Professor Pierre Briant FBA
History, culture and societies in the Ancient Near East, during the Achaemenid period and the period of Alexander's conquests
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2009
- Subjects
- Classics
- Sections
- Classical Antiquity
Current post
Collège de France Emeritus Professor
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Tim Whitmarsh FBA
Ancient Mediterranean literature, culture and thought; Greek literature, especially of the Roman Empire; cultural contacts in the ancient world; ancient religion and scepticism; literary and cultural theory
Professor Jane Lightfoot FBA
The exploration, through editions, commentaries, and exegeses, of un- or under-explored classical texts: mythography, ethnography, geography, oracular literature, astrology, medicine; Hellenistic and imperial poetry and prose
Professor Michael Squire FBA
Ancient Greek and Roman art and archaeology; classical literature, culture and thought; visual-verbal relations; classical traditions and reception; theologies of art; cultural history of ornament; history of aesthetics
