Richard Seaford is a professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter

University of Exeter

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. He is the author of academic books, especially on ancient Greece, and has penned over seventy academic papers and reviews.

In 2005-2008 he was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust

Leverhulme Trust

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Controversy

Seaford declined an invitation to review a book for the Israeli journal Scripta Classica Israelica. In a report carried by the European Jewish Press he stated

I have, along with many other British academics, signed the academic boycott of Israel, in the face of the brutal and illegal expansionism and the slow-motion ethnic cleansing, being practised by your government.

The report quoted him further:

I am aware of the honest arguments for and against a boycott, and that even some Israeli academics support the boycott and many do not. Whatever your views, I hope you will understand that my view is based on a widely shared moral outrage.

Selected publications

• Pompeii (Summerfield Press ; New York : distributed by Thames & Hudson, 1978) ISBN 0846705729
• Euripides Cyclops with Introduction and Commentary (Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1984) ISBN 0198140304
• Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-state (Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994) ISBN 0198149492
• Euripides Bacchae (Aris and Phillips, 1996)
• Reciprocity in Ancient Greece (co-editor with C. Gill and N. Postlethwaite) (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998) ISBN 0198149972
• Money and the early Greek Mind: Homer, Tragedy, and Philosophy (Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004) ISBN 0521832284
• Dionysos (London ; New York : Routledge, 2006) ISBN 0415324882

External links

• Professor Richard Seaford's homepage at the University of Exeter