James Diggle
James Diggle, FBA is a British classical scholar. He was Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Cambridge between 1995 and 2011.
Born in 1944, Diggle was educated at St John’s College, Cambridge; he completed Part II of the Classical Tripos in 1965, and went on to complete his doctoral studies there; his PhD was awarded in 1969. He was appointed a research fellow at Queens' College, Cambridge in 1966 and was elected to an official fellowship the following year. He was the college librarian from 1969 to 1977 and praelector from 1971 to 1973 and again from 1978 to 2015. He was also an assistant lecturer in classics at the University and then lecturer until 1989, when he was appointed to a readership. He was then Professor of Greek and Latin from 1995 until he retired in 2011. Diggle also served as Public Orator between 1982 and 1993.
In 1985, Diggle was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities.
He is editor of the Cambridge Greek Lexicon, which is expected to be published later in 2020.
