Michael Scott (English author)
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Michael Scott | |
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| File:Michael Scott, Athens.jpg Scott in Athens, August 2014 | |
| Born | 3 April 1981 |
| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Education | University of Cambridge |
| Occupation(s) | Academic, author and broadcaster in Classics and Ancient History |
| Employer | University of Warwick |
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| Website | http://www.michaelscottweb.com |
Michael Scott is an associate professor in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick[1]. He is best known to the public as the presenter of ancient history programmes like the BBC 4's Ancient Greece: The Greatest Show on Earth.[2] and most recently Rome's Invisible City[3] on BBC 1, co presented with Xander Armstrong. He is author of a series of books on ancient Greek and Roman society, including From Democrats to Kings[4], Delphi: Centre of the Ancient World[5] and Space and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds[6]
Education
Scott grew up in Wimbledon, London where he attended King's College School, a member of the Eton Group of schools. He later moved to the University of Cambridge where he was awarded a BA in Classics by Christ's College, M. Phil and Ph.D by the Faculty of Classics at Magdalene College. During his time at Cambridge, he was also a Moses and Mary Finley Research Fellow in ancient history at Darwin College, as well as an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics. Scott is now an Associate Professor in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. The focus of his work is on the ancient history and archaeology of the Greek and Roman worlds.
Broadcasting
In 2010, Scott wrote and presented his first BBC documentary about Delphi, "Delphi: The Bellybutton of the Ancient World" [7] - a BBC Four programme that investigated "the secrets of the most famous oracle in the ancient world[8]". Since then he has written and presented a wide range of television and radio documentary programs including "Guilty Pleasures: Luxury in Ancient Greece" a documentary that aired on BBC Four in June 2011.[9] His television programs on ancient history have aired on National Geographic Channel (Jesus: Rise To Power) BBC One (Rome's Invisible City), BBC Two (Who Were The Greek), BBC Four (Ancient Greece: The Greatest Show on Earth), and ITV (Roman Britain From The Air co presented with Christine Bleakley). His radio programs includes Spin the Globe series on BBC Radio 4 which picks the most famous dates in history and examines what else was happening around the globe apart from the event that made that date important.
Books
Scott has written 5 books on a variety of historical subjects. Scott’s first book ‘From Democrats to Kings’ (Icon) was published in 2009, closely followed by his monograph based upon the ancient sanctuaries of Delphi and Olympia (Cambridge University Press). Following an edited volume on risk in ancient and modern worlds,[10] he released ‘Space and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds’ in November 2012 (Cambridge University Press) and in 2014 published a full history of the oracle and sanctuary of Delphi for Princeton University Press, entitled ‘Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World’. Scott’s next book will be published in spring 2016 [11] and will provide a connected perspective of the beginnings of the world we know today, taking readers on a journey around the ancient world looking at civilization, politics, religion and war, from Greece to Italy, South America to China.
| Year | Title | Publisher | Description |
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| 2014 | Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World | Princeton University Press | This book provides the first comprehensive narrative history of Delphi an extraordinary sanctuary and city, from its founding to its modern rediscovery, showing more clearly than ever before why Delphi was one of the most important places in the ancient world for so long. |
| 2012 | Space and Society in the Greek and Roman worlds | Cambridge University Press | Exploring the many different ways in which spatial analysis can illuminate our understanding of Greek and Roman society and the ways in which these societies thought of, and interacted with, the spaces they occupied and created. |
| 2011 | Risk | Cambridge University Press | A series of essays on the topic of Risk. Drawn from the prestigious Darwin College Lecture Series which, after twenty-five years, is one of the most popular public lecture series at the University of Cambridge. Scott contributes his talk in essay form on the meaning of risk. |
| 2010 | Delphi and Olympia | Cambridge University Press | This book investigates the physical remains of both Delphi and Olympia to show how different visitors interacted with both sacred spaces in an important variety of ways during the archaic and classical periods. |
| 2009 | From Democrats to Kings | Icon Press (UK), 2009; Prometheus (Holland) 2009; Ediciones B (Spain) 2010; Overlook (USA) 2010; Laterza (Italy) 2011; Record (Brazil) 2012. | This book tells the dramatic story of how, over the space of merely a generation, the ancient world was turned completely on its head, in a brutal power struggle whose outcome would define the world for centuries. |
References
- ^ Warwick University Website. "Classics and Ancient History, Staff", Retrieved 09 November 2015.
- ^ Programmes "Ancient Greece: The Greatest Show on Earth", BBC. Retrieved 9th November 2015.
- ^ Programmes "Rome's Invisible City", BBC. Retrieved 9th November 2015.
- ^ Scott, Michael. "From Democrats to Kings", Icon 3rd June 2010. Retrieved 9th November 2015.
- ^ Scott, Michael. "Delphi: Centre of the Ancient World", Princeton University Press October 2014, Retrieved, 9th November 2015.
- ^ Scott, Michael "Space and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds, Cambridge University Press December 2012. Retrieved 9th November 2015.
- ^ Programmes "Delphi: The Bellybutton of the Ancient World", BBC. Retrieved 16th August 2015.
- ^ "Delphi: The Bellybutton of the Ancient World - BBC Four". BBC. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
- ^ Scott, Michael."What the ancient Greeks can teach us about luxury", The Telegraph, 27th June, 2011. Retrieved 9th November 2015.
- ^ Skinns, Layla. Scott, Michael & Cox, Tony. "Risk", Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 9th November 2015.
- ^ Shaffi, Sarah. "Hutchinson wins auction for ancient world study", The Bookseller, January 15th, 2014. Retrieved 9th November 2015.
- Ancient Greece: The Greatest Show on Earth
- Rome’s Invisible City
- From Democrats to Kings
- Delphi: Centre of the Ancient World
- Space and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds
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