Cambridge Professorship of Greek Culture
The A. G. Leventis Professorship of Greek Culture is the first chair in Classics to have been permanently endowed at the University of Cambridge since the Second World War. In October 2008, Professor Paul Cartledge was formally inaugurated, and declared his remit as one of ‘outreach’ - explaining to a wider public the significance of Ancient Greek Culture, and its continuing impact today. In 2010/11 he co-chaired a yearly global web series, with the US-based reading charity ‘Reading Odyssey’, which focused on bringing Herodotus to a wide non-Classical readership. The Foundation’s support also enabled him to publish a revised paperback edition of his successful ‘Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities’ (OUP, 2009).
On Professor Cartledge’s retirement, in October 2014, Tim Whitmarsh took the position. Professor Whitmarsh works on all areas of Greek literature and culture, with a particular emphasis on the culture of Greeks under the Roman Empire. He has also written on religion and atheism in the ancient world, and on identity issues.
Grants given:
2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
