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Dr Fiona McHardy

Principal Lecturer - Programme Convener Classical Civilisation

Telephone : +44 (0)20 8392 3733
Email : F.Mchardy@roehampton.ac.uk
Department : Humanities
Office location : Howard 101

About

I am interested in ancient and modern Greek literature, folk poetry, anthropology and culture. I recently completed my monograph about revenge in Greek culture and am currently working on a co-authored volume about gender and violent crime in ancient Greece.

Membership of Professional Bodies

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 

Classical Association of England and Wales 
(Council member) 

Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 
(Council member and Schools' sub-committe member) 

CUCD 
(Standing Committee member and CUCD Bulletin editor) 

American Philological Association 
(Member)

Teaching Interests

I teach the following modules:

• Ancient Greek 1

• Ancient Greek 2

• Ancient Greek 3

• Ancient Greek 4

• Ancient Greek 5

• Ancient Greek 6

• Homer and the Epic Cycle

• Violence and Law in Ancient Greece

• Gender and Crime in Ancient Greece

Publications

Revenge in Athenian Culture (2008, Duckworth), ISBN 9780715635698 (hbk)
Women’s Influence on Classical Civilization F. McHardy & E. Marshall (eds) (2004, Routledge), ISBN 0415309573 (hbk), 0415309581 (pbk)
Lost Dramas of Classical Athens, F. McHardy, J. Robson & F.D. Harvey (eds) (2005, UEP) ISBN 0859897524
'Violent Femmes: Women and Revenge in Athenian Tragedy', Pegasus 40 (1997) 22-27.
'Women’s Influence on Revenge in Ancient Greece', in F. McHardy & E. Marshall (eds) Women’s Influence on Classical Civilization (2004, Routledge) 92-114.
'From Treacherous Wives to Murderous Mothers: Filicide in Tragic Fragments', in F. McHardy, J. Robson & F.D. Harvey (eds) Lost Dramas of Classical Athens (2005, UEP) 129-50.
'The Trial by Water in Greek Myth and Literature' (2008, LICS 7.1, 1-20) -http://www.leeds.ac.uk/classics/lics/2008/200801.pdf
 ‘Embedding Employability into a Classics Curiculum’ co-authored with Rosemary Barrow, Charlotte Behr, Susan Deacy and Kathryn Tempest in Arts and Humanities in HE: an international journal of theory, research and practice 9.3, (forthcoming 2010)
‘Group Debates as a Form of Assessment’ case study for the CTEL project, HEA Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology (2009)
'Teaching the Language of Employability to Classical Civilisation Students' co-authored with Rosemary Barrow, Charlotte Behr, Susan Deacy and Kathryn Tempest, http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/archive/3226 (2009)
Review of D. Mastronarde Euripides: Medea (2004, Hermathena 176, 75-6), ISSN 00180750
Review of O. Taxidou Tragedy, Modernity and Mourning (2005, Classical Review 55, 418-19), ISBN: 0748619879
Review of B. Goward Aeschylus: Agamemnon (2006, BMCR 2006.02.48)
 Review of R. Hall Sternberg (ed.) Pity and Power in Ancient Athens (2006, JCT 9, 32)
Review of M. Kitts Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society (2006, Classical Bulletin 82, 225-7), ISSN: 0009-8337
'Apollodoros', 'Arrian', 'Chios', 'dreams', 'ephetai', 'Eurydice', 'guardianship', 'Herodas', 'Hipparchia', 'incest', 'inheritance', 'kinship', 'Lycophron', 'Pelopidas', 'Philetas', 'Thasos', 'Theokritos' entries in The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization (2006, CUP), ISBN-13: 9780521483131 / ISBN-10: 0521483131
'Greco-Roman Adultery', 'Greco-Roman Bride' and 'Greco-Roman Bridegroom' entries in theEncylopedia of the Bible and its Reception (2008, de Gryter, Berlin).
Roundtable Discussion organiser 'Ancient Emotions - Did the Ancients Feel Like We Do?' American Philological Association Annual Meeting in Montréal, 2006
Roundtable Discussion organiser 'Teaching Rape' Classical Association Annual Meeting in Glasgow, 2009