Rosalind Thomas


Rosalind Thomas FBA is a Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Balliol College, Oxford University and professor of Ancient Greek history. She focuses on ancient literacy, oral tradition and performance culture as well as Greek law and society, Greek historiography, Greek relations with the Persians, and the Greek polis. She was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2020.

Publications

Thomas has authored three books on the subject of literacy in Ancient Greece:
Aside from these, she has published many chapters in edited volumes, including but not limited to Cambridge Companion to Greek Law, Cambridge Companion to Herodotus and Fourth Century Greek Historiography: A Reevaluation.
She was a Program in the Ancient World Fellow at Princeton University in 2013.