Dr Jan Haywood
Lecturer in Ancient History
School/Department: Archaeology and Ancient History, School of
Telephone: +44 (0)116 252 5016
Email: jlth1@leicester.ac.uk
Profile
Research
Publications
(2023) 'Herodotus and non-Greek peoples', Omnibus 85: 30-32.
(2022) 'Tracing affinities between Herodotus' Croesus logos and Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrranus', co-authored with Dr. Doris Post, Classical World 115: 225-59.
(2022) 'Homeric allusions in Herodotus’ Histories’, in Ivan Matijašić (ed.) Herodotus – the Most Homeric Historian? (Histos Supplement 14), 59-90.
(2021) 'The use(s) of inscriptions in Herodotus' Histories', American Journal of Philology 142: 217-57.
(2021) 'Lade', 'Ichthyophagi', 'Fire', and 'Reception of Herodotus, ancient Greece and Rome', in C. Baron (ed.) The Herodotus Encyclopedia (Wiley).
(2020) 'Alice Oswald's Memorial, a new Iliad', in Maria de Fatima Silva, David Bouvier and Maria das Gracas Augusto (eds.) A Special Model of Classical Reception: Summaries and Short Narratives, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 73-90.
(2019) The Power of Individual and Community in Ancient Athens and Beyond. Essays in Honour of Professor J. K. Davies, co-edited with Dr. Zosia Archibald, Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales.
(2019) 'From Croesus to Pausanias: tragic individuals in early Greek historiography', in Z. Archibald and J. Haywood (eds.) The Power of Individual and Community in Ancient Athens and Beyond. Essays in Honour of Professor J. K. Davies, Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 115-145.
(2018) Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War: Dialogues on Tradition, co-authored with Professor Naoise Mac Sweeney, London: Bloomsbury.
(2016) 'Character and motivation in Aeschylus' Persae', Syllecta Classica 27: 29-63.
(2016) 'Divine narratives in Xenophon's Anabasis', Histos 10: 85-110.
Supervision
Teaching
I am a passionate university teacher, and I have taught a variety of modules that touch upon Greek and Roman history, literature and culture, as well as ancient Greek and Latin language. I have also led four successful taught postgraduate study tours to Rome, in which students explored the archaeology of this site from antiquity up until today.
For 2023-2024, I am the module co-ordinator for AH1010: Introduction to Greek History, AH1013: Introduction to Classical Culture, and my new third-year module AH3086: Oracles, Dreams and Omens: Divination in the Ancient Greek World. I also co-ordinate the the distance-learning module AH1702: Approaching the Greek World.
I am also the School's Director of Research, Enterprise and Impact.