Stephen Oakley
Stephen Oakley | |
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Born | 20 November 1958 |
Academic background | |
Education | Queens' College, Cambridge |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classics |
Sub-discipline | Latin Literature |
Institutions | University of Reading Emmanuel College, Cambridge |
Main interests | Livy |
Stephen Phelps Oakley, FBA (born 20 November 1958) is a British classicist and academic. An expert on the work of Livy, he is the ninth Kennedy Professor of Latin at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College.[1][2]
Early life and education
[edit]Oakley was born on 20 November 1958.[3] He was educated at Bradfield College in Berkshire. He went on to study at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1980 and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1985.[4]
Academic career
[edit]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 which he held until 2007. He then returned to Cambridge to succeed Michael Reeve as the Kennedy Professor of Latin.[4]
In 2024, he held the Lyell Readership in Bibliography at the University of Oxford, giving the associated Lyell Lectures on the transmission of Latin text.[5]
Bibliography
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ "Professor Stephen Oakley". Faculty of Classics. University of Cambridge. 7 August 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
- ^ "OAKLEY, Professor Stephen". British Academy Fellows. British Academy. Archived from the original on 22 October 2015.
- ^ "Oakley, Prof. Stephen Phelps". Who's Who 2019. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2018. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U245955. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- ^ a b "Oakley, Prof. Stephen Phelps". Who's Who 2020. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U245955. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
- ^ "The Lyell Lectures 2024". Bodleian Libraries. University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 29 April 2024. Retrieved 15 December 2024.