Professor Alastair Blanshard
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Alastair Blanshard

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Professor Alastair Blanshard is:
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts, The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, The University of Queensland
  • Masters (Coursework), The University of Queensland
  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge

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32 works between 2010 and 2025
All (32) Book (5) Journal Article (5) Other Outputs (2) Book Chapter (20)

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2025

Book Chapter

Classical Greece

Blanshard, Alastair J. L. (2025). Classical Greece. The Oxford handbook of Oscar Wilde. (pp. 375-390) edited by Kate Hext and Alex Murray. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192866950.013.0023

Classical Greece

2025

Book Chapter

Recovering rape and sexual violence in the Peloponnesian War

Blanshard, Alastair J. L. (2025). Recovering rape and sexual violence in the Peloponnesian War. Reassessing the Peloponnesian War. (pp. 249-271) edited by Samuel Gartland and Robin Osborne. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781009461559.011

Recovering rape and sexual violence in the Peloponnesian War

2025

Journal Article

What does queer do?

Ball, Matthew, Blanshard, Alastair and Sellberg, Karin (2025). What does queer do?. Town Hall (4), 10-12.

What does queer do?

2025

Journal Article

Worshipping Baal in Ireland

Blanshard, Alastair (2025). Worshipping Baal in Ireland. The Antiquary, 2024/5, 11-11.

Worshipping Baal in Ireland

2024

Book Chapter

Authorship and ideology in Lysias' funeral oration

Blanshard, Alastair J. L (2024). Authorship and ideology in Lysias' funeral oration. The Athenian Funeral Oration: After Nicole Loraux. (pp. 198-220) edited by David M. Pritchard. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781009413053.011

Authorship and ideology in Lysias' funeral oration

2024

Book Chapter

Some queer entanglements in Lucian’s Erotes

Blanshard, Alastair (2024). Some queer entanglements in Lucian’s Erotes. The Cambridge Companion to Lucian. (pp. 138-160) edited by Simon Goldhill. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781009170406.007

Some queer entanglements in Lucian’s Erotes

2024

Book Chapter

The rise and fall of the queer male body in mid-century muscle photography

Blanshard, Alastair J. L. (2024). The rise and fall of the queer male body in mid-century muscle photography. The Routledge handbook of classics and queer theory. (pp. 331-346) edited by Ella Haselswerdt, Sara H. Lindheim and Kirk Ormand. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003184584-29

The rise and fall of the queer male body in mid-century muscle photography

2021

Book Chapter

Voyaging without Romanticism: Travels with Richard Chandler and the Trials and Tribulations of the Ionian Expedition

Blanshard, Alastair J.L. (2021). Voyaging without Romanticism: Travels with Richard Chandler and the Trials and Tribulations of the Ionian Expedition. The Romance of Ruins: The Search for Ancient Ionia, 1764. (pp. 75-82) edited by Ian Jenkins and Louise Stewart. London, United Kingdom: Sir John Soane Museum.

Voyaging without Romanticism: Travels with Richard Chandler and the Trials and Tribulations of the Ionian Expedition

2020

Journal Article

Feeling and Classical Philology Knowing Antiquity in German Scholarship, 1770-1920 Preface

Blanshard, Alastair, Butler, Shane and Greenwood, Emily (2020). Feeling and Classical Philology Knowing Antiquity in German Scholarship, 1770-1920 Preface. Feeling and Classical Philology: Knowing Antiquity in German Scholarship, 1770-1920, IX-+.

Feeling and Classical Philology Knowing Antiquity in German Scholarship, 1770-1920 Preface

2020

Book

Postclassicisms

The Postclassicisms Collective and Blanshard, Alastair (2020). Postclassicisms. Chicago, IL, United States: The University of Chicago Press. doi: 10.7208/chicago/9780226672458.001.0001

Postclassicisms

2018

Journal Article

Athenian Prostitution, The Business of Sex

Blanshard, Alastair J. L. (2018). Athenian Prostitution, The Business of Sex. Classical Review, 68 (1), 141-142. doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002414

Athenian Prostitution, The Business of Sex

2018

Book Chapter

Alexander as Glorious Failure: The Case of Robert Rossen’s Alexander the Great (1956)

Blanshard, Alastair J.L. (2018). Alexander as Glorious Failure: The Case of Robert Rossen’s Alexander the Great (1956). Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great. (pp. 675-693) edited by K.R. Moore. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004359932_028

Alexander as Glorious Failure: The Case of Robert Rossen’s Alexander the Great (1956)

2018

Book

Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity

Kathleen Riley, Alastair J. L. Blanshard and Iarla Manny eds. (2018). Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity. Oxford Scholarship Online, Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198789260.001.0001

Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity

2018

Book Chapter

Hercules: the mythopoetics of new heroism

Blanshard, Alastair J. L. (2018). Hercules: the mythopoetics of new heroism. Epic heroes on screen. (pp. 28-42) edited by Antony Augoustakis and Stacie Raucci. Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press.

Hercules: the mythopoetics of new heroism

2018

Book Chapter

Jurors and serial killers: loneliness, deliberation, and community in Ancient Athens

Blanshard, Alastair J.L. (2018). Jurors and serial killers: loneliness, deliberation, and community in Ancient Athens. How to do things with history: new approaches to Ancient Greece. (pp. 137-158) edited by Allen, Danielle S, Christesen, Paul, Millett, Paul and Cartledge, Paul . New York, NY, United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780190649890.003.0006

Jurors and serial killers: loneliness, deliberation, and community in Ancient Athens

2018

Book Chapter

Afterlife (Modern Era)

Blanshard, Alastair J. L. (2018). Afterlife (Modern Era). The Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes. (pp. 452-462) edited by Gunther Martin. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198713852.013.32

Afterlife (Modern Era)

2018

Book Chapter

Mahaffy and Wilde: a study in provocation

Blanshard, Alastair J. L. (2018). Mahaffy and Wilde: a study in provocation. Oscar Wilde and classical antiquity. (pp. 19-35) edited by Kathleen Riley, Alastair J. L. Blanshard and Iarla Manny. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198789260.003.0002

Mahaffy and Wilde: a study in provocation

2017

Journal Article

Review of MONRÓS-GASPAR (L.) Victorian Classical Burlesques: A Critical Anthology. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. Pp. x + 298. £25.99. 9781472537867.

Blanshard, Alastair J. L. (2017). Review of MONRÓS-GASPAR (L.) Victorian Classical Burlesques: A Critical Anthology. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. Pp. x + 298. £25.99. 9781472537867.. Journal of Hellenic Studies, 137, 280-281. doi: 10.1017/S007542691700060X

Review of MONRÓS-GASPAR (L.) Victorian Classical Burlesques: A Critical Anthology. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. Pp. x + 298. £25.99. 9781472537867.

2017

Book Chapter

High art and low art expectations: Ancient Greece in film and popular culture

Blanshard, Alastair J. L. (2017). High art and low art expectations: Ancient Greece in film and popular culture. A companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on screen. (pp. 429-447) edited by Arthur J. Pomeroy. Hoboken, NJ, United States: Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781118741382.ch19

High art and low art expectations: Ancient Greece in film and popular culture

2015

Book Chapter

Fantasy and the homosexual orgy: unearthing the sexual scripts of ancient Athens

Blanshard, Alastair (2015). Fantasy and the homosexual orgy: unearthing the sexual scripts of ancient Athens. Sex in Antiquity: exploring gender and sexuality in the Ancient World. (pp. 99-114) edited by Mark Masterson, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and James Robson. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.

Fantasy and the homosexual orgy: unearthing the sexual scripts of ancient Athens

Availability

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Master Philosophy

    The Reception of Queen Artemisia I

    Principal Advisor

  • Master Philosophy

    Ethics in Ancient Greek Commercial Activity

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Casting Rome: The Portrayal of Character Types in film versions of ancient Rome

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Democracy and Religion in Classical Athens

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr David Pritchard

  • Doctor Philosophy

    War and Politics in Archaic Athens: A Reassessment

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr David Pritchard

  • Doctor Philosophy

    It's Alive! Reading Statues in Hellenistic Epigram

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Honorary Professor Marguerite Johnson

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Historic Narrative in Contemporary Poetics

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Bronwyn Lea

Completed supervision

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