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Tim Whitmarsh
Tim Whitmarsh FBA is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. A specialist in the literature, culture and religion of ancient Greece, he is the sole author of ten books, including Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World and Rome’s Age of Revolution: Augustus, Empire, and the Making of Christianity. He has written over 130 academic articles, lectured on every inhabited continent, and contributed frequently to newspapers such as the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books, as well as to BBC radio and TV.