history in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE; responses to Greek and Roman classics from the 19th century to the present, especially in Black cultures.

Emily Greenwood FBA (credit David Milne)

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