Carolyn Dewald is an American classical scholar who is

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. She is an expert on ancient

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, and the author of several books and articles focusing on the writings of

Herodotus Herodotus ( ; grc, , }; BC) was an ancient Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria ( Italy). He is known f ...

and

Thucydides Thucydides (; grc, , }; BC) was an Athenian historian and general. His ''History of the Peloponnesian War'' recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientifi ...

Career

Carolyn Dewald was educated at

Swarthmore College Swarthmore College ( , ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeduca ...

, where she took a BA in 1968. She then read for a PhD in Classics at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, graduating in 1975; her thesis title was 'Taxis: the organization of Thucydides' History, Books ii-viii'. She taught at Stanford (1975-1977) and the

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in C ...

(1977-2003), where she also spent a period as departmental chair of classics. During this time she also spent a period at

Vassar College Vassar College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States, closely follo ...

as Blegen Visiting Distinguished Professor (2001-2002). She then became Professor of History and Classics at Bard College, where she directed the Classical Studies programme. In

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of 2013 she was a visiting fellow at

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, where she worked alongside Rosaria Munson on writing a commentary of Herodotus Book I.

Selected publications

*1998 (ed., with translation by Robin Waterfield). ''Herodotus: The Histories''. Oxford University Press. . *2005. ''Thucydides' War Narrative: A Structural Study''. University of California Press. *2006 (ed., with John Marincola). ''The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus''. Cambridge University Press. *2012. 'Myth and legend in Herodotus' first book'. In Emily Baragwanath and Mathieu de Bakker (eds.), ''Myth, Truth and Narrative in Herodotus''. Oxford University Press. . pp. 59–85.

References

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