Professor Robert Fowler FBA

Greek historiography and mythography; Greek epic poetry; Greek lyric poetry; History of Classical Scholarship

Elected 2015

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2015
Sections: Classical Antiquity

Robert Fowler was born in Palmerston, Ontario, Canada in 1954. He was educated at the University of Toronto Schools, the University of Toronto (BA 1976, MA 1977) and Oxford (DPhil 1980). After a year's post-doctoral fellowship at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, he worked at the University of Waterloo, Ontario,for 15 years before taking up the H.O. Wills Chair of Greek at the University of Bristol in 1996. He retired from the Chair in 2017 and is now Emeritus Professor of Greek.

Current post

University of Bristol Henry Overton Wills Emeritus Professor of Greek

Past appointments

University of Bristol Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek

1996 - 2017

Publications

Early Greek Mythography 2 vols

Robert Fowler - Published in 2000-2013 by Oxford University Press

Mythos and Logos Journal of Hellenic Studies 131

Robert Fowler - Published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press

The Cambridge Companion to Homer

Robert Fowler - Published in 2004 by Cambridge University Press

Herodotos and his Contemporaries Journal of Hellenic Studies 116

Robert Fowler - Published in 1996 by Cambridge University Press

The Nature of Early Greek Lyric

Robert Fowler - Published in 1987 by De Gruyter

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