Dr Lindsay Allen
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Lecturer in Greek and Near Eastern HistoryMy research and teaching interests lie mostly in the Near East, particularly the Achaemenid Persian empire (c. 550-330 BC) and pre-Islamic Iran. My first degree was in Classics (Oxford 97) and my PhD (UCL 02) looked at Achaemenid kingship in texts and material culture from the fourth century BC. My research has expanded to include the history of scholarship and reception studies, particularly in relation to Persian history, the Ancient Near East and Alexander of Macedon.
I arrived at King's in 2005. I previously held research fellowships at Wolfson College, Oxford, the Warburg Institute and the British Museum. In the academic year 2008-09, I am a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York.
I arrived at King's in 2005. I previously held research fellowships at Wolfson College, Oxford, the Warburg Institute and the British Museum. In the academic year 2008-09, I am a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York.
Papers
Recent:
- At Home in Persepolis: occupying an archaeological site(abstract)
- Light and Darkness on the Thames: Rosemary Sutcliff’s margins of the Roman world and post-war London for Literary London Conference 2008, 2nd - 3rd July (abstract).
- Deciphering Persepolis; a creative phase of Orientalist enquiry into Persian antiquity - London Centre for the Ancient Near East Seminar, SOAS, Feb 08 (abstract).
- The Ruins of Charn, or the archaeology of reading - King's College Classics Departmental Seminar, Dec 07 (abstract)
- Bisitun and Herodotus: a conversation about kingship - for the Ancient History Seminar series 'Multiple voices: re-examining epigraphic documents in multilingual contexts' chaired with Karen Radner (UCL), Institute of Classical Studies, Oct 07
Publications
'Le roi imaginaire: an audience with the Achaemenid king' in Imaginary Kings: Royal Images in the Ancient Near East, Greece and Rome - Oriens et Occidens Band 11 (eds.) Hekster, Oliver & Fowler, Richard. Franz Steiner Verlag 2005
The Persian Empire: a history, British Museum Press 2005
Modules taught in 2008 - 09
- Persia & the Achaemenid Empire
This course covers the history, material culture and the history of scholarship of the Achaemenid Persian empire from the mid-sixth century to the invasion of Alexander. - 5AACAHC2 Writing History
Compulsory core course for Ancient History. - 4AACFY22 Ancient Monarchy from Persia to Rome
First year course. - 6AACHI13 Alexander the Great
- Alexander’s Afterlife (MA course)
Other Modules
- 6AACHI14 The Hellenistic Near East
This course explores the cultural and political history of the territory between the Eastern Mediterranean and Central Asia from the end of the Achaemenid dynasty to the rise of the Parthian Empire. - Views of Antiquity Classical Studies core course segment: The East in Ruins.
Other Activities
Xerxes' Gate of All Nations at Persepolis photographed in the early morning.
- Achemenet at the Collège de France
- The London Centre for the Ancient Near East
- Art of the First Cities Ancient Near Eastern Art Dept. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation Griffith Institute, Oxford