Catharine Edwards (historian)
Catharine Harmon Edwards FBA (born May 1963) is a British ancient historian and academic. She is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is a specialist in Roman cultural history and Latin prose literature, particularly Seneca the Younger.
Early life and education
Edwards studied at the University of Cambridge for both her BA and her PhD.[1]
Academic career
Edwards has been Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck College, University of London, since 2006. Before joining Birkbeck in 2001, she was a reader at the University of Bristol.[1]
Edwards researches Roman cultural history and Latin prose literature, particularly the Younger Seneca. She also researches the reception of Classical antiquity in later periods.[1]
Edwards is the presenter of the three-part BBC series Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome.[2] She has also contributed to BBC Radio 4's In Our Time series, on Cleopatra, Roman Britain, Virgil's Aeneid, Tacitus and the decadence of Rome, Pliny the Younger, The Augustan Age and Marcus Aurelieus.[1]
She served as president of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies from June 2015 to June 2018.[3] In 2021, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.[4]
Selected publications
- The politics of immorality in ancient Rome. Cambridge University Press, 1993.[5]
- Writing Rome: Textual Approaches to the City. Cambridge University Press, 1996.[6]
- Rome the Cosmopolis. Cambridge University Press, 2003. (edited with Greg Woolf).[7][8][9]
- Death in ancient Rome. Yale University Press, 2007.[10][11][12]
References
- ^ a b c d Catharine Edwards. Archived 20 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine Birkbeck College. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
- ^ Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome, BBC. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
- ^ "About the Society: Officers". Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. Archived from the original on 28 September 2016. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
- ^ "Professor Catharine Edwards FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
- ^ Shaw, Brent D. (October 1994), "The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome by Catharine Edwards", Book Reviews, Classical Philology, 89 (4): 391–394, JSTOR 270611
- ^ Pearcy, Lee T. (18 January 1998), "Catharine Edwards, Writing Rome: Textual Approaches to the City", Bryn Mawr Classical Review
- ^ Talbert, Richard J. A. (March 2005), "Rome the Cosmopolis by Catharine Edwards, Greg Woolf", The International History Review, 27 (1): 108–110, JSTOR 40110658
- ^ Burnett, Fred W. (January 2006), "Rome the Cosmopolis – Edited by Catharine Edwards and Greg Woolf", Religious Studies Review, 32 (1): 38–39, doi:10.1111/j.1748-0922.2006.00033_2.x
- ^ Trimble, Jennifer (9 August 2004), "Catharine Edwards, Greg Woolf, Rome the Cosmopolis", Bryn Mawr Classical Review
- ^ Bartsch, Shadi (15 November 2007), "Dying to Make a Point", London Review of Books, 29 (22): 3–6
- ^ Corbeill, Anthony (2008), "Catharine Edwards, Death in Ancient Rome", The American Historical Review, 113 (5): 1590–1591, doi:10.1086/ahr.113.5.1590
- ^ Schrumpf, Stefan (28 December 2007), "Catharine Edwards, Death in Ancient Rome", Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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