MITCHELL, Stephen 1948–

PERSONAL: Born May 26, 1948, in Oxford, England; son of David and Barbara Marion (Davies) Mitchell; married Matina Warren Weinstein, 1974; children: Lawrence, Daniel, Sam. Education: Oxford University, B.A., 1970, M.A., D.Phil., 1975.

ADDRESSES: Office—University of Exeter, Department of Classics and Ancient History, Queen's Building, The Queen's Dr., Exeter EX4 4QH, England. E-mail—s.mitchell@exeter.ac.uk.

CAREER: University of Wales, University College of Swansea, began as lecturer, became professor, 1976–2001; University of Exeter, professor, 2001–.

MEMBER: British Epigraphy Society (president, 1999–2002); Council of University Classical Departments (committee member); German Archaeological Institute (corresponding member).

WRITINGS:

Anatolia: Land, Men, and Gods in Asia Minor, two volumes, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1993.

Cremna in Pisidia. An Ancient City in Peace and in War, Clarical Press of Wales, 1995.

(With M. Waelkens) Pisidian Antioch. The Site and Its Monuments, Clarical Press of Wales, 1998.

(With G. H. R. Horsley) The Inscriptions of Central Pisidia, Habelt (Bonn, Germany), 2000.

(Editor, with G. Greatrex) Ethnicity and Culture in Late Antiquity, Clarical Press of Wales, 2000.

(Translator) Gilgamesh: A New English Version, Free Press (New York, NY), 2004.

Also author of Asvan Kale. The Hellenistic, Roman, and Medieval Sites, 1980; Regional Epigraphic Catalogues of Asia Minor II: The Inscriptions of North Galatia, 1982; and (with B. M. Levick and M. Waelkens) Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua, Volume IX, 1988, and Volume X, 1993. Editor of Armies and Frontiers in Roman and Byzantine Asia Minor, 1983.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, October 15, 2004, Ray Olson, review of Gilgamesh: A New English Version, p. 381.

Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, March-April, 2005, Richard Schneider, Jr., review of Gilgamesh, p. 38.

Library Journal, July, 2004, Morris Hounion, review of Gilgamesh, p. 83.

New Criterion, October, 2004, John J. Miller, review of Gilgamesh, p. 74.

Publishers Weekly, August 16, 2004, Tracy Cochran, "Slaying the Beast," interview with Steven Mitchell, p. 42.

Mitchell, Stephen 1948–

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MITCHELL, Stephen 1948–

ADDRESSES: Office—University of Exeter, Department of Classics and Ancient History, Queen's Building, The Queen's Dr., Exeter EX4 4QH, England. E-mail—s.mitchell@exeter.ac.uk.

CAREER: University of Wales, University College of Swansea, began as lecturer, became professor, 1976–2001; University of Exeter, professor, 2001–.

MEMBER: British Epigraphy Society (president, 1999–2002); Council of University Classical Departments (committee member); German Archaeological Institute (corresponding member).