P. E. Easterling
P. E. Easterling | |
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| Born | 11 March 1934 Blackburn, Lancashire, England |
| Alma mater | Newnham College, Cambridge |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Manchester University College London University of Cambridge |
Patricia Elizabeth Easterling, FBA (née Fairfax;[1] born 11 March 1934) is an English classical scholar, recognised as a particular expert on the work of Sophocles.[2] She was Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge from 1994 to 2001.[3] She was the 36th person and the first - and, so far, only - woman to hold the post.[4]
Life and career
Born in Blackburn, Easterling attended Witton Park High School (originally called Blackburn High School for Girls) before graduating with first class honours and distinction in Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1955. After an initial spell lecturing at the University of Manchester (1957–58),[5] Easterling taught within the Cambridge Classics Faculty as a Fellow of Newnham College until 1987 when she took up the position of Professor of Greek at University College London.[6] In 1987 she also became an Honorary Fellow of Newnham College.[7] She gave the inaugural Housman Lecture at University College London on 14th June 2005.[8]
In 1994 she returned to Cambridge and Newnham as the 36th Regius Professor of Greek, the first (and so far only) woman to hold that post since its endowment by Henry VIII.[9]
In 1998 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy,[10] and in 2013 was made associé étranger de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Institut de France, and Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.[11] She was the first Chair of the Management Committee of the Cambridge Greek Lexicon Project,[12] and is a patron of the charity 'Classics for All'.[13]
On 22 January 2000 Easterling received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University, Sweden.[14] She has also been awarded honorary doctorates by the universities of Athens, Bristol (1999),[15] Royal Holloway (University of London) and Ioannina, and has been an Honorary Fellow of University College London since 1997.[16]
Academic interests
Easterling works mainly on Greek literature, particularly tragedy; she also studies the survival and reception of ancient drama.[17]
She has been a General Editor of the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series since its foundation over thirty years ago, and has published an edition within this series of Sophocles’ Trachiniae (1982).[18]
Publications
Books
- Sophocles: Trachiniae, edited, Cambridge, 1982
- Greek Religion and Society, edited with J V Muir, 1984
- The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, General editor with E J Kenney
- The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy, Editor, 1997
- Greek Scripts: An Illustrated Introduction, edited with Carol Handley (Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 2001)
- Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession, edited with Edith Hall, 2002
- Sophocles: Electra and Other Plays (Penguin, 2008)
Articles
- 'Constructing the Heroic' in Christopher Pelling, Greek Tragedy and the Historian, Oxford, 1997: 21-37
- 'The Infanticide in Euripides' Medea', Yale Classical Studies 25 (1977): 177-191
- "From Repertoire to Canon." in Easterling, P. E. (ed.) Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy, 1997, pp. 211-227.
- "Narrative on the Greek Tragic Stage." Defining Greek Narrative, 2014, pp. 226-240.
References
- ^ "Harmonising Hellenist". Times Higher Education (THE). 1995-04-21. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
- ^ Cartledge, Paul. "Foreword". Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition. p. xii.
- ^ "British Academy: Professor Pat Easterling".
- ^ "Honorary Fellows | Newnham College". Newnham College. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
- ^ "Honorary Fellows | Newnham College". Newnham College. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
- ^ Budelmann, Felix; Michelakis, Pantelis (2001). Homer, Tragedy and Beyond: Essays in Honour of P. E. Easterling. London: Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. p. 2. ISBN 0902984195.
- ^ "Honorary Fellows | Newnham College". Newnham College. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
- ^ Easterling, Pat (2005). https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/events/document/Housman-2005-Easterling. Ancient plays for modern minds?.
{{cite book}}:|chapter-url=missing title (help) - ^ "Honorary Fellows | Newnham College". Newnham College. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
- ^ "Professor Patricia Easterling". British Academy.
- ^ "Professor Patricia Easterling | British Academy". British Academy. Retrieved 2018-01-22.
- ^ "Cambridge: Faculty of Classics".
- ^ "Professor Pat Easterling - Classics for All". Classics for All. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
- ^ "Honorary doctorates - Uppsala University, Sweden". Uu.se. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
- ^ Bristol, University of. "Honorary graduates | Graduation | University of Bristol". www.bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
- ^ "Honorary Fellows | Newnham College". Newnham College. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
- ^ Michelakis, edited by Felix Budelmann and Pantelis (2001). Homer, tragedy and beyond : essays in honour of P.E. Easterling. London: Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. p. 1. ISBN 0902984195. OCLC 49746722.
{{cite book}}:|first=has generic name (help) - ^ Sophocles. (1982). Trachiniae. Easterling, P. E. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521200873. OCLC 8112631.
External links
- Cambridge University database[permanent dead link]
- Profile of P E Easterling
- Picture of P. E. Easterling
- Homer, Tragedy and Beyond: Essays in honour of P. E. Easterling, New Hellenic Society 1991
- Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition: Essays in honour of P. E. Easterling on her 75th birthday. Cambridge University Press 2009 ISBN 978-0-521-88785-4
- British Academy fellowship entry
