About the Speaker:

Edward Harris, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History (Durham University), has published extensively on Athenian political history and institutions, Greek law and the economy of Ancient Greece. He has published Aeschines and Athenian Politics (New York and Oxford 1995),  Democracy and the Rule of Law in Classical Athens (Cambridge and New York 2006) and The Rule of Law in Action in Democratic Athens (Oxford and New York 2013). He has co-edited ) with Lene Rubinstein, The Law and the Courts in Ancient Greece (London 2004), with Edmund Stewart and David Lewis, The Ancient Greek Economy: Markets, Households and City-States (Cambridge and New York 2016), and with Edmund Stewart and David Lewis, Skilled Labor and Professionalism in Ancient Greece and Rome (Cambridge and New York 2020).  He has also translated Demosthenes 20-23 and Demosthenes 20-26 for the series The Oratory of Classical Greece (Texas 2008 and 2018). He has been a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and NEH Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.