Robert Parker (historian)

Robert C. T. Parker, FBA (born 19 October 1950) is a British ancient historian and academic. He has been the Wykeham Professor of Ancient History at New College, Oxford University since 1996. Before this, he was Tutor in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature at Oriel College, Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1998.^[1]

Select Works

• Miasma: pollution and purification in early Greek religion. Oxford, 1983.
• ‘Greek states and Greek oracles’ in Cartledge, P.A. & F.D. Harvey eds., Crux : essays presented to G.E.M. de Ste. Croix on his 75 birthday. History of Political Thought 6. Exeter, 1985. Republished in R.G.A. Buxton ed., Oxford readings in Greek religion. Oxford, 2000: 76-108.
• ‘Early Orphism’ in A. Powell ed., The Greek World. London, 1995: 483-510.
• Athenian Religion. Oxford, 1996.
• ‘Pleasing Thighs: Reciprocity in Greek Religion’ in Gill, C., N. Postlethwaite, & R. Seaford eds., Reciprocity in Ancient Greece. Oxford, 1998: 105-25.
• (ed. with Peter Derow) Herodotus and His World: Essays from a Conference in Memory of George Forrest. Oxford: 2003.
• Polytheism and Society at Athens. Oxford, 2005.
• (ed. with J. Ma and N. Papazarkadas) Interpreting the Athenian empire. London, 2009.
• ‘A Funerary Foundation from Hellenistic Lycia’, Chiron, 40: 103-120.
• On Greek religion. Ithaca, NY, 2011.
• (ed. with Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood) Athenian myths and festivals: aglauros, erechtheus, plynteria, panathenaia, dionysia. New York, NY, 2011.

External links

• New College Fellows Profile
• Oxford University Classics Faculty Profile

References

• PARKER, Robert Christopher Towneley, Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014