British ancient historian and academic
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 .
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]
Selected publications
References
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"Edwards, Prof. Catharine Harmon, (born 27 May 1963), Professor of Classics and Ancient History, Birkbeck, University of London, since 2006" .
Who's Who 2023 . Oxford University Press. 1 December 2022. Retrieved 5 February 2023 .
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Catharine Edwards.
Archived 20 May 2015 at the
Wayback Machine Birkbeck College. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
^ 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 .
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Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome , BBC. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
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"About the Society: Officers" . Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies . Archived from
the original on 28 September 2016. Retrieved 4 September 2016 .
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"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,
doi :
10.1086/367439 ,
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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