About Elizabeth Craik
Born 1939. Elizabeth Craik is a British classical philologist and university teacher.
Education
Elizabeth Craik studied for an MA at the University of St Andrews (1960),
Career
She began her career as a Research Fellow in Greek at the University of Birmingham (1963-1964).
Having completed this book in 1997 she took up a post as Professor of Classics at Kyoto University From September 2003 to September 2005 she held an Emeritus Research Fellowship at the University of St Andrews, awarded by the Leverhulme Trust in order to complete her book Two Hippocratic Treatises On Sight and On Anatomy.
Selected works
Translations (with commentaries)
The Hippocratic Treatise On Glands. Brill 2009 Two Hippocratic Treatises On Sight and On Anatomy. Brill 2006 Hippocrates: Places in Man. Clarendon Press 1998 Euripides Phoenician Women. Aris & Phillips 1988
Books The ‘Hippocratic’ Corpus Content and Context. Routledge 2015 Marriage and property: women and marital customs in history. Macmillan 1991 The Dorian Aegean. Routledge 1980 Marriage and Property. Aberdeen University Press 1984
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Frequently asked questions
Who is Elizabeth Craik?
British classical scholar
When was Elizabeth Craik born?
Elizabeth Craik was born on 25 January 1939 in Portmoak.
What is Elizabeth Craik's occupation?
Elizabeth Craik is a classical philologist and university teacher.
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Elizabeth Craik is British.
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