Staff Profile:
- Name:
- Professor David Carter
- Job Title:
- Head of Institute
- Responsibilities:
Currently seconded to the International Study and Language Institute
- Areas of Interest:
My research interests are in Greek drama and Greek political thought. A great deal (though not all) of my research to date is inspired by an enthusiasm for political drama in all its forms. (My favourite TV show is The West Wing, my favourite modern playwright is David Hare, and my favourite opera is John Adam's Nixon in China.) A central question in the study of Greek drama - essentially the question behind each of my two books - is: in what ways is Greek tragedy a political art form?
Fairly early in my work on tragedy and politics I came up against the problem of the Greeks and (human/natural or legal) rights: is it reasonable to discuss ancient Greek ideas of justice in terms of rights, or was the concept foreign to them? I am working on a book, under contract with Oxford University Press and provisionally entitled 'The Ancient Greeks and the Modern Theory of Rights'.
- Research groups / Centres:
In the Department of Classics: The Classical Tradition and Reception Studies; Language, Text and Power. I am a member of the University of Nottingham's Centre for Ancient Drama and its Reception. I am a founder member and co-director of an international network, based at Reading, on The Legacy of Greek Political Thought.
Other Activities:
I am Head of the University's International Study and Language Institute.
I am a keen supporter of Classics teaching in secondary schools and I am happy to give talks to sixth formers, especially the state sector. In a previous life I was Head of Classics in a large boys comprehensive school, and for two years I was chair of the Classical Civilisation committee of the Joint Association of Classical Teachers.
- Publications:
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YNumber of items: 15.
2018
- Carter, D. M. (2018) Society and politics in post-fifth century tragedy. In: Liapis, V. and Petrides, A. K. (eds.) Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Centur: A Survey from ca. 400 BC to ca. AD 400. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 270-294. ISBN 9781139833936 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139833936.011
- Carter, D. (2018) Tragic parrhesia. In: Villaceque, N. (ed.) A l'Assemblée comme au théâtre. Pratiques délibératives des Anciens, perceptions et résonances modernes. Hors serie. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, pp. 91-109. ISBN 9782753573116
2013
- Carter, D. (2013) Republicanism, rights and democratic Athens. Polis, 30 (1). pp. 73-91. ISSN 2051-2996
- Carter, D.M. (2013) Reported assembly scenes in Greek Tragedy. Illinois Classical Studies, 38. pp. 23-63. ISSN 0363-1923 doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/illiclasstud.38.0023
2012
- Carter, D. (2012) Antigone. In: Markantonatos, A. (ed.) Brill's Companion to Sophocles. Brill's companions in classical studies. Brill, Leiden, pp. 111-128. ISBN 9789004184923
2011
- Carter, D. M. and Griffith, M. (2011) Introduction. In: Carter, D. M. (ed.) Why Athens? A reappraisal of tragic politics. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 1-16. ISBN 9780199562329
- Carter, D. M. (2011) Plato, drama, and rhetoric. In: Carter, D. M. (ed.) Why Athens? A reappraisal of tragic politics. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 45-67. ISBN 9780199562329
- Carter, D. M., ed. (2011) Why Athens? A reappraisal of tragic politics. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp450. ISBN 9780199562329
2010
- Carter, D. M. (2010) The demos in Greek tragedy. The Cambridge Classical Journal, 56. pp. 47-94. ISSN 1750-2705
2007
- Carter, D. M. (2007) Could a Greek oath guarantee a claim right? Oaths, contracts and the structure of obligation in Greek society. In: Sommerstein, A. H. and Fletcher, J. (eds.) Horkos: the oath in Greek society. Exeter University Press, Exeter, pp. 60-72. ISBN 9781904675679
- Carter, D. M. (2007) The politics of Greek Tragedy. Exeter University Press, Exeter, pp136. ISBN 9781904675501
2006
- Carter, D. M. (2006) At home, round here, out there: the city and tragic space. In: Rosen, R. and Sluiter, I. (eds.) City, countryside and the spatial organisation of value in classical antiquity. Brill, Leiden, pp. 139-172. ISBN 9789004150430
2005
- Carter, D. M. (2005) The co-operative temper: a third dramatic role in Sophoclean tragedy. Mnemosyne, 58 (2). pp. 161-182. ISSN 0026-7074 doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/156852505774249523
2004
- Carter, D. M. (2004) Citizen attribute, negative right: a conceptual difference between ancient and modern ideas of freedom of speech. In: Sluiter, I. and Rosen, R. M. (eds.) Free speech in classical antiquity. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 197-220. ISBN 9789004139251
- Carter, D. M. (2004) Was Attic tragedy democratic? Polis, 21 (1-2). pp. 1-25. ISSN 0142-257X
