Esther EidinowFBA (born 1970) is a Britishancient historian and academic. She specialises inancient Greece, particularlyancient Greek religion andmagic.^[1][2] She has been Professor of Ancient History at theUniversity of Bristol since 2017.

Eidinow was awarded aDoctor of Philosophy (DPhil) for a thesis entitledExploring risk among the ancient Greeks: prolegomena and two case studies. Her doctoral research was completed at theUniversity of Oxford under the supervision ofRobert Parker in 2003.^[3] A monograph based on the thesis,Oracles, Curses and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks was published in 2007, and praised for its 'analytic rigor' and accessibility.^[4]

From 2011 to 2012, Eidinow was aSolmsen Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities of theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison.^[5] Between 2017 and 2018 she was a visiting fellow at the Davis Center for Historical Studies ofPrinceton University.^[6] Since 2017, she has held theChair in Ancient History at theUniversity of Bristol.^[7] She was previously alecturer atNewman University College and at theUniversity of Nottingham.^[8][9] She was awarded aPhilip Leverhulme Prize in 2015, and was described as "an original and powerful new voice in the field of ancient Greek history".^[10] In July 2024 she was elected as aFellow of the British Academy.^[11]

• Eidinow, Esther (2007).Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks. Oxford: Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0199277780.
• Eidinow, Esther (2011).Luck, Fate, and Fortune: Antiquity and its Legacy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0195380798.
• Hornblower, Simon; Spawforth, Antony; Eidinow, Esther, eds. (2012).The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0199545568.
• Hornblower, Simon; Spawforth, Antony; Eidinow, Esther, eds. (2014).The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0198706779.
• Eidinow, Esther (2015).Envy, Poison, and Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens. Oxford: Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0199562602.
• Eidinow, Esther;Kindt, Julia, eds. (2015).The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0199642038.
• Eidinow, Esther; Kindt, Julia;Osborne, Robin, eds. (2016).Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 978-1107153479.
• Dillon, Matthew; Eidinow, Esther; Maurizio, Lisa, eds. (2016).Women's Ritual Competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean. London: Routledge.ISBN 978-1472478900.
• Driediger-Murphy, Lindsay; Eidinow, Esther, eds. (2019).Ancient Divination and Experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0198844549.
• Eidinow, Esther, andLisa Maurizio, eds. (2020)Narratives of Time and Gender in Antiquity London: Routledge.

• Living people
• Scholars of ancient Greek history
• 21st-century British historians
• British women historians
• British classical scholars
• British women classical scholars
• Scholars of Greek mythology and religion
• Classical scholars of the University of Bristol
• Academics of the University of Nottingham
• University of Wisconsin–Madison fellows
• 1970 births
• Alumni of the University of Oxford
• Fellows of the British Academy
• Academics of Birmingham Newman University

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