Elaine Matthews
Elaine Matthews BA BPhil was a British classical scholar at the University of Oxford and one of the principal contributors to the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names.Education and career
Matthews was an alumna of St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she took a BA in Literae Humaniores and was a pupil of Barbara Levick. She went on to take the MPhil in Ancient History, working on Lucian. After a break to raise her two daughters, Matthews embarked on a research career in Greek onomastics at the University of Oxford. In 2010, after she had retired, she was the dedicatee of a Festschrift on Ancient Greek personal names in honour of her distinguished career, containing a collection of scholarly essays on Greek onomastics but with an appreciation of Matthews as a scholar by Alan Bowman as its first chapter.
She was a supernumerary fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford from 1996 and was honorary secretary for the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, of which she was also a trustee, for twenty-one years.Personal life
Matthews was born in Netherton, Yorkshire, but grew up in Birmingham. Her father was a police officer. She died of cancer, aged 68, in 2011.Selected publications
