The Lucanians were an Italic tribe living in Lucania,in what is now southern Italy,who spoke an Oscan language,a member of the Italic languages. Today,the inhabitants of the Basilicata region are still called Lucani,and so is their dialect.
Richard John Alexander Talbert is a British-American contemporary ancient historian and classicist on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,where he was William Rand Kenan,Jr.,Professor of History (1988-2020) and then Research Professor in charge of the Ancient World Mapping Center until his retirement in 2024. Talbert is a leading scholar of ancient geography and ideas of space in the ancient Mediterranean world.
Arthur Dale Trendall,was a New Zealand art historian and classical archaeologist whose work on identifying the work of individual artists on Greek ceramic vessels at Apulia and other sites earned him international prizes and a papal knighthood.
The Digital Classicist is a community of those interested in the application of digital humanities to the field of classics and to ancient world studies more generally. The project claims the twin aims of bringing together scholars and students with an interest in computing and the ancient world,and disseminating advice and experience to the classics discipline at large. The Digital Classicist was founded in 2005 as a collaborative project based at King's College London and the University of Kentucky,with editors and advisors from the classics discipline at large.
Maria Wyke is professor of Latin at University College,London. She is a specialist in Latin love poetry,classical reception studies,and the interpretation of the roles of men and women in the ancient world. She has also written widely on the role of the figure of Julius Caesar in Western culture.
Diana Jane Spencer is an Irish classical scholar. She is Professor of Classics and dean of liberal arts and natural sciences at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on how ancient Romans articulate and explore their own identity.
Charlotte Roueché is a British academic who specialises in the analysis of texts,inscribed or in manuscripts,from the Roman,Late Antique,and Byzantine periods. She is particularly interested in those from the Asia Minor cities of ancient Ephesos and Aphrodisias. She is also interested in the interface between digital humanities and classical and Byzantine studies. She is Professor Emerita of Digital Hellenic Studies at King's College London,and Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Classical Studies,University of London.
Gesine Manuwald is currently a Professor of Latin and Head of the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London. She focuses on Roman drama,epic and oratory and the reception of Roman literature,especially Neo-Latin poetry.
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.
Professor Lynette Gail Mitchell is Professor in Greek History and Politics at the University of Exeter. Mitchell is known for her work on ancient Greek politics and kingship.
Barbara Elisabeth Borg is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Scuola Normale Superiore. She is known in particular for her work on Roman tombs,the language of classical art,and geoarchaeology.
Miriam Anna Leonard is Professor of Greek Literature and its Reception at University College,London. She is known in particular for her work on the reception of Greek tragedy in modern intellectual thought.
Julia Hillner is Professor for Dependency and Slavery Studies at the University of Bonn. She was previously Professor of Medieval History at the University of Sheffield. She is an expert on late antiquity,applying digital methods of social network analysis to large data sets drawn from a wide variety of late antique and early medieval sources.
Rebecca Langlands is Professor of Classics at the University of Exeter. She is known in particular for her work on the history of sexuality and ethics in the Roman world.
Clare A. Lees is professor of medieval literature and history of the language,and Director of the Institute of English Studies,University of London.
Valerie Maxfield FSA is a Roman archaeologist and emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Exeter. She is a specialist in the archaeology of the Roman army and frontiers,and edited the Proceedings of the Devon Archaeological Society until December 2020.
Josephine Crawley Quinn is an historian and archaeologist,working across Greek,Roman and Phoenician history. Quinn is a Professor of Ancient History in the Faculty of Classics and Martin Frederiksen Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Worcester College,University of Oxford.
Naoíse Mac Sweeney is a classical archaeologist and ancient historian. Since 2020 she has been Professor of Classical Archaeology in the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna.
Maijastina Kahlos is a Docent of Latin and Roman literature at the University of Helsinki and a Life Member of Clare Hall,University of Cambridge. She specialises in migration and mobility in the late antique Mediterranean,everyday life in ancient Rome,and ancient religions.
Stephen Mitchell was a British historian and epigrapher,specialising in Hellenistic,Roman,and Byzantine Anatolia. He was a professor at Swansea and Exeter University.
