Michael Reeve


Michael David Reeve FBA 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. He served as the eighth Kennedy Professor of Latin and is a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 1984, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy.

Career

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. In 2006, Reeve retired from his teaching duties.

Selected publications