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Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
(he/him)
Professor in Ancient History
School of History, Archaeology and Religion
- Welsh speaking
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
Welcome! Croeso! !خوش آمدید
Chair in Ancient History at Cardiff University
Director of the Ancient Iran Program for the British Institute of Persian Studies.
Series Editor - Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia. Edinburgh University Press.
Series Editor - Screening Antiquity. Edinburgh University Press.
Regular contrinutor to: BBC History Magazine, History Today and World History
Media appearences: BBC, Channel 4, Radio 4, Netflix
I'm best known for my work in the fields of Ancient History and Persian Studies and I've spent extensive time in Iran, where my books have received Farsi translations.
My main research interests are:
- Ancient Iran, especially the Achaemenid period (559-331 BCE)
- Persian and Greek encounters in the Archaic and Classical Periods
- Iranian history and culture
- Shahnameh and strytelling traditions in Iran
- Cross cultural and cross temporal comparatives
- Monarchy and court society
- Gender and sexuality
- Clothing, textiles and dress history
- Reception of history in the arts and popular culture, especially Hollywood cinema
- Cultural History
- Global History
I am available for Phd supervision for all of these subjects.
Publication
2024
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2024. Clothing the Shami Prince: The dress of Parthian horsemen. In: Chidwick, H. ed. The Body of the Combatant in the Ancient Mediterranean. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 77-98.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2024. The Cleopatras: the Forgotten Queens of Egypt. London: Wildfire.
2023
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2023. Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther. Achaemenid court culture in the Hebrew Bible. I B Tauris.
- Frasier, J., Llewellyn-Jones, L. and Bishop-Wright, H. 2023. Luxury and power: From Persia to Greece.. London: British Museum.
2022
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2022. Athens and Persia, 472 BCE. In: Stuttard, D. ed. Looking at 'Persians'. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 27-44.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2022. Wives, other women, and boyfriends. In: Stoneman, R. ed. Alexander the Great: the Making of a Myth.. London: British Library, pp. 158-167.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. and McAuley, A. 2022. Sister-Queens in the high Hellenistic period: Kleopatra Thea and Kleopatra III. Routledge Studies in Ancient History. London, UK: Routledge. (10.4324/9781315206578)
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2022. ‘Mary Beatrice of Modena: A queen observed’. In: Norrie, A. et al. eds. Tudor and Stuart Consorts. Queenship and Power New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 291-311.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2022. Mary Beatrice of Modena: A queen observed. In: Norrie, A. et al. eds. Tudor and Stuart Consort. Queenship and Power, pp. 291-311., (10.1007/978-3-030-95197-9_17)
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2022. Persians: The Age of The Great Kings. Wildfire Books.
- Tougher, S. and Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2022. Alexander the gay and the gloryhole that was Greece. In: Stoneman, R. ed. A History of Alexander the Great in World Culture. Cambridge University Press, pp. 424-447., (10.1017/9781316711798.020)
2021
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2021. The court. In: Rollinger, R. and Jacobs, B. eds. A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Wiley Blackwell, pp. 1035-1046., (10.1002/9781119071860.ch71)
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2021. Hair and social status in the near east and early Greece, c. 900-300 BC. In: Batten, A. J. and Olsen, K. eds. Dress in Mediterranean Antiquity: Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians.. Berg
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2021. Dress and ceremony in achaemenid Persia: the 'Gaunaka'. In: Batten, A. J. and Olsen, K. eds. Dress in Mediterranean Antiquity: Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians. Bloomsbury, pp. 159-172.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2021. Body and clothing. In: Wharton., D. ed. Cultural History of Colour in Antiquity.., Vol. 1. The Cultural Histories Series Berg, pp. 81-102.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2021. The royal 'Gaunaka': dress, identity, status and ceremony in achaemenid Iran. In: Pankova, S. and Simpson, S. J. eds. Masters of the Steppe: The Impact of the Scythians and Later Nomad Societies of Eurasia. Archaeopress, pp. 248-257.
2020
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2020. Violence and the mutilated body in Achaemenid Iran. In: Fibiger, L. et al. eds. The Cambridge History of Violence. Volume 1: The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds., Vol. 1. The Cambridge World History of Violence Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 360-379., (10.1017/9781316341247.019)
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2020. ‘Knocking her teeth out with a stone’: violence against women in Ancient Greece. In: Fibiger, L. et al. eds. The Cambridge World History of Violence: Volume 1: The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds., Vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 380-399., (10.1017/9781316341247.020)
2019
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2019. Harem politics: Royal women and succession crises in the Ancient Near East (c. 1400-300 BCE). In: Woodacre, E. et al. eds. The Routledge History of Monarchy. London and New York: Routledge
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2019. Clothing and textiles. In: Wharton, D. ed. A Cultural History of Colour in Antiquity.. Berg
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2019. 'Cockamamie, bull shite, hero worship, falsification of history': Iranian perceptions of the heroic in 300 and 300 Rise of an Empire. In: Augoustakis, A. and Ritchie, S. eds. Hercules and the Other Heroes.. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
2018
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2018. Designs on the past: how Hollywood created the Ancient World. Screening Antiquity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2018. Trouble in the Tehran multiplex: Iranian perceptions of the heroic in 300 and 300 Rise of an Empire. In: Augoustakis, A. and Richie, S. eds. Epic Heroes on Screen. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 191-205.
2017
- Lewis, S. and Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2017. The culture of animals in antiquity: A sourcebook with commentaries. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. (10.4324/9781315201603)
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2017. Persianisms: the Achaemenid Court in Greek art, 380-330 BCE. Iranian Studies 50(6), pp. 765-786. (10.1080/00210862.2016.1268379)
- Erskine, A., Llewellyn-Jones, L. and Wallace, S. eds. 2017. The Hellenistic Court: Monarchic power and elite society from Alexander to Cleopatra. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2017. Keeping and displaying royal tribute animals in Ancient Persia and the Near East. In: Fogen, T. and Thomas, E. V. eds. Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Berlin/Munich/Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 305-338., (10.1515/9783110545623-013)
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2017. "Salome, nice girl": Rita Hayworth and the problem of the Hollywood Biblical vamp. In: Almagor, E. and Maurice, L. eds. The Reception of Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture: Beauty, Bravery, Blood and Glory. Metaforms Vol. 11. Brill, pp. 206-230.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2017. Reviewing space, context and meaning: The Eurymedon vase again. In: Rodriguez Perez, D. ed. Greek Art in Context: Archaeological and Art Historical Perspectives. Routledge, pp. 97-115.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2017. Manliness, violation, and laughter: rereading the space and context of the Eurymedon vase. Journal of Greek Archaeology 2, pp. 221-234.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. and Davis, G. 2017. The Body. In: Harlow, M. ed. A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion. Volume I: Antiquity. Berg, pp. 49-69.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. and Davis, G. 2017. Gender and sexuality. In: Harlow, M. ed. A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion. Volume I: Antiquity.. Berg, pp. 87-104.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2017. 'Open Sesame!' Orientalist fantasy and the Persian Court in Greek Art 430-330 BCE. In: Strootman, R. and Versluys, M. eds. Persianism in Antiquity. Steiner Verlag, pp. 69-86.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L., Erskine, A. and Wallace, S. eds. 2017. The Hellenistic Court. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2017. The Achaemenid Empire. In: Darayee, T. ed. King of the Seven Climes: A History of the Ancient Iranian World (3000 BCE - 651 CE). Ancient Iran Series Vol. 4. UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies, pp. 63-103., (10.1163/9789004460645_006)
2016
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. and Winder, S. 2016. Berenike II and the Hathoric model of Queenship. In: Rutherford, I. ed. Greco-Egyptian Interactions: Literature, Translation, and Culture, 500 BC-AD 300.. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 139-162.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2016. The Kingdom of Lydia. In: MacKenzie, J. ed. The Encyclopedia of Empires. Wiley Blackwell, (10.1002/9781118455074.wbeoe264)
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2016. Median Empire. In: MacKenzie, J. M. ed. The Encyclopedia of Empire. Wiley Blackwell, (10.1002/9781118455074.wbeoe263)
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2016. Achaemenid Empire. In: MacKenzie, J. ed. The Encyclopedia of Empire. Wiley Blackwell, pp. 1-5., (10.1002/9781118455074.wbeoe260)
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2016. An orgy of Oriental dissipation? Some thoughts on the 'Camel lekythos'. DABIR: Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review 1(2), pp. 31-38.
2015
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2015. ‘That My Body is Strong’: the physique and appearance of the Achaemenid Monarch. In: Wascheck, F. and Shapiro, H. A. eds. Fluide Körper-Bodies in Transition. Cologne: Centre for Advanced Studies, pp. 211-248.
2014
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2014. Juvenalia: Bread and circuses. Times Literary Supplement(5812), pp. 20-20.
2013
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2013. An almost all Greek thing: Cleopatra VII and Hollywood imagination. In: Nikoloutsos, K. P. ed. Ancient Greek Women in Film. Classical Presences Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 305-330.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2013. Empire of the gaze: seraglio fantasies à la greque in Chariton’s Callirhoe. Helios 40(1/2), pp. 167-191. (10.1353/hel.2013.0001)
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2013. King and court in Ancient Persia 559-331 BCE. Debates and Documents in Ancient History. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
2012
- Marincola, J., Llewellyn-Jones, L. and Maciver, C. eds. 2012. Greek notions of the past in the archaic and classical eras: history without historians. Edinburgh Leventis Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L., Cleland, L. and Davies, G. eds. 2012. Dress in Ancient Greece and Rome A-Z. London: Routledge.
2010
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. and Robson, J. 2010. Ctesias’ History of Persia: tales of the Orient. Routledge Classical Translations). London: Routledge.
2005
- Cleland, L., Harlow, M. and Llewellyn-Jones, L. eds. 2005. The clothed body in the Ancient World. Oxford: Oxbow.
2004
- De Souza, P., Heckel, W., Llewellyn-Jones, L. and Davis Hanson, V. 2004. The Greeks at war: from Athens to Alexander. Essential Histories Specials. Oxford: Osprey.
2003
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2003. Aphrodite’s tortoise: the veiled woman of Ancient Greece. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales.
2001
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. ed. 2001. Women’s dress in the Ancient Greek world. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales.
Articles
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2017. Persianisms: the Achaemenid Court in Greek art, 380-330 BCE. Iranian Studies 50(6), pp. 765-786. (10.1080/00210862.2016.1268379)
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2017. Manliness, violation, and laughter: rereading the space and context of the Eurymedon vase. Journal of Greek Archaeology 2, pp. 221-234.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2016. An orgy of Oriental dissipation? Some thoughts on the 'Camel lekythos'. DABIR: Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review 1(2), pp. 31-38.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2014. Juvenalia: Bread and circuses. Times Literary Supplement(5812), pp. 20-20.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2013. Empire of the gaze: seraglio fantasies à la greque in Chariton’s Callirhoe. Helios 40(1/2), pp. 167-191. (10.1353/hel.2013.0001)
Book sections
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2024. Clothing the Shami Prince: The dress of Parthian horsemen. In: Chidwick, H. ed. The Body of the Combatant in the Ancient Mediterranean. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 77-98.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2022. Athens and Persia, 472 BCE. In: Stuttard, D. ed. Looking at 'Persians'. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 27-44.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2022. Wives, other women, and boyfriends. In: Stoneman, R. ed. Alexander the Great: the Making of a Myth.. London: British Library, pp. 158-167.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2022. ‘Mary Beatrice of Modena: A queen observed’. In: Norrie, A. et al. eds. Tudor and Stuart Consorts. Queenship and Power New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 291-311.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2022. Mary Beatrice of Modena: A queen observed. In: Norrie, A. et al. eds. Tudor and Stuart Consort. Queenship and Power, pp. 291-311., (10.1007/978-3-030-95197-9_17)
- Tougher, S. and Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2022. Alexander the gay and the gloryhole that was Greece. In: Stoneman, R. ed. A History of Alexander the Great in World Culture. Cambridge University Press, pp. 424-447., (10.1017/9781316711798.020)
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2021. The court. In: Rollinger, R. and Jacobs, B. eds. A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Wiley Blackwell, pp. 1035-1046., (10.1002/9781119071860.ch71)
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2021. Hair and social status in the near east and early Greece, c. 900-300 BC. In: Batten, A. J. and Olsen, K. eds. Dress in Mediterranean Antiquity: Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians.. Berg
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2021. Dress and ceremony in achaemenid Persia: the 'Gaunaka'. In: Batten, A. J. and Olsen, K. eds. Dress in Mediterranean Antiquity: Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians. Bloomsbury, pp. 159-172.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2021. Body and clothing. In: Wharton., D. ed. Cultural History of Colour in Antiquity.., Vol. 1. The Cultural Histories Series Berg, pp. 81-102.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2021. The royal 'Gaunaka': dress, identity, status and ceremony in achaemenid Iran. In: Pankova, S. and Simpson, S. J. eds. Masters of the Steppe: The Impact of the Scythians and Later Nomad Societies of Eurasia. Archaeopress, pp. 248-257.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2020. Violence and the mutilated body in Achaemenid Iran. In: Fibiger, L. et al. eds. The Cambridge History of Violence. Volume 1: The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds., Vol. 1. The Cambridge World History of Violence Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 360-379., (10.1017/9781316341247.019)
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2020. ‘Knocking her teeth out with a stone’: violence against women in Ancient Greece. In: Fibiger, L. et al. eds. The Cambridge World History of Violence: Volume 1: The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds., Vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 380-399., (10.1017/9781316341247.020)
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2019. Harem politics: Royal women and succession crises in the Ancient Near East (c. 1400-300 BCE). In: Woodacre, E. et al. eds. The Routledge History of Monarchy. London and New York: Routledge
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2019. Clothing and textiles. In: Wharton, D. ed. A Cultural History of Colour in Antiquity.. Berg
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2019. 'Cockamamie, bull shite, hero worship, falsification of history': Iranian perceptions of the heroic in 300 and 300 Rise of an Empire. In: Augoustakis, A. and Ritchie, S. eds. Hercules and the Other Heroes.. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2018. Trouble in the Tehran multiplex: Iranian perceptions of the heroic in 300 and 300 Rise of an Empire. In: Augoustakis, A. and Richie, S. eds. Epic Heroes on Screen. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 191-205.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2017. Keeping and displaying royal tribute animals in Ancient Persia and the Near East. In: Fogen, T. and Thomas, E. V. eds. Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Berlin/Munich/Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 305-338., (10.1515/9783110545623-013)
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2017. "Salome, nice girl": Rita Hayworth and the problem of the Hollywood Biblical vamp. In: Almagor, E. and Maurice, L. eds. The Reception of Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture: Beauty, Bravery, Blood and Glory. Metaforms Vol. 11. Brill, pp. 206-230.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2017. Reviewing space, context and meaning: The Eurymedon vase again. In: Rodriguez Perez, D. ed. Greek Art in Context: Archaeological and Art Historical Perspectives. Routledge, pp. 97-115.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. and Davis, G. 2017. The Body. In: Harlow, M. ed. A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion. Volume I: Antiquity. Berg, pp. 49-69.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. and Davis, G. 2017. Gender and sexuality. In: Harlow, M. ed. A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion. Volume I: Antiquity.. Berg, pp. 87-104.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2017. 'Open Sesame!' Orientalist fantasy and the Persian Court in Greek Art 430-330 BCE. In: Strootman, R. and Versluys, M. eds. Persianism in Antiquity. Steiner Verlag, pp. 69-86.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2017. The Achaemenid Empire. In: Darayee, T. ed. King of the Seven Climes: A History of the Ancient Iranian World (3000 BCE - 651 CE). Ancient Iran Series Vol. 4. UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies, pp. 63-103., (10.1163/9789004460645_006)
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. and Winder, S. 2016. Berenike II and the Hathoric model of Queenship. In: Rutherford, I. ed. Greco-Egyptian Interactions: Literature, Translation, and Culture, 500 BC-AD 300.. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 139-162.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2016. The Kingdom of Lydia. In: MacKenzie, J. ed. The Encyclopedia of Empires. Wiley Blackwell, (10.1002/9781118455074.wbeoe264)
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2016. Median Empire. In: MacKenzie, J. M. ed. The Encyclopedia of Empire. Wiley Blackwell, (10.1002/9781118455074.wbeoe263)
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2016. Achaemenid Empire. In: MacKenzie, J. ed. The Encyclopedia of Empire. Wiley Blackwell, pp. 1-5., (10.1002/9781118455074.wbeoe260)
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2015. ‘That My Body is Strong’: the physique and appearance of the Achaemenid Monarch. In: Wascheck, F. and Shapiro, H. A. eds. Fluide Körper-Bodies in Transition. Cologne: Centre for Advanced Studies, pp. 211-248.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2013. An almost all Greek thing: Cleopatra VII and Hollywood imagination. In: Nikoloutsos, K. P. ed. Ancient Greek Women in Film. Classical Presences Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 305-330.
Books
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2024. The Cleopatras: the Forgotten Queens of Egypt. London: Wildfire.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2023. Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther. Achaemenid court culture in the Hebrew Bible. I B Tauris.
- Frasier, J., Llewellyn-Jones, L. and Bishop-Wright, H. 2023. Luxury and power: From Persia to Greece.. London: British Museum.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. and McAuley, A. 2022. Sister-Queens in the high Hellenistic period: Kleopatra Thea and Kleopatra III. Routledge Studies in Ancient History. London, UK: Routledge. (10.4324/9781315206578)
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2022. Persians: The Age of The Great Kings. Wildfire Books.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2018. Designs on the past: how Hollywood created the Ancient World. Screening Antiquity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Lewis, S. and Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2017. The culture of animals in antiquity: A sourcebook with commentaries. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. (10.4324/9781315201603)
- Erskine, A., Llewellyn-Jones, L. and Wallace, S. eds. 2017. The Hellenistic Court: Monarchic power and elite society from Alexander to Cleopatra. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L., Erskine, A. and Wallace, S. eds. 2017. The Hellenistic Court. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2013. King and court in Ancient Persia 559-331 BCE. Debates and Documents in Ancient History. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Marincola, J., Llewellyn-Jones, L. and Maciver, C. eds. 2012. Greek notions of the past in the archaic and classical eras: history without historians. Edinburgh Leventis Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L., Cleland, L. and Davies, G. eds. 2012. Dress in Ancient Greece and Rome A-Z. London: Routledge.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. and Robson, J. 2010. Ctesias’ History of Persia: tales of the Orient. Routledge Classical Translations). London: Routledge.
- Cleland, L., Harlow, M. and Llewellyn-Jones, L. eds. 2005. The clothed body in the Ancient World. Oxford: Oxbow.
- De Souza, P., Heckel, W., Llewellyn-Jones, L. and Davis Hanson, V. 2004. The Greeks at war: from Athens to Alexander. Essential Histories Specials. Oxford: Osprey.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2003. Aphrodite’s tortoise: the veiled woman of Ancient Greece. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. ed. 2001. Women’s dress in the Ancient Greek world. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. and McAuley, A. 2022. Sister-Queens in the high Hellenistic period: Kleopatra Thea and Kleopatra III. Routledge Studies in Ancient History. London, UK: Routledge. (10.4324/9781315206578)
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2019. Clothing and textiles. In: Wharton, D. ed. A Cultural History of Colour in Antiquity.. Berg
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2019. 'Cockamamie, bull shite, hero worship, falsification of history': Iranian perceptions of the heroic in 300 and 300 Rise of an Empire. In: Augoustakis, A. and Ritchie, S. eds. Hercules and the Other Heroes.. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Research
Research interests
- Ancient Iran, especially the Achaemenid period (559-331 BCE)
- Persian and Greek encounters in the Archaic and Classical Periods
- monarchy and court societies
- Iranian culture
- Cross cultural and cross temporal comparatives
- Gender and sexuality
- Clothing, textiles and dress history
- Reception of antiquity in the arts and popular culture, especially Hollywood cinema
- Cultural History
- Global History
Books
Monographs and co-authored
Designs on the Past: How Hollywood Created the Ancient World. Publisher: Edinburgh University Press. 2018.
The Culture of Animals in Antiquity (co-author). Publisher: Routledge. 2017.
King and Court in Ancient Persia 559-331 BCE. Publisher: Edinburgh University Press. 2013 (translated into Persian by Fereydoun Majlessi, Tehran 2015).
Ctesias' History of Persia: Tales of the Orient (co-author). Publisher: Routledge. 2010 (translated into Persian by Fereydoun Majlessi, Tehran 2013).
Dress in Ancient Greece and Rome A-Z (co-author). Publisher: Routledge. 2007.
The Greeks at War (co-author). Publisher: Osprey. 2004.
Aphrodite's Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece. Publisher: Classical Press of Wales. 2003\; second edition (paperback) 2010.
Edited and co-edited
The Hellenistic Court (co-editor). Publisher: Classical Press of Wales. 2018
Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras (Edinburgh Leventis Studies) (co-editor). Publisher: Edinburgh University Press. 2012.
Creating a Hellenistic World (co-editor). Publisher: University of Wales Press. 2010.
The Clothed Body in the Ancient World (co-editor). Publisher: Oxbow. 2005.
Women's Dress in the Ancient Greek World. Publisher: Duckworth/Classical Press of Wales. 2002.
Articles
‘Body and Clothing’ in D. Wharton (ed.), A Cultural History of Color in Antiquity. Publisher: Berg. 2021. 81-102.
‘Dress and Ceremony in Achaemenid Persia: The ‘*Gaunaka’’ in A.J. Batten and K. Olsen (eds.), Dress in Mediterranean Antiquity: Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians. Publisher: Bloomsbury. 2021. 159-72.
‘Hair and Social Status in the Near East and Early Greece, c. 900–300 BC’ in A.J. Batten and K. Olsen (eds.), Dress in Mediterranean Antiquity: Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians. Publisher: Bloomsbury. 2021. 173-
“The Royal *Gaunaka: Dress, Identity, Status and Ceremony in Achaemenid Iran” in S-J. Simpson and S. Pankova (eds.), Scythians and other early Eurasian Nomads. Publisher: Archeopress. 2021. 248-57.
"Violence and the Body in Achaemenid Iran" in L. Fibiger, G. G. Fagan and M. Hudson (eds.) The Cambridge History of Violence. Volume 1 ⎯ The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds. Publisher: CUP. 2020.
"Knocking her teeth out with a stone: Domestic Violence in Ancient Greece" in L. Fibiger, G. G. Fagan and M. Hudson (eds.) The Cambridge History of Violence. Volume 1 ⎯ The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds\; Publisher: CUP. 2020.
“Harem Politics: Royal Women and Succession Crises in the Ancient Near East (c. 1400-300 BCE)” in E. Woodacre (ed.), History of Monarchy. Publisher: Routledge, 2019.
“Trouble in the Tehran Multiplex: Iranian Perceptions of the Heroic in 300 and 300 Rise of an Empire” in A. Augoustakis and S. Richie (eds.), Hercules and the Other Heroes. Publisher: Edinburgh University Press. 2018. 191-205.
“Manliness, Violation and Laughter: rereading the space and context of the Eurymedon vase”, Journal of Greek Archaeology 2 (2017). 217-31.
“Salome, Nice Girl. Rita Hayworth and the Problem of the Hollywood Biblical Vamp”, in E. Almagor and L. Maurice (eds.), Virtue and Vice and the Reception of Antiquity. Publisher: Brill. 2017. 206-30.
“Keeping and Displaying Royal Tribute Animals in Ancient Persia and the Near East”, in T. Fögen and E. Thomas (eds.), Interactions Between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Publisher: de Gruyter. 2017. 305-338
“Gender and Sexuality”, in M. Harlow (ed.), A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion. Volume I: Antiquity. Publisher: Berg. 2017. 87-104.
“The Body”, in M. Harlow (ed.), A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion. Volume I: Antiquity. Publisher: Berg. 2017. 49-69.
“Reviewing Space, Context and Meaning: The Eurymedon Vase Again”, in D. Rodriguez Perez (ed.), Greek Art in Context: Archaeological and Art Historical Perspectives. Publisher: Routledge. 2017. 97-115.
“The Achaemenids” in T. Darayee (ed.), King of the Seven Climes: a History of Ancient Iran. Publisher: Irvine Centre for Persian Studies. 2017. 50-92.
“‘Open Sesame!’ Orientalist Fantasy and the Persian Court in Greek Art 430-330 BCE” in R. Strootman & M.J. Versluys (eds.), Persianism in Antiquity. Publisher: Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart. 2017.
“Persianisms: the Achaemenid Court in Greek Art, 380-330 BCE” in N. Pak-Shiraz (ed.), The Visual Word of Persian Culture. Special Edition: Iranian Studies, 2017.
"Berenike II and the Hathoric model of Queenship", in I. Rutherford (ed.), Greco-Egyptian Interactions: Literature, Translation, and Culture, 500 BC-AD 300. Publisher: OUP. 2016. 139-162.
"The Kingdom of Lydia" "The Median Empire" "The Achaemenid Empire" in J. MacKenzie (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Empires. Publisher: Wiley Blackwell. 2016.
"Beautiful to Behold is the King: the Body of the Achaemenid Monarch" in F. Wascheck & A. Shapiro (eds.), Fluide Körper-Bodies in Transition. Publisher: Centre for Advanced Studies "Morphomata, Cologne. 2015. 211-48.
"Empire of the Gaze: seraglio fantasies à la greque in Chariton's Callirhoe" in S. Blundell, D. Cairns & N. Rabinowitz (eds.), Vision and Power in the Ancient World. Publisher: Helios (special edition). 2013. 167-91.
"An Almost All Greek Thing: Cleopatra VII and Hollywood Imagination" in K. P. Nikoloutsos (ed.), Ancient Greek Women in Film. Publisher: Oxford University Press. 2013. 305-30.
"Jewel-in-the-belly-button Orientalism in Oliver Stone's Alexander" in S. Knippschild & M. Garcia Morcillo (eds.), Seduction and Power: Antiquity in the Visual and Performing Arts. Publisher: Bloomsbury. 2013. 21-34.
"Ray Harryhausen and Other Gods: Greek Divinity in Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans in S. Green and P. Goodman (eds.), Animating Antiquity: Harryhausen and the Classical Tradition. 2013. [online refereed].
Contributor to the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell. 2013 (entries on Men in Female Roles, Costume, Jewelry, Veiling, Persians on Stage, Susa, Thracians, Egyptians, Hair, Performative Approach, Schema)
"Great Kings of the Fourth Century BCE and Greek Conceptions of the Persian Past" in J. Marincola, L. Llewellyn-Jones & C. McIver (eds.), Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras (Edinburgh Leventis Studies). Publisher: Edinburgh University Press. 2012. 317-46.
"Veiling the Spartan Woman" in M. Harlow (ed.), Dress and Identity. Publisher: Oxbow, Oxford. 2012. 19-38.
Contributor to the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell. 2012 (entries on Arsinoe I, Arsinoe III, Beauty, Berenike I, Berenike II, Cleopatra IV, Cleopatra V Berenike III, Cleopatra VI Tryphaena).
"Domestic Violence in Ancient Greece" in S. Lambert (ed.), Sociable Man. Essays in Greek Social Behaviour in Honour of Nick Fisher. Publisher: Classical Press of Wales, Swansea. 2011. 231-266.
"Immortals and Persian Cataphracts" in C. Ridler (ed.) Elite Fighting Forces. Publisher: Thames & Hudson. 2011. 10-11, 26-27.
"Dress, Hair, Textiles" in M. Finkelberg (ed.), Homer Encyclopedia. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell. 2011.
"Pre-Islamic dress codes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Southwest Asia" in G. Vogelsang-Eastwood (ed.) Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress Volume 2: The Middle East and Central Asia. Publisher: Berg, 2010. 24-30.
"Orientalism in Western Dress and Stage Costume" in G. Vogelsang-Eastwood (ed.) Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress Volume 2: The Middle East and Central Asia. Publisher: Berg, 2010. 487-88.
"The Big and Beautiful Women of Asia: Picturing Female Sexuality in Greco-Persian Seals" in J. Curtis & S. Simpson (eds.), The World of Achaemenid Persia. Publisher: I.B. Tauris. 2010. 165-176.
"Ethnic Conceptions of Beauty in Achaemenid Period Seals and Gemstones" in S. Hales & T. Hodos (eds.), Local and Global Identities: Rethinking Identity, Material and Visual Cultures in the Ancient World. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. 2009. 171-200.
""Help me Aphrodite!" Representing the Royal Women of Persia in Oliver Stone's Alexander" in F. Greenland & P. Cartledge (eds.), Responses to Oliver Stone's Alexander. Publisher: Wisconsin University Press. 2009. 150-197.
"The First Persian Empire" in. T. Harrison (ed.), The Great Empires of the Ancient World. Publisher: Thames & Hudson. 2009. 65-95.
"Hollywood's Ancient World" in A. Erskine (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to the Ancient World. Publisher: Blackwell. 2009. 564-579.
"Achaemenid Persia" in S. Bourke (ed.), The Middle East. The Cradle of Civilization Revealed. Publisher: Thames & Hudson. 2008. 216-45.
"House and Veil in Ancient Greece" in N. Fisher, R. Westgate & J. Whitley, (eds.), Building Communities: House, settlement and society in the Aegean and beyond. Publisher: British School at Athens. 2007. 251-58.
"Gods of the Silver Screen: Cinematic Representations of Myth and Divinity" in D. Ogden (ed.), A Companion to Greek Religion. Publisher: Blackwell. 2007. 423-38.
Contributor to The Cambridge Guide to Classical Civilization. Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006 (entries on: Antigone, Asterix, Antony, Arsinoë, II Philadelphus, Aspasia, Artemis, Athenaeus, Atlantis, Boudicca, Berenike I, bestiality, chiton, Cleopatra VII, comic strips, dance, Ethiopia, Ethiopians, fashion, femininity, film, fur, heritage (Classical), love, marriage (Greek), mime, Nonnos, novels (historical), perfume, prostitutes, orientalism, Neaira, queens, scandals, Shakespeare, Spartacus, theatre (modern), veiling).
"Body Language and the female role-player in Greek Tragedy and Japanese Kabuki Theatre" in D.L. Cairns (ed.), Body Language in the Greek and Roman Worlds. Publisher: Classical Press of Wales. 2005. 73-105.
"Herakles Re-Dressed" in L. Rawlings & H. Bowden (eds.), Herakles and Hercules. Exploring a Greco-Roman Divinity. Publisher: Classical Press of Wales. 2005. 51-69.
"The Fashioning of Delilah. Costume Design, Historicism and Fantasy in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah (1949)" in M. Harlow & L. Llewellyn-Jones (eds.), The Clothed Body in the Ancient World. 2005. 14-29. Publisher: Oxbow. 2005.
"Celluloid Cleopatras or Did the Greeks ever get to Egypt?" in D. Ogden (ed.), The Hellenistic World: New Perspectives. Publisher: Duckworth/Classical Press of Wales. 2002. 275-304.
"The Queen of Sheba in Popular Culture, 1850-2000" in St John Simpson (ed.), The Queen of Sheba: Treasures of Ancient Yemen. Publisher: British Museum Press 2002. 12-30.
"Eunuchs and the Harem in Achaemenid Persia" in S. Tougher (ed.), Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond. Publisher: Duckworth/Classical Press of Wales, London/Swansea. 2002. 19-49.
"A woman's view? Dress, eroticism, and the ideal female body in Athenian art" in L. Llewellyn-Jones (ed.), Women's Dress in the Ancient Greek World. Publisher: Duckworth/Classical Press of Wales, London/Swansea. 2002. 171-202.
"Sexy Athena: The Dress and Erotic Representation of a Virgin War Goddess" in, S. Deacy and A. Villing (eds.), Athena in the Classical World. Publisher: B.J. Brill, Leiden. 2001. 233-57.
"Trasedi Gymraeg: Is there a Classical Tradition in Welsh Language Drama?" in L.P. Hardwick & C. Gillespie, eds., The Role of Greek Drama and Poetry in Crossing and Redefining Cultural Boundaries. 2000. [Refereed].
"Understanding Theatre Space". 2000. [Refereed].
Books in press and in development
Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period: Kleopatra III and Kleopatra Thea (co-author). Publisher: Routledge. Forthcoming, 2021
The Persians. Publisher: Wildfire Books. Forthcoming 2022
Ancient Persia: the Achaemenid Dynasty 559-331 BCE. Publisher: Routledge. Forthcoming 2023.
A Visual History of Dress in Antiquity. Publisher: Routledge. Forthcoming 2024.
Articles in press
‘Bathsheba and Beyond: Harem Politics in the Ancient Near East’ in K. Droß-Krüpe and S. Fink (eds.), Perception and (Self)Presentation of Powerful Women in the Ancient World Proceedings of the 8th Melammu Workshop, Kassel, 30 January – 1 February 2019. Publisher: Zaphon. 2021.
Teaching
Current Courses
- The Persians
- Projecting the Past
- A World Full of Gods
- Ancient Languages
- Ancient History 1
- Ancient Objects
- Greece and the Near East
- Gender and Sexuality
- Past and Present
Second Year Independent Study
Final year dissertations
Topic areas for graduate supervision:
- Achamenid Dynasty of Iran, 559-331 BCE
- Ancient Persian Empire
- History & Culture of Iran
- Greek and Persian interactions in antiquity
- Ancient Historiography
- Near Eastern and Egyptian monarchy and court societies
- Gender, dress, sexuality in antiquity
- Reception of antiquity in the arts, especially Hollywood cinema
Biography
I was born in Bridgend, raised in Cefn Cribwr, and attended Cynffig Comprehensive School. I read Drama at the University of Hull (1985-1988), followed by a Masters (1996-1997) and a PhD (1997-2000) in Ancient History at Cardiff University. Following a Research Fellowship at the Open University and a lectureship at Exeter, I joined the Classics department at the University of Edinburgh in 2004 and in 2015 I became Professor of Ancient Greek and Iranian Studies. I took up the Chair of Ancient History at Cardiff University in February 2016.
My research interests include ancient Greek socio-cultural history, especially women's history and gender-issues, dress, and visual culture. My book Aphrodite's Tortoise: the veiled woman of ancient Greece has won much critical acclaim. For the last decade, however, I have expanded my research into the study of ancient Persia, especially the history and culture of the Achaemenid period (559-331 BCE) and I am fortunate to be one of only a few scholars world-wide to work on pre-Islamic Iran. Recent publications have included Persians: the Age of the Great Kings; Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther; The Cleopatras: the Forgotten Queens of Egypt.
I travel frequently to Iran and the Middle East, often leading cultural and historical tours. I have worked with the BBC, Channel 4 and the History Channel and even with Hollywood production companies as historical advisor. I am a regular reviewer for The Times and Times Higher Education.
Follow my blog, Persian Things
For some further biographical details see: Alumnus returns to alma mater as Professor of Ancient History
For cultural tours see: www.martinrandall.com
Education and qualifications
- 1997 - 2000 PhD. Ancient History, Cardiff University, Wales, UK.
- 1996 - 1997 MA (Distinction) Ancient History, Cardiff University, Wales, UK.
- 1985 - 1988 BA (Hons) Drama, University of Hull, England, UK.
Honours and awards
- Iran Heritage grant
- British Consul Starting Fund
- Principal's Knowledge Exchange Grant
- AHRC conference funding
- Carnegie Trust Award
Professional memberships
Present - Trustee of the British Institute of Persian Studies
02/2016 - Present Chair of Ancient History, Cardiff University
08/2015 - 01/2016 Chair of Ancient Greek and Iranian Studies, University of Edinburgh.
08/2010 - 07/2015 Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Edinburgh.
08/2004 - 07/2010 Lecturer in Ancient History, School of History, Classics &\; Archaeology, University of Edinburgh.
08/2003 - 07/2004 Lecturer in Ancient History, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter.
01/2000 - 08/2003 Research Fellow, Department of Classical Studies, The Open University
- Head of Classics, University of Edinburgh
- Associate Dean (Academic Conduct)
- Principal Discipline Officer
- College Recruitment & Admissions Committee
- College Recruitment Team
- College Recognition Awards Committee
- College Fitness to Study Committee
Academic positions
Editorships
Series Editor for Edinburgh University Press (commissioning and overseeing production of monographs and edited volumes from established academics):
Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia
Screening Antiquity (Co-Series Editor, with Prof. Monica Cyrino)
Editorial boards
- Journal of Greek Archaeology
- CADMO, Ancient History Review of the University of Lisbon
- DABIR (Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review)
Membership of academic societies
- British Institute of Persian Studies
- Society for the Study of the Old Testament
- St Andrews Centre for the Study of Iranian Civilization
- Iran Heritage Foundation
- Textile Research Centre, Leiden
- The Classical Association
- The Classical Association of Scotland
Committees and reviewing
- Present - Member of SHARE Impact & KE Committee
- Present - NSS Champion, Ancient History
Supervisions
- Ancient Iran, especially the Achaemenid period (559-331 BCE)
- Persian and Greek encounters in the Archaic and Classical Periods
- Near Eastern and Egyptian monarchy and court societies
- Iranian culture
- Cross cultural and cross temporal comparatives with ancient Persia
- Gender and sexuality in antiquity
- Clothing, textiles and dress history
- Reception of antiquity in the arts and popular culture, especially Hollywood cinema
Current supervision
Contact Details
+44 29208 75652
John Percival Building, Room 5.42, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
