Dr Alastair Blanshard

Senior Lecturer
Department of Classics and Ancient History
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI)
Quadrangle Building A14
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
office: J605, Main Quad
phone: + 61 2 9036 6018
fax: + 612 9351 3918

Research Interests

• Greek cultural history;
• Greek rhetoric and law;
• epigraphy;
• ancient sexuality; and
• the role that the classical past plays in the history of ideas

Select Publications

• Sex, Vice, and Love from Antiquity to Modernity (Wiley Blackwell, 2010)
• Hercules: A Heroic Life (Granta, 2005)