Stoneman, Richard

Richard Stoneman ( eng. Richard Stoneman ) - British Hellenist, a specialist in the reception of ancient Greek antiquity, as well as Alexander the Great . Dr. prof.

Educated at Oxford . Thirty years - until 2006 - he worked as an editor of ancient classics, mostly in the “ Routledge ” ve.

Since 1996, an honorary member of Exeter University , in the present. time honorary guest professor. WCT Chair. Often visits Greece. He was president of the British Classical Association .

From the beginning of the 1980s, the center of his research was the figure of Alexander the Great.

The monograph "Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend" is dedicated to legends about Alexander the Great, which arose after his death. Xerxes Biographer ("Xerxes: A Persian Life").

Editor of A Literary Companion to Travel in Greece (London, 1984; 1994 ISBN 978-0-89236-298-1 ).

Books

• A Luminous Land: Artists Discover Greece (Getty Publications, 1998) ISBN 089236467X / 9780892364671
• Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend (New Haven / London: Yale University Press, 2008)
• The Ancient Oracles: Making the Gods Speak (Yale University Press, 2011)
• Xerxes: A Persian Life (Yale University Press, 2015) ISBN 9780300180077