Stephen Oakley Explained

Birth Date:	1958 11, df=y
Education:	Queens' College, Cambridge
Discipline:	Classics
Sub Discipline:	Latin Literature
Workplaces:	University of Reading Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Main Interests:	Livy

Stephen Phelps Oakley, FBA (born 20 November 1958)^[1] is a British classicist and academic. An expert on the work of Livy, he is the ninth Kennedy Professor of Latin at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College.^{[2] [3]}

Career

Oakley was educated at Bradfield College in Berkshire. He went on to study at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1980 and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1985.

From 1984, he worked at the university's Emmanuel College, first as a research fellow and, from 1986, as an official fellow. In 1998, he accepted a position at the University of Reading which he held until 2007. He then returned to Cambridge to succeed Michael Reeve as the Kennedy Professor of Latin.^[4]

In 2024-2025 he holds the Lyell Readership in Bibliography.

Bibliography

• The hill-forts of the Samnites (Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome, 10), British School at Rome, London, 1995.
• A Commentary on Livy: Books VI–X, Volume I, Introduction and Book VI, Oxford University Press, 1997.
• A Commentary on Livy: Books VI–X, Volume II, Books VI-VIII, Oxford University Press, 1998.
• A Commentary on Livy: Books VI–X, Volume III, Book IX, Oxford University Press, 2005.
• A Commentary on Livy: Books VI–X, Volume IV, Book X, Oxford University Press, 2005.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Oakley, Prof. Stephen Phelps . . Oxford University Press . 4 January 2019 . 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U245955 . 1 December 2018. 978-0-19-954088-4 .
2. Web site: Professor Stephen Oakley. Faculty of Classics. 7 August 2013 . University of Cambridge. 2 September 2014.
3. Web site: OAKLEY, Professor Stephen. British Academy Fellows. British Academy. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20151022102015/http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/index.cfm?member=6210. 2015-10-22.
4. Web site: Oakley, Prof. Stephen Phelps . . Oxford University Press . 29 December 2019 . 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U245955. 978-0-19-954088-4 .