David Malcolm Lewis
David Malcolm Lewis
Biography
Lewis was a "student" (that is, fellow) of Christ Church, Oxford and Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford. In his obituary in The Guardian newspaper (16 July 1994), it was stated that Prof. Lewis "has been, for the last two or three decades, the world's leading authority in the field of Greek epigraphy." He was also an authority in several ancillary fields, "a profoundly learned scholar in Greek history" according to the Princeton Alumni Weekly memorial tribute.
A native of
Lewis was a scholar of ancient
His
Lewis was very proud of his work in editing three volumes on Archaic and Classical Greek history in the second edition of the Cambridge Ancient History. He published a book, Sparta and Persia, in 1977, and a shorter work, The Jews of Oxford, in 1992. He also edited several Oxford publications in the classics, including The Decrees of the Greek States published posthumously in 1997. He also published hundreds of book reviews, as many as eighteen appearing in a single year (1977).
Education
Career
- National Service with RAEC, 1949–51
- Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1951–52, 1964–65
- Student, British School at Athens, 1952–54
- Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1954–55
- Tutor in Ancient History, Christ Church, Oxford, 1955–85
- Student of Christ Church, Oxford, 1956–94
- University Lecturer in Greek Epigraphy, Oxford, 1956–85
- Professor of Ancient History, Oxford, 1985–94
Publications
- Sir Arthur Pickard-Cambridge, The Dramatic Festivals of Athens, 2nd edn 1968 (ed with John Gould)
- Greek Historical Inscriptions, 1969 (with Russell Meiggs)
- Sparta and Persia, 1977
- Inscriptiones Graecae I [Attica before 403 B.C.], 3rd edition, 1981–94
- (ed) Cambridge Ancient History, vol IV, 1988, vol. V, 1992, vol. VI, 1994
- The Jews of Oxford, 1992
- Selected Papers in Greek and Near Eastern History (ed. P. J. Rhodes), 1997
