Nicolas Ralph Edmund Fisher is a British historian of ancient Greece, known primarily for his work on ancient Greek moral and social values.
Biography Fisher studied at Christ Church, Oxford and then at Pembroke College, Oxford. He obtained his doctorate in 1977 with a thesis titled "The concept of hybris in Greece from Homer to the fourth century BC", supervised initially by John Gould and then primarily by John K. Davies.
In 1970, he was appointed Lecturer in Classics at Cardiff University (then the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire), where he remained for the rest of his career. In 1992, he published his most important book, Hybris: A Study in the Values of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greece. His doctoral students at Cardiff included Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones.
Fisher's retirement was marked by a colloquium in May 2009, which gave rise to a Festschrift in his honour, Sociable Man: Essays on Ancient Greek Social Behaviour in Honour of Nick Fisher.
Selected publications
Monographs
Edition of an ancient text
Edited volumes
References