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Faculty Of Classics, University Of Oxford
The Faculty of Classics, previously the Faculty of Literae Humaniores, is a subdivision of the University of Oxford concerned with the teaching and research of classics. The teaching of classics at Oxford has been going on for 900 years, and was at the centre of nearly all its undergraduates' education well into the twentieth century. The Faculty was renamed "Classics" in 2001 after Philosophy, which had previously been a sub-faculty, became a faculty in its own right. The Faculty of Classics is divided into two sub-faculties of Classical Languages & Literature, and Ancient History & Classical Archaeology. The Faculty organises teaching and research - the main undergraduate programme being known as Literae Humaniores. It also runs a BA programme in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History. The Faculty of Classics is part of the Humanities Division. It runs projects including the Oxyrhynchus Papyrus Project and the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama. It is the larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stelios Ioannou Centre For Classical And Byzantine Studies, Oxford University
Stelios (Greek: Στέλιος) or formally Stylianos (Greek: Στυλιανός) is a Greek first name. This name is given to honor St. Stylianos, a Greek Orthodox saint, the protector of children. The name is derived from the Greek word στυλος (stylos) that means "pillar". Notable people and characters with the name include: *Stelios Giannakopoulos, association football player *Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, owner of easyGroup *Stelios Kazantzidis, singer and novelist * Stelios Constantas, singer *Stelios Arcadiou (better known as Stelarc), performance artist * Stelios Phili, Cypriot-American songwriter and record producer *Stelios, character in the film '' 300'', played by Michael Fassbender See also * Stylianos (other) Stylianos (Greek: Στυλιανός) is a Greek given name meaning pillar. Stylianos may refer to: * Stylianos of Paphlagonia (fl. late 6th century), patron saint of children * Stylianos Zaoutzes (died 899), Byzantine official and father-in-law o . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Purcell (classicist)
Nicholas Purcell FBA is Camden Professor of Ancient History and a fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. Before holding this post he was University Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow at St John's College, Oxford. Early life and education From 1974 to 1977, Purcell was an undergraduate at Worcester College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. During his time Worcester College he was a student of Peter Brunt. He then became a prize-fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, until 1979. He does not have a doctorate. Academic career From 1979 until October 2011, he was a tutorial fellow at St John's College, Oxford, succeeding Nicholas Sherwin-White. He was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2007. Upon becoming Camden Professor of Ancient History in October 2011, he was elected a fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. Visiting appointments and lectures In 1998 Purcell gave the Jerome lectures at the Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Hornblower
Simon Hornblower, FBA (born 1949) is an English classicist and academic. He is Professor of Classics and Ancient History in the University of Oxford and senior research fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Biography Born in 1949, he was educated at Eton College, where he was a King's Scholar; at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he took a first class in Part I of the Classical Tripos in 1969; and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took first-class honours in '' Literae Humaniores'' in 1971 ( BA and hence subsequently MA) and a DPhil in 1978 with a thesis entitled '' Maussollos of Karia''. In 1971, he was elected to a Prize Fellowship of All Souls College, Oxford, which he held until 1977. From 1978 until 1997, he was university lecturer in ancient history in the University of Oxford and fellow and tutor in classics at Oriel College, Oxford, including one year, 1994/95, in which he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He moved to University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Harrison (classicist)
Stephen Harrison (born 31 October 1960) is a British classicist and a professor of Latin at the University of Oxford. He has published widely on the poetry of Virgil and Horace. Life and career Having read Classics at Balliol College, Harrison has taught Latin literature at the University of Oxford since 1987. In addition, he has been an occasional visiting professor at the universities of Copenhagen and Trondheim. While his research focuses on the poetry of Virgil and Horace, he has also written on the reception of classical literature and the Roman novel. He is a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In 2022 he was bestowed an honorary doctorate from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including the .... Selected publication ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Goodman (historian)
Martin David Goodman, FBA (born 1 August 1953) is a British historian and academic, specialising in Roman history and the history and literature of the Jews in the Roman period. Early life and education Goodman was born into an English Jewish family. Goodman noted that " e family practised little beyond a Sabbath-eve dinner each Friday, an annual family Seder and occasional attendance at services in Bevis Marks Synagogue." Goodman's paternal grandfather was the secretary of the London congregation of the Iberian Jews for many years. Goodman was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, (B.A.) where he studied classical language and literature, ancient history and philosophy ('' Literae Humaniores''). He completed his Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1980: his doctoral thesis was titled ''State and society in Roman Galilee, AD 132-212''. In 2010 he was awarded the degree of DLitt. Academic career Goodman began his academic career as a research fellow, holding the Kaye Junior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ursula Coope
Ursula Charlotte Macgillivray Coope FBA (born 31 July 1969) is a British classical scholar, who is an expert in the study of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle's physics, metaphysics, and ethics, as well as on Neoplatonism. She is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Early life and education Coope was born on 31 July 1969 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. She was educated at Harrogate Grammar School. She studied Philosophy, Politics & Economics at the University of Oxford (BA degree awarded 1992) and then did a PhD in Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley (1999). Career Since 2017, Coope has been the Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, and a professorial fellow of Keble College, Oxford. Previously, she was a tutorial fellow and professor of ancient philosophy at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and global distinguished professor at New York University; she has also held positions at Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Clark (historian)
Dr. Anna Clark (born 1974) is an ancient historian and tutor at Christ Church, Oxford. Clark read ancient history at the University of St Andrews, where she completed her master's, before gaining her doctorate at Merton College, Oxford. She is currently a Tutor in Roman History at Christ Church, Oxford. Clark's research interests have focused around Roman politics and religion Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, .... Her first book ''Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican Rome'', published in 2007, has been called "one of the best attempts to date to make sense of Roman religion" and an "invaluable book, which puts the study of an important aspect of Roman religion on a new footing". References {{DEFAULTSORT:Clark, Anna Fellows of Christ Church, Oxford L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhiannon Ash
Rhiannon Ash is a British classical scholar specialising in Latin literature and Tacitus. She is professor of Roman Historiography in the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. She was formerly a lecturer at the Department of Greek and Latin at University College, London. Career Ash completed undergraduate study at Oxford. She subsequently studied for an MA in Toronto, before obtaining a DPhil from the University of Oxford. Her primary area of research interest is Latin prose literature of the Imperial Era, especially that of Tacitus, Pliny the Elder, and Pliny the Younger. She has published commentaries on book 15 of the Annals and book 2 of the Histories. She has also written extensively on ancient epistles, Greek and Roman biographies, and battle narratives, among other subjects. Ash has led research projects funded by UKRI, and in 2017, she was the RD Milns Visiting Professor at the University of Queensland. As well as produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino Luraghi
Nino Luraghi (born 30 November 1964) is an Italian historian of ancient Greece, who holds the Wykeham Professorship of Ancient History at Oxford University. Life Luraghi is the son of Raimondo Luraghi (1921–2012), an Italian resistance fighter and historian. He studied at the universities of Venice and Rome, where he received his doctorate in 1992 with a thesis on archaic tyrannies. From 1995 to 1997 he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Freiburg, and continued until 1999 as a research assistant. Concurrently he was assistant professor of ancient history at the University of Parma from 1997 to 1999. From 1999 to 2003 Luraghi was assistant professor of the classics at Harvard University; from 2003 to 2004 he was associate professor of ancient history at the University of Toronto; and in 2005 he returned to Harvard as professor of the classics, having declined a professorship at the University of Konstanz. In 2008 he moved to Princeton University where i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wykeham Professor Of Ancient History
The University of Oxford has three statutory professorships named after William of Wykeham, who founded New College. Logic The Wykeham Professorship in Logic was established in 1859, although it was not known as the Wykeham chair until later. Its first chair was Henry Wall. List of holders of post * Henry Wall, 1849?–1870 * Thomas Fowler, 1873–1889 * John Cook Wilson, 1889–1915 * Harold Henry Joachim, 1919–1935 * Henry Habberley Price, 1935–1959 * Alfred Jules Ayer, 1959–1978 * Michael Dummett, 1979–1992 * David Wiggins, 1993–2000 * Timothy Williamson, 2000–present Ancient History The Wykeham Professorship of Ancient History was established in 1910. It concentrates on Greek history to avoid possible duplication with the far older Camden Professorship of Ancient History, which focuses primarily on Roman history. List of holders of post * J. L. Myres, 1910–1939 * Theodore Wade-Gery, 1939–1953 * Antony Andrewes, 1953–1977 * W. G. (George) Forrest, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Hutchinson (academic)
Gregory Owen Hutchinson (born 5 December 1957), known as G. O. Hutchinson, is a British classicist and academic, specialising in Latin literature, Ancient Greek literature, and Latin and Ancient Greek languages. Since October 2015, he has been the Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford, and a Student (i.e. Fellow) of Christ Church, Oxford. Early life and education Hutchinson was born on 5 December 1957 in Hackney, London, England. He was educated at the City of London School, an all-boys independent school in the City of London; he had been granted one of the free places funded by the Inner London Education Authority. He studied classics at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1979. He remained at Balliol to undertake postgraduate research and completed his Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1983. His doctoral thesis was titled "Aeschylus' '' Septem Contra Thebas'': Text and commentary". Academic career From 1981 to 1984 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regius Professor Of Greek (Oxford)
The Regius Professorship of Greek is a professorship at the University of Oxford in England. Henry VIII founded the chair by 1541. He established five Regius Professorships in the university (and five corresponding chairs in Cambridge University), the others being the Regius chairs of Divinity, Medicine, Civil Law and Hebrew. List of holders * John Harpsfield, ca. 1541–1545 * George Etheridge (or Etherege), 1547–1550 * Giles Lawrence, 1551–1553 * George Etheridge, reinstated, 1553–1559 * Giles Lawrence, reinstated, 1559–1584 or 1585 * John Harmar (or Harmer), 1585–1590 * Henry Cuffe, 1590–1597 * John Perrin, 1597–1615 * John Hales, 1615–1619 * John Harrys, 1619–1622 * John South, 1622–1625 * Henry Stringer, 1625–1650 * John Harmar (or Harmer), 1650–1660 * Joseph Crowther, 1660–1665 * William Levinz, 1665–1698 * Humphrey Hody, 1698–1705 * Thomas Milles, 1705–1707 * Edward Thwaytes, 1707–1711 * Thomas Terry, 1712–1735 * John Fanshawe, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |