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Pownall, Frances

Dr. Frances Pownall

PhD in Classics, University of Toronto
(1993)

MA in Classics, University of British Columbia (1987)

BA (Honours) in Classics, McGill University
(1985)

2-49 Henry Marshall Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB T6G 2H4

Tel. (780) 492-2630
Fax. (780) 492-9125

Expertise & Research Interests

•    Greek historiography (especially the fourth century B.C.)
•    Greek history
•    Greek prose
•    Greek religion
•    Greek oratory

Publications

BOOK:

Lessons From the Past: The Moral Use of History in Fourth-Century Prose. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. Pp. viii + 204.

ARTICLES:

“Critias’ Commemoration of Athens” (6180 words), forthcoming in Commemoration in Antiquity, ed. R. Nagel, special issue of Mouseion 8 (2008).
“The Symposia of Philip II and Alexander III of Macedon—the View From Greece” (7200 words), forthcoming in Philip II and Alexander the Great: Father and Son, Lives and Afterlives, eds. E. Carney and D. Ogden, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
“The Decadence of the Thessalians: A Topos in the Greek Intellectual Tradition from Critias to the Time of Alexander,” in Alexander & His Successors: Essays From the Antipodes, eds. P. Wheatley and R. Hannah, Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2009, 237–60.
“Critias on the Aetiology of the Kottabos Game,” in L’étiologie dans la pensée antique, ed. M. Chassignet, Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2008, 17–33.
"Theopompus and the Public Documentation of Fifth-Century Athens,” in Epigraphy and the Greek historian, ed. C. Cooper, Toronto: University of Toronto, 2008, 119–28.
“The Panhellenism of Isocrates,” in Alexander’s Empire: From Formulation to Decay, eds. Waldemar Heckel and P.V. Wheatley, Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2007, 13–25.
From Orality to Literacy: The Moral Education of the Elite in Fourth-Century Athens,” in Politics of Orality, ed. C. Cooper, Leiden: Brill, 2007, 235–49.

“Rationalizations in Ephorus’ Account of the Foundation of the Delphic Oracle,” in (Ir)rationality in the Ancient World, eds. L.Bowman and G. Rowe, special issue of Mouseion 6 (2006) 353−69.
“The Rhetoric of Theopompus,” Cahiers des Études Anciennes 42 (2005) 255–78.
“Theopompus' View of Demosthenes,” in In Altum: Seventy-Five Years of Classical Studies in Newfoundland, ed. M. Joyal, St. Johns: Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2001, 63–71.
“Shifting Viewpoints in Xenophon's Hellenica: The Arginusae Episode,” Athenaeum 88 (2000) 499–513.
“Condemnation of the Impious in Xenophon's Hellenica,” Harvard Theological Review 91 (1998) 251–77.
“What Makes a War a Sacred War?” Échos du Monde Classique/Classical Views 17 (1998) 35–55.
“Presbeis Autokratores: Andocides’ De Pace,” Phoenix 49 (1995) 140–49.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO BRILL’S NEW JACOBY:

In progress: Hecataeus FGrH 1 and Philistus FGrH 556

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES:

“Duris of Samos” (714 words) forthcoming in Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Wiley-Blackwell), editor-in-chief Craige Champion.
“Panhellenism” (891 words) forthcoming in Encyclopedia of Greece and Rome (Oxford), ed. (Greek History) Stanley Burstein.
“The Greek Family” (604 words), “The Wine-Based Symposium in Ancient Greece” (608 words), “The Development of Specialized Labor in the Greek Polis” (595 words), “Greek Social Classes and Social Organization (1001 words), “Development of Greek Law within the Setting of the Democracy” (989 words), “Development of the Concept of Sport in the Greek World” (996 words), “Development, Administration and Legal Structure of the Greek Polis” (995 words) forthcoming in ABC-Clio World Encyclopedia (volume editor William Mierse, editor-in-chief Carolyn Neel).
"Corinthian War" (262 words), "Sacred Wars"(548 words), "Xenophon" (271 words) in Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, ed. Thomas J. Sienkiewicz, Salem Press, 2002.

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