Professor Peter Wiseman FBA

Classics and Ancient History
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1986
Subjects
Classics

Current Post

University of Exeter Emeritus Professor of Classics

Past appointments

University of Exeter Professor of Classics

1977 - 2001

University of Leicester Lecturer in Classics; Reader in Roman History

1963 - 1976

Publications

Remembering the Roman people

Peter Wiseman - Published in 2009 by Oxford University Press

The Myths of Rome

Peter Wiseman - Published in 2004 by Liverpool University Press

Remus: a Roman myth

Peter Wiseman - Published in 1995 by Cambridge University Press

Catullus and his world

Peter Wiseman - Published in 1985 by Cambridge University Press

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Professor Ingrid De Smet FBA

Renaissance and Early Modern intellectual culture, especially in France and the Low Countries; sixteenth and early-seventeenth century French literature; Neo-Latin Studies; the Republic of Letters; the Classical tradition

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Professor Edith Hall FBA

Ancient Greek and Roman literature, especially epic, drama and literary aspects of philosophical prose; ethnicity, social class and gender in cultural history; the presence and impact of the ancient Mediterranean and Black Sea Worlds in the global imagination since the Renaissance

Edith Hall FBA

Professor Ian Charles Rutherford FBA

Ancient Greek poetry and comparative poetics; ancient religion, especially religious networks and pilgrimage; interactions between Greece and Ancient Western Asia, especially Hittite Anatolia; early Greek contact with Egypt; comparative religion

Ian Charles Rutherford FBA

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