FACULTY
Christopher JonesGeorge Martin Lane Professor of the Classicsand of History cjones(at)fas.harvard.edu Bibliography (pdf) |
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Christopher
Jones was jointly appointed to
the Departments of Classics and History in 1992, after teaching at the University of Toronto since 1965. He was appointed George Martin Lane Professor in 1997. His research and teaching interests involve
later Greek literature (especially as viewed in its historical and
social setting), Roman history of the imperial period, and Latin
literature of the same period; he also works extensively in the field
of Greek epigraphy.
He is the author of Philostratus: Life of Apollonius of Tyana (Penguin, 1970), Plutarch and Rome (1971), The Roman World of Dio Chrysostom (1978), Culture and Society in Lucian (1986), Louis Robert, Le Martyre de Pionios, prêtre de Smyrne (1994, co-edited with G. W. Bowersock), Kinship Diplomacy in the Ancient World (1999), Philostratus: The Life of Apollonius of Tyana (2 volumes, Loeb Classical Library, 2005), and Letters of Apollonius, Ancient Testimonia, Eusebius's Reply to Hierocles (Loeb Classical Library, 2006). His published bibliography currently includes over 190 items. He has twice been a Member in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and has been a Visitor in the same School three times; he has twice served as Professeur
associé, École Normale Supérieure, Paris; he
served as a Senior Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Institute, Washington, D.C. from 1993 to 1999; he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1987), Corresponding Member of the German
Archaeological Institute (1992), Fellow of the American
Numismatic Society (1993), Member of the American
Philosophical Society (1996), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998), and Fellow of the Russian Society of Classicists (2001). He has recently completed a new book, New Heroes in Antiquity: From Achilles to Antinoos.
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