Professor Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer FBA

Greco-Roman literature, culture and philosophy; the reception of the Western classics, especially in China; translations of Seneca and Vergil; the symbiotic relationship of humanities and science, historically and at present
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Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2024
Honours
FBA
Subjects
Classics

Current post

The University of Chicago Distinguished Service Professor of Classics

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Katherine Dunbabin FBA

Art and society in the Roman Empire: Roman mosaics as documents of social and cultural history; the art of the Roman banquet; the imagery of spectacular entertainments

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Professor Stephen Halliwell FBA

Greek literature, especially drama; ancient poetics and aesthetics, especially in Plato, Aristotle and Longinus

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Professor Simon Swain FBA

Greco-Roman antiquity and its legacy in the East

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