Dr Alison John
BA, MA, PhD
Classics, Linguistics
Quondam Fellow since 2026
Alison was a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Classics at All Souls from 2021 to 2026.
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Research Areas
Cultural History of Late Antiquity
Later Latin Literature
Gaul and Italy in Late Antiquity
Greek-Latin Bilingualism
Translations
Ancient and Medieval Education
Selected Publications
John, A. (2025) Learning and Power in Late Antique Gaul: Classical Education and the End of Roman Rule.
Cambridge University Press.
John, A. (2025) “Dometius’ bilingual epitaph in sixth-century Narbonne: non-elite bilingualism in the late antique Mediterranean”
in Special Issue: Translation and Greek-Latin Bilingualism in Late Antiquity in the Journal of Late Antiquity 18.1
John, A. (2025) “Translating Christian Authority: Greek and Latin in the Western Church in Late Antiquity”
in Flower, R., M. McEvoy, and R. Whelan (eds). Christian Political Cultures Liverpool Texts and Translation: Contexts.
John, A. (2023) “Greek in the literary circles of Sidonius’ Gaul”
in Meurer, T. and V. Egetenmeyr (eds.). Gallia docta? Education and In-/Exclusion in Late Antique Gaul. SERAPHIM: Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen. 303 – 330.
John, A. (2022) “(Mis)Identifying Teachers in Late Antique Gaul. Sidonius’ Ep. 4.11, Mamertus Claudianus and Classical vs. Christian Education,”
Mnemosyne, 75.6: 996 – 1020.
John, A. (2020) “Learning Greek in Late Antique Gaul,”
The Classical Quarterly, 70.2: 846 – 864.
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