Hubris,or less frequently hybris,describes a personality quality of extreme or excessive pride or dangerous overconfidence and complacency,often in combination with arrogance. The term arrogance comes from the Latin adrogare,meaning "to feel that one has a right to demand certain attitudes and behaviors from other people". To arrogate means "to claim or seize without justification... To make undue claims to having",or "to claim or seize without right... to ascribe or attribute without reason". The term pretension is also associated with the term hubris,but is not synonymous with it.
Dame Professor Averil Millicent Cameron,often cited as A. M. Cameron,is a British historian. She writes on Late Antiquity,Classics,and Byzantine Studies. She was Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History at the University of Oxford,and the Warden of Keble College,Oxford,between 1994 and 2010.
Aidos or Aedos was the Greek goddess of shame,modesty,respect,and humility. Aidos,as a quality,was that feeling of reverence or shame which restrains men from wrong. It also encompassed the emotion that a rich person might feel in the presence of the impoverished,that their disparity of wealth,whether a matter of luck or merit,was ultimately undeserved. Ancient and Christian humility share common themes:they both reject egotism,self-centeredness,arrogance,and excessive pride;they also recognize human limitations. Aristotle defined it as a middle ground between vanity and cowardice.
Edith Hall,is a British scholar of classics,specialising in ancient Greek literature and cultural history,and professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. She is a Fellow of the British Academy. From 2006 until 2011 she held a chair at Royal Holloway,University of London,where she founded and directed the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome until November 2011. She resigned over a dispute regarding funding for classics after leading a public campaign,which was successful,to prevent cuts to or the closure of the Royal Holloway Classics department. Until 2022,she was a professor at the Department of Classics at King's College London. She also co-founded and is Consultant Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford University,Chair of the Gilbert Murray Trust,and Judge on the Stephen Spender Prize for poetry translation. Her prizewinning doctoral thesis was awarded at Oxford. In 2012 she was awarded a Humboldt Research Prize to study ancient Greek theatre in the Black Sea,and in 2014 she was elected to the Academy of Europe. She lives in Cambridgeshire.
The Faculty of Classics,previously the Faculty of Literae Humaniores,is a subdivision of the University of Oxford concerned with the teaching and research of classics. The teaching of classics at Oxford was present since its conception and was at the centre of nearly all its undergraduates' education well into the twentieth century.
Alexander R. MacEwen (1851–1916) was a Scottish writer,minister,professor and Moderator of the United Free Church of Scotland.
David William Holton is Emeritus Professor of Modern Greek at the University of Cambridge. He was educated at Northampton Grammar School and Hertford College,University of Oxford,where he studied Classics and Medieval and Modern Greek. He completed his DPhil thesis at Oxford in 1971. From 1973 until 1975 he was a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham,where he also worked as a university administrator (1975-1981). In 1981 he was appointed Lewis-Gibson Lecturer in Modern Greek at the University of Cambridge;in 1982 he became a Fellow of Selwyn College. He was promoted to Reader in 2000 and Professor of Modern Greek in 2006,and retired in 2013.
Angelos Chaniotis is a Greek historian and Classics scholar,known for original and wide-ranging research in the cultural,religious,legal and economic history of the Hellenistic period and the Byzantine Empire. His research interests also include the history of Crete and Greek epigraphy. Chaniotis is a Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Helene P. Foley is an American classical scholar. She is Professor of Classical Studies at Barnard College,Columbia University and a member of the Institute for Research on Women,Gender and Sexuality at Columbia. She specialises in ancient Greek literature,women and gender in antiquity,and the reception of classical drama.
Ruth Scodel is an American classicist. She is the D.R. Shackleton-Bailey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan. Scodel specialises in ancient Greek literature,with particular interests in Homer,Hesiod and Greek Tragedy. Her research has been influenced by narrative theory,cognitive approaches,and politeness theory. In 2024,she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
The Department of Classics is an academic division in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. It is one of the oldest and most distinguished university departments specialising in the study of classical antiquity in the United Kingdom.
Sitta von Reden is a German ancient historian and Professor of Ancient History at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität,Freiburg. She is particularly known for her research on ancient economics,and the social and cultural history of the Graeco-Roman world.
Fiona McHardy is a Professor of Classics and also the Head of History and Classics in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Roehampton. In 2003 she started work at Roehampton where she was responsible for building up the BA Classical Civilisation. Her research interests include ancient and modern Greek literature,folk poetry,anthropology and culture. She teaches modules on ancient Greek language,literature and culture.
Emily Greenwood is Professor of the Classics and of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. She was formerly professor of Classics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and John M. Musser Professor of Classics and Chair of the Department of Classics at Yale University. Her research focuses on Ancient Greek historiography,particularly Thucydides and Herodotus,the development of History as a genre and a modern critical discipline,and local and transnational black traditions of interpreting Greek and Roman classics. Her work explores the appropriation and reinvention of Greco-Roman classical antiquity from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Douglas Maurice MacDowell,was a British classical scholar. His early career was as a teacher,first in the British Army as part of his national service and then at two private school. He then moved into academia and was a lecturer at the University of Manchester. Finally,for thirty years,he was Professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow.
Lieve Van Hoof is a Belgian classical scholar and Research Professor at the University of Ghent. She specialises in work on the socio-political role of Greek and Latin literature in the Roman Empire. Van Hoof is currently engaged in examining Greek and Latin letters in order to understand lobbying in late antiquity. Van Hoof is known in particular for her work on Plutarch and Libanius.
Roel Konijnendijk is a Dutch historian working in the United Kingdom. He is known for his research on Classical Greek warfare and military thought,and has authored the book Classical Greek Tactics.
Michael SquireFBA is a British art historian and classicist. He became the Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology in the University of Cambridge in 2022. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College,and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2022.
Isabel Ruffell is a Classicist. She is a Professor of Greek Drama and Culture at the University of Glasgow.
Alexander Femister Garvie was a British classicist and Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Glasgow. Garvie's career at Glasgow spanned 39 years across the Departments of Greek and Classics,rising from Assistant Lecturer in 1960 to Professor of Classics in 1998. He is best known for his commentaries on Aeschylus,and especially for his seminal commentary on Aeschylus' Choephori.
