- Barry Baldwin
Barry Baldwin (born in
England in 1937) is a classicist, journalist and author ofmystery fiction . He gained a doctorate at theUniversity of Nottingham and worked inAustralia andCanada . For two years he contributed a regular column to the British Communist newspaper "The Morning Star ". He is now a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Canada and Emeritus Professor of Classics at theUniversity of Calgary . Barry Baldwin is best known in his academic field for his work on early Greek humorists and satirists, notably on the "Philogelos ", onLucian , and on the Byzantine satire "Timarion ".elected works
Books
*"The Latin & Greek Poems of Samuel Johnson". London: Duckworth, 1995.
*"Timarion". Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1984. [Review by Elizabeth A. Fisher in "Phoenix" vol. 40, no. 2 (Summer, 1986), pp. 239-241.]
*"Suetonius: Biographer of the Caesars". Amsterdam: A. M. Hakkert, 1983.
*"Philogelos or Laughter-Lover: an ancient jokebook translated". Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, 1983. [See comments in the review by Victoria Jennings of R. D. Dawe's Greek edition of the "Philogelos" in [http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2001/2001-04-05.html "BMCR", 2001] .]
*"The Roman Emperors". Montreal: Harvest House, 1980.
*"Studies in Lucian". Toronto: Hakkert, 1973.Articles
*"Living Latin at the Vatican" (review of "Lexicon Recentis Latinitatis") in "Catholic Insight" (October 2003)
*"Ancient Science Fiction" at [http://www.shattercolors.com/nonfiction/baldwin_ancientscifi.htm Shattercolors.com]Notes
External links
* [http://www.hardluckstories.com/spring2005/LastAct-Baldwin.htm "The Last Act"] (short story by Baldwin) followed by a brief biography
* [http://www.writersunion.ca/ww_profile.asp?mem=210&L=B Biography at "The Writers' Union of Canada"]
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