Malcolm Davies is a British classicist and textual critic of

Ancient Greek literature Ancient Greek literature is literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire. The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period, are ...

, and is Emeritus Research Fellow in Classics at St John's College,

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. He specialises in the Greek epic cycle, Greek lyric poetry and

Greek tragedy Greek tragedy is a form of theatre from Ancient Greece and Greek inhabited Anatolia. It reached its most significant form in Athens in the 5th century BC, the works of which are sometimes called Attic tragedy. Greek tragedy is widely believed t ...

, and has edited texts from various ancient Greek poets.

Selected published works

*2021 - ''Lesser and Anonymous Fragments of Greek Lyric Poetry: A Commentary'' (Oxford) *2019 - ''The Cypria'' (Harvard) *2015 - ''The Theban Epics'' (Harvard) *2014 - ''Stesichorus: The Poems'' (Cambridge, with

Patrick Finglass Patrick J. Finglass is a British classicist of Ancient Greek literature and the Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek at the University of Bristol and former Fifty-Pound Fellow at All Souls College Oxford. His field of research includes Greek l ...

) *1991 - ''Poetarum Melicorum Fragmenta, Volume I'' (Oxford) *1991 - ''Sophocles: Trachiniae'' (Oxford) *1989 - ''The Greek Epic Cycle'' (Bloomsbury) *1988 - ''Epicorum Graecorum Fragmenta'' (Göttingen)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Davies, Malcolm Living people British classical scholars Academics of the University of Oxford Fellows of St John's College, Oxford Year of birth missing (living people)

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