Michael Stephen Silk

Michael Stephen Silk FBA (born 11 June 1941) is a British classical scholar.

Biography Silk was born on 11 June 1941. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham from 1953 to 1960. He then studied Classics at St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1964, MA in 1967, and PhD in 1969, and held a research fellowship at the same college from 1967 to 1970. He became a lecturer at King's College London in 1970, becoming full professor in 1991. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2009.

Following his retirement, he is now an emeritus professor of classical and comparative literature at King's College London. He has authored scholarly works in relation to the theory and practice of tragedy and comedy, Greek poetry and drama, literary theory, and the classical tradition.

Selected publications