UC Research Profile - University of Canterbury

Associate Professor Victor Lars Parker

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Department: Classics

Email: victor.parker@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3695070

Office: Rm 103E UC Arts City Location- 3 Hereford Street

Languages: English, German

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Fields of Research

Ancient near eastern history
Greek history and language
Roman History

Researcher Summary

Dr. Parker's main research and teaching interest is Greek History - in the widest sense, from the Mycenaean (13th century B.C.) through to the Hellenistic period. However, he has maintained a broad interest both in Ancient Near Eastern as well as in Roman (especially Republican) History, interests reflected both in his teaching and in his research.

Subject Area: Disciplines

History, History of Art, Classics and Curatorial Studies: Ancient Greek ; Ancient History, Philosophy and Theory ; Classics

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Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Authored Books

Parker V. (2014) A History of Greece: 1300 to 30 BC. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell. 504pp.

Parker V. (2011) Ephoros. In I. Worthington (Ed.), Brill's New Jacoby. Leiden: Brill.

Parker V. (1997) Untersuchungen zum Lelantischen Krieg und verwandten Problemen der frühgriechischen Geschichte = Historia Einzelschriften, CIX. Stuttgart: Franz-Steiner-Verlag. 189pp.

Journal Articles

Parker V. (2020) On the Historical Value of 2 Maccabees. Klio 102: 44-70.

Parker V. (2019) Sollten wir das medische Reich aus der Geschichte verabschieden? Klio 101: 1-56.

Parker V. (2018) Deiotarus: On the career of a Roman client king. Electrum 25: 187-208. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20800909EL.18.009.8929.

Parker V. (2015) On the writings of a Greek geographer handed down through Herodotus. Tyche 30(1): 99-117. http://dx.doi.org/10.15661/tyche.2015.030.12.

Parker V. (2015) Zu Durch Herodot Überlieferten Schriften Griechischer Geographen. Tyche 30: 99-117. http://dx.doi.org/10.15661/tyche.2015.030.12.

Parker V. (2013) The date of the material in "II Maccabees": The bureaucratic evidence. Hermes (Germany) 141(1): 34-44.

Parker V. (2013) The Date of the Material in "II Maccabees": The Bureaucratic Evidence. Hermes 141(1): 33-44.

Parker V. (2009) Zu dem ersten Epigramm auf die Schlacht bei den Thermopylen als historischer Quelle Herodots. Classica et Mediaevalia 60: 5-26.

Parker V. (2008) Between Thucydides and Tacitus: The position of Sallust in the history of ancient historiography. Antike und Abendland 54: 77-104.

Parker V. (2008) Historische Studien zu den Hohenpriestern der frühen Makkabäerzeit. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 124: 143-170.

Dijkstra T. and Parker V. (2007) Through many glasses darkly. Sulla and the End of the Jugurthine War. Wiener Studien 120: 137-160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1553/wst120s137.

Parker V. (2007) From Mycenaean Times to Classical Greece: Continuity or Discontinuity. Prudentia 39(1): 1-26.

Parker V. (2007) Herodotus' Use of Aeschylus' Persae as a Source for the Battle of Salamis. Symbolae Osloenses 82(1): 2-29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00397670802252701.

Parker V. (2007) Sphodrias' Raid and the Liberation of Thebes: A study of Ephorus and Xenophon. Hermes 135(1): 13-33.

Parker V. (2007) The Annalists and Marius' Early Career. Würzburger Jahrbücher 31: 131-145.

Parker V. (2007) The Letters in II Maccabees: Reflexions on the book's composition. Zeitschrift für die Alt-Testamentliche Wissenschaft 119(3): 386-402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ZAW.2007.028.

Parker VL. (2007) Judas maccabaeus' campaigns against timothy. Biblica 88(4): 457-476.

Parker V. (2006) Judas Maccabaeus' Campaigns against Timothy. Biblica 87(4): 457-476.

Parker V. (2006) The Campaigns of Lysias in Judaea: A test of the historical worth of 2 Maccabees. Grazer Beiträge 25: 153-179.

Cameron H. and Parker V. (2005) A Mobile People? Sallust's Presentation of the Numidians and their Manner of Fighting. Parola del Passato 60: 33-57.

Parker V. (2005) Pausanias the Spartiate as Depicted by Charon of Lampsacus and Herodotus. Philologus 149: 3-12.

Parker V. (2005) The Historian Ephorus: His Selection of Sources. Antichthon 38: 29-50.

Parker V. (2005) Two Notes on Early Athenian History. Tyche 19: 131-148.

Parker VL. (2004) Romae omnia uenalia esse. Sallust's development of a thesis and the prehistory of the Jugurthine War. Historia 58: 408-423.

Parker VL. (2004) 'Romae omnia venalia esse'.. HISTORIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ALTE GESCHICHTE 53(4): 408-423.

Parker VL. (2003) Sparta, Amyntas, and the Olynthians in 383 B.C. A comparison of Xenophon and Diodorus. Rheinisches Museum 146((2003)): 113-137.

Parker V. (2002) The Citadel of Athens. History Now VIII(4): 6-10.

Parker V. (2002) Zur Chronologie des Suppiluliumas I. Altorientalische Forschungen 29(1): 31-62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1524/aofo.2002.29.1.31.

Parker V. (2001) Ephorus and Xenophon on Greece in the years 375-372 B.C. Klio LXXXIII: 353-368.

Parker V. (2001) Sallust and the Victor of the Jugurthine War. Tyche XVI: 111-125.

Parker V. (2001) Zur Chronologie des Suppiluliumas I. Altorientalische Forschungen XXVIII: 193-224.

Parker VL. (1999) Bemerkungen zum Text des Tawagalawas-Briefs. Ahhijawa-Frage und Textkritik. Orientalia 68: 61-83.

Parker VL. (1999) What Herodotus Withheld. Notes on Cimmerian lore in classical authors other than Herodotus. (In Russian with English summary.). Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 1999, fasc.3: 93-102.

Parker V. (1998) Reflexions on the career of Hattusilis III until the time of his coup-d'état. Altorientalische Forschungen XXV: 269-290.

Parker VL. (1998) Bosworth's Alexander: A review discussion. New Zealand Association of Classical Teachers Bulletin XXV(3): 21-29.

Parker VL. (1998) Tyrannos. The semantics of a political concept from Archilochus to Aristotle. Hermes CXXVI: 145-172.

Parker V. (1997) Bemerkungen zum ersten Heiligen Kriege. Rheinisches Museum CXL: 17-37.

Parker V. (1997) Schriftgeschichtliches zur Silbengrenze im Mykenischen. Glotta LXXIII: 237-246.

Parker VL. (1996) Bemerkungen zur mittelhethitischen Geschichte: Madduwattas und seine Zeit. Klio 78: 7-27.

Parker VL. (1996) Vom König zum Tyrannen: Eine Betrachtung zur Entstehung der älteren griechischen Tyrannis. Tyche 11: 165-186.

Parker V. (1995) Bemerkungen zu den Zügen der Kimmerier und der Skythen durch Vorderasien. Klio 77(JG): 7-34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1524/klio.1995.77.jg.7.

Parker VL. (1995) Bemerkungen zu den Zügen der Kimmerier und der Skythen. Klio 77: 7-34.

Parker VL. (1995) Zur Datierung der Dorischen Wanderung. Museum Helveticum 52: 130-154.

Parker VL. (1994) Some Aspects of the Foreign and Domestic Policy of Cleisthenes of Sicyon. Hermes 122: 404-424.

Parker VL. (1994) Zur absoluten Datierung des Leagros Kalos und der ‘Leagros-Gruppe'. Archäologischer Anzeiger n/a: 365-373.

Parker VL. (1993) Gab es wirklich Dorier auf der mykenischen Peloponnes? Das ‘mycénien spécial' und die dorischen Dialekte. Parola del Passato 48: 241-266.

Parker VL. (1993) Some Dates in Early Spartan History. Klio 75: 45-60.

Parker VL. (1993) The Chronology of the Pentecontaetia from 465 to 456 B.C. Athenaeum 71: 129-147.

Parker VL. (1993) Zur Geographie des Reiches von Pylos. Studi Micenei ed Egeo-anatolici 32: 41-75.

Parker VL. (1993) Zur griechischen und vorderasiatischen Chronologie des sechsten Jahrhunderts v. Chr. unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Kypselidenchronologie. Historia 42: 385-417.

Parker VL. (1992) The Dates of the Orthagorids of Sicyon. Tyche 7: 165-175.

Parker VL. (1991) The Dates of the Messenian Wars. Chiron 21: 23-45.

Chapters

Parker V. (2018) Errors and Doublets: Reconstructing Ephoros and Appreciating Diodoros. In Hau LI; Meeus A; Sheridan B (Ed.), Diodoros of Sicily: 189-206. Leuven.

Parker VL. (2017) Gods and Heroes as Warriors. In Morrison GL; Minchin-Garvin P; Elder T (Ed.), We Could be Heroes. The gods and heroes of the ancient Greeks and Romans.: 41-46. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press.

Parker VL. (2016) Tetradrachm of Eukratides I of Baktria. In Ridley RT (Ed.), Fifty Treasures. Classical Antiquities in Australian and New Zealand Universities: 50-51. Melbourne: The Australasian Society for Classical Studies.

Parker V. (2013) Bellum Catilinae. In Sandru C (Ed.), The Literary Encyclopedia London: The Literary Dictionary Company.

Parker V. (2013) Bellum Iugurthinum (Jugurthine War). In Sandru C (Ed.), The Literary Encyclopedia London: The Literary Dictionary Company.

Parker V. (2013) Sallust. In Sandru C (Ed.), The Literary Encyclopedia London: The Literary Dictionary Company.

Parker V. (2011) Die militärische Führungsschicht am Ende des 2. und zu Beginn des 1. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. In Blösel W; Hölkeskamp KJ (Ed.), Von der militia equestris zur militia urbana: Prominenzrollen und Karrierefelder im antiken Rom: Beiträge einer Internationalen Tagung vom 16. bis 18. Mai 2008 an der Universität zu Köln: 43-53. Stuttgart: Steiner.

Parker V. (2009) Source-Critical Reflections on Cleitarchus' Work. In Wheatley P; Hannah R (Ed.), Alexander and His Successors: Essays from the Antipodes: 28-55. Claremont: Regina Books.

Parker V. (2007) Tyrants and Lawgivers. In Shapiro HA (Ed.), Cambridge companion to archaic Greece: 13-39. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Parker V. (2005) Die Kriegskultur der archaischen Epoche. In Meißner B; Schmitt O; Sommer M (Ed.), Krieg - Gesellschaft - Institutionen. Beiträge zu einer vergleichenden Kriegsgeschichte: 209-227. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.

Parker VL. (1999) Die Aktivitäten der Mykenäer in der Ost-Ägäis im Lichte der Linear-B-Tafeln. In al SDJE (Ed.), Floreant Studia Mycenaea: Akten des X. Internationalen Mykenologischen Colloquiums in Salzburg vom 1.-5. Mai 1995: 113-122. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Conference Contributions - Other

Parker V. (2008) Die militärische Führungsschicht im späten 2. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Köln, Germany: Von der militia equestris zur militia urbana, 16-18 May 2008.

Parker V. (2006) Historiographical Notes on Marius' Early Career: Sallust and the Annalists. San Diego, CA, USA: Pacific Rim Roman Literature Conference, 1-1 Aug 2006.

Parker V. (2006) Source-critical Reflexions on the Date and Nature of Cleitarchus' Work. Dunedin, New Zealand: Alexander the Great and His Successors: Third International Symposium, 23-25 Aug 2006.

Parker V. (2001) The Design of the Linear B Syllabary and the Structure of Greek. Christchurch, New Zealand: Linguistic Society of New Zealand Linguistics Conference, 1 Aug 2001.

Parker V. (2000) Local Administration in the Kingdom of Pylos and the Classical Polis. Austin, Texas: 11th International Colloquium Mycenaeum, 1 Apr 2000.

Parker V. (1999) The Historian Ephorus. Auckland, New Zealand: Triennal Conference of NZ Classics Deparments, 1 Jan 1999.

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