We are excited to welcome Scarlett Kingsley and Timothy Rood for an Online Open House entitled “The End of the Histories.”
The event will take place on Friday, March 19 at 11:00 a.m. EDT and
will be recorded. You can watch the live-streaming on the Center for
Hellenic Studies YouTube Channel.
To get ready for the event, you might like to read these handouts:
Scarlett Kingsley
Scarlett
Kingsley is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Agnes Scott College
in Atlanta, Georgia. She holds a PhD from Princeton University (2016)
and an MSt from the University of Oxford (2009). Her research interests
include Greek historiography, Presocratic philosophy, and cognitive
approaches to the ancient world. She has written articles on lyric and
philosophical intertexts in Herodotus and Thucydides and is in the final
stages of completing the manuscript for her monograph, Herodotus the Presocratic: Inquiry and Intellectual Culture in the Fifth Century,
for which she was awarded a Loeb Classical Library Foundation
Fellowship for the academic year 2019-20. While at the CHS, Scarlett
will be working on a jointly authored monograph with Tim Rood (Oxford), The End of the Histories: Land, Wealth, and Empire in Herodotus.
This research leverages the final passages of the Histories into a
broad discussion of key refrains in the narrative as a whole, including
migration, land, and empire. They approach this passage ‘in the round’,
examining its immediate context, its interrelations with episodes
stretching back to the beginning of the work, and its resonance with
fifth-century intellectual culture and beyond.
Timothy Rood
Timothy
Rood is Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Oxford,
where he is Dorothea Gray Fellow at St Hugh’s College. His main research
interests are Greek historiography and its reception. He is the author
of Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation, The Sea! The Sea! The
Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination and American
Anabasis: Xenophon and the Idea of America from the Mexican War to Iraq; with Luuk Huitink he has edited Xenophon: Anabasis Book III
for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series. Since 2016 he has
led the Leverhulme-funded project ‘Anachronism and Antiquity’. His
project at the CHS is a collaboration with Scarlett Kingsley on a book
provisionally entitled The End of the Histories: Land, Wealth, and Empire in Herodotus.
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