Lecturer
DPhil (Ancient History), Oxford University
MPhil (Greek and Roman History), Oxford University
BAHons (Latin Language and Literature), University of Cape Town
Email: ursulaw@sun.ac.za
Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Specialisation
Jewish history and literature in the Roman world (esp. Josephus, Philo)
Greek political thought and its reception in the Roman period
Greek and Roman historiography
Greek language and literature
Current Projects
Courses in 2023
Greek 178 (Introduction to New Testament Greek)
Greek 214 (Intermediate Ancient Greek: Grammar & the Gospel of John)
Greek 244 (Intermediate Ancient Greek: Selected texts from the Septuagint, Plato, and classical Greek prose)
Greek 344 (Advanced Ancient Greek: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos)
Honours in Ancient Languages (Greek)
'Jewish literature in Greek under the Roman Empire: Philo and Josephus
'The Art of Persuasion: ancient Greek speeches'
Selected Publications
- Westwood, U. "Free speech and Moses' Laws: the limits of παρρησία in Josephus' works," in From Josephus to Yosippon and beyond: Text - Re-interpretations - Afterlives, edited by Carson Bay, Michael Avioz, and Jan Willem van Henten. Leiden: Brill (2024)
- Westwood, U. Moses among the Greek lawgivers: Reading Josephus' Antiquities through Plutarch's Lives. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 210. Leiden: Brill (2023)
- Westwood, U. “Prophecies and princesses: Moses in Egypt and Ethiopia according to Josephus," Akroterion 67 (2022), 65-85.
Awards
Clarendon Fund and Littman Trust Scholarship (2017-2020, for doctoral study at Oxford)
Ertegun Graduate Scholarship in the Humanities (2015-2017, for graduate study at Oxford)
