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Books
Current Herodotus, Thucydides and the Atheno-Peloponnesian Wars
Current Athenian Drama and the Samian War
Current Monograph on Herodotus and contemporary politics focused on Book 3
Current Classical Aegina: Texts and Contexts
Forthcoming (co-edited with T. Harrison) The Present in the Past. Interpreting Herodotus after Charles Fornara (OUP)
2013 (co-edited with K. Geus and T. Poiss) Herodots Wege des Erzählens (Series: “Zivilisationen und Geschichte”, Bd. 20, Peter Lang), rev. Sehepunkte 14.5 (2014), JHS 2015
2007 (co-edited with Emily Greenwood) Reading Herodotus: The Logoi of Book 5 (Cambridge University Press), rev. Times Literary Supplement 25/6/08, H-Net 2/2008, Journal of Hellenic Studies 129 (2009) 158-9, Classical Review 59 (2009) 45-50, BMCR 2009.8.5, Sehepunkte 10 (2009), Mnemosyne 63 (2010), 315-19, SCI 29 (2010) 101-4 (CUP Paperback 2011)
2005 Solon and Early Greek Poetry: The Politics of Exhortation (Cambridge University Press), rev. Classical Review 56 (2006) 277-8, American Journal of Philology 117 (2007) 427-31, Journal of Hellenic Studies 127 (2007) 157-8, Classical World 101 (2007) 103-4, Classical Journal 103 (2007) 316-19, Sehepunkte 9 (2009) (CUP Paperback 2008)
Articles
In progress ‘The Athenian burial (?) mound at Plataea and the uniqueness (?) of the Marathonian dead’
In progress ‘Just who or what saved Greece? Herodotus and Thucydides on Themistocles’ naval bill’
In progress ‘Historical contextualizations of Pindar’s Olympian 8’
Revising ‘Sophocles’ raft, the death of Cratinus, and a dung beetle: Aristophanes’ Peace on drama and politics in the Ten Years’ War’
Revising ‘Palm trees and nobodies: some games with names and their implications in the Odyssey’
Revising ‘Goat Island revisited’
Revising ‘Poetic competition and politicized readings: Solon 4W and Theognis’
Revising ‘Ostracism and ethics: the voice of the people and Athenian expansionism’
Revising ‘Imperial ambitions and the popularization of medical theory at Athens’
Commissioned ‘Dating’, in C. Baron et al. (ed.) The Herodotus Encyclopedia (Wiley)
Under consideration ‘Herodotus on medicine and empire’, in E. Bowie (ed), Herodotus: Narrator, Scientist, Historian
Under consideration ‘Labouring for the truth in Thucydides’, in P. Low (ed), Cambridge Companion to Thucydides (with CUP)
Forthcoming ‘The end of Herodotus’ Histories and the end of the Atheno-Peloponnesian Wars’, in T. Harrison and E. Irwin (eds), The Present in the Past: Interpreting Herodotus after Charles Fornara (with OUP)
2017 ‘Debating the happiness of Periclean Athens: from Herodotus’ Solon to its legacy in Aristotle’, Acta Classica Supplement VI: 1-42
2017 ‘Just why did Cambyses conquer Egypt (Hdt. 3.1-3)? A study of narrative, explanation and ‘history’ in Herodotus’ Cambyses logos’, in R. Rollinger (ed), Weltbild und Welterfassung zwischen Ost und West / Worldview and World Conception between East and West. Proceedings of an international conference in honor of Reinhold Bichler, held in Obergurgl, Tyrol, 19-22 June, 2013. Classica et Orientalia (Harrasowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden) (proofs)
2016 ‘Just who put Croesus on the pyre and why?’ in C. Binder, H. Börm, A. Luther (eds), Diwan. Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean – Untersuchungen zu Geschichte und Kultur des Nahen Ostens und des östlichen Mittelmeerraumes im Altertum. Festschrift für Josef Wiesehöfer zum 65. Geburtstag (Wellem Verlag: Duisburg), 105-24
2015 ‘Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ On Thucydides and Thucydides’ rhetoric of the episodic’, in C. Werner, A. Dourado-Lopes, E. Werner (eds), Tecendo narrativas: unidade e episódio na literatura grega antiga (São Paulo), 121-199
2015 ‘The nothoi come of age? Illegitimate sons and political unrest in late fifth-century Athens’, in P. Sänger (ed) Minderheiten und Migration in der griechisch-römischen Welt: Politische, rechtliche, religiöse und kulturelle Aspekte (Schöningh Wissenschaftsverlag: Paderborn), 75-122
2015 ‘The Platonic Axiochus: the politics of not fearing death in 406 BC’, in S. Gotteland and S. Dubel (eds), Genres, formes et cadres du dialogue antique (Ausonius: Bordeaux), 63-85
2014 ‘Ethnography and empire: Homer and the Hippocratics in Herodotus’ Ethiopian logos, 3.17-26’, Histos 8: 25-75
2013 ‘The hybris of Theseus and the date of the Histories’, in K. Ruffing and B. Dunsch (eds), Source References in Herodotus – Herodotus’ Sources: Conference in memoriam Detlev Fehling, Classica et Orientalia (Harrasowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden) 7-93 (Rev. BMCR 2015.2.4)
2013 ‘The significance of Talthybius’ wrath’, in K. Geus et al (eds), Wege des Erzählens: Logos und Topos bei Herodot (Peter Lang) 223-60
2013 ‘To whom does Solon speak? Conceptions of happiness and ending life well in the later fifth century (Hdt. 1.29-33)’, in K. Geus et al (eds), Wege des Erzählens: Logos und Topos bei Herodot (Peter Lang) 261-321
2012 ‘Bacchylides 17: Theseus, Minos and Delian League ideology’, Hyperboreans: Essays in Greek and Latin Poetry, Philosophy, Rhetoric and Linguistics (Humanitas, São Paulo) 51-102
2011 ‘Herodotus and Aeginetan identity’, in D. Fearn (ed), Aegina: Contexts for Choral Lyric Poetry (OUP) 373-425 (Rev. Greece & Rome 58 (2011) 242-3, JHS 132 (2012) 177-9, EC 78 (2010) 287-90)
2011 ‘“Lest the things done by men become exitêla”: writing up Aegina in a late fifth-century context’, in D. Fearn (ed), Aegina: Contexts for Choral Lyric Poetry (OUP) 426-57 (rev. Greece & Rome 58 (2011) 242-3, JHS 132 (2012) 177-9, EC 78 (2010) 287-90)
2009 ‘Theognis’, ‘Tyrtaeus’, and ‘Poetry, Greek: Elegy’, Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by P. Bing (OUP)
2009 ‘Herodotus and Samos’, Classical World 102: 395-416
2007 (co-authored with Emily Greenwood) ‘Introduction’, in Reading Herodotus (above) 1-40
2007 ‘‘‘What’s in a name?” and exploring the comparable: onomastics, ethnography, and kratos in Hdt. 5.1-2 and 3-10’, in Reading Herodotus (above) 41-88
2007 ‘The politics of precedence: first historians on first thalassocrats’, in R. Osborne (ed), Debating the Athenian Cultural Revolution: Art, Literature, Philosophy and Politics 430-380 B.C. (CUP) 188-223 (rev. Sehepunkte 11 (2011), Classical Review 60 (2010) 172-4, Journal of Hellenic Studies 129 (2009) 185-6)
2007 ‘The lives of the poets: the case of Solon and the Salamis’, in J. Mossman (ed), The Limits of Ancient Biography (Classical Press of Wales) 13-30 (rev. Sehepunkte 8 (2008), Classical Review 60 (2010) 80-2)
2006 ‘The transgressive elegy of Solon’, in A. Lardinois and J. Blok (eds), Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Perspectives (Brill) 36-78 (rev. BMCR 2007.4.26)
2005 ‘Gods among men? The social and political dynamics of the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women’, in R. Hunter (ed), The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions (CUP) 35-85 (rev. Greece and Rome (2007) 111-12, BMCR 2006.10.3, CR 56 (2006) 275-6, Journal of Hellenic Studies 126 (2006) 151-3)
1999 ‘Solecising in Solon’s colony’, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 43: 187-93
1998 ‘Biography, fiction and the Archilochean ainos’, Journal of Hellenic Studies 118: 177-83
Reports
2003 ‘Rethinking unseen translation: a pilot scheme for developing readers skills in Greek and Latin. http://hierapolis.classics.cam.ac.uk/philoponiaPages/report/index.html, http://www.hca.heacademy.ac.uk/classics/reportsAndFeatures.php
Reviews
2012 ‘Rev. R. Bichler, Historiographie-Ethnographie-Utopie. Gesammelte Schriften, Teil 1: Studien zu Herodots Kunst der Historie’, Ancient West and East 11: 316-18.
2010 ‘Rev. C. Dewald and J. Marincola, Cambridge Companion to Herodotus’, JHS 130: 202-4
2010 ‘Rev. M. Vickers, Sophocles and Alcibiades’, JHS 130: 199-200
2010 ‘Rev. P. Derow and R. Parker, Herodotus and his World’, Ancient West and East 9: 290-2
2010 ‘Rev. R. Munson, Black Doves Speak’, Ancient West and East 9: 352-4
2009 ‘Rev. M. Hazewindus, When Women Interfere: Studies in the Role of Women in Herodotus’ Histories’, BMCR 2009.7.46
2008 ‘Rev. V. Karageorghis and I. Taifacos, The World of Herodotus. Proceedings of an International Conference held at the Foundation Anastasios G. Leventis, Nicosia’, JHS 128: 236-7
2007 ‘Rev. R. Thomas, Herodotus in Context’, Ancient West and East 6: 439-41
2005 ‘Rev. C. Mülke, Solons Politische Elegien und Iamben (Fr. 1-13; 32-37 West). Einleitung, Übersetzung, Kommentar’, BMCR 2005.5.26
2004 ‘Rev. N. Luraghi, The Historian’s Craft in the Age of Herodotus’, Ancient West and East 3: 192-4
2003 ‘Rev. R. Munson, Telling Wonders: Ethnographic and Political Discourse in the Work of Herodotus’, JHS 123: 220-1
2003 ‘Rev. E. Bakker et al., Brill’s Companion to Herodotus’, JHS 123: 221-2
2002 ‘Revs. G. J. Van Dijk, AINOI, LOGOI, MUTHOI: Fables in Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greek Literature; with a Study of the Theory and Terminology of the Genre and F. R. Adrados, History of the Graeco-Latin Fable: Introduction and from the Origins to the Hellenistic Age’, JHS 122: 171-2"
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