Tim Whitmarsh
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23 January 1970
Malvern College
Tim Whitmarsh | |
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| Born | Timothy John Guy Whitmarsh 23 January 1970 |
| Title | Regius Professor of Greek, University of Cambridge |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Moor Park School Malvern College |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classics |
| Institutions | University of Exeter University of Oxford University of Cambridge |
| Main interests | |
| Website | www |
Timothy John Guy Whitmarsh, FBA (born 23 January 1970) is a British classicist and Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge. He is best known for his work on the Greek literary culture of the Roman Empire, especially the Second Sophistic and the ancient Greek novel.
Whitmarsh was born on 23 January 1970 in Chelmsford, Essex, England. He was educated at Moor Park School, a Catholic prep school near Ludlow, and at Malvern College, then an all-boys private school.[1] He took his undergraduate degree and doctorate at the University of Cambridge.
Academic career
From 2001 to 2007 he taught in the department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter where he remains an honorary fellow.[2] He then served as E. P. Warren Praelector Fellow and Tutor in Greek at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Professor of Ancient Literatures at the University of Oxford.[3]
In October 2014, he succeeded Paul Cartledge as the A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge.[4] In 2022, he delivered the Gifford Lectures on Religion and Ancient Mediterranean Thought at the University of Aberdeen.[5] In 2023, he became Regius Professor of Greek in Cambridge, succeeding Richard Hunter.[6]
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