Yr Athro Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Professor in Ancient History
- llewellyn-jonesl@cardiff.ac.uk
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Research interests
- Ancient Iran, especially the Achaemenid period (559-331 BCE)
- Persian and Greek encounters in the Archaic and Classical Periods
- Near Eastern and Egyptian monarchy and court societies
- Iranian culture
- Cross cultural and cross temporal comparatives with ancient Persia
- Gender and sexuality in antiquity
- Clothing, textiles and dress history
- Reception of antiquity in the arts and popular culture, especially Hollywood cinema
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Biography
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Education & Qualifications
1997 - 2000 PhD. Ancient History, Cardiff University, Wales, UK.
1996 - 1997 MA (Distinction) Ancient History, Cardiff University, Wales, UK.
1985 - 1988 BA (Hons) Drama, University of Hull, England, UK.
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Iran Heritage grant
British Consul Starting Fund
Principal’s Knowledge Exchange Grant
AHRC conference funding
Carnegie Trust Award
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Editorships:
Series Editor for Edinburgh University Press (commissioning and overseeing production of monographs and edited volumes from established academics):
Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia
http://www.euppublishing.com/series/ESAP
Screening Antiquity (Co-Series Editor, with Prof. Monica Cyrino)
http://www.euppublishing.com/series/sca
Editorial Boards:
Journal of Greek Archaeology
CADMO, Ancient History Review of the University of Lisbon
DABIR (Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review)
Membership of academic societies:
British Institute of Persian Studies
Society for the Study of the Old Testament
St Andrews Centre for the Study of Iranian Civilization
Iran Heritage Foundation
Textile Research Centre, Leiden
The Classical Association
The Classical Association of Scotland
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02/2016-Present Chair of Ancient History, Cardiff University
08/2015-01/2016 Chair of Ancient Greek and Iranian Studies, University of Edinburgh.
08/2010 – 07/2015 Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Edinburgh.
08/2004 – 07/2010 Lecturer in Ancient History, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh.
08/2003 - 07/2004 Lecturer in Ancient History, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter.
01/2000 - 08/2003 Research Fellow, Department of Classical Studies, The Open University
- Head of Classics, University of Edinburgh
- Associate Dean (Academic Conduct)
Principal Discipline Officer
College Recruitment & Admissions Committee
College Recruitment Team
College Recognition Awards Committee
College Fitness to Study Committee
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Items of esteem at international institutions, symposia and congresses:
"When Animals Go Wrong", Animals in Ancient Material Cultures; Allard Pierson Museum, University of Amsterdam. October 2015.
“Salome, Nice Girl”. Bar-Ilan University, Israel. April 2013.
“The mise-en-scène of Monarchy in Achaemenid Persia”. Université Paris-Est Créteil. November 2013.
“The Great King's Two Bodies. Constructions of the Persian Body, East and West.” Conference on The Body in Transition. University of Cologne. May 2011.
‘Teaching, Learning and Innovation in Classics.’ University of Rennes. January 2010.
“Concluding Thoughts” to Vêtements antiques. S’habiller, se déshabiller dans les mondes anciens. Paris 8. November 2009.
“Berenike II and Ptolemaic Propaganda”. University of Nantes. December 2007.
National invitations:
“The Persians in Egypt”. Leicester Egypt Society, March 2016.
“Animals as Tribute, and Display in the Achaemenid Empire”. Durham. June 2015.
“Reviewing Space, Context and Meaning: The Eurymedon Vase Again”. Exeter. November 2014.
“The Great King’s Robe: Sacred Majesty in Achaemenid Iran”. St Andrews. June 2014.
“The Horse in Achaemenid Thought, Culture and Ritual”. Sacred Animals in Antiquity. St Andrews. January 2014.
“The Body of the Great King”. Cardiff Classical Association. October 2013.
“An Empire of Pleasure? The Great King and his Lands”. St Andrews. April 2013.
“The Great King and his Courtiers”. Workshop on Status in Antiquity. Leeds. March 2012.
“The Great King’s Robe: dress, the body and monarchy in Achaemenid Persia”. Leeds Classical Association. November 2011.
“Dressing the Empire. Thoughts on Clothing in Ancient Persia”. The World of Ashama Conference. Oxford. July 2011.
“Trouble at the Tehran Multiplex: 300 in Iran”. Cinema and Antiquity 2000-2010. University of Liverpool. July 2011.
“Dress, Costume and Race on the Apadana Reliefs at Persepolis”. Cardiff and District CA. April 2010.
“The Memory of the Past in Achaemenid Iran: Reading Ctesias’ Persica”. Durham seminar in Classics and Ancient History. November 2009.
“An Empire of Pleasure? Concubinage, Masculinity and the Harem in Persia and the Near East”. Cardiff and District CA, December 2008.
“Imagining Alexander”. Triennial Conference. Oxford, July 2008.
“An Empire of Pleasure? Concubinage, Masculinity and the Harem in Persia and the Near East”. Department of Classics Research Seminar, Liverpool. April 2008.
“Was there a Persian Harem?” Leeds Classics Seminar. December 2006.
“Society on Display: Persian Dress”. The British Museum, London. November 2005.
“Persepolis”. Society for the Study of Art, London. September 2005.
Public lectures given as guest lecturer:
“Screaming Queens and Perverted Emperors: Sexuality and the Religious Epic in 1930s Hollywood”. ENFYS/PRIDE Cymru, Cardiff University, February 2016.
“Camp as Christmas”. Welsh Government LGBT & staff network, PRISM Christmas Lecture, December 2015.
“Sex and Sexuality in Ancient Athens”. Welsh Government LGBT & staff network, PRISM, March 2015.
“Xerxes’ Cabinet of Curiosities: Exotic Animals and Royal Authority in Achaemenid Iran”. The British Institute of Persian Studies Summer Lecture. London. June 2014.
“Beautiful to Behold is the King”. Iran Society, London. February 2014.
“The Pleasures and Perils of the Persian Court”. Edinburgh Iran Festival. February 2013. (Followed by book launch)
“Gods of the Silver Screen. Reading Greek Divinity Through Harryhausen”. National Museum of the Moving Image, Bradford. Opening for the exhibition on Ray Harryhausen and the Classics. November 2011.
“Ancient Persia in American Popular Culture”. St Andrews Institute of Iranian Studies. September 2009.
“Domestic Violence in Ancient Greece”. Cardiff University. May 2009.
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Present - Member of SHARE Impact & KE Committee
Present - NSS Champion, Ancient History
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2022
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. and McAuley, A. 2022. Sister-Queens in the high Hellenistic period: Kleopatra Thea and Kleopatra III. Routledge Studies in Ancient History. London, UK: Routledge. (10.4324/9781315206578)
- Tougher, S. and Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2022. Alexander the gay and the gloryhole that was Greece. In: Stoneman, R. ed. A History of Alexander the Great in World Culture. Cambridge University Press, pp. 424-447., (10.1017/9781316711798.020)
2021
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2021. Dress and ceremony in achaemenid Persia: the 'Gaunaka'. In: Batten, A. J. and Olsen, K. eds. Dress in Mediterranean Antiquity: Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians. Bloomsbury, pp. 159-172.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2021. Hair and social status in the near east and early Greece, c. 900-300 BC. In: Batten, A. J. and Olsen, K. eds. Dress in Mediterranean Antiquity: Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians.. Berg
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2021. Body and clothing. In: Wharton., D. ed. Cultural History of Colour in Antiquity.., Vol. 1. The Cultural Histories Series Berg, pp. 81-102.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2021. The royal 'Gaunaka': dress, identity, status and ceremony in achaemenid Iran. In: Pankova, S. and Simpson, S. J. eds. Masters of the Steppe: The Impact of the Scythians and Later Nomad Societies of Eurasia. Archaeopress, pp. 248-257.
2019
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2019. Harem politics: Royal women and succession crises in the Ancient Near East (c. 1400-300 BCE). In: Woodacre, E. et al. eds. The Routledge History of Monarchy. London and New York: Routledge
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2019. Clothing and textiles. In: Wharton, D. ed. A Cultural History of Colour in Antiquity.. Berg
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2019. 'Cockamamie, bull shite, hero worship, falsification of history': Iranian perceptions of the heroic in 300 and 300 Rise of an Empire. In: Augoustakis, A. and Ritchie, S. eds. Hercules and the Other Heroes.. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
2018
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2018. Designs on the past: how Hollywood created the Ancient World. Screening Antiquity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2018. Trouble in the Tehran multiplex: Iranian perceptions of the heroic in 300 and 300 Rise of an Empire. In: Augoustakis, A. and Richie, S. eds. Epic Heroes on Screen. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 191-205.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2018. The Kingdom of Lydia. In: MacKenzie, J. ed. The Encyclopedia of Empires. Wiley Blackwell
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2018. The Achaemenid Empire. In: MacKenzie, J. ed. The Encyclopedia of Empires. Wiley Blackwell
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2018. Median Empire. In: MacKenzie, J. ed. The Encyclopedia of Empires. Wiley Blackwell
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2018. The Court. In: Rollinger, R. and Jacobs, B. eds. A Companion to Achaemenid Persia. Wiley Blackwell
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2018. Violence, death and mutilation in Achaemenid Persia. Royal women and the politics of revenge. In: Fibiger, L., Fagan, G. G. and Hudson, M. eds. The Cambridge History of Violence. Volume 1: The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2018. Knocking her teeth out with a stone: domestic violence in Ancient Greece. In: Fibiger, L., Fagan, G. G. and Hudson, M. eds. The Cambridge History of Violence. Volume 1: The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Lewis, S. and Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2018. The culture of animals in antiquity. A sourcebook with commentaries. Routledge.
2017
- Lewis, S. and Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2017. The culture of animals in antiquity: A sourcebook with commentaries. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. (10.4324/9781315201603)
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2017. Persianisms: the Achaemenid Court in Greek art, 380-330 BCE. Iranian Studies 50(6), pp. 765-786. (10.1080/00210862.2016.1268379)
- Erskine, A., Llewellyn-Jones, L. and Wallace, S. eds. 2017. The Hellenistic Court: Monarchic power and elite society from Alexander to Cleopatra. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2017. Keeping and displaying royal tribute animals in Ancient Persia and the Near East. In: Fogen, T. and Thomas, E. eds. Interactions Between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. de Gruyter
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2017. "Salome, nice girl": Rita Hayworth and the problem of the Hollywood Biblical vamp. In: Almagor, E. and Maurice, L. eds. The Reception of Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture: Beauty, Bravery, Blood and Glory. Metaforms Vol. 11. Brill, pp. 206-230.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2017. Reviewing space, context and meaning: The Eurymedon vase again. In: Rodriguez Perez, D. ed. Greek Art in Context: Archaeological and Art Historical Perspectives. Routledge, pp. 97-115.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2017. The Achaemenids. In: Darayee, T. ed. King of the Seven Climes: A History of Ancient Iran. Irvine, CA: UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies, pp. 50-92.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2017. Manliness, violation, and laughter: rereading the space and context of the Eurymedon vase. Journal of Greek Archaeology 2, pp. 221-234.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2017. The Achaemenids. In: Darayee, T. ed. King of the Seven Climes. UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies, pp. 63-103.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L., Erskine, A. and Wallace, S. eds. 2017. The Hellenistic Court. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2017. 'Open Sesame!' Orientalist fantasy and the Persian Court in Greek Art 430-330 BCE. In: Strootman, R. and Versluys, M. eds. Persianism in Antiquity. Steiner Verlag, pp. 69-86.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. and Davis, G. 2017. Gender and sexuality. In: Harlow, M. ed. A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion. Volume I: Antiquity.. Berg, pp. 87-104.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. and Davis, G. 2017. The Body. In: Harlow, M. ed. A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion. Volume I: Antiquity. Berg, pp. 49-69.
2016
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. and Winder, S. 2016. Berenike II and the Hathoric model of Queenship. In: Rutherford, I. ed. Greco-Egyptian Interactions: Literature, Translation, and Culture, 500 BC-AD 300.. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 139-162.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2016. An orgy of Oriental dissipation? Some thoughts on the 'Camel lekythos'. DABIR: Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review 1(2), pp. 31-38.
2015
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2015. ‘That My Body is Strong’: the physique and appearance of the Achaemenid Monarch. In: Wascheck, F. and Shapiro, H. A. eds. Fluide Körper-Bodies in Transition. Cologne: Centre for Advanced Studies, pp. 211-248.
2014
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2014. Juvenalia: Bread and circuses. Times Literary Supplement(5812), pp. 20-20.
2013
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2013. An almost all Greek thing: Cleopatra VII and Hollywood imagination. In: Nikoloutsos, K. P. ed. Ancient Greek Women in Film. Classical Presences Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 305-330.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2013. King and court in Ancient Persia 559-331 BCE. Debates and Documents in Ancient History. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2013. Empire of the gaze: seraglio fantasies à la greque in Chariton’s Callirhoe. Helios 40(1/2), pp. 167-191. (10.1353/hel.2013.0001)
2012
- Llewellyn-Jones, L., Cleland, L. and Davies, G. eds. 2012. Dress in Ancient Greece and Rome A-Z. London: Routledge.
- Marincola, J., Llewellyn-Jones, L. and Maciver, C. eds. 2012. Greek notions of the past in the archaic and classical eras: history without historians. Edinburgh Leventis Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
2010
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. and Robson, J. 2010. Ctesias’ History of Persia: tales of the Orient. Routledge Classical Translations). London: Routledge.
2005
- Cleland, L., Harlow, M. and Llewellyn-Jones, L. eds. 2005. The clothed body in the Ancient World. Oxford: Oxbow.
2004
- De Souza, P., Heckel, W., Llewellyn-Jones, L. and Davis Hanson, V. 2004. The Greeks at war: from Athens to Alexander. Essential Histories Specials. Oxford: Osprey.
2003
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. 2003. Aphrodite’s tortoise: the veiled woman of Ancient Greece. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales.
2001
- Llewellyn-Jones, L. ed. 2001. Women’s dress in the Ancient Greek world. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales.
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Courses
- King and Court in the Ancient Near East
- Ancient Persia: the Achaemenid Dynasty 559-331 BCE
- Orientalism: the Middle East in Western Imagination from Antiquity to the Present
- Persica: Greek Historians and the Persian Empire
Second Year Independent Study
Final year dissertations
Topic areas for graduate supervision:
- Achamenid Dynasty of Iran, 559-331 BCE
- Ancient Persian Empire
- History & Culture of Iran
- Greek and Persian interactions in antiquity
- Ancient Historiography
- Near Eastern and Egyptian monarchy and court societies
- Gender, dress, sexuality in antiquity
- Reception of antiquity in the arts, especially Hollywood cinema
Research interests
- Ancient Iran, especially the Achaemenid period (559-331 BCE)
- Persian and Greek encounters in the Archaic and Classical Periods
- Near Eastern and Egyptian monarchy and court societies
- Iranian culture
- Cross cultural and cross temporal comparatives with ancient Persia
- Gender and sexuality in antiquity
- Clothing, textiles and dress history
- Reception of antiquity in the arts and popular culture, especially Hollywood cinema
