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Michael Edwards, BA PhD (London) ILTM
Professor
Tel: +44 (0)20 7862 8702
email: mike.edwards@sas.ac.uk
Research interests
- The Attic Orators
- Greek and Roman Rhetoric
- Classical Biography
- Later and post-classical Latin
Mike Edwards' research focuses on Athenian oratory and rhetoric of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. He is finishing a translation of the speeches of Isaeus for the Texas University Press series, and is working on an Oxford Classical Text of the same author. He is also involved in an international project on narratology, based in Amsterdam. Mike Edwards is the Editor of the international journals Rhetorica and Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, and is General Editor of the BICS Supplements series.
Recent publications
The commentary on Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae by Petrus Franciscus Justulus (with Emeritus Professor J B Hall), published as a fascicle of Studi Medievali (Spoleto, Italy, 2003)
Oratory in Action, edited by MJ Edwards and CGP Reid (Manchester University Press, 2004)
The Oratory of Classical Greece: Isaeus (translation with introduction and notes for The University of Texas Press, series editor Professor Michael Gagarin; in press)
'Attic Oratory' in The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation, ed by P France (Oxford, 2000), 380-83
'Antiphon and the Beginnings of Athenian Literary Oratory', Rhetorica, 18 (2000), 227-42
'A note on Isaeus 4.7', Mnemosyne, 55 (2002), 87-88
'Two awkward women in Isaeus (Is 5.9, 26)', Classical Quarterly, 52 (2002), 592-97
‘Part Five. Oratory', chapters 22-27 in Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature. Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, volume one , ed. by I.J.F. De Jong, R. Nünlist and A.M. Bowie (Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2004), pp 315-353
‘Antiphon the Revolutionary ', in Law, Rhetoric, and Comedy in Classical Athens : Essays in Honour of Douglas M. MacDowell , ed. D.L Cairns and R. A. Knox (Swansea : Classical Press of Wales , 2004), 75-86
‘Narrative levels in Antiphon 1, Against the Stepmother ', in Registros Linguísticos en las lenguas clásicas, ed. by A. López Eire and A. Ramos Guerreira(Salamanca , 2004), 51-63
