Dr Sian Lewis

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2605

Email

sl50@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

S15

Location

Swallowgate

 

Research areas

My current research project is a study of animals (including humans) in the ancient Mediterranean, drawing on ecology and biology to reconstruct the animal world of antiquity. A sourcebook, The Culture of Animals in Antiquity, jointly edited with lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, will be published in August 2017.

Selected publications

• Classical tyrants and the assembly

  Lewis, S., 18 Jan 2021, In: Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne. 21, S21, p. 57-77 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Tyrants, letters and legitimacy

  Lewis, S., 24 Aug 2018, Letters and Communities: Socio-Political Aspects of Ancient Epistolography.. Gildenhard, I., Ceccarelli, P., Doering, L. & Fogen, T. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• A lifetime together? Temporal perspectives on animal-human interactions in antiquity

  Lewis, S., Aug 2017, Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Foegen, T. & Thomas, E. (eds.). Berlin: de Gruyter, p. 19-38 19 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  Carbon uptake by mature Amazon forests has mitigated Amazon nations' carbon emissions

  the RAINFOR collaboration, 1 Feb 2017, In: Carbon Balance and Management. 12, 1, 1.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The culture of animals in antiquity: a sourcebook with commentaries

  Lewis, S. & Llewellyn-Jones, L., 19 Dec 2017, Abingdon: Routledge. 768 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access

  Amazon forest response to repeated droughts

  Feldpausch, T. R., Phillips, O. L., Brienen, R. J. W., Gloor, E., Lloyd, J., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Monteagudo-Mendoza, A., Malhi, Y., Alarcón, A., Álvarez Dávila, E., Alvarez-Loayza, P., Andrade, A., Aragao, L. E. O. C., Arroyo, L., Aymard C., G. A., Baker, T. R., Baraloto, C., Barroso, J., Bonal, D., Castro, W., Chama, V., Chave, J., Domingues, T. F., Fauset, S., Groot, N., Honorio Coronado, E., Laurance, S., Laurance, W. F., Lewis, S. L., Licona, J. C., Marimon, B. S., Marimon-Junior, B. H., Mendoza Bautista, C., Neill, D. A., Oliveira, E. A., Oliveira dos Santos, C., Pallqui Camacho, N. C., Pardo-Molina, G., Prieto, A., Quesada, C. A., Ramírez, F., Ramírez-Angulo, H., Réjou-Méchain, M., Rudas, A., Saiz, G., Salomão, R. P., Silva-Espejo, J. E., Silveira, M., ter Steege, H. & Stropp, J., 1 Jul 2016, In: Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 30, 7, p. 964-982 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Tyranny: new contexts

  Lewis, S., Jun 2016, (Accepted/In press) Besancon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Entries on 'Tyranny' and 'Tyrannicide'

  Lewis, S., 2010, SAGE Encyclopaedia of Ancient Political Thought. Bevir, M. (ed.). Sage

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

  Brienen, R. J. W., Phillips, O. L., Feldpausch, T. R., Gloor, E., Baker, T. R., Lloyd, J., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Monteagudo-Mendoza, A., Malhi, Y., Lewis, S. L., Vásquez Martinez, R., Alexiades, M., Álvarez Dávila, E., Alvarez-Loayza, P., Andrade, A., Aragaõ, L. E. O. C., Araujo-Murakami, A., Arets, E. J. M. M., Arroyo, L., Aymard C., G. A., Bánki, O. S., Baraloto, C., Barroso, J., Bonal, D., Boot, R. G. A., Camargo, J. L. C., Castilho, C. V., Chama, V., Chao, K. J., Chave, J., Comiskey, J. A., Cornejo Valverde, F., Da Costa, L., De Oliveira, E. A., Di Fiore, A., Erwin, T. L., Fauset, S., Forsthofer, M., Galbraith, D. R., Grahame, E. S., Groot, N., Hérault, B., Higuchi, N., Honorio Coronado, E. N., Keeling, H., Killeen, T. J., Laurance, W. F., Laurance, S., Licona, J. & Magnussen, W. E., 19 Mar 2015, In: Nature. 519, 7543, p. 344-348 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Entries on 'Periander of Corinth', 'Polycrates of Samos', 'Peisistratus', 'Thrasyboulos of Miletus', 'Greek Tyrants' and 'Tyranny'

  Lewis, S., Feb 2012, The Encyclopaedia of Ancient History. Bagnall, R. (ed.). Wiley-Blackwell

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

 

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