DrBen Brown

Dr Brown's main research areas include the interpretation and contexts of Archaic Greek poetry, especially Homeric epic; the beginnings of Greek historiography and philosophy; Greece and Rome from the perspectives of comparative Indo-European language and culture; the socio-economic history of Archaic and Classical Greece, especially Archaic tyranny; Marxist, Critical Theory and sociological approaches to the Ancient World; “Big History”, with a focus on the ‘transition from Antiquity to Feudalism, 300-800 AD’.