Nigel Guy Wilson

Nigel Guy Wilson (born 23 July 1935) is a British scholar, emeritus fellow and tutor in Classics, Lincoln College, Oxford. His field of research is ancient Greek history, language and literature, and culture, art and archaeology of the Byzantine world. Since retiring in 2002 he has continued his researches into Greek palaeography, textual criticism and the history of classical scholarship. In the series of Oxford Classical Texts his edition of Aristophanes appeared in 2007, and a new edition of Herodotus for the same series will shortly go into production. Another substantial piece of work was a contribution to the study of the famous Archimedes Palimpsest, which was sold at auction in New York in 1998 for $2,000,000; the results of a collaboration lasting ten years and involving experts in various fields appeared in The Archimedes palimpsest (Cambridge University Press 2011), which was described by the reviewer in the TLS as "the most beautiful book produced in this century".[1][2]

Published works
  • 1968 - Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature (Oxford University Press)
  • 1971 - An Anthology of Byzantine Prose (De Gruyter)
  • 1983 - Scholars of Byzantium (The Johns Hopkins University Press)
  • 1990 - Sophocles Fabulae (Oxford Classical Texts) (Clarendon Press)
  • 1992 - From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance (The Johns Hopkins University Press)
  • 1997 - Aelian: Historical Miscellany (Loeb Classical Library No. 486) (Harvard University Press)
  • 2005 - Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece (Routledge)
  • 2007 - Fabulae (Oxford Classical Text of Aristophanes) (Oxford University Press)
  • 2011 - The Archimedes Palimpsest (Cambridge University Press)
  • 2011 - A Descriptive Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford (D.S.Brewer)
  • 2014 - Mediaeval Greek Bookhands: Examples Selected from Greek Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (Medieval Academy of America)

References
  1. British Academy
  2. Lincoln College, University of Oxford
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