Mary Whitby

Mary Whitby is a late-antique philologist at the University of Oxford. She teaches Greek language at Merton College, Oxford.

Education Whitby received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1982. Her doctoral thesis was A Linguistic and Exegetical Commentary on the Rhetorical Prologue and Epilogue Framing Paul the Silentiary's Ekphrasis of S. Sophia.

Research and career Whitby is a general editor, with Phil Booth and Mark Humphries, of the book series, Translated Texts for Historians, published by Liverpool University Press. The series publishes translations of texts from Latin, Greek, Syriac and other eastern languages from the period AD 300–800 into English. She has published extensively on Byzantine Greek literature, especially the poet Nonnus, Eudocia's Homeric Centos, and George of Pisidia.