Anthony Kaldellis (Greek: Αντώνιος Καλδέλλης; born 29 November 1971) is a Greek and American historian who is Professor and a faculty member of the Department of Classics at the University of Chicago.^[1] He is a specialist in Greek historiography, Plato and Byzantine Studies.^[1] He is also the author of numerous monographs on classical antiquity and the Byzantine Empire, which have been translated into many languages. Throughout his work Kaldellis has called into question a commonly accepted view of Byzantium as an absolutist world; he considers instead the Byzantine Empire a "bottom-up monarchy", where the common people have a good share in government, since Emperors impose laws by acknowledging their customs and demands.^[2]

Biography

Anthony Kaldellis was born on 29 November 1971 in Athens, Greece. He received his B.A. (1994) and Ph.D. (2001) in History from the University of Michigan. After gaining his Ph.D. Kaldellis has served as Assistant Professor (2001–2006), Associate Professor (2006–2007), Professor (2007–) and Chair (2015–) of the Department of Classics at Ohio State University. In 2022 he joined the Department of Classics at the University of Chicago.

Kaldellis is a member of the advisory boards of the Journal of Late Antiquity (2016–), Minerva (2013), and Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (2008–); a member of the editorial boards of the Byzantine Greek series of the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (2008–) and Estudios Bizantinos: Digital Journal of the Spanish Society of Byzantine Studies (2012–); and Associate Editor of Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2017–), of which he was Editor from 2010 to 2017. He has previously been Series Editor of Routledge Classical Translations (2011–2015), member of the editorial board of Medieval Confluences: Studies in the Intellectual History and Comparative History of Ideas of the Medieval World (2009–2019), and Review Editor of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies (2006–2012).

Selected works

• The Argument of Psellos’ Chronographia, 1999
• Procopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity, 2004
• Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition, 2007
• The Christian Parthenon: Classicism and Pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens, 2010
• Ethnography after Antiquity: Foreign Lands and People in Byzantine Literature, 2014
• A New Herodotos: Laonikos Chalkokondyles on the Ottoman Empire, the Fall of Byzantium, and the Emergence of the West, 2014
• The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome, 2015
• Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade, 2017
• A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History's Most Orthodox Empire, 2017
• Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium, 2019
• Byzantium Unbound, 2019
• The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium, 2023

Podcasts

• Byzantium & Friends^[3]
• An interview with Professor Anthony Kaldellis about his book The Byzantine Republic,^[4] from The History of Byzantium Podcast^[5]

Videos

• Interview with Dr. Anthony Kaldellis, The Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, Texas Tech University^[6]
• Anthony Kaldellis on the Crisis of Hellenism, Society for the Preservation of Greek Heritage^[7]
• The Byzantines and the Classical Past (with Anthony Kaldellis)^[8]