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

Current post

Collège de France Emeritus Professor

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Kathleen Coleman FBA

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

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Professor Catharine Edwards FBA

Roman cultural history and Latin prose literature (particularly Seneca and Cicero); the reception of Roman antiquity in the 19th century

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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

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