Ian Worthington

Frederick A. Middlebush Professor of History and
Adjunct Professor, Department of Classical Studies
B.A., Hull, U.K.: 1979
M.A., Durham, U.K.: 1981
Ph.D., Monash University, Australia: 1987
area: Greek Classical history; Greek oratory
office: 308 Read Hall
phone: 573-882-0780
email: worthingtoni@missouri.edu
C.V.

Ian Worthington was born in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England and took his B.A. at the University of Hull and M.A. at the University of Durham (University College). He studied for his Ph.D. at Monash University in Melbourne Australia (1983-87) under the supervision of Dr. J.R. Ellis. After teaching Ancient History, Greek, and Latin for ten years in the Classics departments at the Universities of New England and Tasmania (where he was Senior Lecturer), he moved to MU in 1998. He is Frederick A. Middlebush Professor of History and teaches a range of Greek history courses from the archaic to the hellenistic periods. He also designed the biennial Fordyce Mitchel Memorial Lecture Series and is the founder of the Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece biennial conference series, which began in 1994. In 2005 he won the Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Research and Creativity in the Humanities and in 2007 the Student-Athlete Advisory Council Most Inspiring Professor Award.

His main areas of research are Greek history, especially of the fourth century BC, Alexander the Great, and Greek oratory. He has published 13 sole-authored and edited books and about 80 articles on Greek history, epigraphy and oratory, including, most recently, Alexander the Great: Man and God (London 2004), Blackwell Companion to Greek Rhetoric (Oxford 2006), and Philip II of Macedonia (New Haven and London 2008). He is also Editor-in-Chief of Brill's New Jacoby, a new edition of 860 fragmentary Greek historians involving a team of 114 scholars in 16 countries (published in biannual installments, 2007-2013),and is currently editing a Companion to Ancient Macedonia for Blackwell of Oxford and writing a book on Demosthenes for Knopf

University Representative on the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens
Ancient Studies Program Committee
Steering Committee, Center for Studies in Oral Tradition
Chair of Organizing Committee for 18th Association of Ancient Historians annual conference, to be held at MU in May 2005
Chair, Fordyce Mitchel Memorial Lecture Series
Member of the Editorial Board of the Ancient History Bulletin
Member of Editorial Advisory Committee of Scholia. Natal Studies in Classical Antiquity
Member, Classical Association of the Mid-West and South Ovationes Committee
Australian Research Council (federal grant-awarding body) assessor
MU Faculty Council

Recent Works

See Publications for full listing.

Books

A Historical Commentary on Dinarchus. Rhetoric and Conspiracy in Later Fourth-Century Athens (Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press: 1992)
Greek Orators Vol. 2, Dinarchus 1 and Hyperides 5 & 6, introduction, Greek text, translation, and commentary (Warminster, Aris & Phillips: 1999)
Alexander the Great: Man and God (London, Pearson: 2003); revised & enlarged edition in pb published in 2004.
(ed.), Demosthenes: Statesman and Orator (London & New York, Routledge: 2000)
(ed.), Alexander the Great: A Reader (London & New York, Routledge: 2003; repr. 2004)
Demosthenes: Speeches 60 and 61, Prologues, Letters (Austin, University of Texas Press: 2006)
Blackwell Companion to Greek Rhetoric (Oxford, Blackwell: 2007)
Philip II of Macedonia (New Haven and London, Yale University Press: 2008).

Book Chapters

‘The Harpalus Affair and the Greek Response to the Macedonian Hegemony’, in Ventures Into Greek History, Essays in Honour of N. G. L. Hammond, ed. Ian Worthington (Oxford, O.U.P.: 1994) 307-330
‘Demosthenes’ (In)activity During the Reign of Alexander the Great’, in Demosthenes: Statesman and Orator, ed. Ian Worthington (London, Routledge: 2000) 90-113
‘Alexander, Philip, and the Macedonian Background’, in J. Roisman (ed.), Alexander the Great (Leiden, Brill: 2003) 69-98
‘Alexander’s Destruction of Thebes’, in W. Heckel & L.A. Tritle (eds), Crossroads of History. The Age of Alexander the Great (Claremont CA, Regina: 2003) 65-86
‘Oral Performance in the Athenian Assembly and the Demosthenic Prooemia’, in C.M. Mackie (ed.), Oral Performance and Its Context (Leiden, Brill: 2004) 129-143
'Rhetoric and Politics in Classical Greece: Rise of the Rhêtores', in Blackwell Companion to Greek Rhetoric (Oxford 2007) 255-271

Articles

‘The Context of [Demades], On The Twelve Years’, Classical Quarterly 41 (1991) 90-95
‘Greek Oratory, Revision of Speeches and the Problem of Historical Reliability’, Classica et Mediaevalia 42 (1991) 55-74
‘Once More, The Client/Logographos Relationship’, Classical Quarterly 43 (1993) 67-72
‘The Date of the Tegea decree (Tod ii 202): A Response to the Diagramma of Alexander III or of Polyperchon?’, Ancient History Bulletin 7 (1993) 59-64
‘How “Great” was Alexander?’, Ancient History Bulletin 13.2 (1999) 39-55
‘Alexander the Great and the “Interests of Historical Accuracy”: A Reply’, Ancient History Bulletin 13.4 (1999) 136-140
‘Tod ii 198 (Athenian Honours for Eudemus of Plataea): Which War?’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 137 (2001) 109-112
‘The Length of an Athenian Public Trial: A Reply to Professor MacDowell’, Hermes 131 (2003) 364-371
‘The Authorship of the Demosthenic Epitaphios’, Museum Helveticum 60 (2003) 152-157
‘Alexander the Great and the Greeks in 336? Another Reading of IG ii2 329’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 147 (2004) 59-71

Teaching

Hist 3510: Ancient Greek World (survey)
Hist 3530: Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic World (survey)
Hist 3500: Power and Oratory in Classical Greece
Hist 4500: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and Macedonian Imperialism
Hist 4510/7510: Crime and Punishment: Law in Classical Athens
Hist 1530: Arguments about Antiquity

Undergraduate and graduate courses on e.g. Alexander the Great, Greek Historiography (Hist 8500), Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War

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