Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones is a Welsh professor of ancient history, with a focus on ancient

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, in particular the

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(550–330 BC) period. Before this, he specialized in the study of ancient

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. Since 2016, he holds the Chair of Ancient History at

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. Prior to that, he served at the classics department of the

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, where in 2015, he became Professor of Ancient Greek and Iranian Studies. Llewellyn-Jones is also the director of the Ancient Iran Program at the behest of the British Institute of Persian Studies. He regularly contributes to ''

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'', and ''World History'', among others. Llewellyn-Jones has authored numerous monographs, several books, and has edited and co-edited numerous works.

Selected bibliography

* ''Aphrodite's Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece''. Classical Press of Wales, 2003. * ''King and Court in Ancient Persia 559 to 331 BCE''. Edinburgh University Press, 2013. * ''Designs on the Past: How Hollywood Created the Ancient World''. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. * ''Persians: The Age of the Great Kings''. Wildfire Books, 2022. * ''Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther: Achaemenid Court Culture in the Hebrew Bible''. I B Tauris, 2023. * ''The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt''. Wildfire Books, 2024.

References

Living people Academics of Cardiff University British Iranologists 21st-century Welsh historians Welsh classical scholars Academics of the University of Edinburgh Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-historian-stub