Paul Anthony Cartledge (GBR)

Paul Anthony Cartledge (born 23 March 1947) is the first A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University, having previously held a personal chair in Greek History at Cambridge.

Cartledge was educated at St Paul's School and New College, Oxford where he took his first degree and completed his doctoral thesis in Spartan archaeology in 1975 under Professor Sir John Boardman. After a period at the University of Warwick he moved in October 1979 to Cambridge University where he is a fellow of Clare College.

He is a world expert on Athens and Sparta in the Classical Age and has been described as a Laconophile. He was chief historical consultant for the BBC TV series The Greeks and the Channel 4 series The Spartans, presented by Bettany Hughes. He is also a holder of the Gold Cross of the Order of Honour and an Honorary Citizen of (modern) Sparta. Besides the Leventis Professorship, he holds a visiting Global Distinguished Professorship at New York University, funded by the Greek Parliament.

Bibliography:
Aristophanes And His Theatre of the Absurd (1989) Duckworth. ISBN 1853991147.
Nomos : Essays in Athenian Law, Politics and Society (1991) Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521370221 .
Spartan Reflections, a collection of essays new and revised (Duckworth 2001) ISBN 0-7156-2966-2.
Sparta and Lakonia (2nd edn. 2001).
Hellenistic and Roman Sparta (rev. edns 2002) (with A. Spawforth).
The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others (2nd ed, 2002), the product of research into Greek self-definition
Kosmos: essays in Order, Conflict and Community in Classical Athens (coauthor Paul Millett) (2002) Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521525934
The Spartans: An Epic History (2nd ed, 2003).
Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past (2004).
Helots and Their Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures (2004) Center for Hellenic Studies. ISBN 0674012232.
Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World (2006). The Overlook Press. ISBN 1585675660.
Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice (2009). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521454551

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