The contest of the spear and the plough: the conceptual breakdown of the hoplite-farmer
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American School of Classical Studies
Speaker(s)
K. Scarlett Kingsley
Associate Professor of Classics,
Agnes Scott College
About the Speaker
K. Scarlett Kingsley is an Associate Professor of Classics at Agnes Scott College. Her research explores the intersections of early Greek historiography and philosophy, with a particular focus on Herodotus, Thucydides, and the Presocratics. She has published widely in these areas, contributing to the understanding of intellectual culture in the fifth century BCE. Her first monograph, Herodotus and the Presocratics: Inquiry and Intellectual Culture in the Fifth Century (CUP, 2024), was supported by a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship. She is also the co-editor, with Giustina Monti and Tim Rood, of The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography (CUP, 2022). Currently, she is collaborating with Tim Rood (Oxford) on Land, Wealth, and Empire in Herodotus: Reading the End of the Histories (forthcoming, OUP), a study that reexamines Herodotus’s conclusion and its implications for understanding ancient conceptions of power and territoriality.
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