Eve MacDonald is a Canadian Classics and Archaeology who specialises in social history. She is a Senior Lecturer in Ancient history at Cardiff University.
Education
MacDonald completed a degree in classics at the University of Alberta. For post-graduate study, MacDonald completed a Master of Arts at UCL Institute of Archaeology and then a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa.
Career
MacDonald worked as a
teaching fellow at the University of Edinburgh between 2007 and 2011, and then the University of Reading from 2012 to 2017.
While at the University of Reading, MacDonald published a biography of
Hannibal,
Hannibal: A Hellenistic Life with Yale University Press. The book presented Hannibal as part of Hellenistic culture.
In a review published in
The Classical Review, John R. Holton described MacDonald's book as "an excellent achievement, arguably the best of its kind to date".
Writing in
The Heythrop Journal, Patrick Madigan echoed these sentiments, calling it "the most complete life of Hannibal to date".
MacDonald's expertise on Hannibal led her to appear in documentaries on Hannibal for
PBS and Channel 4.
MacDonald joined Cardiff University in 2017 where she is a lecturer in ancient history.
Selected publications
External links
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