Stephen Phelps Oakley, FBA (born 20 November 1958) is a British classicist and academic. An expert on the work of

Livy Titus Livius (; 59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy ( ), was a Ancient Rome, Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled , covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditiona ...

, he is the ninth

Kennedy Professor of Latin The Kennedy Professorship of Latin is the senior professorship of Latin at the University of Cambridge. In 1865, when Benjamin Hall Kennedy retired as headmaster of Shrewsbury School, his friends and former pupils created a fund with the intentio ...

at the

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and a

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of Emmanuel College.

Career

Oakley was educated at

Bradfield College Bradfield College, formally St Andrew's College, Bradfield, is a public school (English independent day and boarding school) for pupils aged 11–18, located in the small village of Bradfield in the English county of Berkshire. It is note ...

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. He went on to study at

Queens' College, Cambridge Queens' College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Queens' is one of the oldest colleges of the university, founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou. The college spans the River Cam, colloquially referred to as the "light s ...

, where he graduated with a

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(BA) degree in 1980 and a

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(PhD) degree in 1985. From 1984, he worked at the university's Emmanuel College, first as a research fellow and, from 1986, as an official fellow. In 1998, he accepted a position at the

University of Reading The University of Reading is a public university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as University College, Reading, a University of Oxford extension college. The institution received the power to grant its own degrees in 192 ...

which he held until 2007. He then returned to Cambridge to succeed

Michael Reeve Michael David Reeve FBA (11 January 1943) is a British classicist and Professor Emeritus at Cambridge University. One of the foremost textual scholars of his generation, he has published widely on the transmission of Latin and Greek texts. H ...

as the

Bibliography

* ''The hill-forts of the Samnites (Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome, 10)'', British School at Rome, London, 1995. * ''A Commentary on Livy: Books VI–X, Volume I, Introduction and Book VI'', Oxford University Press, 1997. * ''A Commentary on Livy: Books VI–X, Volume II, Books VI-VIII'', Oxford University Press, 1998. * ''A Commentary on Livy: Books VI–X, Volume III, Book IX'', Oxford University Press, 2005. * ''A Commentary on Livy: Books VI–X, Volume IV, Book X'', Oxford University Press, 2005.

References

Members of the University of Cambridge faculty of classics British Latinists Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Fellows of the British Academy Living people 1958 births Kennedy Professors of Latin {{UK-academic-stub