David Wardle
David Wardle is Professor of Classics, as well as Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Humanities, at the University of Cape Town.
Academic career
Born and educated in Nottingham, UK, David Wardle took an MA and a DPhil from Oxford in the sub-faculty of Literae Humaniores. After a brief stint working for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority he came to UCT as a lecturer in August 1990 and was appointed Professor in Classics and Ancient History in 2006. His academic specialisation lies in the field of Roman imperial history and historiography which he combines with an interest in ancient Roman religion. Besides numerous articles and book reviews he is the author of four monographs, which have taken the form of commentaries on key texts from the Classical period: Suetonius’ Life of Caligula (Brussels, 1994), Valerius Maximus’ Memorable Deeds and Sayings (Oxford, 1998) and Cicero’s On Divination (Oxford, 2006), and Suetonius: Life of Augustus (Oxford, 2014). He is also a former editor of the Classics journal, Acta Classica.