Gregory Hutchinson, Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford and a member of Christ Church, has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. The British Academy elects Fellows ‘in recognition of their outstanding contributions’ to the social sciences, humanities and the arts.

Professor Hutchinson has published ten monographs. These cover a range from archaic Greek epic and lyric poetry to Greek and Latin prose of the Roman Empire. Some are commentaries on particular texts, others explore wider aspects of literature. The three most recent are Greek to Latin (2013), Plutarch’s Rhythmic Prose (2018), Motion in Classical Literature (2020). Greek to Latin sees the impact of Greek literature on Latin literature within various contexts, conceptual and physical (the Italian villas and Greek cities where Romans experienced Greek literature). Plutarch’s Rhythmic Prose establishes through statistical methods which Greek imperial prose-writers follow a specific rhythmic system; it shows how rhythmic analysis leads to a different way of reading the prose of Plutarch’s Lives. Motion in Classical Literature looks at what classical literature and art do with physical movement, by humans, gods, ships, horses. Recent articles include the use of a new inscription to throw light on why Augustus exiled Ovid, and the reconstruction of a new papyrus to offer the first appearance of the party-loving poet Anacreon on the Athenian stage.

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