Biography
Born in Limerick, I studied for my BA in Classics in Galway and my MA in Dublin (UCD). In 2006 I moved to Edinburgh to pursue a Ph.D. (awarded 2011), during which time I held a Marie Curie research fellowship at the école normale supérieure, Paris, and an Erasmus studentship at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. I returned to Dublin to take up the post of Walsh Family Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin in 2011. I work on the history and epigraphy of the Hellenisitic world, in particular mainland Greece, the Aegean, and western Asia Minor.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Shane Wallace, Hellenic Leagues and Panhellenic Games: Macedonian Power in Greece from the Argeads to Cassander and the Antigonids, Hermathena, 208-209, 2024, p50+
Contesting Greatness: The Epithet Megas in the Hellenistic Courts in, editor(s)Christoph Michels with Hans Beck and Achim Lichtenberger , The Same, but Different? Monarchical Representation in the Hellenistic World between Assimilation and Differentiation, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 2024, pp35+ , [Shane WAllace]
Shane Wallace, The Antigonid Empire in Greece, Hermathena 208-209 (2024), Dublin, 2024, 280+pp
Shane Wallace, Book Review, Review of Contested Pasts: A Determinist History of Alexander the Great in the Roman Empire, by Jennifer Finn , Histos, 17, 2023, p1 - 201, p90-96
Shane Wallace, Book Review, Review of Alexander the Great and Propaganda, by John Walsh and Elizabeth Baynham , Classical Review, 73.1, 2023, p1 - 201, p199-200
Shane Wallace, Book Review, Review of Gesellschaftliche Spaltungen im Zeitalter des Hellenismus (4."1. Jahrhundert v. Chr.), by Stefan Pfeiffer and Gregor Weber , Sehepunkte, 23.5, 2023, p1 - 201
Shane Wallace and Thomas Rose, The Athenian Revolt from Demetrios Poliorketes: New Evidence from Rhamnous (I.Rhamnous 404), 36.3-4, 2022, p166 - 178
Classics Ireland, 28, (2021), 1 - 101p, Shane Wallace, [Editor]
Shane Wallace, East and West: Lines of Communication Between Alexander and the Greeks, Hermathena, 200, 2021, p15 - 72
Classics Ireland, 27, (2020), 350+p, Shane Wallace
Classics Ireland, 27, (2020), 1 - 313p, Shane Wallace, [Platonic and Neoplatonic Thought and Action: Essays in Honour of Andrew Smith]
Communication and Legitimation: Knowledge of Alexander's Asian Conquests in the Greek World in, editor(s)Kai Trampedach and Alexander Meeus , Alexander the Great: The Legitimation of Conquest, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020, pp123 - 144, [Shane Wallace]
Shane Wallace, Review of Accommodating the Individual. Identity and Control After Alexander, by Henry Heitmann-Gordan , Sehepunkte : Rezensionsjournal für Geschichtswissenschaften, 19, (Nr. 7/8), 2019
Classics Ireland, 26, (2019), 1 - 202p, Shane Wallace, [Editor], 2014-
Shane Wallace, Implied Motivation in Diodorus' Narrative of the Successors, Histos: Journal of Ancient Historiography, Supplement 8, 2018, p69 - 114
Shane Wallace, Review of Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian, by Angelos Chaniotis , The Ancient History Bulletin, 8, 2018, p121-123
Classics Ireland, 25, (2018), 1 - 169p, Shane Wallace, [Editor], 2014-
Metalexandron: Receptions of Alexander in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds in, editor(s)Kenneth Moore , Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great, Leiden, Brill, 2018, pp162 - 195, [Shane Wallace]
Alexander the Great and Democracy in the Hellenistic World in, editor(s)Mirko Canevaro and Benjamin Gray , The Hellenistic Reception of Classical Athenian Democracy and Political Thought, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp46 - 72, [Shane Wallace]
Classics Ireland, 23-24 (2016-2017), (2017), 1 - 179p, Shane Wallace, [Editor], 2014-
Court, Kingship, and Royal Style in the Early Hellenistic Period in, editor(s)Andrew Erskine, Lloyd-Llewellyn-Jones, & Shane Wallace (eds.) , The Hellenistic Court: Monarchic Power and Elite Society from Alexander to Cleopatra, Swansea, Classical Press of Wales, 2017, pp1 - 30, [Shane Wallace]
Andrew Erskine, Lloyd-Llewellyn-Jones, & Shane Wallace (eds.), The Hellenistic Court: Monarchic Power and Elite Society from Alexander to Cleopatra, Swansea, Classical Press of Wales, 2017
Classics Ireland, 19-20, 2012-2013, (2016), 1 - 202p, Shane Wallace, [editor]
Shane Wallace, Greek Culture in Afghanistan and India: Old Evidence and New Discoveries, Greece and Rome, 63, (2), 2016, p205 - 226
Shane Wallace, Review of 'Epigraphical Approaches to the Post-Classical Polis: Fourth Century BC to Second Century AD' (Oxford, 2013), by Paraskevi Martzavou & Nikolaos Papzarkadas (eds.) , Mnemosyne, 69, 2016, p901-905
Shane Wallace, Subject Review: Hellenistic History, Classics Ireland, 19-20, ([2012-2013]), 2016, p122 - 139
Shane Wallace, The Rescript of Philip III Arrhidaios and the Two Tyrannies at Eresos, Tyche: Contributions to Ancient History, Papyrology and Epigraphy, 31, 2016, p239 - 258
Classics Ireland, 21-22 (2014-2015), (2015), 1 - 201p, Shane Wallace, [Editor]
Shane Wallace, Defending the Freedom of the Greeks: Antigonos, Telesphoros, and the Olympic Games of 312 B.C., Phoenix, 68, 2014, p235 - 246
History and hindsight. The importance of Euphron of Sikyon for the Athenian democracy in 318/7 in, editor(s)Hans Hauben & Alexander Meeus (eds.) , The Age of the Successors (323-276 BC), Leuven, Peeters, 2014, pp599 - 629, [Shane Wallace]
Alexander IV, Roger Bagnall, Kai Broderson, Craig Champion, Andrew Erskine, and Sabine Huebner, Encyclopaedia of Ancient History, Malden, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, pp278 - 279, [Shane Wallace]
Philip III Arrhidaios, Roger Bagnall, Kai Broderson, Craig Champion, Andrew Erskine, and Sabine Huebner, Encyclopaedia of Ancient History, Malden, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, pp5256 - 5257, [Shane Wallace and Franca Landucci Gattinoni]
Kallias of Sphettos, Roger Bagnall, Kai Broderson, Craig Champion, Andrew Erskine, and Sabine Huebner, Encyclopaedia of Ancient History, Malden, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, pp3678 - 3679, [Shane Wallace]
League of Corinth, Roger Bagnall, Kai Broderson, Craig Champion, Andrew Erskine, and Sabine Huebner, Encyclopaedia of Ancient History, Malden, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, pp3982 - 3983, [Shane Wallace]
Shane Wallace, Review of Hellenistic Democracies: Freedom, Independence and Political Procedure in Some East Greek City-State, Historia Einzelschriften 206 (Stuttgard, 2010), by Suzanne Carlsson , POLIS: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought, 30.1, 2013, p61-65
Adeimantos of Lampsakos and the development of the Hellenistic philos in, editor(s)Victor Alonso-Troncoso & Edward Anson , After Alexander: The Time of the Diadochi (323-281 BC) , Oxford, Oxbow Books, 2013, pp142-157 , [Shane Wallace]
Spartokids, Roger Bagnall, Kai Broderson, Craig Champion, Andrew Erskine, and Sabine Huebner (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Ancient History, Malden, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, pp6346 - 6347, [Shane Wallace]
Lamian War, Roger Bagnall, Kai Broderson, Craig Champion, Andrew Erskine, and Sabine Huebner, Encyclopaedia of Ancient History, Malden, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, pp3869 - 3870, [Shane Wallace]
Shane Wallace, Review of A Companion to Hellenistic Literature (Malden/Oxford, 2010), by James J. Clauss & Martine Cuypers (eds.) , Classical Review, 62.1, 2012, p96-98
The significance of Plataia for Greek eleutheria in the early Hellenistic period in, editor(s)Andrew Erskine & Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (eds.) , Creating a Hellenistic World, Swansea, Classical Press of Wales, 2011, pp147-176 - [Shane Wallace]
Shane Wallace, The Freedom of the Greeks in the Early Hellenistic Period. A Study in Ruler-City Relations., PhD, University of Edinburgh, 2011, 288pp
Shane Wallace, Review of 'The Lost World of the Golden King. In Search of Ancient Afghanistan', Hellenistic Culture and Society 53 (Berkeley, 2012), by Frank L. Holt , Hermathena, 191, 2011, p118-24
Shane Wallace, Review of Philip II and Alexander the Great, Father and Son. Lives and Afterlives (Oxford, 2010), by Elizabeth Carney & Daniel Ogden (eds.) , Classics Ireland, 17, 2010, p119-122
Shane Wallace, Review of Le prossenie ateniesi del IV secolo a.C. Gli onorati asiatici (Rome, 2004), by Enrica Culasso Gastaldi , Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2009-08-51, 2009
Shane Wallace, Review of Olympias: Mother of Alexander the Great (London, 2006), by Elizabeth Carney , Classics Ireland, 15, 2008, p85-87
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Shane Wallace, Book Review, Review of The Courts of Philip II and Alexander the Great. Monarchy and Power in Ancient Macedonia., by Frances Pownall, Sulochana R. Asirvatham, and Sabine Müller , H-Soz-Kult, 13-11-2023, 2023, p1 - 201
Shane Wallace, Book Review, Review of Lexicon of Argead Macedon', by Waldemar Heckel, et al. , Klio, 104, 2022, p1 - 201, p1-5
Recognition
Representations
Editor of the international journal 'Classics Ireland'
TCD Representative on the Central Council of the Classical Association of Ireland
Publication Committee for the journal 'Classics Ireland'.
Convenor of the panel 'Rulers and Subjects in Diodorus Siculus' Bibliotheke', Classical Association Annual Conference, University of Exeter, 2012.
Co-organiser of international conference 'The Hellenistic Court', University of Edinburgh, 2011
Anonymous reviewer for the publisher 'University of Chicago Press'.
Anonymous reviewer for the international journal 'The Classical Journal'.
Anonymous reviewer for the international journal 'Ricerche Ellenistiche'.
Anonymous reviewer for the international journal 'The Journal of Hellenic Studies'.
Anonymous reviewer for the international journal 'The Ancient History Bulletin'.
Anonymous reviewer for the publisher 'Brill'.
Anonymous reviewer for the international journal 'Greece & Rome'.
Anonymous reviewer for publisher 'Routledge'.
Anonymous reviewer for the international journal 'Polis'
Awards and Honours
Athenry Prize, National Univeristy of Ireland, Galway
Marie Curie Research Fellowship - École normale supérieure, Paris
Arts and Humanities Research Council Studentship - University of Edinburgh
Baldwin Brown Travelling Scholarship - University of Edinburgh
School Scholarship - University of Edinburgh
Erasmus Exchange Studentship - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Hector and Elizabeth Catling Bursary - British School at Athens
Visiting Scholarship, Fondation Hardt, Geneva
Memberships
British Epigraphy Society
Classical Association of Ireland
British School at Athens