Alberto Esu

Contact

• workRoom B37 Humanities Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• Alberto.Esu@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

I am originally from Sardinia, Italy. I studied for both my Laurea Triennale (BA) (2010) and my Laurea Magistrale (MA) (2013) in Classics at the Università di Cagliari. During this period I spent a semester as an Erasmus Exchange Student at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (April - September 2012).

In 2013, I moved to the UK to take a second MA in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Durham. I took my PhD in Classics at the University of Edinburgh (2014-18). During my PhD, I spent research periods at the British School at Athens (2014) and in Munich where I held Jacobi Fellowship at the Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik (2017).

In 2019 I moved to Germany to take up a Leverhulme Post-Doctoral Fellowship (SAS) at the Chair of Ancient History of the University of Mannheim (2019-2022). I am now happy to join the Nottingham Department of Classics and Archaeology.

Expertise Summary

My research focuses on political, institutional and legal history of the Classical and Hellenistic Greek World. I have published articles and chapters with emphasis on Classical Athens and Sparta, as well as aspects of Greek political thoughts and history of ideas. I am especially interested in the question of sovereignty, political legitimacy and honour and the way these ideas were enshrined in legal and political institutions of Greek political systems and societies.

Teaching Summary

I enjoy teaching a wide variety of courses and seminars on Ancient Greek political, social and cultural history, Greek and Roman historiography and Ancient Greek language.

In 2022/23 I am teaching on the following undergraduate and postgraduate modules:

- Beginners Greek 2

- Greek and Roman Mythology

- Interpreting Ancient History

- Myth, Society and Religion

- Periclean Athens: The Golden Age

- Studying the Greek World

- Telling Stories in the Greek and Roman World

My office hours (Autumn 22/23) are: Monday 11.00 - 12-00 and Wednesday 14.00 - 15.00

Recent Publications

• ESU, ALBERTO, 2021. ADEIA IN FIFTH-CENTURY ATHENS JOURNAL OF HELLENIC STUDIES. 141, 153-178
• ESU, ALBERTO, 2021. Review of Edwin Carawan, Control of the laws in the ancient democracy at Athens. Cultural Histories of the ancient world. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020 Bryn Mawr Classical Review. BMCR 2021.12.33
• HARRIS, EDWARD M. WITH ESU, ALBERTO, 2021. Policing Major Crimes in Classical Athens: Eisangelia and Other Public Procedures Rivista di Diritto Ellenico (RDE). 21, 39-119
• ESU, ALBERTO, 2021. Hegemony, Coercion and Consensus: A Gramscian Approach to Greek Cultural and Political History. In: Emilio Zucchetti and Anna Maria Cimino (eds.) Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World, London Routledge. 341-51

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• ESU, ALBERTO, 2021. ADEIA IN FIFTH-CENTURY ATHENS JOURNAL OF HELLENIC STUDIES. 141, 153-178
• ESU, ALBERTO, 2021. Review of Edwin Carawan, Control of the laws in the ancient democracy at Athens. Cultural Histories of the ancient world. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020 Bryn Mawr Classical Review. BMCR 2021.12.33
• HARRIS, EDWARD M. WITH ESU, ALBERTO, 2021. Policing Major Crimes in Classical Athens: Eisangelia and Other Public Procedures Rivista di Diritto Ellenico (RDE). 21, 39-119
• ESU, ALBERTO, 2021. Hegemony, Coercion and Consensus: A Gramscian Approach to Greek Cultural and Political History. In: Emilio Zucchetti and Anna Maria Cimino (eds.) Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World, London Routledge. 341-51
• ESU, ALBERTO, 2020. After the Empire: Judicial Review and Interstate Relations in Athens in the Age of Demosthenes, 354-22 BCE. In: E. Cavanagh (ed.) Empire and Legal Thought: Ideas and Institutions from the Ancient World to the Modern World, Leiden (Brill) 69-104
• ESU, ALBERTO, 2020. Review of Florian R. Foster (2018), Die Polis im Wandel. Ehrendekrete für eigene Bürger im Kontext der hellenistischen Polisgesellschaft (= Die hellenistische Polis als Lebensforme 9), Verlag Antike, Munich. Klio. Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte. 102(1), 329-335
• ESU, ALBERTO AND PODDIGHE, ELISABETTA, 2020. 'Adeia' (Encyclopedia Entry). In: ANDREW ERSKINE, DAVID HOLLANDER, ARIETTA PAPACONSTANTINOU, ed., Encyclopedia of Ancient History
• ESU, ALBERTO AND PODDIGHE, ELISABETTA, 2020. 'Diagramma' (Encyclopedia Entry). In: ANDREW ERSKINE DAVID HOLLANDER ARIETTA PAPACONSTANTINOU, ed., Encyclopedia of Ancient History
• ESU, ALBERTO AND PODDIGHE, ELISABETTA, 2020. 'Kalokagathia' (Encyclopedia Entry). In: ANDREW ERSKINE, DAVID HOLLANDER, ARIETTA PAPACONSTANTINOU, ed., Encyclopedia of Ancient History
• ESU, ALBERTO, 2020. Review of Konstantinos A. Kapparis (2018), Athenian Law and Society, London Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 2020.01.18.
• CANEVARO, MIRKO AND ESU, ALBERTO, 2018. Extreme Democracy and Mixed Constitution in Theory and Practice: Nomophylakia and Fourth-Century Nomothesia in the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia. In: C. Bearzot, M. Canevaro, T. Gargiulo, E. Poddighe (eds) Athenaion Politeiai tra storia, politica e sociologia: Aristotele e Pseudo-Senofonte, Milano LED Edizioni. 105-45
• ESU, ALBERTO, 2018. Reviews of P. J. Rhodes (ed. trans.), Zambrini A., Gargiulo T. (trans.), Aristotele:Costituzione degli Ateniesi. Rome/Milan: Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, 2016 and P. J. Rhodes (ed. trans.) The Athenian Constitution written in the School of Aristotle, Liverpool, 2017. Classical Review. 68(2), 366-39
• ESU, ALBERTO, 2017. DIVIDED POWER AND EUNOMIA: DELIBERATIVE PROCEDURES IN ANCIENT SPARTA CLASSICAL QUARTERLY. 67(2), 353-373
• ESU, ALBERTO, 2016. Review of Mogens H. Hansen (2015), Political Obligation in Ancient Greece and in the Modern World, Copenhagen, (Scientia Danica. Series H, Humanistica, 8 vol. 10.) Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters Classical Review. 66(2), 478-80