Barry Baldwin
Barry Baldwin is a classicist, journalist and author of mystery fiction. He gained a doctorate at the University of Nottingham and worked in Australia and Canada. For two years he contributed a regular column to the British Communist newspaper The Morning Star. He is now a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Calgary. Barry Baldwin is best known in his academic field for his work on early Greek humorists and satirists, notably on the Philogelos, on Lucian, and on the Byzantine satire Timarion. He is a regular columnist for Fortean Times magazine.Selected works
Books
- Studies in Lucian. Toronto: Hakkert, 1973.
- The Roman Emperors. Montreal: Harvest House, 1980.
- Suetonius: Biographer of the Caesars. Amsterdam: A. M. Hakkert, 1983.
- Philogelos or Laughter-Lover: an ancient jokebook translated. Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, 1983.
- Timarion. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1984.
- Studies on Late Roman and Byzantine History, Literature and Language. Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1984.
- An Anthology of Byzantine Poetry. Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1985.
- Studies in Greek and Roman History and Literature. Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1985.
- An Anthology of Later Latin Literature. Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1987.
- Roman and Byzantine Papers. Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1989.
- The Latin & Greek Poems of Samuel Johnson. London: Duckworth, 1995.
Articles
- "Living Latin at the Vatican" in Catholic Insight
- "Ancient Science Fiction" at
