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Details for Dr Jessica Priestley
| Personal details | |
| Name | Dr Jessica Priestley |
| Job title | Thornhill-Leventis Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Department | School of Humanities University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | BA, BSc, MA(Auck), PhD(Cantab) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | Herodotus hellenistic poetry Greek historiography ancient geographical thought |
| Areas of expertise | I have research interests in Herodotus and his reception in antiquity, Hellenistic poetry, Greek historiography, and ancient geographical thought. My 2010 Cambridge PhD thesis, 'Herodotus and Hellenistic Culture: Studies in the Reception of the Historiae', highlighted Herodotus’ pervasive importance in a variety of different areas of intellectual pursuit during the third and second centuries BC. I am now in the process of revising my PhD thesis for publication with OUP and developing a new project on geographical writing and thought in the Hellenistic period. I am also involved in co-ordinating the implementation of a new outreach project at Bristol which has been funded by a grant from the charity Classics for All. This project will see students from the University of Bristol teaching 'taster classes' in Classics in local state schools in 2012 and 2013. |