Stephen Oakley
British classicist and academic (born 1958)
About Stephen Oakley
Born 1958. Stephen Oakley is a British classical philologist, university teacher and literary historian.
Stephen Phelps Oakley, FBA (born 20 November 1958) is a British classicist and academic. An expert on the work of Livy, he is the ninth Kennedy Professor of Latin at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College.
Early life and education Oakley was born on 20 November 1958. He was educated at Bradfield College in Berkshire. He went on to study at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1980 and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1985.
In 2024, he held the Lyell Readership in Bibliography at the University of Oxford, giving the associated Lyell Lectures on the transmission of Latin text.
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British classicist and academic (born 1958)
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