Personal details
- Name: Richard George Alexander Buxton BA, MA, PhD (Cantab.)
- Born: Mansfield, England
- Title: Emeritus Professor
- Spouse: Mercedes Aguirre (https://mercedesaguirrecastro.com/)
Academic career
School
Nottingham High School
Undergraduate study
- Scholar of King’s College, Cambridge, 1968-71
- Double First in Classical Tripos
- Cooke Prize
- John Stewart of Rannoch Scholarship
- Henry Arthur Thomas Prize
- Hallam Prize
- Henry Arthur Thomas Travel Exhibition
- Porson Prize
- Richards Prize
- King’s College Senior Scholarship
- Chancellor’s Medal for Classics
- Craven Scholarship
- Craven Studentship
Postgraduate study
King’s College, Cambridge and École des Hautes Études, Paris, 1971-3
Degrees
- B.A. (Cantab.) 1971
- M.A. (Cantab.) 1974
- Ph.D. (Cantab.) 1977 (thesis entitled ‘Peitho: its place in Greek culture and its exploration in some plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles’)
Posts held
- 1973: Lecturer in Classics, University of Bristol
- 1989: Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Bristol
- 1990: Reader in Ancient Greek, University of Bristol
- 1991-2: Professeur Associé, University of Strasbourg
- 1995-2013: Professor of Greek Language and Literature, University of Bristol
- 2014-: Emeritus Professor of Greek Language and Literature, University of Bristol
- 2015: Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
Awards
- 1994: Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research, University of Bristol
- 1999-2000: University of Bristol Research Fellowship
- 2002-4: Major Research Fellowship awarded by Leverhulme Trust
- 2007-8: AHRC Research Leave
- 2014-22: Senior Research Fellowship, University of Bristol
- 2023: shortlisted for the Runciman Prize, for The Greek Myths that Shape the Way we Think
Distinctions
- 2001: RAE Panellist
- 2006-2012: President of the Fondation pour le Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae
- 2009: Member of jury for Grand Prix des Belles Lettres, awarded by the Onassis Foundation in association with the Institut de France
- 2013-2014: Profesor Honorífico de la Universidad Complutense, Madrid
- 2013: Chancellor’s Medal, University of Bristol
- 2015: Elected as Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge