P. E. Easterling
Author of The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy
About the Author
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Works by P. E. Easterling
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 2, Greek Drama (1989) — Editor — 44 copies
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 1, Early Greek Poetry (1989) — Editor — 43 copies
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 4: The Hellenistic Period and the Empire (1989) — Editor — 22 copies
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 3, Philosophy, History and Oratory (1989) — Editor — 18 copies, 1 review
Dionysiaca: Nine Studies in Greek Poetry by Former Pupils Presented to Sir Denys Page on His Seventieth Birthday (1978) — Editor — 6 copies
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, Vol. 1 Greek Literature. Vol. 2 Latin Literature. 4 copies
A long engagement 1 copy
Greek literary hands 1 copy
Associated Works
The World of Ion of Chios (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum) (2007) — Contributor — 6 copies
Performance, Iconography, Reception: Studies in Honour of Oliver Taplin (2008) — Contributor — 5 copies
Dionysalexandros : essays on Aeschylus and his fellow tragedians in honour of Alexander F. Garvie (2006) — Contributor — 5 copies
Classics in 19th and 20th century Cambridge: curriculum, culture and community (1999) — Contributor — 5 copies
The owl of Minerva : the Cambridge praelections of 1906 : reassessments of Richard Jebb, James Adam, Walter Headlam, Henry Jackson, William Ridgeway and Arthur Verrall (2005) — Contributor — 1 copy
Porphyrogenita: Essays on the History and Literature of Byzantium and the Latin East in Honour of Julian Chrysostomides (2003) — Contributor — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Easterling, P. E.
- Legal name
- Easterling, Patricia Elizabeth
- Other names
- Easterling, Pat
- Birthdate
- 1934-03-11
- Gender
- female
- Education
- Blackburn High School
Newnham College, University of Cambridge (BA|1955) - Occupations
- Regius Professor of Greek (Emerita), University of Cambridge (Emerita)
classicist
professor - Organizations
- University of Cambridge
University College London
University of Manchester - Awards and honors
- Fellow, British Academy (1998)
Honorary Fellow of Newnham College. University of Cambridge - Short biography
- Born in Blackburn, Easterling attended Blackburn High School before graduating with first class honours and distinction in Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1955. After an initial spell lecturing at the University of Manchester (1957-58), Easterling taught within the Cambridge Classics Faculty as a Fellow of Newnham College until 1987 when she took up the position of Professor of Greek at University College London.
In 1994 she returned to Cambridge and Newnham as the 37th Regius Professor of Greek. On retirement in 2001 she became an Honorary Fellow of Newnham College.
In 1998 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. - Nationality
- England
UK - Birthplace
- Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK
- Map Location
- UK
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