Meet the Author: Paul Cartledge

Filed in A-Featured , History , UK , World History on September 9, 2009 |

Paul Cartledge is A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge, and has written and edited many books on the Ancient Greek world. He also served as chief historical consultant for the BBC television series The Greeks. His new book, Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities, takes the city as its starting point, revealing just how central the polis (’city-state’ or ‘citizen-state’) was to Hellenic cultural achievements. He tells us more about the book in the video below, made by the nice people at Meet the Author.

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  1. From No peace for a Cambridge Classics don : OUPblog:

    Oct 28, 2009

    [...] Paul Cartledge is A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Clare College, Cambridge. His new book, Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities, provides a highly original introduction to ancient Greece that takes the city as its starting point. He uses the history of eleven cities – out of over a thousand – to illuminate the most important and informative aspects of Greek history. In the original post below, Professor Cartledge talks about the recent publicity surrounding his claim that the ancient Greeks introduced the grape-vine and viticulture to what is today’s South of France. [...]

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