Katherine Clarke (historian)

Katherine J. Clarke FBA is a British ancient historian, specialising in Greek historiography and geography. She is Professor in Ancient History in the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford.

Career

Clarke studied literae humaniores at St John's College, Oxford, and then completed a doctorate on the ancient geographer Strabo at Christ Church, Oxford in 1996. She was appointed tutorial fellow of ancient history at St Hilda's College in 1998. She was Vice-Principal of St Hilda's College from 2013 to 2016 and Chair of the Sub-faculty of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology within the Faculty of Classics from 2015 to 2017.[1]

Clarke's first book, Between Geography and history (1999) discussed how the presentation of geography in Polybius, Posidonius, and Strabo responded to the rise of Roman power. In the book, she argues that geography and geographic ideas were more important and complex in ancient historiography than hitherto realised. W. J. Tatum and R. Alston characterised it as "essential reading" for work on Posidonius, Strabo, and Hellenistic geography.[2][3][4]

Clarke's second book, Making Time for the Past (2008) explores how ancient Greek city-states conceived of time and the past, as a central part of their communal identities. The book was a groundbreaking work for the study of local history in ancient Greece.[5][6]

A third book, Shaping the Geography of Empire (2018) deals with the representation of geography and the physical world in Herodotus' Histories.

Clarke was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2023.[7]

Selected publications
  • Between Geography and History: Hellenistic Constructions of the Roman World (Oxford University Press, 1999; paperback edition 2001)
  • Making Time for the Past: Local History and the Polis (Oxford University Press, 2008; paperback edition 2011)
  • Shaping the Geography of Empire: Man and Nature in Herodotus' Histories (Oxford University Press, 2018)

References
  1. Shaping the Geography of Empire: Man and Nature in Herodotus' Histories: Author Information. Oxford University Press. 21 June 2018. ISBN 978-0-19-882043-7. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  2. Pothecary, Sarah (2000). "Katherine Clarke, Between geography and history : Hellenistic constructions of the Roman world". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 2000.09.06.
  3. Tatum, W. Jeffrey (2002). "Katherine Clarke. Between Geography and History: Hellenistic Constructions of the Roman World. (Oxford Classical Monographs.) New York: Oxford University Press. 1999. Pp. xi, 407. $85.00". The American Historical Review. 107 (4): 1272–1273. doi:10.1086/ahr/107.4.1272.
  4. Alston, Richard (2004). "K. Clarke, Between Geography and History". Ancient West and East. 4 (1): 188–190.
  5. McInerney, Jeremy (2013). "Making Time for the Past: Local History and the Polis . By Katherine Clarke. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 (paper). Pp. [xii] + 408. Originally published 2008". Classical Philology. 108 (2): 169–173. doi:10.1086/671422.
  6. Pownall, Frances (2010). "Time in Local History - (K.) Clarke Making Time for the Past. Local History and the Polis. Pp. xiv + 408. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Cased, £70. ISBN: 978-0-19-929108-3". The Classical Review. 60 (1): 168–170. doi:10.1017/S0009840X09990886. S2CID 162014379.
  7. "Professor Katherine Clarke FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 21 October 2023.
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