Carolyn Dewald | |
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Occupation(s) | Academic Classicist |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
Thesis | (1975) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Stanford University of Southern California Bard College All Souls College,Oxford |
Main interests | Classics Greek historiography Herodotus Thucydides |
Carolyn Dewald is an American classical scholar who is Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at Bard College. [1] She is an expert on ancient Greek historiography,and the author of several books and articles focusing on the writings of Herodotus and Thucydides.
Carolyn Dewald was educated at Swarthmore College,where she took a BA in 1968. She then read for a PhD in Classics at the University of California,Berkeley,graduating in 1975; [2] her thesis title was 'Taxis:the organization of Thucydides' History,Books ii-viii'. [3] She taught at Stanford (1975-1977) and the University of Southern California (1977-2003),where she also spent a period as departmental chair of classics. [4] During this time she also spent a period at Vassar College as Blegen Visiting Distinguished Professor (2001-2002). [5] She then became Professor of History and Classics at Bard College, [6] where she directed the Classical Studies programme. [7] In Michaelmas term of 2013 she was a visiting fellow at All Souls College,Oxford,where she worked alongside Rosaria Munson on writing a commentary of Herodotus Book I. [8]
Herodotus was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He is known for having written the Histories – a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars. Herodotus was the first writer to perform systematic investigation of historical events. He has been described as "The Father of History", a title conferred on him by the ancient Roman orator Cicero.
Thucydides was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" by those who accept his claims to have applied strict standards of impartiality and evidence-gathering and analysis of cause and effect, without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work.
Year 485 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cornelius and Vibulanus. The denomination 485 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Cylon, sometimes referred to as Kylon, was an Athenian of the archaic period in ancient Greece, primarily known for the events of the Cylonian Affair, an attempted seizure of power in the city. Cylon, one of the Athenian nobles and a previous victor of the Olympic Games in 640 B.C.E., attempted a coup in either 636 B.C.E. or 632 B.C.E. with support from Megara, where his father-in-law, Theagenes, was tyrant.
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