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Articles by David Stuttard
Knossos: het paleis achter het mythische labyrint van de Minotaurus
Het paleis van Knossos op Kreta was een belangrijk centrum van de Minoïsche beschaving. Het uitgestrekte complex met zijn vele gangen, kamers en kleurrijke fresco’s wordt vaak in verband gebracht met het labyrint uit de mythe van de Minotaurus. In Het oude Griekenland in vijftig monumenten (Omniboek) onderzoekt David Stuttard wat bouwwerken vertellen over de geschiedenis en cultuur van de Griekse wereld.
Hubris: Pericles, the Parthenon, and the Invention of Athens
Even Xi Jinping is thinking about Pericles these days. He is worried about the so-called ‘Thucydides trap’, named for the ancient Greek historian who first described what was then Pericles’s problem. In the mid-fifth century BC, Pericles was leader of Athens, the fast-rising second power in Greece. His difficulty was how to manage Sparta, the first power. Should it be done by weaponising trade and technology? By bluff and bluster? By taking over a few islands to test Sparta’s resolve?
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Preview David Stuttard has turned his attention to Euripides’ Hippolytus, and we should all be grateful for his doing so. As he has in the case of seven other ancient Greek dramas, Stuttard gathers new essays on the play from ten scholars, published along with his own translation. The scholars, all experts in their field, were given latitude as to their topics and worked independently of one another.
Hubris: Pericles, the Parthenon, and the Invention of Athens
. (Athens Trilogy, bk. 3). Mar. 2026. 368p. ISBN 9780674258471. $29.95. HISTORY COPY ISBN Theatrical director and classical scholar Stuttard follows up 2018’s Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens with the final book in his “Athens Trilogy.” This latest is a unique history of Athens in the Age of Pericles (roughly 461-429 BC), when Athens emerged as the dominant power in Attica, Greece, following the defeat of Xerxes’s Persian horde.
This Is Not About Running: A Memoir
Professional runner Cain debuts with a raw account of her harrowing experiences at the once-esteemed Nike Oregon Project. When Cain was a middle schooler in Bronxville, N.Y., in the 2000s, her generational talent for middle-distance running became clear. At 16, she was recruited to train with coach Alberto Salazar at the Nike Oregon Project, a Portland-area initiative to cultivate America’s best runners.
The Forest Fights Back: A Global Movement for the Rights of Nature
Jessica den Outer. Pluto, $19.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-0-7453-5148-3 “We are at the forefront of a legal revolution that is reshaping the way we view our relationship with nature,” environmental law scholar den Outer asserts in her illuminating debut overview of the rights of nature movement.
Biographies of Ancient Greeks and Romans
Biographies of ancient Greeks and Romans, recommended on Five Books: “in The Rise and Fall of Athens, you get to see four stages in the development of Athens over time. In the early stages, Plutarch has to push back into legendary and mythological times, with the founders like Theseus and even Solon…Then we get into the lives of the earliest real historical figures, such as Themistocles and Aristides.
Aspects of History: Athens, Sparta and the Sicilian Expedition with Paul A. Rahe
In 415BC, the Athenian Empire, during a lull in the Peloponnesian War against the Spartans, voted to embark on a massive campaign to capture Syracuse. So began the Sicilian Expedition, which soon became a proxy war between Sparta and Athens, as the Spartans despatched just one man, the great general Gylippus, to assist the Syracusans. The war had been underway since 431 BC and would last until 404BC and end in total defeat for Athens with the loss of its empire. Joining today is Paul A.
‘Homer and His Iliad’ by Robin Lane Fox review
Faced with a jumble of bewildering ruins, modern visitors to Hisarlik in northwest Turkey, the site of ancient Troy, may find themselves perplexed and sometimes disappointed.
Monthly Digest - September 2021
From the Editor Hot off the presses, here we have the September Issue or I should say, Issue 5 of Digging Up The Past. As we end the summer season, we see exciting announcements of discoveries from newly excavated ancient Christian and submerged settlements, Roman basilicas in the Holy Land, ancient inscriptions bearing Biblical names to even the discovery of the body of a Roman Priest at Pompeii. And now that school is back in session, we are starting to see more lectures and events.
Salamis: the Battle that Made History
The Battle of Salamis, 19th-century engraving © akg-images. The atmosphere was febrile. For years the enemy had been constructing roads, stockpiling food, carrying out reconnaissance, cementing alliances with key territories in northern Greece and trumpeting their preparations for a huge amphibious invasion.
Revisiting the Golden Age of Athens
Have I ever read another historical account written with such verve? Perhaps not: David Stuttard is a marvelous writer. His sentences shimmer with excitement, making readers of Phoenix: A Father, A Son, and the Rise of Athens feel they are right there with the Greeks of 2500 years ago as they sweated in the heat, shivered in terror of war, and bristled with anticipation on the cusp of Athenian greatness.
The Best Books on Thucydides
Your book, How to Think about War, is an excellent introduction to Thucydides and his History of the Peloponnesian War. You’ve also chosen five other books to help understand and put him in perspective. But before we get to those, can you tell me who Thucydides was? Why we should care about him, two and a half thousand years later? Thucydides came of age in what we think of today as the ‘Golden Age’ of classical Athens.
I want to be a star
Of the many enigmas bequeathed by the ancient world to its modern students, few are more tantalising than the seemingly indestructible charisma of Alcibiades (born c.453 bce). After a lifetime of personal scandal, political failure and multiple public betrayals, including that of his country to the Spartans, this enfant terrible still remained, even as a penniless exile, the subject (as Aristophanes makes clear in The Frogs) of intense discussion in Athens.
The Donald Trump of Ancient Greece
David Stuttard is an independent scholar and theater director. His latest book is Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens (Harvard University Press, 2018). His name? Alcibiades. Like Trump, this scion of wealth loved to win and manipulate the masses.
The drama of Alcibiades by Daisy Dunn
Enviably well-connected, strikingly handsome, immensely rich, intensely charismatic, unashamedly louche, and, like the Homeric hero Achilles, motivated by the ambition ‘always to be best and to surpass all others.’” Is it any wonder that Alcibiades made so many enemies?
The Strange Rites of the Ancient Olympics
This past April, a solemn ceremony was held in front of the ruined Temple of Hera in Olympia in southern Greece. Serious young men and women dressed in classical-style costumes danced and sang while a torch was lighted from the focused rays of the sun.
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