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EVANS, James Allan Stewart

  • EVANS, James Allan Stewart
  • Date of Birth: March 24, 1931
  • Born City: Cambridge, Ontario
  • Born State/Country: Canada
  • Parents: David Arthur, a farmer, & Isabella Jane E.
  • Date of Death: November 15, 2023
  • Death City: Victoria, British Columbia
  • Death State/Country: Canada
  • Married: Eleanor Lynn Ward, June 16, 1964.
  • Education:

    B.A., Victoria College, Toronto, 1952; M.A. Yale, 1953; Ph.D., 1957; study at ASCSA, 1954-5.
  • Dissertation:

    “A Social and Economic History of the Egyptian Temple of Soknebtunis in the Greco-Roman Period” (Ph.D., Yale, 1957; rev. and publ. as Economic History of an Egyptian Temple in Greco-Roman Egypt (New Haven: Yale U. Press, 1961).
  • Professional Experience:

    Asst. prof., classics, Western Ontario and Waterloo College, London, 1955-60; vis. spec. lectr., Toronto, 1960-1; asst. prof., Texas, 1961-2; prof. history, McMaster, 1862-71; prof. classics & head of dept.,  British Columbia, 1972-95; fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 1992; vis. prof. history, Washington, 1997-8; vis. faculty, Simon Fraser U., British Columbia, 1998; Whitehead vis. prof., ASCSA, 1998-9;  ed., Waterloo Review, 1958-60; VERGILIUS, 1963-71; lit. ed., Commentator, 1963-71; ed. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 1977-95. 
  • Publications:

    Books:

    Procopius (Boston: Twayne, 1972); Polis and Imperium: Studies in Honour of Edward Togo Salmon (Toronto: Hakkert, 1974); Herodotus (Boston: Twayne, 1982); Herodotus, Explorer of the Past: Three Essays (Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1991); The Age of Justinian: The Circumstances of Imperial Power (New York: Routledge, 1996); The Empress Theodora: Partner of Justinian (Austin: U. of Texas Press, 2002); The Emperor Justinian and the Byzantine Empire(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005); Daily Life in the Hellenistic Age: From Alexander to Cleopatra (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008).

    Articles:

     

    “Herodotus and the Gyges Drama,” Athenaeum, n.s. 33 (1955) 333–6; "The Dream of Xerxes and the Nomoi of the Persians," CJ 57.3 (Dec. 1961) 109–11; "Histiaeus and Aristagoras: Notes on the Ionian Revolt," AJP 84 (1962) 113–28; "Herodotus and the Problem of the 'Lake of Moeris'," CW (June 1963) 275–7; "Note on Miltiades' Capture of Lemnos,” CP  58 (1963) 168–70; "The 'Final Problem' at Thermopylae," GRBS 5 (1964) 231–7; "Despotes Nomos," Athenaeum, n.s. 43 (1965) 142–53; "Father of History or Father of Lies: The Reputation of Herodotus," CJ 64 (1968) 11–17; "Notes on Thermopylae and Artemisium," Historia 18 (1969) 389–406; ""Justinian and the Historian Procopius," G&R 17 (1970) 218–23; "Christianity and Paganism in Procopius of Caesarea," GRBS 12 (1971) 81–100; "Herodotus and the Ionian Revolt," Historia 25 (1976) 31–7; “The Settlement of Artaphrenes," CP 71 (1976) 344–8; "Herodotus and the Ionian Revolt," Historia 25 (1976) 31–7; "The Settlement of Artaphrenes," CP 71 (1976) 344–8; "What Happened to Croesus?," CJ 74.1 (1978) 33–40; "Herodotus and Athens: The Evidence of the Encomium." LAC 48 (1979) 112–18; "The Quadriga at the Entrance of the Acropolis," RSC 27 (1979) 13–15; "Herodotus' Publication Date," Athenaeum n.s. 57 (1979) 145–9; "Oral Tradition in Herodotus," Canadian Oral History Association Journal 4 (1980) 8–16; "Notes on the Debate of the Persian Grandees,” QUCC n.s. 7 (1981) 79–84; "The Oracle of the 'Wooden Wall'," CJ 78 (1982) 24–9; "The Nika Rebellion and the Empress Theodora," Byzantion 54 (1984) 380–2; "'Candaules, Whom the Greeks Named Myrsilus...'" GRBS 26 (1985) 229–33; “The Faiyum and the 'Lake of Moeris'," AHB 92 (1987) 66–74 (Also published in similar form as "The Fayum (in Egypt) and the Lake of Moeris (in Herodotus)".); “The 'Recent' Prominence of Themistocles," AJP 108 (1987) 382–4; "Cavalry about the Time of the Persian Wars: A Speculative Essay," CJ 82 (1987) 97–106; "Herodotus 9.73.3 and the Publication Date of the Histories," CP 83 (1987) 226–8; "The Story of Pythius," LCM 13.9/10 (Nov.–Dec. 1988) 139; "The 'Wooden Wall' Again," AHB 2.2 (1988) 25–30; "The Medism of Pausanias: Two Versions," Antichthon22 (1988) 1–11; "Herodotus and the Battle of Marathon," Historia 43 (1993) 279–307; "The Dates of Procopius' Works: A Recapitulation of the Evidence," GRBS 37 (1996) 301–13; "Joseph-François Lafitau: A Disciple of Herodotus among the Iroquois," in *The Beginnings of History* (2006), previously unpublished.