This article is a reconsideration of the Second Persian Period in Egypt (c. 340-332 BCE) in light of Ptolemaic propaganda and the reliefs of the Tomb of Petosiris at Tuna el-Gebel.

Co-edited volume of essays on ancient balletic interpretations of playscripts

Summary and table of contents.

The re-evaluation of classical education (paideia) recurred throughout the Roman period, reaching a particularly fevered pitch during the late fourth century, as the empire became Christian. The political consequences of Christian learning become particularly clear in the debate between two learned, Latin-speaking Christians who translated Greek…[Read more]

Article exploring the status of mint workers from the Republic to the period of Late Antiquity.

CUP Co-Edited volume about actors and acting in Greek & Roman civilisation

Co-edited volume about progressive uses of classical culture in Britain 1789-1969

Book on classical Athenian theatre and society

A Cultural History of Euripides’ Black Sea Tragedy

Monograph on the Cultural History of the Odyssey

Co-edited volume of essays on the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles and his continuing cultural presence (C.U.P.)

Co-edited volume of essays about female classical philologists

Co-Edited collection of essays on the performance history of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon from the fifth century BCE until the 21st century

OUP 1989

Thucydides’s unusual praise of the Athenian general Phrynichus in 8.27.5 gives insight into how the historian thought and wrote. The praise seems unwarranted in the immediate instance and in light of Phrynichus’s subsequent actions. I argue that the praise seems directed at the manner in which Phrynichus made his decisions, and how Thucydides’s…[Read more]