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 Ineke Sluiter FBA

Classics, in particular: ancient and medieval ideas on language; the use of value terms in public debate; cognitive approaches to Greek literature; innovation processes in antiquity, in particular their 'anchoring'

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Dr Miltiades Hatzopoulos FBA

The epigraphy, ancient topography, language, religion, institutions and political history of Macedonia in classical antiquity

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Professor Garth Fowden FBA

Intellectual currents and imperial horizons in the first millennium CE, from Augustus to Avicenna, Central Asia to the Atlantic. Emergent Islam in its late antique context

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