Barry Baldwin
Canadian journalist and writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Barry Baldwin is a classicist, journalist and author of mystery fiction. He gained a doctorate at the University of Nottingham and worked in Australia and Canada. For two years he contributed a regular column to the British Communist newspaper The Morning Star. He is now a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Calgary. Barry Baldwin is best known in his academic field for his work on early Greek humorists and satirists, notably on the Philogelos, on Lucian, and on the Byzantine satire Timarion. He is a regular columnist for Fortean Times magazine.
Barry Baldwin's Published Works
Published Works
- The Caesares of Julian (1978) (39)
- Executions under Claudius: Seneca's "Ludus de Morte Claudii" (1964) (36)
- Lucian as Social Satirist (1961) (33)
- Affect of disposable draping on wound infection rate. (1981) (32)
- Photius and Poetry (1978) (27)
- The career of Oribasius. (1975) (27)
- Studies In Lucian (1973) (22)
- Half‐lines in Virgil: Old and new ideas (1993) (21)
- Better Late than Early: Reflections on the Date of Calpurnius Siculus (1995) (20)
- Sources for the Getica of Jordanes (1981) (19)
- The acta diurna (1979) (15)
- Jordanes on Eugenius: Some Further Possibilities (1977) (14)
- Trimalchio's Corinthian Plate (1973) (14)
- The Chronicle of Hydatius and the Consularia Constantinopolitana: Two Contemporary Accounts of the Final Years of the Roman Empire ed. by R.W. Burgess (review) (2018) (14)
- Pliny the Elder and Mucianus (1995) (14)
- Constantinople in the Early Eighth Century: The "Parastaseis syntomoi chronikai". Averil Cameron , Judith Herrin , Alan Cameron , Robin Cormack , Charlotte RouechéConstantinople imaginaire: Etudes sur le recueil des "Patria". Gilbert Dagron (1986) (13)
- The Philogelos or Laughter-Lover (1983) (13)
- On the Accent of Homonyms. De vocabulis quae diversum significatum exhibent secundum differentiam accentus. Iohannes Philoponus , Lloyd W. Daly (1985) (12)
- The Young Karl Marx on Roman History (1988) (11)
- Studies in Aulus Gellius (1975) (11)
- The Epigrams of Lucian (1975) (10)
- Beyond the House Call: Doctors in Early Byzantine History and Politics (1984) (8)
- Women in Tacitus (1972) (8)
- The Roman emperors (1982) (8)
- The composition of Pliny's natural history (1995) (6)
- Olympiodorus of Thebes (1980) (5)
- Acclamations in the Historia Augusta. (1981) (5)
- Malchus of Philadelphia (1977) (5)
- The Career of Corippus (1978) (5)
- VERSES IN THE HISTORIA AUGUSTA (1978) (5)
- Fulgentius and His Sources (1988) (5)
- Crime and criminals in Graeco-Roman Egypt (1963) (5)
- An anthology of Byzantine poetry (1985) (5)
- Roman and Byzantine Papers (1989) (5)
- Palladas of Alexandria : a Poet between two Worlds (1985) (4)
- Roman Emperors in the Elder Pliny (1995) (4)
- Medical Grounds for Exemptions from Military Service at Athens (1967) (4)
- The Date of a Circus Dialogue (1981) (4)
- An Anthology of Later Latin Literature (1987) (3)
- Later Greek Literature: The date and purpose of the Philopatris (1982) (3)
- The Death of Cleopatra VII (1964) (3)
- Sexual Rhetoric in Procopius (1987) (3)
- The Non-Architectural Side of Vitruvius (1989) (3)
- Apuleius, Tacitus, and Christians (1984) (3)
- Nero and His Mother's Corpse (1979) (3)
- Peasant Revolt in Africa in the Late Roman Empire (1962) (3)
- The minor characters in Athenaeus (1977) (2)
- Literature and Society in the Later Roman Empire (1982) (2)
- Studies on Greek and Roman history and literature (1985) (2)
- Fronto on the Christians (1990) (2)
- The Pseudologistes of Lucian (1962) (2)
- The epigrams of Leo the Philosopher (1990) (2)
- Suetonius: Birth, disgrace and death (1975) (2)
- Notes of Christian Epigrams in Book One of the Greek Anthology (2017) (2)
- Alexander, Hannibal, and Scipio in Lucian (1990) (2)
- The Authorship of the "Aratus" Ascribed to Germanicus (1981) (2)
- FOUR PROBLEMS IN AGATHIAS (1977) (2)
- Studies on Late Roman and Byzantine History, Literature and Language (1985) (2)
- Seneca and Petronius (1981) (2)
- Eclogue 6: The simple explanation (1991) (2)
- A Note on Trimalchio’s Zodiac Dish (1970) (2)
- Vergil in Byzantium (1982) (2)
- PARISINUS A AND THE TITLE OF PLATO'S REPUBLIC (2016) (1)
- Photius in English: The Reviewer Reviewed (2018) (1)
- The Description of Agamemnon in Digenis Akrites (1988) (1)
- LUCIAN, DE HIST. CONSCRIB. 34: AN UNNOTICED ARISTOTELIAN SOURCE (1977) (1)
- Corippus and Ennius (1988) (1)
- Ira Priapi (1973) (1)
- The Vita Avidii (1976) (1)
- Juvenal's Crispinus (1979) (1)
- Horace on Sex (1970) (1)
- Trimalchio's domestic staff (1978) (1)
- Polyphagus: Glutton or Crocodile? (1977) (1)
- Herodotus and Tacitus: Two Notes on Ancient Book Titles (1984) (1)
- Lucian and Theophrastus (1977) (1)
- More Love With Doris (1980) (1)
- A CLASSICAL SOURCE FOR REYNOLDS ON THE RELATIVITY OF BEAUTY (1994) (1)
- Samuel Johnson and Virgil (1992) (1)
- Egersimon in Martianus Capella (1987) (1)
- Editing Petronius: methods an d examples (1988) (1)
- Some Aspects of Commodian (1989) (1)
- Pigiciaca sacra. A fundamental problem in Petronius (1977) (1)
- Where Did the Emperor Lurk? HA, Hadrian 16. 3 (1987) (1)
- Hadrian's Farewell to Life: Some Arguments for Authenticity (1970) (1)
- The Use of Binein Kinein (1981) (1)
- Bos Piger or Piger Caballus? (1973) (1)
- The Language and Style of Eunaplus (1990) (1)
- Aspects of the suda (2006) (1)
- The Christianity of Macedonius Consul (1984) (1)
- THE DATE OF THE CYCLE OF AGATHIAS (1980) (1)
- An anonymous Latin Poem in Gellius (1979) (1)
- The Latin & Greek poems of Samuel Johnson: Text, translation, and commentary (1995) (1)
- Aspects of Nineteenth-Century British Classical Scholarship ed. by H.D. Jocelyn (review) (1998) (1)
- The slaves' chorus in Petronius (1984) (1)
- Leopards, Roman Soldiers, and the Historia Augusta (1985) (1)
- Three Characters in Juvenal (1972) (1)
- How dissident was Ismail Kadare (2005) (1)
- Stylistic Notes on the Elder Pliny's Preface (2005) (1)
- Some pleasures of later Roman literature: the African contribution (1989) (0)
- The "Epitome de Caesaribus," from Augustus to Domitian (1993) (0)
- John Lydus and the Roman Past: Antiquarianism and Politics in the Age of Justinian by Michael Maas (review) (1994) (0)
- Johnson's Juvenile Juvenal (2008) (0)
- One for Falco : the tribune and his lady (1999) (0)
- Winners and Losers (1991) (0)
- Aulus Gellius and his Circle (1973) (0)
- Zosimus and Asinius Quadratus (1979) (0)
- The Mazaris: Reflections and Reappraisal (2016) (0)
- William Adler, Time Immemorial: Archaic History and Its Sources in Christian Chronography from Julius Africanus to George Syncellus . (Dumbarton Oaks Studies, 26.) Washington, D.C: Dumbarton Oaks, 1989. Pp. vii, 263. $19.50. (1991) (0)
- Photius, Phlegon, and Virgil (1996) (0)
- Cyrus of Panopolis (1982) (0)
- JOHNSON'S CONGLOBULATING SWALLOWS (1994) (0)
- Cyranidea: Some Improvements (1992) (0)
- Juvenal, Satires I, III, X ed. by N. Rudd and E. Courtney (review) (2018) (0)
- Bohemond’s breathing (1991) (0)
- How Credulous was Herodotos? (1964) (0)
- Elizabeth A. Fisher, Planudes' Greek Translation of Ovid's “Metamorphoses .” (Harvard Dissertations in Classics.) New York and London: Garland, 1990. Pp. xii, 118. $29. (1992) (0)
- The Poetry of Boethius by Gerard O’Daly (review) (2018) (0)
- Germaine Greer and the Female Artists of Greece and Rome (1981) (0)
- Pax Palamedes (1974) (0)
- THE DATE OF THE CYCLE OF AGATHIAS (1980) (0)
- Reading the Past in Late Antiquity.Graeme Clarke , Brian Croke , Alanna Emmett Nobbs , Raoul Mortley (1992) (0)
- Synesius. In Praise of Baldness by George H. Kendal (review) (2018) (0)
- 'The Characterisation of Parmeno in the Opening Scene of Terence's Eunuch' 22.1 (1990) 4-12 (1998) (0)
- PLAUTUS IN JOHNSON: AN UNNOTICED QUOTATION (1996) (0)
- Cyrus of Panopolis: A Remarkable Sermon and an Unremarkable Poem (1982) (0)
- The Ancient World at Work by Claude Mossé (review) (2018) (0)
- Rufinus, AP v 60 (1980) (0)
- Two Notes on Petronius (1976) (0)
- A Latin Poem in Fielding (1995) (0)
- Aristophanis Byzantii Fragmenta. Aristophanis Byzantii , William J. Slater (1988) (0)
- A Bishop and His Lady : Ap 16.19 (1981) (0)
- Marcus Aurelius: a biography by Anthony Birley (review) (2018) (0)
- Elizabeth Jeffreys, ed., with Brian Croke and Roger Scott, Studies in John Malalas . (Byzantina Australiensia, 6.) Sydney: Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, 1990. Paper. Pp. xxxvii, 370. Aus$21. (1992) (0)
- Has the Past a Future? (2018) (0)
- On some Greek and Latin poems by Thomas Gray (1994) (0)
- The Authorship and Purpose of Lucian’s Demosthenis encomium (1969) (0)
- Juvenal 1.155–7 (1979) (0)
- Scholars of Byzantium by N.G. Wilson (review) (1985) (0)
- Book reviews (1999) (0)
- Rulers and ruled at Rome: A.D. 14-192 (1972) (0)
- The young Trimalchio : notes (1993) (0)
- A Eustathian Source Disclosed (1986) (0)
- Dio Cassius and John Malalas: two ancient readings of Virgil (1987) (0)
- Books Received (1977) (0)
- Kenelme Digby’s Petronius (2020) (0)
- Asclepiades, Ap. V 210 (1982) (0)
- AN APHORISM IN PROCOPIUS (2016) (0)
- LUCIAN, DE HIST. CONSCRIB. 34: AN UNNOTICED ARISTOTELIAN SOURCE (1977) (0)
- The Development of a Byzantine Theme : AP 9. 656 (1983) (0)
- Notes on Rufinus (1980) (0)
- TZETZES ON THUCYDIDES (1982) (0)
- Was Suetonius Disgraced? (2018) (0)
- Book titles in the Suda (1983) (0)
- Euripides In Byzantium (2009) (0)
- A Greek Poem by Friedrich Engels (1989) (0)
- Hicks, Haecs, Hoes: Diaries of a Good Bishop (1998) (0)
- John Lydus and the Roman Past: Antiquarianism and Politics in the Age of Justinian.Michael Maas (1994) (0)
- Classics – Calgary Style (2018) (0)
- An Anthology of Byantine Poetry (1985) (0)
- Suetonius, Nero ed. by B.H. Warmington (review) (2018) (0)
- Notes On Eunapius (1977) (0)
- A Sallustian Echo in Tacitus (1990) (0)
- EUSEBIUS AND THE SIEGE OF THESSALONICA (2008) (0)
- Missing Persons: A Look at PLRE, II (1981) (0)
- Persius' boiled buttocks : note (1995) (0)
- REYNOLDS AND TERTULLIAN: A PASSAGE LOCATED (1994) (0)
- Michael Psellus on the Properties of Stones (1995) (0)
- Ausonius of Bordeaux: Genesis of a Gallic Aristocracy by Hagith Sivan (review) (1994) (0)
- Gareth and Me: A Petronian Pilgrimage (2006) (0)
- Reviews of Books: Ancient (1998) (0)
- Samuel Johnson in Context: Scholarship (2011) (0)
- Seneca's Potentia (1970) (0)
- Miscellanea Petroniana: A Petronian Enthusiast's Thoughts and Reviews (2014) (0)
- Late Antiquity: A Review Article (1984) (0)
- The Byzantine Revival 780–842 by Warren Treadgold (review) (1990) (0)
- Herodes Atticus: Philanthropist or Rat? (2018) (0)
- Lessen in (on)gelijkheid: 'witte onschuld' in vroegmoderne koloniale literatuur (2017) (0)
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