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Edmund Stewart

Associate Professor in Ancient Greek History, Faculty of Arts

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    University Park
    Nottingham
    NG7 2RD
    UK
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Biography

I am originally from London and I completed my first degree in Classics at the University of Edinburgh. After a brief spell in Oxford for my Masters, I began my PhD at Nottingham in 2009 on the subject of the dissemination of Greek tragedy during the fifth and fourth centuries BC, under the supervision of Patrick Finglass and Alan Sommerstein. I graduated in December 2013. I taught Classics as a teaching associate at Warwick (2016/17), Nottingham (2012/13) and the University of Leeds (2013/14). In addition, I taught English for Academic Purposes at the University of Lincoln and University College London. I was delighted to rejoin my alma mater in 2017.

Expertise Summary

My research covers Greek social and economic history, Greek tyranny, the history of Greek drama and festival culture, Greek tragedy and Greek lyric.

Teaching Summary

I have taught modules on a wide range of subjects in the fields of both Greek and Latin languages, literature and ancient history. Modules I have developed and convened include: Greek Politics and… read more

Research Summary

My research has three main themes: 1) Greek drama, especially the performance of drama outside Athens and by non-Athenians, 2) ideas of skill and work in Greek literature and the ancient economy and… read more

Recent Publications

I have taught modules on a wide range of subjects in the fields of both Greek and Latin languages, literature and ancient history. Modules I have developed and convened include: Greek Politics and the Economy, Greek Religion, Greek Tyrants, Women in the Greek World, Wine and Song: Greek Lyric, Greek Tragedy: Orestes on stage in classical Athens, and Interpreting Ancient Literature.

I would be interested in supervising postgraduate dissertations on any subject within the fields of Greek political, economic and social history (especially on tyranny, professionalism and work or festivals and festival culture), Greek drama and Greek lyric.

PhD Students:

Jason Porter: Slavery and Strategies of Slave Owning in Classical Athens (completed 2019)

Malcolm Belfield: Tragic Tetralogies (completed 2024)

Seymour Mac Mahon: Nobility and Eugeneia in Sophocles (completed 2024)

Henry Nicot: Cooks in the Roman World (2025-)

Current Research

My research has three main themes: 1) Greek drama, especially the performance of drama outside Athens and by non-Athenians, 2) ideas of skill and work in Greek literature and the ancient economy and 3) Greek tyranny in Greek history and political philosophy and the comparative history of authoritarian regimes in the ancient and modern world.

Past Research

The findings of my doctoral research were published by Oxford University Press in 2017 as a monograph entitled

Future Research

I am currently working on two monograph projects:

Ancient Greek Tyranny: A Reappraisal (c. 120,000 words, submitted to Edinburgh University Press)

Skilled Labour and Professions in Classical Athens (c. 250,000 words, forthcoming with Oxford University Press)

  • EDMUND STEWART, 2025. Greek tragedy on the move: travelling tragedy and travelling tragedians. In: P. LAMMERS, J. VOGEL and C. WALD, eds., Tragedy as a Travelling Form Bloomsbury. 23-42
  • EDMUND STEWART, 2025. Travel beyond Athens: pilgrims and sanctuaries in Greek tragedy. In: EDMUND STEWART and ANNA LAMARI, eds., Departing the Polis: Travel and Travellers in the Extant Plays and Fragments of Greek Drama De Gruyter. 43-87
  • EDMUND STEWART, 2025. Tyranny. In: JEROEN VAN DEN BOSCH and NATASHA LINDSTAEDT, eds., Encyclopaedia Tyrannica: A Research Guide to Authoritarianism Columbia University Press. 237-40
  • EDMUND STEWART, 2025. Introduction. In: EDMUND STEWART and ANNA LAMARI, eds., Departing the Polis: Travel and Travellers in the Extant Plays and Fragments of Greek Drama. 1-15
  • EDMUND STEWART, 2023. Tyranny in Tragedy Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought. 40(2), 234-258
  • EDMUND STEWART, 2021. Tragedy and tyranny: Euripides, Archelaus of Macedon and popular patronage. In: SIAN LEWIS, ed., Tyranny: New Contexts Presses Universitaires de Franche Comté. 81-101
  • EDMUND STEWART, 2021. The Tyrant’s Progress: the meaning of the ΤΥΡΑΝΝΟΣ in Plato and Aristotle Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought. 38, 208-36
  • EDMUND STEWART, EDWARD HARRIS and DAVID LEWIS, eds., 2020. Skilled Labour and Professionalism in Ancient Greece and Rome Cambridge University Press.
  • EDMUND STEWART, 2020. Introduction. In: EDMUND STEWART, DAVID LEWIS and EDWARD HARRIS, eds., Skilled Labour, and Professionalism in Ancient Greece and Rome Cambridge University Press. 1-25
  • EDMUND STEWART, 2020. The profession of Mousikē in classical Greece. In: EDMUND STEWART, DAVID LEWIS and EDWARD HARRIS, eds., Skilled Labour, and Professionalism in Ancient Greece and Rome Cambridge University Press. 269-92
  • EDMUND STEWART, 2019. Ion of Chios: The case of a foreign poet in classical Sparta. Classical Quarterly. 68(2), 394-407
  • EDMUND STEWART, 2019. Inner nature, outward appearance: the theme of nobility in Euripides’ Electra Phoenix. 73, 237-261
  • EDMUND STEWART, 2019. Carcinus. In: ALAN SOMMERSTEIN, ed., The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Greek Comedy Wiley-Blackwell.
  • EDMUND STEWART, 2019. Hieron I. In: ALAN SOMMERSTEIN, ed., The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Greek Comedy Wiley-Blackwell.
  • EDMUND STEWART, 2019. Dionysius I. In: ALAN SOMMERSTEIN, ed., The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Greek Comedy Wiley-Blackwell.
  • EDMUND STEWART, 2018. Ezekiel's Exagoge: A typical Hellenistic tragedy? Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies. 58, 223-52
  • 2018. Spartan choruses and foreign poets: an antidote to civil strife?. In: Conflict in the Peloponnese: Social, Military and Intellectual.: Proceedings of the 2nd CSPS PG and Early Career Conference Online Publication 4. The Centre for Spartan & Peloponnesian Studies. 111-32
  • STEWART, E, 2017. Greek tragedy on the move: the birth of a panhellenic art form c. 500-300 BC Oxford : Oxford University Press.
  • EDMUND STEWART, 2016. An ancient theatre dynastry: The elder Carcinus, the young Xenocles and the sons of Carcinus in Aristophanes Philologus. 160, 1-18
  • EDMUND STEWART, 2016. Professionalism and the poetic persona in archaic Greece Cambridge Classical Journal. 62, 200-223
  • EDMUND STEWART, 2014. Professionalism in Ancient Athletics Nikephoros: Journal of Sports and Culture in Antiquity. 27, 273-93
  • EDMUND STEWART, Skilled Labour and Professions in Classical Athens Oxford University Press. (In Press.)

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