Frank J. Frost

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Frank J. Frost (born 1929 in Washington, DC ) is an American scientist of ancient Greek history, an archaeologist, politician, and writer.

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Born to businessman Frank J. Frost, Sr., and Eugenia Frost, Frost grew up in Palo Alto , California. After graduating from high school and attending several colleges, he served in the US Army during the Korean War. After returning from Korea, he received his BA from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1955. He then went to the University of California, Los Angeles , where he received his PhD in Ancient History under Truesdell Sparhawk Brown in 1961. The subject of his PhD was “The Scholarship of Plutarch: The Biographer's Contribution to the Study of Athenian History, 480-429 BC” After teaching at the University of California at Riverside and Hunter College, Frost joined the university's growing history department in 1965 of California, Santa Barbara , where he and C. Warren Hollister established the European History Program.

Frost's first book was an English edition of Adolf Bauer's German-language Themistocles: Studies and Contributions to Greek Historiography and Source Studies (Merseburg: P. Steffenhagen, 1881) . It contained additional comments and supplementary material and was published under the title “Themistocles: literary, epigraphical and archaeological testimonia (Chicago, Argonaut, 1967)”. He also edited Democracy and the Athenians: Aspects of Ancient Politics (New York: Wiley, 1969), a mixture of extracts from primary and secondary sources. He published his revised dissertation as Plutarch's Themistocles: A Historical Commentary (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980). His textbook Greek Society (originally published by DC Heath in 1971) was widely distributed and went through five editions. He has published a collection of his essays in Politics and the Athenians: Essays on Athenian History and Historiography (Toronto: Edgar Kent, 2005).

Frost is also an active archaeologist with a particular interest in underwater archeology. In 1965, for example, he mapped the sunken remains of the ancient city of Halieis near the modern municipality of Porto Cheli on the Argolida Peninsula, Greece. He also carried out survey work at Phourkari (also on the Argolis Peninsula) and excavations in Greece in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. His interest in archeology is linked to the history of seafaring. He also published on the early seafaring off the California coast. Later he led the Greek-American excavations in Phalasarna (West Crete) together with Elpida Hadjidaki-Marder from the Greek Archaeological Service .

In 2000 the festival publication The Dance of Hippocleides was published in his honor , edited by two of his former students .

Frost is also active in politics. He was elected county supervisor of Santa Barbara County on a no-growth platform in 1972 and was involved in an undercover operation to stop bribes from real estate developers. In 1982 he was the Democratic candidate for Congress for the 19th Congressional District, but lost to Republican Robert J. Lagomarsino .

Since retiring from teaching in 1990 and retiring from teaching, Frost has also been an active writer of fictional literature. These works include collections of short stories such as Subversives (Daniel & Daniel Publishers, 2001) and Gershwin's Last Waltz and Other Stories (Outskirts Press, 2016), as well as novels such as Dead Philadelphians (Capra Press, 1999), which received excellent reviews, and Bay to Breakers (Daniel & Daniel Publishers, 2002). Frost has also played jazz piano professionally for decades.

Works (selection)

  • Themistocles: Literary, Epigraphical and Archaeological Testimonia (Chicago, Argonaut, 1967)
  • Democracy and the Athenians: Aspects of Ancient Politics (New York: Wiley, 1969)
  • Greek Society , first edition (Lexington, MA: DC Heath, 1971). Five more editions.
  • Plutarch's Themistocles: A Historical Commentary (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980)
  • The Archeology of Athens and Attica under the Democracy (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1994)
  • Politics and the Athenians: Essays on Athenian History and Historiography (Toronto: Edgar Kent, 2005).

literature

  1. ^ Oakland Tribune (April 15, 1939), p. 2 and San Mateo Times (April 17, 1939), p. 12.
  2. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Frank-J.-Frost/e/B001HP62FY/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0l ; also Barney Brantingham, “Frank, Jerry, and Korea: Remembering the Forgotten War”, Santa Barbara Independent (December 1, 2011)
  3. ^ Joseph Finnegan, "Archeology of the Ocean Sea," Historia: Newsletter of the UCSB History Associates (January 1992): 6; The Historian 18 (1956): p. 278
  4. ↑ http://www.news.ucsb.edu/1999/011283/emeritus-professors-first-novel-earns-praise
  5. ^ Joseph Finnegan, "Archeology of the Ocean Sea," Historia: Newsletter of the UCSB History Associates (January 1992): 6; http://www.news.ucsb.edu/1999/011283/emeritus-professors-first-novel-earns-praise
  6. ↑ Michael H. Jameson, “Submerged Remains of the Town and Its Immediate Vicinity,” in Marian Holland McAllister (Ed.), The Excavations at Ancient Halieis: The fortifications and adjacent structures , Vol. 1 (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press , 2005), pp. 15, 85, 95
  7. ^ Frank J. Frost, “Phourkari. A villa complex in the Argolid (Greece) ”, International Journal of Nautical Archeology and Underwater Exploration 6 (1977): pp. 233-238; See also Frank J. Frost, "Here and There in the Cyclades: An Historian and Archaeologist Looks Around and Remembers His Wanderings," Ancient World 14 (1987): 97-114.
  8. ^ Frank Frost, "The Palos Verdes Chinese Anchor Mystery," Archeology 35 (1982): 23-27
  9. ^ Frank J. Frost, "The Last Days of Phalasarna," Ancient History Bulletin 3 (1989): pp. 15-17; "Tectonics and History at Phalasarna," Res Maritimae, American Schools of Oriental Research Archaeological Reports , no. 4 (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998), pp. 107-115; and (with Elpida Hadjidaki) "Excavations at the Harbor of Phalasarna in Crete", Hesperia 59 (1990): 513-27.
  10. ↑ Originally published as Ancient World 31 (2000), revised version: Robert M. Frakes and David L. Toye, eds., The Dance of Hippocleides: A Festschrift for Frank J. Frost (Chicago: Ares Publishers, 2002).
  11. ↑ Columbia Daily Spectator , Volume XCVII, Number 62 (January 26, 1973)
  12. ↑ See Peter Green review in the Los Angeles Times , July 18, 1999.
  13. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Frank-J.Frost/e/B001HP62FY/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0
  14. ↑ http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2008/012359/ucsb-history-associates-marks-20th-anniversary-afternoon-jazz-and-blues : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v = hcYK8Cg1-vs
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SURNAME Frost, Frank J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American scientist of ancient Greek history, an archaeologist, politician, and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC