Associate Professor David Pritchard

Associate Professor of Greek History

+61 7 336 53338

d.pritchard@uq.edu.au

Room 515, Michie Building (9)

Researcher biography

David M. Pritchard is Associate Professor of Greek History at the University of Queensland (Australia). He has obtained 12 fellowships in Australia, Denmark, France, the UK and the USA. In 2019-20 Associate Professor Pritchard is Research Fellow in Le Collegium de Lyon de l’université de Lyon. He has published 3 sole-authored books, 2 edited books, and 55 peer-reviewed articles and book-chapters. Cambridge University Press is the publisher of 3 of his 5 books. He has authored Athenian Democracy at War (Cambridge University Press: 2019), Sport, Democracy and War in Classical Athens (Cambridge University Press: 2013) and Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens (University of Texas Press: 2015), edited War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens (Cambridge University Press: 2010), and co-edited Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World (Classical Press of Wales: 2013).Associate Professor Pritchard has an h-index of 13 and more than 650 known citations. In recognition of his research he has won the equivalent of 750 thousand euros in research grants and been invited to speak in 18 countries. Associate Professor Pritchard regularly speaks on the radio and writes for newspapers around the world. His 30 op-eds have appeared in, among other outlets, Le Monde (France), Die Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), Kathimerini (Greece), Scroll.in (India), The Age (Australia) and Politike (Brazil). Associate Professor Pritchard gained his PhD in Ancient History from Macquarie University (Australia) in 2000.

Featured projects	Duration
The Athenian Funeral Oration Project	2017–2018
Democracy and War in Ancient Athens	2017–2018
When French Historians of Ancient Greece Conquered the World	2020

Publications

Books (3)

Book Chapters (12)

Journal Articles (44)

Conference Papers (2)

Thesis (1)

Preprints (25)

Video Documents (5)

Generic Documents (2)

Audio Documents (2)

Newspaper Articles (20)

Creative Works (4)

Books

Pritchard, David M. (2019). Athenian democracy at war. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108525572

Pritchard, David M. (2015). Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens. Austin, TX, United States: University of Texas Press. doi: 10.7560/772038

Pritchard, David M. (2013). Sport, Democracy and War in Classical Athens. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139030519

Book Chapters

Pritchard, David M. (2021). Athletic Participation, Training, and Adolescent Education. The Oxford Handbook Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World. (pp. 629-649) Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199592081.013.17

Pritchard, David M. (2019). Army. The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy. (pp. 93-94) edited by Alan H. Sommerstein. Hoboken, NJ, United States: Wiley-Blackwell.

Pritchard, David M. (2017). Esporte e Guerra na Atenas Democrática. Vida e Morten os Jogos da Antiguidade: Entre poder, competição e religião. (pp. 92-104) edited by C. Diogo de Souza and V. C. Porto. São Paulo, Brazil: Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia.

Pritchard, David M. (2016). Democracy and war. Conflict in Ancient Greece and Rome: The Definitive Political, Social, and Military Encyclopedia: Greek Section. (pp. 242-243) edited by Iain Spence, Douglas Kelly and Peter Londey. Santa Barbara CA, United States: ABL-CLIO.

Pritchard, David M. (2016). Public spending and war. Conflict in Ancient Greece and Rome: The Definitive Political, Social, and Military Encyclopedia: Greek Section. (pp. 274-278) edited by Iain Spence, Douglas Kelly and Peter Londey. Santa Barbara, CA, United States: ABC-CLIO.

Pritchard, David M. (2016). Sport and war. Conflict in Ancient Greece and Rome: The Definitive Political, Social, and Military Encyclopedia: Greek Section. (pp. 518-520) edited by Iain Spence, Douglas Kelly and Peter Londey. Santa Barbara, CA, United States: ABC-CLIO.

Pritchard, David M. (2015). Athens. A Companion to Ancient Education. (pp. 112-122) edited by W. Martin Bloomer. Chicester, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781119023913.ch6

Pritchard, David (2010). Sport, war and democracy in classical Athens. Sport in the cultures of the ancient world. (pp. 64-97) edited by Zinon Papakonstantinou. Abingdon Oxon, U.K.: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

Pritchard, David (2010). The symbiosis between democracy and war: The case of ancient Athens. War, democracy and culture in classical Athens. (pp. 1-62) edited by David Pritchard. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

Phillips, David J. and Pritchard, David (2003). Introduction. Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World. (pp. vii-xxxi) edited by Phillips, David J. and Pritchard, David. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales. doi: 10.4324/9781315198514-1

Pritchard, David (2003). Athletics, education and participation in Classical Athens. Sport and festival in the ancient Greek world. (pp. 293-349) edited by David Phillips and David Pritchard. London: Classical Press of Wales.

Pritchard, David M. (1998). Thetes, Hoplites, and the Athenian Imaginary. Ancient history in a modern university: Volume 1: The ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome. (pp. 121-127) edited by T. W. Hillard, R. A, Kearsley, C. E. V. Nixon and A. M. Nobbs. Sydney and Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing.

Journal Articles

Pritchard, David (2019). The physical parameters of Athenian democracy. Antichthon: journal of ancient world studies, 53, 33-55. doi: 10.1017/ann.2019.4

Pritchard, David M. (2019). The democratic control of public spending in Classical Athens. Journal of Ancient Civilizations, 34 (2), 229-243.

Pritchard, David M. (2018). Democratic warmaking in Ancient Athens. Limes: Revista de Estudios Clásicos, 30, 67-82.

Pritchard, David M. (2018). The Horsemen of Classical Athens: Some Considerations on Their Recruitment and Social Background. Athenaeum, 106 (2), 405-419.

Pritchard, David M. (2018). Les dépenses publiques dans l'Athènes démocratique: 200 ans après August Böckh. Revue des études anciennes, 120 (2), 385-405.

Pritchard, David M. (2018). The standing of sailors in democratic Athens. Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne, 44 (2), 231-253. doi: 10.3917/dha.442.0231

Pritchard, David M. (2018). The archers of classical Athens. Greece and Rome, 65 (1), 86-102. doi: 10.1017/S0017383517000237

Pritchard, David M. (2018). The horsemen of classical Athens. Some considerations on their recruitment and social background. Athenaeum: Studi Periodici Di Letteratura E Storia Dell Antichita, 106 (2), 439-453.

Pritchard, David M. (2018). The horsemen of classical Athens. some considerations on their recruitment and social background. Athenaeum, 2018 (2), 439-453.

Pritchard, David M. (2017). Guerra y finanzas públicas en la antigua Grecia. Limes: Revista de Estudios Clásicos, 28, 123-138.

Pritchard, David M. (2017). Public spending in democratic Athens. Ancient History: Resource for Teachers, 46, 50-69.

Pritchard, David M. (2016). Sport and Democracy in Classical Athens. Antichthon, 50, 50-69. doi: 10.1017/ann.2016.5

Pritchard, David M. (2015). Democracy and war in ancient Athens and today. Greece and Rome, 62 (2), 140-154. doi: 10.1017/S0017383515000029

Pritchard, David M. (2015). Public finance and war in Ancient Greece. Greece and Rome, 62 (1), 48-59. doi: 10.1017/S0017383514000230

Pritchard, David M. (2015). Deporte y democracia en la Atenas clásica. El Futuro Des Pasado, 6 (6), 69-86. doi: 10.14516/fdp.2015.006.001.002

Pritchard, David M. (2015). The position of attic women in democratic Athens. Ancient History: resources for teachers, 41-44 (2011-2014), 43-65.

Pritchard, David M. (2014). The position of Attic women in democratic Athens. Greece and Rome, 61 (2), 174-193. doi: 10.1017/S0017383514000072

Pritchard, David M. (2014). The Public Payment of Magistrates in Fourth-Century Athens. Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, 54 (1), 1-16.

Pritchard, David M. (2012). Athletics in satyric drama. Greece and Rome, 59 (1), 1-16. doi: 10.1017/S0017383511000210

Pritchard, D. M. (2012). Costing festivals and war: spending priorities of the Athenian democracy. Historia - Zeitschrift fur Alte Geschichte, 61 (1), 18-65.

Pritchard, David M. (2012). Public honours for Panhellenic sporting victors in democratic Athens. Nikephoros, 25, 209-220.

Pritchard, David (2012). Aristophanes and de Ste. Croix: the value of old comedy as evidence for Athenian popular culture. Antichthon, 46, 14-44. doi: 10.1017/S0066477400000137

Pritchard, David (2010). The incongruous athletes of satyric drama. Classicum, 36 (2), 11-22.

Pritchard, David (2010). War, democracy and culture in classical Athens. Online Opinion

Pritchard, David (2010). Costing the armed forces of Athens during the Peloponnesian War. Ancient History: Resources for Teachers, 37 (2), 125-135.

Pritchard, David (2010). The position of Attic women in democratic Athens. QHistory, 2010, 16-29.

Pritchard, David (2009). Sport, war and democracy in classical Athens. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 26 (2), 212-245. doi: 10.1080/09523360802513272

Pritchard, David (2009). Costing the Great Panathenaia in the early fourth century BC. Classicvm, XXXV, 8-15.

Pritchard, David (2008). Working papers, open access, and cyber-infrastructure in classical studies. Literary & Linguistic Computing, 23 (2), 149-162. doi: 10.1093/llc/fqn005

Pritchard, David M. (2007). How do democracy and war affect each other? The case study of ancient Athens. Polis, 24 (2), 328-352.

Pritchard, David (2005). War and democracy in Ancient Athens : A preliminary report. Classicum, 31 (1), 16-25.

Pritchard, David (2005). Athletics, war and democracy in Classical Athens. Teaching History, 39 (4), 4-10.

Pritchard, David (2005). Kleisthenes and Athenian democracy: Vision from above or below. Polis: The Journal of the Society for Greek Political Thought, 22 (1), 136-157.

Pritchard, David Morris (2004). A woman's place in classical Athens: An overview. Ancient history: resources for teachers, 34, 170-191.

Pritchard, David (2004). Kleisthenes, participation, and the dithyrambic contests of late archaic and classical Athens. Phoenix, 58 (3-4), 208-228. doi: 10.2307/4135166

Pritchard, David (2003). Participation in the ‘Old Education’ of Classical Athens. Classicum, 29(XXIX.2), 9-21.

Pritchard, David Morris (2002). Tribal solidarity and participation in fifth-century Athens: A summary. Ancient History: Resources for teachers, 31, 104-118.

Pritchard, David M. (1999). Fool's Gold and Silver: Reflections on the Evidentiary Status of Finely Painted Attic Pottery. Antichthon, 33, 1-27. doi: 10.1017/S0066477400002318

David M. Pritchard (1998). ''The Fractured Imaginary': Popular Thinking on Military Matters in Fifth-Century Athens'. Ancient History: Resources for Teachers, 28 (1), 38-61.

Pritchard, David M. (1996). Thucydides and the Tradition of the Athenian Funeral Oration. Ancient History: Resource for Teachers, 26, 137-157.

Pritchard, David M. (1995). How the Athenian Military Was Organised in the Late Fifth Century. Stele, 1, 70-73.

Pritchard, David M. (1994). From Hoplite Republic to Thetic Democracy: The Social Context of the Reforms of Ephialtes. Ancient History: Resources for teachers, 34 (2), 111-139.

Pritchard, David M. (1993). Antigone in Paris: The Civic Context of Athenian Tragedy. Ancient History: Resource for Teachers, 23, 8-18.

Pritchard, David M. (1991). Thucydides, classical struggle and empire. Ancient History: Resource for Teachers , 21, 77-85.

Conference Papers

Pritchard, David (2012). What was the point of Olympic victory?. A Conference on Olympic Athletes: Ancient and Modern, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia, 6-8 July 2012. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: The School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classic, The University of Queensland.

Pritchard, David (2010). War, democracy and culture in Classical Athens. ASCS 31 [2010], Perth, WA, Australia, 2-5 February 2010. Perth, WA, Australia: The University of Western Australia.

Thesis

Pritchard, David M. (1999). The Fractured Imaginary: Popular Thinking on Citizen Soldiers and Warfare in Fifth Century Athens. PhD Thesis, Department of Ancient History, Divison of Humanities, Macquarie University.

Preprints

Pritchard, David M. (2023). David M. Pritchard 2023 (in press), 'The Funeral Oration after Loraux', in D. M. Pritchard (ed.), The Athenian Funeral Oration: After Nicole Loraux, Cambridge (Cambridge University Press).

Pritchard, David M. (2023). David M. Pritchard 2023 (in press), 'Sailors in the Funeral Oration and Beyond', in D. M. Pritchard (ed.), The Athenian Funeral Oration: After Nicole Loraux, Cambridge (Cambridge University Press).

Pritchard, David (2021). D. M. Pritchard 2022 (sous presse), critique de l’ouvrage de M. Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, [Édimbourg 2020] (Edinburgh University Press), Topoi: Orient-Occident 24.1.

Pritchard, David (2021). 'Honouring the War Dead in Democratic Athens', David M. Pritchard 2022 (in press), in E. M. Economou, N. C. Kyriazis and A. Platias (eds.), Democracy and Salamis: 2500 Years after the Battle That Saved Greece and the Western World, Heidelberg (Springer Verlag).

Pritchard, David M. (2020). ‘The Social Structure of Democratic Athens’, David M. Pritchard 2020 (in press), in Maria Aparecida de Oliveira Silva and Camila Diogo de Souza (eds.), Morte e Vida na Grécia Antiga: Olhares interdisciplinares, Teresina (Editora da UFPI)..

Pritchard, David M. (2019). 'The Armed Forces', David M. Pritchard 2020 (in press), in J. Neils and D. Rogers (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens, Cambridge (Cambridge University Press).

Pritchard, David M. (2017). ‘Deporte y guerra en la democracia ateniense’, Antigüedad: Religiones y Sociedades 15, David M Pritchard 2017 (in press).

Pritchard, David M. (2017). 'The Archers of Classical Athens', Greece and Rome 65, David M. Pritchard 2018 (in press).

Pritchard, David M. (2017). 'The Horsemen of Classical Athens: Some Considerations on Their Recruitment and Social Background', Athenaeum 106, David M. Pritchard 2018 (in press).

David M. Pritchard (2016). "Sport and Democracy in Classical Athens" (in press), Antichthon 50..

Pritchard, David M. (2015). "Democracy and War in Ancient Athens and Today", GREECE AND ROME 62.2.

Pritchard, David M. (2015). 'Public Finance and War in Ancient Greece', GREECE AND ROME 62.1.

Pritchard, David M. (2015). The cost of Athenian democracy.

Pritchard, David M. (2014). The position of Attic women in democratic Athens.

Pritchard, David M. (2013). The Democratic Support of Athletics in Classical Athens.

Pritchard, David M. (2012). "Public Honours for Panhellenic Sporting Victors in Democratic Athens".

Pritchard, David (2012). "Athletics in satyric drama", Greece and Rome 59.2.

Pritchard, David (2012). Aristophanes and De Ste. Croix: The value of old comedy as evidence for Athenian popular culture.

Pritchard, David M. (2012). 'Athletic participation, training and adolescent education'.

Pritchard, David (2009). Costing Festivals and War: Spending Priorities of the Classical Athenian Democracy.

Pritchard, David M. (2009). Sport, War and Democracy in Classical Athens.

Pritchard, David M. (2008). Working Papers, Open Access, and Cyber-Infrastructure in Classical Studies.

Pritchard, David M. (2008). Athens.

Pritchard, David M. (2005). Kleisthenes and Athenian Democracy: Vision from Above or Below?.

Pritchard, David M. (2004). Kleisthenes, Participation, and the Dithyrambic Contests of Late Archaic and Classical Athens.

Video Documents

Pritchard, David M. (2023). David M. Pritchard (Nantes 2023), 'Les enfants d’Athéna: les forces armées de l’Athènes démocratiques', Seminar at L’Institut d’études avancées de Nantes (France): Monday 16 January 2023: Video Recording with Introduction in French and Paper in English.

Pritchard, David (2022). David M. Pritchard (Sydney 2022), 'The Social Structure of Democratic Athens', Video and Audio Recordings, Public Lecture for the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens (Australia): Thursday 19 May 2022. .

Pritchard, David M. (2021). 'The Funeral Oration Project: Pericles and Beyond', Video Recording, Public Lecture, Queensland History Teachers's Association (Australia).

Anne-Sophie Noel and David Pritchard (2021). Anne-Sophie Noel (2021), 'What Can We Do with Objects in Greek Theatre? From Performance Studies to Thing Studies, and Back to Performance Studies', Video and Audio Recordings, Seminar Series, Discipline of Classics and Ancient History, The University of Queensland (Australia). .

Pritchard, David M. (2021). David M. Pritchard (Sydney 2021), 'Receiving Kudos: What Was the Point of Olympic Victory?', Video Recording, Public Lecture (20 July 2021), The Chau Chak Wing Museum (The University of Sydney).

Generic Documents

Pritchard, David (2020). Research Seminars in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Queensland (Australia) in Second Semester 2020: Convened by David M. Pritchard. Discipline of Classics and Ancient History.

Pritchard, David (2010). The Inaugural Queensland Greek History Conference: The Cultural History of the Greeks: Conference Booklet with Program, Abstracts and Biographical Notes.

Audio Documents

Pritchard, David M. (2017). David M. Pritchard (Brisbane 2017), 'The Archers of Classical Athens', Revised Version for Publication, Audio Recording with PowerPoint Slides, Seminar Series, Discipline of Classics and Ancient History, The University of Queensland (Australia).. The University of Queensland. Seminar Series, Discipline of Classics and Ancient History.

Pritchard, David M. (2017). Why Ancient History Still Matters (2017): David M. Pritchard Interviewed by David Curnow on ABC Radio Queensland (Australia). Evenings with David Curnow.

Newspaper Articles

David M. Pritchard (2016, 08 08). Our Olympic Team is a Terrible Waste of 300 Million Dollars The Age 8-8.

David M. Pritchard (2016, 08 03). Our Olympic Team Is a Terrible Waste of Money The Sydney Morning Herald

David M. Pritchard (2016, 07 28). What's the True Economic and Symbolic Value of an Olympic Team? The Conversation

David M. Pritchard (2016, 06 09). Der wahre Wert von Olympia: Was die heutige Sportförderung von den alten Griechen lernen kann Die Süddeutsche Zeitung 2-2.

David M. Pritchard (2016, 05 13). La vraie valeur, économique et symbolique, d’une équipe olympique The Conversation, French edition

David M. Pritchard (2015, 10 02). Les leçons budgétaires de la démocratie athénienne antique The Conversation, French edition

David M. Pritchard (2015, 07 10). Greek Voters Can Face the Grim Truth: Unlike Today, the Ancient Greeks Engaged the Masses in Making Tough Fiscal Choices The Australian 12-12.

David M. Pritchard (2015, 03 20). Democracy Means Telling Us the Truth The Advertiser 26-26.

David M. Pritchard (2015, 03 14). Balancing the Budget: The Ancient Greek Perspective Neos Kosmos 25-25.

David M. Pritchard (2015, 03 14). Balancing the Greek Budget: The Ancient Athenian Perspective Kathimerini 3-3.

David M. Pritchard (2015, 03 06). If the Ancient Greeks Could Balance a Budget, Why Can’t We? The Age

Pritchard, David (2013, 03 01). Lessons from the Ancient Olympics Kathimerini 2-2.

Pritchard, David (2013, 02 27). What is the value of Olympic Gold? Kathimerini

David M. Pritchard (2012, 08 14). The Way the Ancient Greeks Idolised Olympic Victors Gives Fresh Insights into How We Benefit from the Games The Advertiser 18-18.

David M. Pritchard (2012, 05 26). Paying Your Way to the Olympics Neos Kosmos 31-31.

David M. Pritchard (2012, 05 07). What is the Point of Olympic Glory? The Herald Sun 24-25.

David M. Pritchard (2012, 05 04). Olympians Rated Highest When Sport and War Were the Only Stage The Courier-Mail 32-33.

David M. Pritchard (2008, 03 23). Sport and Democracy in Classical Athens Kathimerini 4-4.

David M. Pritchard (2006, 07 03). Lessons for Us from the First Democracy The Sydney Morning Herald 11-11.

David M. Pritchard (2004, 08 12). War minus the Shooting Campus Review 10-11.

Creative Works

Pritchard, David M. (2016). The Ancient Olympic Games: David M. Pritchard Interviewed by Kelly Higgins-Devine on ABC Local Radio Queensland (Australia). South Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Australian Broadcasting Commission.

Pritchard, David M. (2016). David M. Pritchard on Ancient Greek Direct Democracy and Today: Interviewed by Kelly Higgins-Devine on 612 ABC Brisbane Radio. South Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Australian Broadcasting Commission.

Pritchard, David M. (2008). War, democracy and popular culture in fifth-century Athens. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: UQ Cultural History Project.

Pritchard, David M. (2008). War minus the shooting: sport and democracy in classical Athens. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: UQ Cultural History Project.

Areas of research

Social and Cultural History of the Greco-Roman World