Newcastle University

Research Interests

Ancient History and Archaeology, including Greeks under Roman Rule; Alexander the Great; Hadrian; Greek temples; ancient rulers' courts

Other Expertise

Versailles

Current Work

Alexander the Great

Future Research

Alexander the Great; Winter Palace St Petersburg 

Postgraduate Supervision

CURRENT PhDs:

Ancient Greek Temples (2005- )

The Calendar Frieze, Little Metropolis Church, Athens (2011- ) 

RECENTLY AWARDED PG DEGREES:

Roman Citizenship in the Peloponnese (PhD, 2011)

Ancient Laconia and the Sea (MPhil, 2012)

Esteem Indicators

Editorial panel, Annual of the British School at Athens (2002- )

Sparta and Lakonia Sub-Committee, British School at Athens (2004- )

Editorial Panel, Hesperia (Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens) (2004- )

Judging Panel, Runciman Prize, Anglo-Hellenic League (2011- ; chair for 2012)

RECENT/UPCOMING TALKS:

fundraising public lecture on Hadrian for the British School at Athens, British Museum, 2008

Augustan Culture, Pablo de Olivide University, Seville, 2008

Hadrian, Italica Foundation, Seville, 2010

Augustan Greece, Frei Universitat, Berlin, 2010

Rome and Greece, Aarhus University, 2012

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Leiden University, 2012

Alexander the Great, Society for Court Studies, London, 2012

Colloquium in honour of Dr Hector Catling, Oxford, 2012

Rome and Greece, UK Ancient Historians Annual Meeting, Stevenage, 2012

Alexander the Great, British Museum public lecture, 2013

Rome and Greece, Heidelberg 2013

Rome and Greece, National Research Centre Athens 2014

RECENT GRANTS:

UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Teaching Replacement Grant (2006)

Newcastle University Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Research Grant (2010) 

Undergraduate Teaching

CAH2006 In Alexander's Footsteps: Greek and Macedonian History 400-200 BC
CAH2008 Issues in Ancient History
CAC3044 Building for the Gods: The Archaeology and Art of Greek Religion
CAH3014 The Emperor Hadrian

Postgraduate Teaching

CAH8019 Approaches to Ancient History I

CAH8020 Approach to Ancient History II 

CAH8008 Seminar in Greek Archaeology

CAC8000 Dissertation Skills 

• Spawforth AJS. Greece and the Augustan Cultural Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
• Spawforth A. Review of Thomas A. Schmitz / Nicolas Wiater (eds.): The Struggle for Identity. Greeks and their Past in the First Century BCE, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2011, 306 S., ISBN 978-3-515-09671-3, EUR 54,00. Sehepunkte: Rezensionsjournal fuer die Geschichtswissenschaften 2012, 12(2), 20621.
• Hornblowers S, Spawforth A, Eidinow E, ed. The Oxford Classical Dictionary (Fourth edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
• Spawforth A. The pamphleteer Ephippus, king Alexander and the Persian royal hunt. Histos 2012, 6, 169-213.
• Spawforth AJS. A. D. Rizakis, Achaie III. Les cites acheenes: Epigraphie et histoire. 2008. Gnomon 2011, 83, 661-663.
• Spawforth AJS. Patras colony of Augustus and the transformations in cultural, political and economics of the province of Achaia in the early Roman Imperial Age. Proceedings if the International Conference, Patras 24 March 2006. Athens: Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene, 2009 Greco, E. (ed.) [book review]. Classical Review 2011, 61(1), 271-273.
• Spawforth T, Balzat JS. ''Becoming Roman': A propos de deux generations parentes de neo-citoyens romans a Sparte et a Athenes. In: Catling, R., Kanav, N., Marchand, F., Sasanow, M, ed. Onomatologos: Studies in Greek Personal Names Presented to Elaine Matthews. Oxford, UK: Oxbow Books, 2010.
• Spawforth AJS. The column order of the first Dipteros of Samos. Journal of Hellenic Studies 2009, 129, 211-212.
• Spawforth T. Versailles: a Biography of a Palace. New York: St Martin's Press, 2008.
• Spawforth A. 'Kapetoleia Olympia': Roman Emperors and Greek Agones. In: Simon Hornblower and Catherine Morgan, ed. Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals: From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp.377-390.
• Spawforth A, ed. The court and court society in ancient monarchies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• Spawforth A. The court of Alexander the Great between Europe and Asia. In: Spawforth, AJS, ed. The Court and Court Society in Ancient Monarchies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp.82-120.
• Spawforth A. 'Macedonian times': Hellenistic memories in the provinces of the Roman Near East. In: Konstan D; Saïd S, ed. Greeks on Greekness : viewing the Greek past under the Roman Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society, 2006, pp.1-26.
• Spawforth A. The Complete Greek Temples. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2006.
• Hornblower S, Spawforth A. E trite Ekdose tou Oxford Classical Dictionary: Sunteritismos kai Ananeose. In: E Lexikographese tou Ellenikou Politismou. 2003, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• Hornblower S, Spawforth A. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford, UK & New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
• Spawforth AJS. Troy between Greece and Rome. Local tradition and imperial power [book review]. Journal of Roman Studies 2003, 93, 326-326.
• Cartledge PA, Spawforth A. Hellenistic and Roman Sparta. A Tale of Two Cities. London and New York: Routledge, 2002.
• Spawforth A. Italian Elements among Roman Knights and Senators from Old Greece. In: Les italiens dans le monde grec IIe siecle av. J.-C.--1er siecle ap. J.-C.: circulation, activites, integration. 2002, Paris, France.
• Mee C, Spawforth A. Greece: An Oxford Archaeological Guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
• Spawforth A. Shades of Greekness: A Lydian Case Study. In: Malkin, I, ed. Ancient Perceptions of Greek Ethnicity. Washington, DC, USA: Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, 2001, pp.375-400.
• Spawforth AJS. Kinship diplomacy in the ancient world (Book review). Phoenix - The Journal of the Classical Association of Canada 2000, 54(1-2), 168-170.
• Spawforth AJS. The Panhellenion again. Chiron, 29 339-352 1999.
• Spawforth A. The Panhellenion Again. Chiron 1999, 29, 339-352.