DrEdward Armstrong

Edward's research focuses on Classical Greek historiography, religion, philosophy (especially fifth-century sophistry), and rhetoric. His research interests encapsulate a range of Classical Greek genres and themes including ancient historiography, theatre and performance in Attic tragedy, narratology, ancient emotion, Classical Greek historians - especially Thucydides and Herodotus, ancient Greek religion, and the development of rhetoric.

Edward's chapter, Speaking of the Gods: Religious Belief in Thucydides, in the 2025 volume 'Belief and Unbelief in the Ancient World' (Eerdmans) challenges long-held views about what we can learn from Thucydides about ancient Greek religion and spurs us to consider the perspective of the ancient Greeks in the narrative.