Christopher Metcalf

Christopher Metcalf is of Anglo-German parentage, and came to Britain in 2003 to study classical and ancient Near Eastern languages, graduating with a DPhil from the University of Oxford. His research interests lie in the literatures and religions of early Greece and the ancient Near East; in these areas he has published The Gods Rich in Praise: Early Greek and Mesopotamian Religious Poetry (2015), and Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection Volume I: Literary Sources on Old Babylonian Religion (2019). He is now working on a book entitled: Servant, Lover, Fool: Three Myths of Ancient Kingship. He has been a Fellow of The Queen’s College, Oxford, since 2016.