T E Rihll

Biographical Information

University Of Wales Swansea
Part-time Lecturer in Department of Classics and Ancient History since 1995; senior lecturer since 2007.

University of Wales Lampeter
Full-time Lecturer in Department of Classics 1990-1995.

University of Leeds
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Schools of History and of Geography 1987-9.

PhD University of Leeds 1987.

BA(Hons) First Class, University of Kent 1982.

Married J V Tucker in 1987; we have two children, Elizabeth, born in 1994, and Henry, born in 1999.

Ancient Science and Technology: I started working in this area in 1990. My earliest relevant papers are on silver production in classical Greece, focusing on the Laurion, Attica. I have since written Greek Science (OUP, 1999) for the Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics series, no.29; edited (with C J Tuplin) Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture (Oxford, 2002); and most recently written The Catapult: a history (Westholme, 2007). I also have a website on Greek and Roman science and technology.

Ancient Slavery: I have long been interested in slavery in antiquity. Earlier publications focussed on slavery in the archaic period; forthcoming publications focus on the classical period, specifically on classical Athens (for the Cambridge World History of Slavery vol 1), slavery and production (for the Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Slaveries) and Greece more generally (for a comparative study in Slave Systems Ancient and Modern). My interests in slavery and in technology overlap on the topic of work in antiquity.

For a selection of publications see here.

Electronic mail address
T.E.Rihll@Swansea.ac.uk

Web address (ancient science and technology)
http://www.swansea.ac.uk/grst