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Esther Eidinow

Esther Eidinow FBA (born 1970) is a British ancient historian and academic. She specialises in ancient Greece, particularly ancient Greek religion and magic.[1][2] She has been Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol since 2017.

Esther Eidinow
FBA
Born 1970 (age 55–56)
Academic background
Education University of Oxford
Thesis Exploring risk among the ancient Greeks: prolegomena and two case studies (2003)
Robert Parker
Academic work
Discipline Ancient History
Sub-discipline
Institutions University of Nottingham
University of Bristol

Career

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Before becoming an academic, Eidinow spent a decade working as a scenario planning writer.[3] In 2003, Eidinow was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) for a thesis entitled Exploring risk among the ancient Greeks: prolegomena and two case studies. Her doctoral research was completed at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Robert Parker.[4] A monograph based on the thesis, Oracles, Curses and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks, was published in 2007. It was described by reviewer Aaron Kachuck as accessible and filled with "analytic rigor".[5]

From 2011 to 2012, Eidinow was a Solmsen Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[6] Between 2017 and 2018 she was a visiting fellow at the Davis Center for Historical Studies of Princeton University.[7] Since 2017, she has held the Chair in Ancient History at the University of Bristol.[8] She was previously a lecturer at Newman University College and at the University of Nottingham.[9][10] She was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2015, and was described as "an original and powerful new voice in the field of ancient Greek history".[11] From 2020 to 2023, she led the Virtual Reality Oracle Project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, using virtual reality to recreate the experience of visiting Dodona, an ancient Greek oracle of Zeus.[12] In July 2024 she was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.[13]

Selected works

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  • Eidinow, Esther (2007). Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199277780.
  • Eidinow, Esther (2011). Luck, Fate, and Fortune: Antiquity and its Legacy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195380798.
  • Hornblower, Simon; Spawforth, Antony; Eidinow, Esther, eds. (2012). The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199545568.
  • Hornblower, Simon; Spawforth, Antony; Eidinow, Esther, eds. (2014). The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198706779.
  • Eidinow, Esther (2015). Envy, Poison, and Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199562602.
  • Eidinow, Esther; Kindt, Julia, eds. (2015). The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199642038.
  • Eidinow, Esther; Kindt, Julia; Osborne, Robin, eds. (2016). Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107153479.
  • Dillon, Matthew; Eidinow, Esther; Maurizio, Lisa, eds. (2016). Women's Ritual Competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1472478900.
  • Driediger-Murphy, Lindsay; Eidinow, Esther, eds. (2019). Ancient Divination and Experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198844549.
  • Eidinow, Esther, and Lisa Maurizio, eds. (2020) Narratives of Time and Gender in Antiquity London: Routledge.
  • Eidinow, Esther; Geertz, Armin W.; North, John, eds. (2022). Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Religious Experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-316-51533-4. doi:10.1017/9781009019927.
  • Eidinow, Esther; Schliephake, Christopher, eds. (2024). Conversing with Chaos: Writing and Reading Environmental Disorder in Ancient Texts. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-350-34419-8.
  • Eidinow, Esther; Gordon, Richard, eds. (2025). A Cultural History of Ancient Magic. Volume 1: Antiquity. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-350-12379-3.
  • Eidinow, Esther (2025). Metamorphosis, Landscape, and Trauma in Greco-Roman Myth. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-880773-5. doi:10.1093/9780191845550.001.0001.
  • Eidinow, Esther; Bowden, Hugh, eds. (2026). Visiting the Oracle at Dodona: Contexts of Unknowing in Ancient Greek Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-009-63224-9. doi:10.1017/9781009632218.

References

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  1. ↑ "Professor Esther Eidinow". Explore Bristol Research. University of Bristol. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  2. ↑ "Esther Eidinow". Delphi Economic Forum. Archived from the original on 23 January 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  3. ↑ Eidinow, Esther, "Telling stories: Exploring the relationship between myths and ecological wisdom", in Landscape and Urban Planning, Vol. 155, pp. 47–52, 2016. doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.04.014. See p. 52.
  4. ↑ Eidinow, Esther (2003). "Exploring risk among the ancient Greeks: prolegomena and two case studies". Search Oxford Libraries Online. Bodleian Libraries. Retrieved 22 June 2018. [permanent dead link]
  5. ↑ Kachuck, Aaron (January 2008). "Review of: Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks". Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
  6. ↑ "Esther Eidinow". Institute for Research in the Humanities. University of Wisconsin-Madison. 30 June 2015. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  7. ↑ "Esther Eidinow". Department of History. Princeton University. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  8. ↑ "New Professor of Ancient History". Department of Classics and Ancient History. University of Bristol. 8 June 2017. Archived from the original on 5 July 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  9. ↑ "New book by Esther Eidinow". Department of Classics. The University of Nottingham. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  10. ↑ "esther eidinow". LinkedIn. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  11. ↑ "Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2015" (PDF). The Leverhulme Trust. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 December 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  12. ↑ Bloomfield-Gadêlha, Connie, and Edith Hall (eds.), Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2025. ISBN 9780192674401. doi:10.1093/9780191949302.001.0001. p. xii.
  13. ↑ "The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows in 2024". British Academy. 18 July 2024.
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