David Stuttard

David Stuttard is a historian, translator and theatre practitioner. He is the author of an acclaimed trilogy about classical Athens (“Phoenix”, “Hubris” and “Nemesis”) published by Harvard University Press – with “Phoenix” chosen as a TLS Book of the Year– as well as of “A History of Ancient Greece in 50 Lives”, “Ancient Greece in 50 Monuments” (forthcoming) and travellers’ guides to Greek and Roman mythology for Thames and Hudson. In addition, he has written “Power Games, Ritual and Rivalry at the Greek Olympics” and “Parthenon, Power and Politics on the Acropolis” and co-authored “AD 410, The Year That Shook Rome” (a Daily Telegraph “Top Read”) and “31 BC, Antony, Cleopatra and the Fall of Egypt” for The British Museum Press, as well as co-authoring “The Romans Who Shaped Britain” for Thames and Hudson.

Described as “among the best contemporary performance texts of Greek plays” (Literary Review), David’s translations have been staged throughout the world and are published alongside essays by leading scholars in Bloomsbury Press’ “Looking at…” series, of which David is editor. He regularly stages readings of his translations, adaptations and reconstructions with actors such as Dame Siān Phillips, Alex Jennings and Robert Powell.

According to Classics for All, David’s writing “admirably caters for the specialist and non-specialist alike”, while Law and Liberty writes of how “his sentences shimmer with excitement”. A passionate advocate for the Classical World (historian and broadcaster, Paul Cartledge, calls him “one of our finest popularizers of ancient Greek history”), he lectures regularly throughout the UK and Mediterranean, and is a Fellow of Goodenough College, London.