Participant Info
- First Name
- Eve
- Last Name
- MacDonald
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- Macdonaldg1@cardiff.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- Cardiff University
- Website URL
- https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/947215-macdonald-eve
- Keywords
- Carthage, Hannibal, memory, war, gender, North Africa, Persians, Sasanians, Near East. frontiers, late antiquity, Romans, Mediterranean, reception, Caucasus, Arabian Peninsula,Iran, Zenobia, Shirin, Dido, Sophonisba
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I look at the social history and archaeology of ancient world, focused on those outside the Roman Republic and Empire. Carthaginians and Persians mostly but I am broadly interested in the memory and depiction of the ‘other’ in the ancient world. Interested in how today’s world reflects the past and how the past has created many of our perceptions of today’s political and social events. I am also fascinated by women in power in Antiquity, currently working on the Sasanian Queen Shirin.
- Recent Publications
Academic:
Hannibal, A Hellenistic Life (Yale University Press) soon out in paperback as Hannibal: The Life and the Legend (August, 2018)
Popular:
‘New Star Trek Klingons are rooted in our own Distant Past’ in The Conversation (Oct. 13th, 2017)
https://theconversation.com/new-star-trek-klingons-are-rooted-in-our-own-distant-past-ancient-history-expert-85416
‘The Fake News That Sealed the Fate of Anthony and Cleopatra’ in The Conversation (Jan.13, 2017)
https://theconversation.com/the-fake-news-that-sealed-the-fate-of-antony-and-cleopatra-71287
- Media Coverage
- http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/hannibal-alps-film/3784/
- Social Media
- @gevemac
- Country Focus
- North Africa and Middle East, Mediterranean
- Expertise by Geography
- Expertise by Chronology
- Ancient
- Expertise by Topic
