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About
Selected Publications:
Exile, Ostracism and Democracy: The Politics of Expulsion in Ancient Greece. Princeton University Press, 2005.
Slaves Tell Tales and Other Episodes in the Politics of Popular Culture in Ancient Greece.Princeton University Press, 2012.
Articles & Book Chapters
"From Aristocratic to Democratic Ideology and Back Again: The Thrasybulus Anecdote in Herodotus' Histories and Aristotle'sPolitics." Classical Philology 94 .4 (1999) 361-372.
"Exile, Ostracism and the Athenian Democracy" California Studies in Classical Antiquity 19.2 (2000) 232-263.
"Athenian Democratic Ideology and Herodotus' Histories" American Journal of Philology 122.3 (2001) 333-362.
"Herodotus on Greek History, 525-480 " in Irene de Jong, Egbert Bakker and Hans van Wees eds. A Companion to Herodotus edited by. (Leiden, 2002) 521-549.
"Revelry and Riot in Archaic Megara: Democratic Disorder or Ritual Reversal?"Journal of Hellenic Studies 125 (2005) 73-92.
"Herodotus, political history and political thought" in C. Dewald and J. Marincola eds.The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 224-241.
"Land, Labor and Economy in Solonian Athens: Breaking the Impasse between History and Archaeology" J.H. Blok and A.P.M.H. Lardinois eds., Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches, Leiden: Brill, 2006. 334-350.
"Street Theater and Popular Justice in Ancient Greece" Past and Present 201(2008) 3-50.
"The Uses and Abuses of Tyranny" for R.Balot ed. The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Political Thought. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 231-246.
"Civic Institutions" in G. Boys-Stones, B. Graziosi and P.Vasunia eds. The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies. Oxford, 2009. 197-210.
“Exile” in M. Gagarin et al. eds. Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Oxford University Press, 2009.
"Pigs, Asses and Swine: The Cultural Politics of Cleisthenes of Sicyon" in N. Fisher and H. van Wees eds. Competition in the Ancient World. Wales Classical Press (in press).
“Change and Continuity: The Impact of Democracy on Communal Life” in J.P.Arnason, K. Raaflaub and P. Wagner eds.The Greek polis and the invention of democracy: a politico-cultural transformation and its interpretations. Blackwell. (in press).
Affiliation(s)
Field(s) of Study
- Greek historiography, Athenian democracy, Greek law, social and cultural history, ancient slavery
