Michael Reeve

Michael David Reeve FBA (11 January 1943) 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.

Reeve was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and went on to study at Balliol College, Oxford.

He remained in this position until 1984, when he was appointed Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge University.

In 2017, he was elected 'Socio Straniero' (i.e. Foreign Fellow) of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, Italy).