James Renshaw

With a degree in Classics from Oxford University, James has taught classical subjects at school level since 1998, including for 15 years at St Paul’s School and then 9 years at the Godolphin and Latymer School, where he also ran the school’s unique Ancient World Breakfast Club. He has written a number of books, including In Search of the Greeks (Bloomsbury, 2015) and In Search of the Romans (Bloomsbury, 2019), and is currently writing The Marathon: an Epic History (Bloomsbury, forthcoming in 2027), a history of the marathon race from the first epic run of Pheidippides in 490 BC. James is an experienced lecturer, representing both the Arts Society and the V&A Academy, and most recently speaking on the V&A’s Classicism: Antiquity to Christianity and Enlightenment to Modernity courses. Committed to the promotion of the study of the ancient world, he has been a Council Member for both the Hellenic Society and the Roman Society, and serves on the Classical Association Teaching Board.