Professor Robert Parker FBA

Classics and Ancient History
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1998
Subjects
Classics

Current post

University of Oxford Wykeham Professor Emeritus of Ancient History

Past appointments

University of Oxford Wykeham Professor of Ancient History

1996 - 2016

Oriel College, Oxford Fellow; Tutor in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature

1976 - 1996

Publications

Athenian religion. A history

Robert Parker - Published in 1996 by Oxford University Press

Miasma: pollution and purification in early Greek religion

Robert Parker - Published in 1983 by Oxford University Press

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Roger Bagnall FBA

History of the Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Antique Near East; Graeco-Roman Egypt; Papyrology; Epigraphy

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Professor Christopher Pelling FBA

Greek and Latin historiography and biography, especially the literary criticism of prose texts, in particular Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, and Tacitus

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Professor Michael Silk FBA

Ancient Greek poetry and drama; the classical tradition, especially in English poetry and German thought; Nietzsche; poetics and poetic language; theories of literature

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