Eric Robinson
- Associate Professor, Department of History
Education
- B.A. at Yale University, 1986
- Ph.D. at University of Pennsylvania, 1994
Contact Information
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| Ballantine Hall, Rm. 730 |
| (812) 855-1745 |
Background
I am a historian of ancient Greece and Rome. I teach courses on a variety of subjects in both Greek and Roman history, from introductory surveys to undergraduate and graduate-level seminars. My research has focused on questions of ancient politics, warfare, and religion, but most especially on Greek democracy. My first book, entitled The First Democracies, explored the emergence of the ancient Greek form of popular government in numerous city-states in the Archaic Age of Greek history (800-480 BC). My second monograph, on democracy’s expansion and character in the Classical Age (480-323 BC), is in press at Cambridge University Press. Connections between ancient and modern forms of democracy, war, and imperialism have been an interest of mine as well, to which I have devoted a few articles. My current research project explores the consequences of Sparta’s unique military reputation in Classical Greece. I am also writing the ancient and early medieval portions of a major new Western Civilization textbook.
Research Interests
- Archaic and Classical Greece
- Democracy
- Political and military history
Publication Highlights
Books
Democracy Beyond Athens: Popular Government in the Greek Classical Age
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press)
Ancient Greek Democracy: Readings and Sources (Oxford and Malden, MA:
Blackwell, 2003).
Oikistes: Studies in Constitutions, Colonies, and Military Power in the Ancient World Offered in Honor of A. J. Graham (Leiden: Brill, 2002).
[Co-editor with Vanessa Gorman].
The First Democracies: Early Popular Government Outside Athens
(Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1997).
Articles
“Greek Democracies and the Debate over Democratic Peace,” in M. H.
Hansen, ed. Démocratie athénienne – démocratie moderne: tradition et influences, Fondation Hardt Entretiens vol. 56 (Geneva: Fondation Hardt, 2010), 277-306.
“Ethnicity and Democracy in the Peloponnese, 401-362 BC,” in P. Funke and N. Luraghi, eds. The Politics of Ethnicity (Harvard University Press, 2009), 135-147.
