Research Supervisor Connect
Sydney born and bred, Dr Brown studied Ancient History at Macquarie University and Classical Greek at University of Sydney; he taught at Macquarie University, University of New South Wales and ACU before rejoining Classics at University of Sydney.
Classics and Ancient History, School of Humanities (SOH)
Dr Brown's main research areas include the interpretation and contexts of Archaic Greek poetry, especially Homeric epic; the beginnings of Greek historiography and philosophy; Greece and Rome from the perspectives of comparative Indo-European language and culture; the socio-economic history of Archaic and Classical Greece, especially Archaic tyranny; Marxist, Critical Theory and sociological approaches to the Ancient World; “Big History”, with a focus on the ‘transition from Antiquity to Feudalism, 300-800 AD’.
Ben has supervised many Honours and Masters theses, with a special interest in those on Greek culture and history, and/or theses with a theoretical focus.
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