Herodotus, oral tradition, ancient medicine

Selected Publications:

Herodotus and Eastern myths and Logoi: Deioces the Mede and Pythius the Lydian, in Myth, Truth and Narrative in Herodotus, Baragwanath E (eds.), (Oxford University Press 2012).

Local history and Polis Histories: the politics of place, in Fourth Century Greek Historiography: A Reevaluation, Luraghi N, Vattuone R (eds.), (Bologna 2012).

Pindar's 'Difficulty' and the performance of epinician poetry: some suggestions from ethnography, in Reading the Victory Ode, Carey C, Agocs P, Rawls R (eds.), (Cambridge University Press 2012).

'And you the demos made an uproar': Performance, mass audience and text in the Athenian Democracy, in Literacy, Orality and Religion, Lardinois A, Blok J (eds.), (Brill 2011), 161-187.

Herodotus' Persian Ethnography, in Herodot und das Persische Reich, Rollinger R, Truschnegg B, Bichler R (eds.), (2011), 237-254.

Thucydides and Social Change: between Akribeia and Universality', in The Western Time of Ancient History, Lianeri A (eds.), (Cambridge University Press 2011).

The Origins of Western Literacy. Literacy in Ancient Greece and Rome., in The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy, (Cambridge University Press 2009), 346-361.

Writing, Reading, public and private 'literacies': functional literacy and democratic literacy in Greece, in Ancient literacies, Johnson WA, Parker HN (eds.), (Oxford University Press, USA 2009), 13-45.

'Fame, Memorial and Choral poetry: the origins of epinician poetry - an historical study', in Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals from Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire, ed. C. Morgan & S. Hornblower, (OUP 2007), 141-166.

'The Intellectual Milieu of Herodotus' for Cambridge Companion to Herodotus, ed. J. Marincola and C. Dewald, (CUP 2006), 60-75.

'Thucydides' Intellectual Milieu and the Plague', in Brill Companion to Thucydides, ed. A. Rengakos & Tsakmakis, (Leiden 2006), 87-108.

'Writing, law and written law', in Cambridge Companion to Greek Law, ed. M. Gagarin & D. Cohen, (2005), 41-60.

Drew Gerstle, Rosalind Thomas & Stephanie Jones, eds., Performance Literature of special edition of journal Oral Tradition, (2005).

'Herodotus, Ionia and the Athenian Empire', in The World of Herodotus, ed. V. Karageorghis and I.Taifacos, (Cyprus 2004), 27-42.

'Prose performance texts: Epideixis and Written Publication in the late 5th. and early 4th.c.', in H. Yunis, ed., Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece, (CUP 2003), 162-168.

'Ethnicity, Genealogy and Hellenism in Herodotus and Fifth-century Greece', Ancient Perceptions of Greek Ethnicity, ed. Irad Malkin, (2001).

'Literacy in Ancient Greece: functional literacy, oral education and the development of a literate environment', for volume on Literacy, Education and Social Development: On the Making of literate societies, ed. David Olson, (Blackwell 2001), 68-81.

Herodotus and the Floating gap, in The Dawn of Historiography. Oral Traditions, uses of the past and the writing of history in fifth-century Greece, ed. N. Luraghi, (OUP 2001), 198-210.

Herodotus in Context: Ethnography, Science and the Art of Persuasion, (CUP 2000).

'Ethnography, Proof and Argument in Herodotus' Histories', (PCPS 43 1997), 128-48.

'Written in stone' Liberty, equality, orality and the codification of law', (BICS 40 1995), 59-74.

'Law and the lawgiver in the Athenian democracy', in Ritual, Finance, Politics. Athenian Democratic Accounts presented to David Lewis, Robin Osborne and Simon Hornblower. (eds.), (Oxford 1994), 119-133.

'Literacy and the city-state in archaic and classical Greece', in Literacy and Power, Alan Bowman and G. Woolf (eds.), (CUP 1994), 33-50.

Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece (Key Themes in Ancient History), (CUP 1992).

Oral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens, (Cambridge University Press 1989).

Review of Brill's New Jacoby On-line, Mnemosyne: a journal of classical studies, ((n.d.)).

Review of Pébarthe, Cité, democratie et écriture. Histoire de l'alphabeetisation d'Athenes a l'époque classique, Klio: Beitraege zur Alten Geschichte, Vol: 92, ((n.d.)).