Kirsty Shipton

Kirsty Shipton is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Leicester. A former scholar of Somerville College, Oxford, she holds degrees from Glasgow, Oxford, and London where she is a recent winner of the George Grote and Norman Baynes prizes in Ancient History. She has published articles on Greek and Roman literature and on Greek history, and is the author of a forthcoming study of the cash-based economy of fourth century Athens. Andrew Meadows is Curator of Ancient Greek Coins at the...See more

Kirsty Shipton is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Leicester. A former scholar of Somerville College, Oxford, she holds degrees from Glasgow, Oxford, and London where she is a recent winner of the George Grote and Norman Baynes prizes in Ancient History. She has published articles on Greek and Roman literature and on Greek history, and is the author of a forthcoming study of the cash-based economy of fourth century Athens. Andrew Meadows is Curator of Ancient Greek Coins at the British Museum, and holds degrees from the Universities of Oxford and Michigan. He is the author of articles on Greek and Roman history, epigraphy, and numismatics. He is secretary of the British Academy's Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Committee, and the editor of two volumes in the series, as well as editor of the Royal Numismatic Society's Coin Hoards. See less