and she died the same year. Barbara was the widow of Colin William MacLeod (1943–1981), a classical scholar at Christ Church, Oxford. On 16 November 2022, Parsons died at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, at the age of 86. His funeral was held at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, on 2 December 2022. Honours In 1977, Parsons was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). In 2007, he was awarded the John D. Criticos Prize by the London Hellenic Society for his book City of the Sharp-Nosed-Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egypt. In 2019, Parsons was awarded the Kenyon Medal by the British Academy. A conference was held in Oxford in September 2006 to celebrate his 70th birthday. An associated Festschrift was published in 2011, titled "Culture in pieces: essays on ancient texts in honour of Peter Parsons", and edited by Dirk Obbink and Richard Rutherford. Selected works References 1936 births 2022 deaths British classical scholars British papyrologists Fellows of the British Academy Members of Academia Europaea Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Regius Professors of Greek (University of Oxford) People from Surbiton Fellows of Christ Church, Oxford