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Professor David Wardle | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1959-12-23)23 December 1959 (age 65) |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Classical scholar |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Oriel College, Oxford |
| Thesis | An historical commentary on Suetonius' Life of Caligula, with introduction (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | Miriam T. Griffin,Fergus Millar |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Ancient history |
| Institutions | University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| Doctoral students | Jeffrey Murray |
| Notable works | Suetonius: Life of Augustus,Cicero On Divination Book I |
David Wardle is the King George V Professor of Classics and Ancient History, as well as a former Acting Dean in the Faculty of Humanities, at theUniversity of Cape Town.[1]
Born 23 December 1959 and educated inNottingham, UK, Wardle took an MA and a DPhil fromOxford University in the sub-faculty of Literae Humaniores. After a brief stint working for theUnited Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, he came to UCT as a lecturer in August 1990 and was appointed Professor in Classics and Ancient History in 2006.
Wardle's academic specialisation lies in the field ofRoman imperial history andhistoriography which he combines with an interest in ancientRoman religion.
Besides numerous articles and book reviews, Wardle is the author of fourmonographs, which have taken the form of commentaries on key texts from the Classical period:Suetonius’ Life of Caligula (Brussels, 1994),Valerius Maximus’ Memorable Deeds and Sayings (Oxford, 1998) andCicero’s On Divination (Oxford, 2006), andSuetonius: Life of Augustus (Oxford, 2014).
Wardle is also a former editor of the Classics journal,Acta Classica.
In 2017, Wardle was appointed Acting Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, at theUniversity of Cape Town.[1]
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