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Frances Pownall
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Latest funding
- $25,000
The Courts of Philip II and Alexander the Great: monarchy and power in Ancient Macedonia
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
- $36,543
A re-examination of book 16 of the bibliotheke of diodorus siculus
SSHRC · 2014 · Principal investigator
- $53,402
The historical critias
SSHRC · 2005 · Principal investigator
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The Courts of Philip II and Alexander the Great: monarchy and power in Ancient Macedonia
Principal investigators: Pownall, Frances A.
Keywords: Alexander the Great; Philip II of Macedon; Ancient Greece; Ancient Persia; ancient monarchy; Hellenistic history
A re-examination of book 16 of the bibliotheke of diodorus siculus
Principal investigators: Pownall, Frances A.
Keywords: Ancient Greek history; Ancient Greek historiography; intellectual history; political history; autocratic rulers
The historical critias
Principal investigators: Pownall, Frances A.
Keywords: thirty tyrants (Athens); Greek history; Greek historiography; Plato; Xenophon; sophists
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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