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.
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2024
Honours
FBA

Current post

University of Oxford Professor of Classical Philology and Linguistics; Fellow, Wolfson College

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Andreas Willi FBA

Historical and comparative grammar of Greek, Latin, and other ancient Indo-European languages; variationist linguistics of Ancient Greek (sociolects, dialects, literary registers); linguistic aspects of the cultural history of classical antiquity

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Professor John Scheid FBA

Religion & institutions of ancient Rome, between the IIId c. BC & the IIId c.AD (Epigraphy, history & archaeology).

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