Barry Baldwin (born in England in 1937) is a
classicist,
journalist and author of
mystery fiction
Mystery is a genre fiction, fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains wiktionary:mysterious, mysterious until the end of the story. Often within a closed circle of suspects, each suspect is usually prov ...
. He gained a doctorate at the
University of Nottingham and worked in
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
and
Canada. For two years he contributed a regular column to the British Communist newspaper ''
The Morning Star''. He is now a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada
The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; french: Société royale du Canada, SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bil ...
and Emeritus Professor of Classics at the
University of Calgary. Barry Baldwin is best known in his academic field for his work on
early Greek humorists and satirists, notably on the ''
Philogelos
''Philogelos'' ( grc, Φιλόγελως, "Love of Laughter") is the oldest existing collection of jokes. The collection is written in Ancient Greek, and the language used indicates that it may have been written in the fourth century AD, according ...
'', on
Lucian
Lucian of Samosata, '; la, Lucianus Samosatensis ( 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer
Pamphleteer is a historical term for someone who creates or distributes pamphlets, unbound (and therefore ...
, and on the Byzantine satire ''
Timarion''. He is a regular columnist for ''
Fortean Times'' magazine.
Selected works
Books
*''Studies in Lucian''. Toronto: Hakkert, 1973.
*''The Roman Emperors''. Montreal: Harvest House, 1980.
*''Suetonius: Biographer of the Caesars''. Amsterdam: A. M. Hakkert, 1983.
*''Philogelos or Laughter-Lover: an ancient jokebook translated''. Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, 1983.
*''Timarion''. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1984.
[Review by Elizabeth A. Fisher in ''Phoenix'' vol. 40, no. 2 (Summer, 1986), pp. 239-241.]
*''Studies on Late Roman and Byzantine History, Literature and Language''. Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1984.
*''An Anthology of Byzantine Poetry'' (ed.). Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1985.
*''Studies in Greek and Roman History and Literature''. Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1985.
*''An Anthology of Later Latin Literature'' (ed.). Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1987.
*''Roman and Byzantine Papers''. Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1989.
*''The Latin & Greek Poems of Samuel Johnson''. London: Duckworth, 1995.
Articles
*"Living Latin at the Vatican" (review of ''
Lexicon Recentis Latinitatis
The ''Lexicon Recentis Latinitatis'' is a New Latin dictionary published by the Vatican-based Latinitas Foundation.
The book is an attempt to update the Latin language with a definition of neologisms
A neologism Greek νέο- ''néo''(="new") ...
'') in ''Catholic Insight'' (October 2003)
*"Ancient Science Fiction" a
Shattercolors.com
Notes
External links
(short story by Baldwin) followed by a brief biography
Biography at ''The Writers' Union of Canada''
1937 births
Living people
Canadian classical scholars
Canadian male journalists
English emigrants to Canada
English male journalists
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
University of Calgary faculty
Alumni of the University of Nottingham
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