Higher education

Oct. 1965-June 1969:

• read Literae Humaniores at Trinity College, Oxford
• First Class honours in Honour Moderations (1967)
• First Class honours in Greats (1969)

Oct. 1969-Sept. 1972:

• full-time research for Ph.D. at University College London (supervisor, A.A. Long; thesis, Epicurus, On nature, Book XXVIII: text, translation and commentary
• Jan.-Sept. 1971 were spent in Naples on a scholarship awarded by the Centro Internazionale per lo Studio dei Papiri Ercolanesi)
• Ph.D. awarded January 1974