Classicist, journalist and author
Barry Baldwin (born in England in 1937) is aclassicist,journalist and author ofmystery fiction. He gained a doctorate at theUniversity of Nottingham and worked inAustralia andCanada. For two years he contributed a regular column to the British Communist newspaperThe Morning Star. He is now a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Canada and Emeritus Professor of Classics at theUniversity of Calgary. Barry Baldwin is best known in his academic field for his work onearly Greek humorists and satirists, notably on thePhilogelos, onLucian, and on the Byzantine satireTimarion. He is a regular columnist forFortean Times magazine.
- 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.[1]
- Timarion. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1984.[2]
- 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.
- ^See comments in the review by Victoria Jennings of R. D. Dawe's Greek edition of thePhilogelos inBMCR, 2001Archived 2008-06-06 at theWayback Machine.
- ^Review by Elizabeth A. Fisher inPhoenix vol. 40, no. 2 (Summer, 1986), pp. 239-241.
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