Hopwood, Keith 1946–

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Hopwood, Keith 1946–

PERSONAL: Born 1946. Education: Earned an M.A.

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of Classics, University of Wales, Lampeter, Ceredigion SA48 7ED, Wales. Agent—E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Writer and educator. University of Wales, Lampeter, lecturer in ancient history.

MEMBER: Comité d'Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes (assistant secretary).

WRITINGS:

Scripta Hierosolymitana XXV, [Jerusalem, Israel], 1994.

(Compiler) Ancient Greece and Rome: A Bibliographical Guide, Manchester University Press (New York, NY), 1995.

The Reign of Nero: A Companion to the Penguin Translation, Bristol Classical Press (Bristol, England), 1996.

(Editor and contributor) Organised Crime in Antiquity, Duckworth/Classical Press of Wales (London, England), 1998.

Contributor to books, including Patronage in Ancient Society, edited by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Routledge (London, England), 1989; CIEPO, VII Sempozyumu Bildirileri, edited by J.-L. Bacque-Grammont and others, [Ankara, Turkey], 1994; and Acta Viennensia Ottomanica: Akten des 13. CIEPO-Symposiums (Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes) vom 21. bis 25. September 1998 in Wien, edited by M. Köhbach, G. Procházka-Eisl, and C. Römer, [Vienna, Austria], 1999.

SIDELIGHTS: A professor at the University of Wales in Lampeter, Keith Hopwood has been interested in Asia Minor, including the histories of the Ottoman, Byzantine, and Roman Empires. His published work in the area includes Organised Crime in Antiquity, which he edited and to which he contributed. Offering insights into the differences between ancient and modern concepts about crime, the book's "major conclusion," according to Denis Saddington in Scholia Review, is that "organized crime flourishes best in a society where there is a large gap between the rich and the poor." James Davidson commented in the Times Literary Supplement that the book is unique in "the way that ancient outlawry is treated as a large geopolitical question." Saddington concluded, "What we have is a valuable collection of essays which, besides discussing crime, throw an interesting light on aspects of 'the state' in early Athens and Rome and various rural and urban situations at the end of the Roman Empire."

As a bibliographer, Hopwood has organized resources for academic and general audiences, compiling more than 8,000 citations to English-language books, book chapters, conference proceedings, and journal articles written between 1800 and 2000 in his Ancient Greece and Rome: A Bibliographical Guide. Reviewing the guide in a Choice article, B. Juhl asserted that "librarians and students are sure to find this bibliography extremely useful for projects ranging from World Civ papers to doctoral research."