Stephen Instone Memorial Fund
A fund to help students travel to ancient sites
Stephen Instone Travel Fund
Since 2010 the Stephen Instone Travel Fund has awarded bursaries to UG and PGT students for travel to ancient sites in the Mediterranean. Students in receipt of awards send in postcards from their travels and write reports about their activities abroad, all of which are then put on display in the department before being passed on to Stephen’s family.
Stephen Instone (1954-2009)
Stephen went to Westminster School and Balliol, and then Bedford College, London, where he completed a PhD on Pindar supervised by Martin West. His research interests varied widely over Greek religion, athletics, Homer and Pindar. Some of his publications are listed below:
- Greek Personal Religion: a reader (Aris & Phillips: Oxford 2009)
- Pindar: Selected Odes, ed. (Warminster, 1996)
- ‘Some Divine Interventions in the Iliad’, Eranos 99 (2003), 103-113.
- Essays for Theo Zinn, co.ed. (Leominster, 2006)
- ‘Humour in Virgil’, in Essays for Theo Zinn, co.ed. (Leominster, 2006)
- ‘Origins of the Olympics’, in Pindar’s Poetry, Patrons and Festivals, edd. Hornblower and Morgan (Oxford, 2006)
- Pindar: The Complete Odes, co-ed. (Oxford, 2007)
- ‘Darkness my Light: Enigmatic Ajax’, in Studies in Ancient Greek Poetry Presented to M.L.West on his Seventieth Birthday, ed. P.Finglass (Oxford, 2007)
Stephen’s obituary in The Times Higher is accessible online. He was a much-loved colleague and teacher at UCL.