Dr Ian Plant
MA, PhD Canterbury
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Contact Details: Telephone: +61 2 9850 8880 |
Profile
Dr Ian Plant is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Ancient History,
Division of Humanities. He studied Classics (including Ancient Greek and
Latin) and Ancient History at the University of Canterbury, where he completed
his doctoral studies under the supervision of Dr Katherine Adshead and Professor
Kevin Lee. He taught at the University of Western Australia before taking
up the post at Macquarie
His fields of research are Greek history and historiography, especially
the study of Thucydides. He also works on women writers from Ancient Greece
and Rome, and more recently on Egyptian religion in Greek and Latin writers.
He teaches Ancient Greek, Latin, Mythology, Greek Heroes, Women Writers,
Thucydides and Herodotus.
Among his current research projects are:
• Thucydides and the writing of history
• Greek and Roman writers on Egyptian Religion—a project he
is working on in collaboration with A/Professor Boyo Ockinga.
• Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome.
Funded Projects: Recent and Current
• Greek and Latin Sources for Ancient Egypt: MURDG 2004.
• Kimon Project: Teaching Development Grant 2004.
• Aristides and the rise of the Athenian Empire: MURDG 2003.
• Syntactical Studies for a Computer-aided Latin Reading Course for Roman Historians: MUTDG 2003.
• Plutarch and Thucydides on the Rise of the Athenian Empire: MURG 2002.
• Teaching Classical Greek and Latin: Designing, Developing and Implementing New Teaching and Learning Strategies for Latin and Ancient Greek: CUTSD 2000-2002 ($148,000).
• Computer-aided reading course (Level 300) for Greek Historians
based on the biographical writings of Plutarch: MUTDG 2002.
Recent Publications
Monographs
Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome (Equinox Press: London,
2004, & University of Oklahoma Press: Norman, 2004)
(With Dr B. Ockinga) Egyptian Religion: Greek and Latin Sources (Equinox Press: London, forthcoming)
Book Chapters
‘Women Historians in the Graeco-Roman World’ in M. Spongberg
(ed.) Companion to Women’s Historical Writing (Palgrave Macmillan,
2005)
Articles
"Thucydides and Forensic Oratory" Classical Quarterly
49.1 (1999) 62-73.
"Thucydides and the Plague at Athens–Fungal Poison?" Journal of the History of Medicine 49:2 (1994) 521-546. (Co-publication with Dr J. Bellemore).
"Thucydides, Rhetoric and Plague in Athens." Athenaeum 82:2 (1994) 385-401. (Co-publication with Dr J. Bellemore).
"The Battle of Tanagra: A Spartan Initiative." Historia XLIII (1994) 260-274
Editor
Classicum (2000- )
Article in Encyclopedia
‘Thucydides’ Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History
Vol. 5 (Berkshire: Great Barrington, 2005) pp. 1825-1827
Higher Degree Supervision
I have supervised successful dissertations both for PhD and other Higher
Research degrees in the field of Greek history. I am currently supervising
four candidates.
- Links
- Department of Ancient History:
http://www.anchist.mq.edu.au/
Ancient History Documentary Research Centre:
http://www.anchist.mq.edu.au/doccentre/ahdrc.html
Division of Humanities:
http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/
Macquarie University:
http://www.mq.edu.au/