Robert Louis Herbert Fowler, FBA (born 19 May 1954) is a

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and academic. He was

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at the

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between 1996 and 2017.

Career

Born on 19 May 1954 at Palmerston,

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, Robert Louis Herbert Fowler attended the

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, graduating with a

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degree in 1976 and

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degree the next year. He then completed his

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; his

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was awarded in 1980 for his

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"Aspects of style in early Greek lyric poetry". He was appointed to a post-doctoral fellowship at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities in 1980, and then joined the

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as an assistant professor in 1981. He was promoted to associate professor five years later, and chaired the department from 1988 to 1996. He was appointed professor in 1994, before becoming

at the

in 1996. He was also Dean of Arts at Bristol from 2004 to 2009, and retired from his professorship in 2017, but remained on the faculty as an

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professor."Professor Robert Fowler"
''British Academy''. Retrieved 30 June 2018."Aspects of style in early Greek lyric poetry"
''SOLO: Bodleian Library Catalogue''. Retrieved 30 June 2018.

Awards and honours

In 2015, Fowler was elected a

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, the United Kingdom's

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for the humanities and social sciences.

Selected publications

* ''The Nature of Early Greek Lyric'' (University of Toronto Press, 1987). * ''Early Greek Mythography'', 2 vols. (Oxford University Press, 2000, 2013). * (Editor) ''The Cambridge Companion to Homer'' (Cambridge University Press, 2004). * ''Pindar and the Sublime. Greek Myth, Reception, and Lyric Experience'' (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fowler, Robert 1954 births Living people Fellows of the British Academy Presidents of the Classical Association