Barry Baldwin (born in England in 1937) is a

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and author of mystery fiction. He gained a doctorate at the

University of Nottingham , mottoeng = A city is built on wisdom , established = 1798 – teacher training college1881 – University College Nottingham1948 – university status , type = Public , chancellor ...

and worked in Australia and

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. For two years he contributed a regular column to the British Communist newspaper '' The Morning Star''. He is now a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Emeritus Professor of Classics at the

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. Barry Baldwin is best known in his academic field for his work on early Greek humorists and satirists, notably on the '' Philogelos'', on Lucian, and on the Byzantine satire '' Timarion''. He is a regular columnist for ''

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'' magazine.

Selected works

Books

*''Studies in Lucian''. Toronto: Hakkert, 1973. *''The Roman Emperors''. Montreal: Harvest House, 1980. *''Suetonius: Biographer of the Caesars''. Amsterdam: A. M. Hakkert, 1983. *''Philogelos or Laughter-Lover: an ancient jokebook translated''. Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, 1983. *''Timarion''. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1984.Review by Elizabeth A. Fisher in ''Phoenix'' vol. 40, no. 2 (Summer, 1986), pp. 239-241. *''Studies on Late Roman and Byzantine History, Literature and Language''. Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1984. *''An Anthology of Byzantine Poetry'' (ed.). Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1985. *''Studies in Greek and Roman History and Literature''. Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1985. *''An Anthology of Later Latin Literature'' (ed.). Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1987. *''Roman and Byzantine Papers''. Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1989. *''The Latin & Greek Poems of Samuel Johnson''. London: Duckworth, 1995.

Articles

*"Living Latin at the Vatican" (review of '' Lexicon Recentis Latinitatis'') in ''Catholic Insight'' (October 2003) *"Ancient Science Fiction" a
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(short story by Baldwin) followed by a brief biography
Biography at ''The Writers' Union of Canada''
1937 births Living people Canadian classical scholars Canadian male journalists English emigrants to Canada English male journalists Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada University of Calgary faculty Alumni of the University of Nottingham {{Canada-journalist-stub