DR. JOHN DAVID LEWIS
email
classicalideals@yahoo.com
website www.classicalideals.com
Academic
Appointments
Senior Research Scholar in History and Classics, Social
Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University (2007 to present)
Ashland University, Dept. of History and Political
Science, 2001-2008 (tenured)
Associate
Professor of History, 2007
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
MPhil
(1997), Classics, University of Cambridge.
Thesis:
Violence and the Archaic Political
Context [Supervisor: Paul Millett]
BA (1995), History,
Thesis: Fear,
Loathing and Expediency: The Arguments for Railway Regulation
in 1870’s Britain [Supervisor: Robert Gutchen]
Bowling Green State University, 2007-2008:
Greek
Philosophical Psychology, Graduate Seminar (assisting Professor Fred Miller)
Ethics
and Political Economy, Graduate Seminar (assisting Professor Fred Miller)
Ashland University, Dept. of History and Political
Science; 2001 to 2008
History
112 / 13 Western Civilization
History
380 Greek Language and Society
History
304 The Ancient Near East
History
261 Ancient
History
204 Ancient
History
221 The Renaissance and Reformation
History
304 Warfare Ancient and Modern
Honors
101 Colloquium: Great Books
University of London, 200-2001:
Life and Death in the Ancient World
Money in the Ancient World
History of the Ancient
Intensive Greek Language Seminars
Progressive Era American History
Ohio Summer Honors Institute 2005-2008:
The
Greeks and Romans at War
Books
Demosthenes Duckworth Press, (proposal)
Nothing Less
than Victory: Military Offense and the Lessons of History from the
Greco-Persian Wars to World War II (under
contract, Princeton University Press, expected fall 2008)
Solon the
Thinker: Political Thought in Archaic
Early Greek Lawgivers
(Bristol Classical Press, August,
2007)
Articles
and Book Chapters
“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
“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
Association of Ancient Historians
Society for Military History
American Philological Association
Australian Classics Society
Review
Essays
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 2007.03.26
G.
Pre-publication Reviewer, Living Through War and Revolution: War Experiences Since 1500, for
Longman Press (2005)
C. Miller, Homer’s Sun Still Shines:
Ancient
B. Strauss, The
Pre-publication Reviewer, Markets Don’t Fail, for Lexington Books (June, 2004)
E. W. Robinson, Ancient
Greek Democracy:
C. A. Bates, Aristotle’s
“Best” Regime: Kingship, Democracy and the Rule of Law (
N. Urbinati, Mill
of Democracy: From the Athenian Government to Representative Government (
J. P. Arnason and P. Murphy, Agon, Logos, Polis: The
Greek Achievement and Its Aftermath
(
P. Murphy, Civic Justice from Greek Antiquity to
the Modern World (
R. Osborne (ed.), Classical
P. Flensted-Jensen, T. H. Nielsen, L. Rubenstein
(eds.), Polis and Politics, (
J. Brunschwig and G. Lloyd (eds.), Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical
Knowledge (
M. Schofield and C. Rowe (eds.), The
H. van Wees (ed.), War and Violence in Ancient
Greece (
M. S. Marsilio, Farming
and Poetry in Hesiod's Works and Days
(
Review Essay: M. C. Nussbaum, Women and Human Development (
University, 2000), for Roundtable, a Journal of the University
of
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) (in press)
"Ancient Greek Elegiac Poetry," Ancient
"Cypselus of
“Hecataeus of
“Aeschylus,” http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/
“Xenophon,” http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/
“Ayn Rand,” www.literaryencyclopedia.com
“Solon,” www.literaryencyclopedia.com
“The Inner
Jihad and Islamic Totalitarianism,” Invited Lecture, Tel Aviv University, June 2,
2008 (forthcoming)
“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, Philadelphia, November
15-17, 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
“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,
"William Tecumseh Sherman and the Moral Impetus
for Victory," at the Social Philosophy and
“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,
“The Greek Concept of Freedom,” Conference on Values,
Ethics and the Marketplace, Duke University, August, 2002
“Justice and Necessity in Solonian
“Pedagogical Uses of Information Technologies at the
"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;
“The Horoi and the Bridge between the 4th and 6th
Centuries,” University of Cambridge; Place and Genre in Greek Epigraphy
Conference; January, 1999
Other
Conferences
“Moral
Responsibility in War,” Liberty Fund Conference, Philadelphia, June 5-8, 2008
(forthcoming)
Ohio Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Denison
University, April 12, 2008, “Asymmetry and Counseling” (session commentator)
“Self-Interest
and Liberty in Adam Smith’s Wealth of
Nations and Theory of Moral
Sentiments,” Liberty Fund Conference, San Diego, March 6-9, 2008
“Aggregation in
Moral and Political Philosophy,” The Social Philosophy and Policy Center,
Bowling Green State University, November 1-4, 2007 (session moderator)
“Contrasting Rationales for Liberal Order,” Liberty
Fund Conference, Indianapolis, October 11-14, 2007
“Liberty and
Authority in the Far East: Western Perspective,” Liberty Fund Conference,
Indianapolis, August 30 – September 2, 2007
“Science,
Rhetoric, and Political Freedom,” Liberty Fund Conference, Pasadena, May 24-27, 2007
“Wars Just and
Unjust,” Liberty Fund Conference, Louisville, March 15-18, 2007
“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
“Law, Liberty
and Morality,” Liberty Fund Conference, San Diego, October 5-8, 2006
Assistant Director, Academic Honors Program, 2004 f.
Faculty Senate, 2005-2007
Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee, 2006-2007
College Secretary,
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, Spring 2003 to Spring, 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
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,
Invigilator,
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