Catharine Edwards (historian)

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Catharine Edwards

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Catharine Harmon Edwards

(1963-05-27) 27 May 1963 (age 59)
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Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge
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Catharine Harmon Edwards FBA (born 27 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.

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Early life and education

Edwards was born on 27 May 1963 in Redruth, Cornwall, England. [1] She was educated at Clifton High School, a private school in Bristol. [1] She studied classics at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1985 and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1990. [1] [2] Her doctoral thesis was titled "Transgression and control: studies in ancient Roman immorality". [3]

Academic career

Edwards began her academic career as a junior research fellow at Selwyn College, Cambridge from 1988 to 1989. She then moved to the University of Bristol where she was a lecturer from 1989. She was promoted to senior lecturer in 1997 and to reader in 1999. [1]

Edwards joined Birkbeck College, University of London in 2001 as a lecturer. [1] She has been Professor of Classics and Ancient History since 2006. [2]

Edwards researches Roman cultural history and Latin prose literature, particularly Seneca the Younger. She also researches the reception of Classical antiquity in later periods. [2]

Edwards is the presenter of the three-part BBC series Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome. [4] 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. [2]

She served as president of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies from June 2015 to June 2018. [5] In 2021, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. [6]

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References

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  3. ↑ Edwards, Catharine (1989). Transgression and control : studies in ancient Roman immorality. E-Thesis Online Service (Thesis). The British Library Board. doi:10.17863/CAM.19630 . Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  4. ↑ Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome, BBC. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  5. ↑ "About the Society: Officers". Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. Archived from the original on 28 September 2016. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  6. ↑ "Professor Catharine Edwards FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  7. ↑ Shaw, Brent D. (October 1994), "The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome by Catharine Edwards", Book Reviews, Classical Philology, 89 (4): 391–394, doi:10.1086/367439, JSTOR   270611
  8. ↑ Pearcy, Lee T. (18 January 1998), "Catharine Edwards, Writing Rome: Textual Approaches to the City", Bryn Mawr Classical Review
  9. ↑ Talbert, Richard J. A. (March 2005), "Rome the Cosmopolis by Catharine Edwards, Greg Woolf", The International History Review, 27 (1): 108–110, JSTOR   40110658
  10. ↑ 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
  11. ↑ Trimble, Jennifer (9 August 2004), "Catharine Edwards, Greg Woolf, Rome the Cosmopolis", Bryn Mawr Classical Review
  12. ↑ Bartsch, Shadi (15 November 2007), "Dying to Make a Point", London Review of Books, 29 (22): 3–6
  13. ↑ Corbeill, Anthony (2008), "Catharine Edwards, Death in Ancient Rome", The American Historical Review, 113 (5): 1590–1591, doi:10.1086/ahr.113.5.1590
  14. ↑ Schrumpf, Stefan (28 December 2007), "Catharine Edwards, Death in Ancient Rome", Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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