Ahuvia Kahane is a British academic working in Ireland, specializing in the study of Greek and Roman antiquity, its traditions and the relations between the ancient world and modern culture and thought. Kahane is the 17th Regius Professor of Greek at Dublin, the A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture (2017) and Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. He is also Senior Associate at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford. Scholarly work Kahane's work addresses questions of form and content, continuity and change, authority and the ethics of literary reflection. He has made contributions to the study of Greco-Roman antiquity and early Greek epic, orality and oral traditions, literary history, modern poetry and poetics, visual culture and modern art, Hebrew studies, lexicography, sociology and anthropology, translation and translation studies. Early and personal life Ahuvia Kahane was born on an agricultural commune (kibbutz), Ramat Yohanan in the north of Israel to Reuven Kahane (1931-2003), a professor of sociology, Fellow of the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace and Saul Robinson Chair at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Orna, née Smirin, an artist and editor who, following a divorce, married Magnum Photos photographer Micha Bar-Am. Kahane's grandparents were among the founders of the kibbutzim movement and of Beit Alpha and Kineret in northern Israel. His paternal grandfather, David Kahane, served in Ben Gurion's government. In 1960, Ahuvia Kahane left the kibbutz with his father, who had remarried the educator Israela, née Shochat. He attended Rehavia school in Jerusalmen and Cornell School in Berkeley, California. As a teenager, Kahane was a member of Mazpen (‘Compass’) a socialist, anti-Zionist organization that had splintered from the Israeli Communist Party. Kahane left Israel in 1984. He married Georgina Calvert-Lee, a barrister, in 1992. They have three children, Berenike, Erasmus and Lysander. Kahane is a Freeman of the City of Durham, England. Academic career Kahane studied Greek and Latin in the Department of Classics at the University of Tel-Aviv, working with linguist , John Glucker and other scholars and obtaining a B.A. in 1983. During this time Kahane also worked closely with many contemporary artists, poets and writers, editing various works including, e.g. the Hebrew language versions of Daphnis and Chloe (by J. Bronowski) and Polybius' Histories (by B. Shimron), translating and publishing in literary journals such as , Achshav (‘עכשיו’) and . As an undergraduate