Patrick Wheatley

BA (Hons), PhD (UWA), Senior Lecturer
Email pat.wheatley@otago.ac.nz

Dr Pat Wheatley received his PhD with Distinction from the University of Western Australia in 1998, and lectured at the University of Queensland before coming to Otago. His research specialty is the history and historiography of the Diadochoi, or Successors to Alexander the Great, and he has published articles on the chronology, coinage, and social aspects of this period. He is writing a monograph on Demetrius Poliorcetes ("The Besieger of Cities"); and is editing, with Dr Elizabeth Baynham (Newcastle), a volume of essays entitled East and West in the World Empire of Alexander the Great, contracted with Oxford University Press, due in 2012

He is also Australasian editor of the journal Ancient History Bulletin, (http://ancienthistorybulletin.ca/)

Papers taught 2013

First Semester:

CLAS102: Greek and Roman History

GREK211: Intermediate Greek

CLAS331: Research Methods in Classical Studies

Second Semester:

GREK112: Introductory Greek 2

Recent publications include:

Books

Justin: Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus, Volume II. Books 13-15: The Successors to Alexander the Great (Clarendon Ancient History Series, Oxford University Press, 2011; with J.C. Yardley and W. Heckel).

Alexander & His Successors: Essays From the Antipodes ed. Pat Wheatley and Robert Hannah, (Regina Books, Claremont CA 2009).

Alexander's Empire. From Formulation to Decay ed. Waldemar Heckel, Lawrence Tritle and Pat Wheatley (Regina Books, Claremont, CA 2007).

Articles and Chapters

"Diadochi and Successor Kingdoms"; "Ipsos, Battle of", in The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Ancient Greece and Rome ed. M. Gagarin and E. Fantham, (Oxford/New York, Oxford University Press, 2010), vol. 2, 411-415; vol. 4, 86-88.

"The Besieger in Syria, 314-312 B.C. Historiographic and Chronological Notes", in Alexander & His Successors: Essays From the Antipodes ed. Pat Wheatley and Robert Hannah, (Regina Books, Claremont CA 2009), 323-333.

"The Diadochi,or Successors to Alexander", ch. 3 in Alexander the Great: A New History, ed. by W. Heckel and L.A. Tritle, (Blackwell Publishing 2009) 53-68.

"An Introduction to the Chronological Problems in Early Diadoch Sources and Scholarship", in Alexander's Empire. From Formulation to Decay ed. Waldemar Heckel, Lawrence Tritle and Pat Wheatley (Regina Books, Claremont, CA 2007), 179-192.

"Film Review: Alexander", NZACT Bulletin 32 (2005) 24-26.

"Poliorcetes and Cratesipolis: a note on Plut. Demetr. 9.5-7", Antichthon 38 (2004) 1-9.

"The Year 22 Tetradrachms of Sidon and the Date of the Battle of Gaza", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 144 (2003) 268-276.

"Lamia and the Besieger: an Athenian Hetaera and a Macedonian King", in The Macedonians in Athens, 322-229 B.C., ed. by O. Palagia and S.V. Tracy, (Oxford 2003) 30-36.

"The Mint at Tyre after the Battle of Ipsus", in Crossroads of History: The Age of Alexander, edited by W. Heckel & L.A. Tritle (Regina Books, Claremont, CA 2003) 183-216.

"Antigonus Monophthalmus in Babylonia, 310-308 B.C.", Journal of Near Eastern Studies 61 (2002) 39-47.

"Three Missing Years in the Life of Demetrius the Besieger: 310-308 B.C.", Journal of Ancient Civilisations 16 (2001) 9-19.

"The Antigonid Campaign in Cyprus, 306 B.C.", Ancient Society (2001) 133-156.

"The Second Tyrian Coin in the Anadol Hoard (IGCH 866)", Ancient History Bulletin 14.3 (2000) 78-80.

"The Young Demetrius Poliorcetes", Ancient History Bulletin 13.1 (1999) 1-13.

"The Origins of the Pontic House", Journal of Hellenic Studies 118 (1998) 155-164 (with A.B. Bosworth).

"The Date of Polyperchon's Invasion of Macedonia and Murder of Heracles", Antichthon 32 (1998) 12-23.

"The Chronology of the Third Diadoch War, 315-311 B.C.", Phoenix 52 (1998) 257-281.

"Problems in analysing source documents in Ancient History: the case of Philip, adviser to Demetrius Poliorcetes, 314-312 B.C., and IG ii2 561", Limina 3 (1997), 61-70. http://www.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/previous/volumes_15/volume_3?f=73949

"The Lifespan of Demetrius Poliorcetes", Historia 46 (1997), 19-27.

"Ptolemy Soter's Annexation of Syria, 320 B.C.", Classical Quarterly 45 (1995), 433-440.

In Progress:

Demetrius the Besieger (a historical biography of Demetrius Poliorcetes, 336-282 B.C.).

"Demetrios I Poliorcetes"; "Ipsos"; "Kassandros", in The Encyclopaedia of Ancient History 13 vols. ed. R. Bagnall et al. (Blackwell Publishing; 2012, forthcoming).

"Seleukos and Chandragupta in Justin XV 4", in The Age of the Successors (323-276 BC), ed. by H. Hauben and A. Meeus (Leuven: Peeters, Studia Hellenistica 53; 2012, forthcoming).

East and West in the World Empire of Alexander the Great, ed. by Pat Wheatley and Elizabeth Baynham (Oxford University Press; 2012 forthcoming).

University of Otago, Division of Humanities Research Cluster

Dr Wheatley is a member of the Classical Culture and Society Research Cluster.