Michael Reeve | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 January 1943 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Balliol College, Oxford |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classics |
| Sub-discipline | Textual Criticism |
| Institutions | Oxford University Cambridge University |
Michael David Reeve FBA (11 January 1943) is a British classicist and professor emeritus at Cambridge University. One of the foremost textual scholars of his generation, he has published widely on the transmission of Latin and Greek texts.[1] He served as the eighth Kennedy Professor of Latin.
Reeve was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and went on to study at Balliol College, Oxford. He was appointed a lecturer at the University of Oxford and made a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford in 1966. He remained in this position until 1984, when he was appointed Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge University. He also became a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.[2] In 1984, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy. In 2006, Reeve retired from his teaching duties.[3] On 12 February 2014, Reeve was elected to the Accademia Ambrosiana (Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy) in the Class of Greek and Latin Studies.[4][5] In 2017, he was elected 'Socio Straniero' (i.e. Foreign Fellow) of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, Italy).[6]
