David W. Tandy

Academic History

• Ph.D. (Classical Philology), Yale University, 1979
• B.A. (Greek), Yale College, 1972 

Current Position:

• Professor Emeritus

Selected Publications:

• Editor. From Political Economy to Anthropology: Situating Economic Life in Past Societies. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1994 (with C.A.M. Duncan)
• Hesiod's Works and Days. Introduction and Commentary for the Social Sciences. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996 (with Walter C. Neale).
• Warriors into Traders: The Power of the Market in Early Greece. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Issued in paperback 2000. 
• Editor. Prehistory and History: Ethnicity, Class and Political Economy. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2001 
• "Greece, Classical and Earlier." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, 2.467-472. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
• "Trade and Commerce in Archilochos, Sappho, and Alkaios." In MELAMMU V, edited by Robert Rollinger and Christoph Ulf, 183-194. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004.
• "Lysias 1: A note on a text's background and background noise," Classical Bulletin 81.2(2005):187-193.
• "Archilochos and the New Political Economies of the Seventh Century." In Archilochos and his Age, edited by Dora Katsonopoulou, Ioannis Petropoulos, and Stella Katsarou, 235-247. Athens: Paros and Cyclades Institute of Archaeology, 2008.
• "Economy and Economic Theory, Greek" and "Pylos" for the Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. Michael Gagarin (Oxford University Press, 2010).
• "Economy","Agriculture", and "Livestock" for the Homer Encyclopedia, ed. Margalit Finkelberg (Blackwell, 2011).
• Other articles and chapters on Beowulf, Vergil, Near Eastern and early Greek trade, Homer, Hesiod.
• My current project is an economic history of the archaic Aegean.

Contact Information

David W. Tandy
50 Chippendale Rise
Otley LS21 2BJ
United Kingdom

Phone: (44) 1943 465 960
dtandy@utk.edu