Frances Pownall

Frances Pownall is Professor of Classics at the University of Alberta. She has published widely on Greek historiography (particularly the fourth century and the Hellenistic period), the source tradition on Macedonia and the Successors, and the historiographical tradition of Sicily and the Greek West. She is the author of Lessons From the Past: The Moral Use of History in Fourth-Century Prose (Michigan 2004) and a number of historical commentaries in Brill’s New Jacoby, as well as co-editor (with T. Howe) of Ancient Macedonians in the Greek and Roman Sources (Swansea 2018), and co-editor (with W. Heckel, J. Heinrichs, and S. Müller) of Lexicon of Argead Macedonia (forthcoming 2020).