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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.

Academic career

From 1984, he worked at the university's Emmanuel College, first as a research fellow and, from 1986, as an official fellow. In 1998, he accepted a position at the University of Reading which he held until 2007. He then returned to Cambridge to succeed Michael Reeve as the Kennedy Professor of Latin.

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.

Bibliography

• The hill-forts of the Samnites (Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome, 10), British School at Rome, London, 1995.
• A Commentary on Livy: Books VI–X, Volume I, Introduction and Book VI, Oxford University Press, 1997.
• A Commentary on Livy: Books VI–X, Volume II, Books VI-VIII, Oxford University Press, 1998.
• A Commentary on Livy: Books VI–X, Volume III, Book IX, Oxford University Press, 2005.
• A Commentary on Livy: Books VI–X, Volume IV, Book X, Oxford University Press, 2005.

References

1. "Professor Stephen Oakley". Faculty of Classics. University of Cambridge. 7 August 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
2. "OAKLEY, Professor Stephen". British Academy Fellows. British Academy. Archived from the original on 22 October 2015.
3. "Oakley, Prof. Stephen Phelps". Who's Who 2019. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2018. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U245955. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
4. ^ "Oakley, Prof. Stephen Phelps". Who's Who 2020. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U245955. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
5. "The Lyell Lectures 2024". Bodleian Libraries. University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 29 April 2024. Retrieved 15 December 2024.

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