Chris Carey

Chris Carey, FBA is a British classical scholar, currently Professor Emeritus of Greek at University College London (UCL).

In 1991 he was elected Professor of Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London before moving to UCL to take up the Chair of Greek in 2003.

Carey's PhD was on Pindar and was supervised by P. E. Easterling, John Killen and Sir Denys Page.

He is currently under contract to produce a Cambridge University Press commentary on Book 7 of Herodotus.

He is a proselytizer for Classics, giving frequent lectures to school audiences, and is a patron of The Iris Project.

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Chris Carey