Professor Walter Burkert FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1975
Year of birth
1931
Year of death
2015
Honours
FBA

Current post

Professor Emeritus of Classics, University of Zürich

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Ian Charles Rutherford FBA

Ancient Greek poetry and comparative poetics; ancient religion, especially religious networks and pilgrimage; interactions between Greece and Ancient Western Asia, especially Hittite Anatolia; early Greek contact with Egypt; comparative religion

Ian Charles Rutherford FBA

Professor Simon Swain FBA

Greco-Roman antiquity and its legacy in the East

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Professor John Dillon FBA

Ancient Philosophy and in particular, the philosophy of Plato and the tradition stemming from him

John Dillon FBA

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