Christopher Stray

Christopher Allan Stray[1][2] (born 29 October 1943) is a British historian of classical scholarship and teaching.

He worked as a classics teacher, including at Latymer Upper School, West London, and was a member of the JACT Ancient History Committee in the late 1960s, under the chairmanship of Sir Moses Finley.

He has also been active in collaborative research projects, and in the organisation of conferences and colloquia, including: Convener of the Textbook Colloquium (1988–99); co-organiser (with Stephen Harrison and Chris Kraus) of conference on “Classical Commentaries” (Oxford, 2012); member of advisory board, “Classics and Class in Britain”, King's College London, 2013–16 (from 2016 “People’s History of Classics”);[15] co-organiser (with Stephen Harrison) of conference on “Liddell & Scott” (Oxford, 2013).

[17] In 2021 De Gruyter published the Festschrift, Classical Scholarship and Its History From the Renaissance to the Present.

In 2024 he was awarded the Kenyon Medal by the British Academy "for almost single-handedly creating the field of the institutional history of Classics.