Jan Haywood is a British ancient historian and academic who was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in November 2023.[1] Since 2024 he has been Associate Professor of Ancient History in the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester.[2]

Early life and education

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Haywood was born in 1987 and raised in Sutton Coldfield. He received an undergraduate degree in History and a Master's degree in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Manchester. He subsequently completed a PhD at the University of Liverpool in 2013 with the thesis "Intertext and allusion in Herodotus' Histories: authority, proof, polemic".[3]

Career

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Following his PhD Haywood was appointed as J.P. Postgate University Teacher in Classics at the University of Liverpool. He has since held academic posts at the University of Leicester and The Open University. In 2024 he was promoted to Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Leicester.

In April 2020, Haywood co-founded the Herodotus Helpline[4] with Professor Thomas Harrison, a worldwide community that seeks to promote and develop understanding of the fifth century BCE historian Herodotus and his world. In 2022, Haywood was editor for the newly launched international, open-access journal Syllogos, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal 'dedicated to all aspects of Herodotus' Histories'.[5] Haywood was also Reviews Editor for The Journal of Hellenic Studies from 2018-2023.[6]

Selected Publications

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Books

  • 2018. (co-authored with Naoíse Mac Sweeney) Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War: Dialogues on Tradition. London: Bloomsbury.
  • 2019. (co-edited with Dr. Zosia Archibald) The Power of the Individual and Community in Ancient Athens and Beyond: Essays in Honour of John K. Davies. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales.

Articles

  • 2016. Divine Narratives in Xenophon's Anabasis. Histos 10: 85-110.
  • 2016. Character and motivation in Aeschylus' Persae. Syllecta Classica 27: 29-63.
  • 2021. The use(s) of inscriptions in Herodotus' Histories. American Journal of Philology 142: 217-57.
  • 2022. (co-authored with Dr. Doris Post) Tracing affinities between Herodotus' Croesus logos and Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrranus. Classical World 115: 225-59.
  • 2023. Herodotus and non-Greek peoples. Omnibus 85: 30-32.

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