Professor Simon Goldhill (Chair of Prize Board)
Professor of Greek Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge
Simon’s research interests include Greek tragedy, Greek culture, literary theory, later Greek literature, and reception. His latest books include The Buried Life of Things: How Objects Made History in Nineteenth Century Britain (Cambridge, 2014) and Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity (2011). He directs the ERC-funded project the Bible and Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Culture.