Overview
Availability
- Professor Alastair Blanshard is:
- Available for supervision
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
Works
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2023
Book Chapter
The rise and fall of the queer male body in mid-century muscle photography
Blanshard, Alastair J. L. (2023). 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) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781003184584-29
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.
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
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-+.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
2015
Book Chapter
The erotic eye: cinema, classicism and the sexual subject
Blanshard, Alastair J. L. (2015). The erotic eye: cinema, classicism and the sexual subject. Ancient Rome and the construction of modern homosexual identities. (pp. 253-270) edited by Jennifer Ingleheart. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199689729.003.0014
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.
2015
Book Chapter
Queer Desires and Classicizing Strategies of Resistance
Blanshard, Alastair J. L. (2015). Queer Desires and Classicizing Strategies of Resistance. Sex, Knowledge, and Receptions of the Past. (pp. 25-44) edited by Kate Fisher and Rebecca Langlands. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199660513.003.0002
2015
Book
Classical world: all that matters
Blanshard, Alastair J. L. (2015). Classical world: all that matters. Great Britain: Hodder and Stoughton.
2014
Other Outputs
A Study in Stone: The History of Epigraphy
McWilliam, Janette, Blanshard, Alastair, Donaldson, James and Press, Daniel (2014). A Study in Stone: The History of Epigraphy. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.
2014
Book Chapter
In focus: Edward Dodwell
Blanshard, Alastair (2014). In focus: Edward Dodwell. A Study in Stone. (pp. 69-69) edited by Janette McWilliam. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.
2014
Book Chapter
The early modern erotic imagination
Blanshard, Alastair J. L. (2014). The early modern erotic imagination. A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities. (pp. 565-582) edited by Thomas K. Hubbard. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1002/9781118610657.ch34
Supervision
Availability
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- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Casting Rome: The Portrayal of Character Types in film versions of ancient Rome
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Casting Rome: The Portrayal of Character Types in film versions of ancient Rome
Principal Advisor
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Master Philosophy
Ram-Horn Iconography in the Cults of Apollo Karneios and Zeus Ammon
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Annabel Florence
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Master Philosophy
The Reception of Queen Artemisia I
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Casting Rome: The Portrayal of Character Types in film versions of ancient Rome
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
It's Alive! Reading Statues in Hellenistic Epigram
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Honorary Professor Marguerite Johnson
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Master Philosophy
Ethics in Ancient Greek Commercial Activity
Associate Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Democracy and Religion in Classical Athens
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr David Pritchard
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Master Philosophy
Peace and War in the Public Discourse of Democratic Athens
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr David Pritchard
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Doctor Philosophy
War and Politics in Archaic Athens: A Reassessment
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr David Pritchard
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Doctor Philosophy
It's Alive! Reading Statues in Hellenistic Epigram
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Honorary Professor Marguerite Johnson
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Doctor Philosophy
Historic Narrative in Contemporary Poetics
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Bronwyn Lea
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Master Philosophy
Ethics in Ancient Greek Commercial Activity
Associate Advisor
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Master Philosophy
Peace and War in the Public Discourse of Democratic Athens
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr David Pritchard
Completed supervision
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2024
Master Philosophy
Ram-Horn Iconography in the Cults of Apollo Karneios and Zeus Ammon
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Annabel Florence
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2024
Master Philosophy
Transgressing the Norm: Intersex Sculpture in Eighteenth-Century British Collections
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Janette McWilliam
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2023
Master Philosophy
Domestic Violence in the Athenian Law-Court Speeches: Perception, Procedure and Punishment
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr David Pritchard
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2023
Master Philosophy
The Leisure Pursuits of Elite Young Men (Neoi) in Classical Athens
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Janette McWilliam
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2019
Master Philosophy
Representations of Semiramis from Antiquity to the Medieval Period
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Janette McWilliam
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2025
Master Philosophy
Peace and War in the Public Discourse of Democratic Athens
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr David Pritchard
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2020
Master Philosophy
Demagogue, Conqueror, Dictator: Receptions of Julius Caesar in the Cold War Years 1945-65
Associate Advisor
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Understanding Ludic Mythology: Apotheosis in Synthetic Worlds
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Kim Wilkins
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2019
Master Philosophy
Water, Wind, and War: Maritime Sacrifice and Dedications in Herodotus' Histories
Associate Advisor
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2019
Master Philosophy
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Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Andrew Collins
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2016
Master Philosophy
Euripides and the Heroes of Athenian Religion: The Portrayal of Theseus and Herakles in the Tragedies of Euripides
Associate Advisor
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