Chris Carey, FBA is a British classical scholar, currently

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of Greek at

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(UCL). He held the Professorship of Greek at UCL, from 2003 until his retirement in 2016.Chris Carey - Brief CV
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'' named him one of the "stars of modern classical scholarship".

Biography

Carey began his career at

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, as a research fellow at Jesus College, before moving to

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, where he taught from 1977 to 1991 except for a visiting professorship at

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in 1987–8. While in Minnesota he also taught at Carleton College. In 1991 he was elected Professor of Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London before moving to UCL to take up the Chair of Greek in 2003. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2012.

Teaching

At UCL he taught Ancient Greek.

Scholarship

Carey's PhD was on

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and was supervised by P. E. Easterling, John Killen and Sir Denys Page. Over the years he has also published on lyric poetry, Homer and Athenian law. He recently completed the Oxford Text of the orator

Lysias Lysias (; el, Λυσίας; c. 445 – c. 380 BC) was a logographer (speech writer) in Ancient Greece. He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace i ...

. He is currently under contract to produce a

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commentary on Book 7 of Herodotus.

Outside activities

Carey is well known for his love of London and London life. He is a proselytizer for Classics, giving frequent lectures to school audiences, and is a patron of The Iris Project.

References

External links

UCL – University College London

Iris Magazine
{{DEFAULTSORT:Carey, Chris British classical scholars Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Academics of University College London Fellows of Jesus College, Cambridge Academics of the University of St Andrews Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London Classical scholars of the University of London Fellows of the British Academy