Edward John Armstrong

Edward is currently a Non-Stipendiary Research Associate of The British School at Athens. Between October and December 2023, he held the Jacobi Fellowship at the Kommission fuer Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts in Munich, Germany. Before that, Edward was a PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow at the University of St Andrews. Edward's PhD thesis examined political discourse in Classical Athens with a rhetorical, linguistic, and historiographical focus. Specifically, it was concerned with Thucydides' use of characterisations in political rhetoric to shape his narrative of the Atheno-Peloponnesian Wars.

Edward completed his B.A.(Hons.) and MPhil. at The University of Sydney in 2016 and 2019 respectively, with an MPhil. thesis titled, "Religion and Disaster in Thucydides' History".

Edward has a chapter in a forthcoming volume on ancient religious belief,  published by Eerdmanns and he is currently preparing a monograph based on his PhD thesis.