DR. JOHN DAVID LEWIS
Durham, NC 27705
email classicalideals@yahoo.com
website www.classicalideals.com
Academic Appointments
Duke University, Visiting Associate Professor, Philosophy, Politics and Economics (2009 f.)
Duke University, Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science (2008 - 2009)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler School of Business, Adjunct Associate Professor (2008 f.)
Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, Senior Research Scholar in History and Classics (2007 to present)
Ashland University, Dept. of History and Political Science, 2001-2008
Associate Professor of History, 2007-2008 (tenured)
University of London, University College, Instructor; 2000-2001
PhD (2001), Classics, University of Cambridge. Dissertation: Solon's Polis as Kosmos: Intellectual, Moral and Political Integration in Archaic Athens [Supervisor: Paul Cartledge]
MPhil (1997), Classics, University of Cambridge. Thesis: Violence and the Archaic Political Context [Supervisor: Paul Millett]
BA (1995), History, University of Rhode Island. Thesis: Fear, Loathing and Expediency: The Arguments for Railway Regulation in 1870’s Britain [Supervisor: Robert Gutchen]
Duke University
Political Economy, Ancient and Modern
Ancient Political Thought
University of North Carolina
Moral Foundations of Capitalism
Bowling Green State University
Greek Philosophical Psychology, Graduate Seminar (assisting Professor Fred Miller)
Ethics and Political Economy, Graduate Seminar (assisting Professor Fred Miller)
Ashland University
History of Western Civilization
Freshman Colloquium: The Classics and the Modern Day
Greek Language and Society
The Ancient Near East
Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome: Republic, Empire and Christianity
Warfare Ancient and Modern
University of London
Life and Death in the Ancient World
University of Cambridge, Graduate Tutor
Money in the Ancient World
Intensive Greek Language Seminars
Books
Nothing Less than Victory: The Will to Fight and the Lessons of History (Princeton University, March, 2010)
Solon the Thinker: Political Thought in Archaic Athens (Duckworth Press, 2006) (pb. edn. 2008)
Early Greek Lawgivers (Bristol Classical Press, August, 2007)
Articles and Book Chapters
“Constitutionalism and Fundamental Law: The Lesson of Ancient Athens,” Social Philosophy and Policy 28.1 (forthcoming, 2010)
“Xenophon and the Foundations of Political Economy,” Polis (in press)
“Cultural and Political Commentary,” Ayn Rand: A Companion to her Work and Thought eds. Allan Gotthelf and Gregory Salmieri (Oxford: Blackwell) (in press, 2010)
“Solon of Athens and the Ethics of Good Business,” Journal of Business Ethics DOI 10.1007/s10551-008-9989-4.
“History, Politics, and Claims of Man-made Global Warming,” Social Philosophy and Policy 26.2 (2009); also in Natural Resources, the Environment, and Human Welfare, ed. Ellen-Fraenkel Paul, Jeffrey Paul, and Fred Miller, Jr. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) (in press)
“Oh Mist! Science, Religion and History in Aristophanes’ Clouds,” in Themes in European History ed. Michael Aradas & Nicholas C.J. Pappas (Athens: ATINER, 2005)
“‘Sacrilege toward the Individual’: The Anti-Pride of Thomas More’s Utopia and Anthem’s Radical Alternative,” in Essays in Anthem, R. Mayhew (ed.), (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005)
“Slavery and Lawlessness in Solonian Athens,” in Dike 7, 2004:19-40
“Kira’s Family,” in Essays in We the Living, R. Mayhew (ed.), (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004)
“Carving Liberty into Stone: The Greek and American Discoveries of Fundamental Law,” in The Intellectual Activist 16.10, October 2002
“Dike, Moira, Bios and the Limits to Understanding in Solon, 13 (West),” in Dike 4, 2001:113-135.
“The Intellectual Context of Solon’s Dike,” in Polis 18.1 and 2, 2001:3-26
Rice University, Department of Classics, Visiting Scholar, Spring, 2004
University of Rhode Island, President's Award for Excellence in History, 1995
Association of Ancient Historians
Society for Military History
American Philological Association
Cambridge Philological Society
Australian Classics Society
Reviews and Review Essays
D. D. Philips, Avengers of Blood: Homicide in Athenian Law and Custom from Draco to Demosthenes (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008), for Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009-08-08
P. Jones, Vote for Caesar: How the Ancient Greeks and Romans Solved the Problems of Today (London: Orion, 2008), for Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009-02-28.
R. A. Gabriel, Scipio Africanus: Rome’s Greatest General (Washington: Potomac, 2008), for Michigan War Studies Review 2009.01.01.
P. Sabin, Lost Battles: Reconstructing the Great Clashes of the Ancient World (London: Continuum, 2007), for Michigan War Studies Review 2008.07.09
G. Weller, First into Nagasaki, edited and with an essay by Anthony Weller (NY: Crown Publishers, 2006) for The Objective Standard 3.3 (2008)
Sun-tzu, The Art of War, translated with introduction and commentary by Ralph D. Sawyer (Boulder: Westview Press, 1994), for The Objective Standard 3.2 (2008)
K. Zeruneith, The Wooden Horse: The Liberation of the Western Mind, From Odysseus to Socrates, trans. R.L. Dees (NY: Overlook Duckworth, 2007), for Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.05.13
A. Codevilla and P. Seabury, War: Ends and Means, second edition, (Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2006),for Michigan War Studies Review 2008.04.03
K. Kagan, The Eye of Command (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan 2006), for Michigan War Studies Review 2007.08.02
N. Morpeth, Thucydides’ War: Accounting for the Faces of Conflict (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2006) , for Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.03.26
G. Arnaldi, Italy and its Invaders, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005), for Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.03.30
Pre-publication Reviewer, Living Through War and Revolution: War Experiences Since 1500, for Longman Press (2005)
C. Miller, Homer’s Sun Still Shines: Ancient Greece in Essays, Poems and Translations (New Market, VA: Trackaday, 2004), for Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.11.20
B. Strauss, The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece—and Western Civilization (NY: Simon and Schuster, 2004), for Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.07.68
Pre-publication Reviewer, Markets Don’t Fail, for Lexington Books (June, 2004)
E. W. Robinson, Ancient Greek Democracy: Readings and Sources (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004), for Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.12.22
C. A. Bates, Aristotle’s “Best” Regime: Kingship, Democracy and the Rule of Law (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003), for Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.07.03
N. Urbinati, Mill of Democracy: From the Athenian Government to Representative Government (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002) for Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.06.04
J. P. Arnason and P. Murphy, Agon, Logos, Polis: The Greek Achievement and Its Aftermath (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2001), for Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.05.12
P. Murphy, Civic Justice from Greek Antiquity to the Modern World (New York: Humanity Books, 2001), for Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.07.03
R. Osborne (ed.), Classical Greece (Oxford: Oxford University, 2001), for Anglo-Hellenic Review 17, Spring 2001:17
P. Flensted-Jensen, T. H. Nielsen, L. Rubenstein (eds.), Polis and Politics, (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum, 2000), for Bryn Mawr Classical Review 01.04.22
J. Brunschwig and G. Lloyd (eds.), Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge (Cambridge: Belknap, 2000), for Anglo-Hellenic Review 24, Autumn 2001:24
M. Schofield and C. Rowe (eds.), The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2000), for Anglo-Hellenic Review 22, 2000:24
H. van Wees (ed.), War and Violence in Ancient Greece (London: Duckworth and the Classical Press of Wales, 2000), for Bryn Mawr Classical Review 01.09.14
M. S. Marsilio, Farming and Poetry in Hesiod's Works and Days (Lanham, New York and Oxford: University Press of America, 2000), for Bryn Mawr Classical Review 00.10.16
Review Essay: M. C. Nussbaum, Women and Human Development (Cambridge: Cambridge
University, 2000), for Roundtable, a Journal of the University of Chicago Law School 8.1, 2001:215-237
Encyclopedia Entries
“Narrative on the Formation, Flowering and Decline of the Roman Republic,” and “Narrative on the Formation and Decline of Imperial Rome,” for World History Encyclopedia, (ABC-CLIO)
"Ancient Greek Elegiac Poetry," Ancient Greece (Salem Press)
"Cypselus of Corinth," in Notorious Lives (Salem Press)
“Hecataeus of Miletus,” Great Events from History: The Ancient World (Salem Press)
“Aeschylus,” http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/
“Xenophon,” http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/
“Ayn Rand,” www.literaryencyclopedia.com
“Solon,” www.literaryencyclopedia.com
“A Defense of American Rights: Principles, not Pragmatism,” Leadership Program of the Rockies, Denver, May 8, 2009.
“The Warrior and the Farmer: The Ethics of Productiveness in the Early Greeks,” Association of Private Enterprise Education, Guatemala City, April 6-7, 2009.
“Introduction to Ayn Rand’s Ideas,” Lecture at Universidad Francisco Marroquin, Guatemala City, Guatemala, April 5, 2009.
“‘A Certain Tendency in the Army’: Xenophon’s Claim to Virtue through Corporal Discipline,” Northeast Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, November 13-15, 2008
Ohio Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Denison University, April 12, 2008, “Asymmetry and Counseling” (session commentator)
“Solon of Athens on Justice, Fate and One’s Lot in Life,” Lecture, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, March 28, 2008
“Homer and the Homecoming,” Invited Lecture, Bowling Green State University, March 24, 2008
“Did Xenophon have a Concept of Political Economy?” Northeast Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November 15-17, 2007
“Aggregation in Moral and Political Philosophy,” The Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, November 1-4, 2007 (session moderator)
“Early Greek Lawgivers: Solon of Athens and the Discovery of Freedom under Law,” Invited Lecture, Ridgeview Classical Schools, Fort Collins, CO, January 26, 2007. Also, Ashland University, Academic Honors Program, April 26, 2007
“A Re-evaluation of Aurelian’s Bloodless Eastern Campaign against Palmyra,” Society for Military History Conference, Kansas State University, May 18-20, 2006
“Bringing Reason to the West: The Greek Cities of Southern Italy and Sicily,” iCon Conference, London, England, September 9-11, 2005
“The Procedural Nature of Ancient Greek Law,” Workshop on Philosophy of Law, University of Texas at Austin, TX, March 31 - April 2, 2005
“Oh Mist! Science, Religion and History in Aristophanes’ Clouds,” 2nd International Conference on Ancient and Modern European History, Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens, Greece, December 29-31, 2004
“The Crisis of Late Fifth-Century Athens: A Persecution of Scientists?” iCon Conference, London, England, September 24-26, 2004
"William Tecumseh Sherman and the Moral Impetus for Victory," at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, June 23, 2004
“Leadership and the Homeland Defense,” Briefing to the Senior Command, 179th Squadron, Ohio Air National Guard, Mission Support Group Planning Conference, December 4-5, 2003
“Nature and Virtue in Diodorus’s Account of Epaminondas of Thebes,” Department of Classical Studies, Rice University, March 25, 2003
“The Greek Concept of Freedom,” Conference on Values, Ethics and the Marketplace, Duke University, August, 2002
“Justice and Necessity in Solonian Athens,” Law and Public Order in Ancient Societies Panel, The American Philological Association Annual Meeting, January, 2002
“Pedagogical Uses of Information Technologies at the University of Cambridge: The Response to Changing Expectations,” Salve Regina University; Ancient Studies—New Technology: The World Wide Web and Scholarly Research, Communication and Publication in Ancient, Byzantine and Medieval Studies Conference; December, 2000
"Aristotle's Politics 1: The Polis as Both Natural and Technical," The Olympic Center for Philosophy and Culture; XIth International Symposium for the Political Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle; Pyrgos, Greece; August, 2000
“The Horoi and the Bridge between the 4th and 6th Centuries,” University of Cambridge; Place and Genre in Greek Epigraphy Conference; January, 1999
Assistant Director, Academic Honors Program, 2004-2008
Faculty Senate, 2005-2007
Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee, 2006-2007
College Secretary, College of Arts and Sciences, 2004-2007
Faculty Advisor, Marksmanship Club, 2004-2005
New Program and Course Proposals, including Four Master Syllabi, Greek Language, Spring 2006
Three Faculty Search Committees, Dept. of History and Political Science, 2002, 2005, 2006
Six Faculty Search Committees, College of Business and Economics, 2003 to 2007
Student Grade Appeals Committee, 2003-2004
Alternate Instructional Delivery Committee, 2002 –2005
New Course Proposals include three Master Syllabi, to reorganize the Early European History Sequence of Upper Division Courses, with New Course Proposals, Spring 2003
Instructor, Laptop Computer Training, Instructional Technologies Center, Oct. 18 and 25, 2004
Faculty Coordinator, Cockroft Forum for Free Enterprise Lecture, Spring, 2003.
Faculty Coordinator, Business and Ethics in the Marketplace Conference, Spring, 2003.
Faculty Advisor, Marksmanship Club, Fall 2002 – Present
Maintain Department of History and Political Science Web Page, 2001-4
Faculty Sponsor, Greek Reading Group, 2001 – 2004
Service: Cambridge University
Faculty Web Advisor, Electronic Resources for Ancient Historians, 1999-2000
Graduate Tutor; Marking of Undergraduate Essays; 1999-2001
Invigilator, University of Cambridge Faculty Library; 1998-2000
Invigilator, University of Cambridge, Museum of Classical Art and Archaeology; 1998-2001
Assistant to Professor Harold Mattingly, for preparation of his article “The Athenian Treaties with Troizen and Hermione,” in Historia XLIX/2(2000):131-140; 1999
Assistant to Dr. Mary Beard for Special Exhibitions, The Museum of Classical Art and Archaeology, University of Cambridge, 1998-2000