Benjamin Gray
MA, MPhil, DPhil
Examination Fellow since 2006
Contact by email
Background
- Undergraduate, Merton College, Oxford (from 2002 to 2006)
Research interests
- Greek history and thought of the later Classical and Hellenistic periods
- Developing for publication as a book a doctoral thesis entitled ‘Exile and the Political Cultures of the Greek Polis, c. 404–146 BC’
- Working on a new project which aims to integrate the evidence of inscriptions from ancient Greek cities more closely into the history of ancient Greek ethical and political thought, with special reference to honorific texts of the later Hellenistic and early Imperial periods
- Also interested in modern reception of ancient ethical and political ideas, especially in connection with migration and deportation and with the development of European socialism
Selected publications
- 'Philosophy of Education and the Late Hellenistic Polis', in P. Martzavou and N. Papazarkadas (eds), Epigraphical Approaches to the Post-Classical Polis, Fourth Century BC-Second Century AD (Oxford, forthcoming 2012)
- 'From Exile of Citizens to Deportation of Non-Citizens: Ancient Greece as a Mirror to Illuminate a Modern Transition', in B. Anderson, M. Gibney and E. Paoletti (eds), Boundaries of Belonging: Deportation and the Constitution and Contestation of Citizenship, Citizenship Studies 15.5 (2011), 565-82
Teaching and supervision
- Hilary Term 2012: lecture course on 'Political Thought and Practice in the Greek Polis'