A New Reading of the Damonon Stele, Histos Supplement 10, 2019

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A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity, co-edited with Donald Kyle, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

Sport and Democracy in the Ancient and Modern Worlds, Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History, Cambridge University Press, 2007.

"Editors' Preface," co-authored with Paul Cartledge, in R. Osborne, Athens and Attica. (Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World, Volume 2), New York: Oxford University Press, 2023: pp. xxxi-xlvii.

"Luxury Lost in Translation: τρυφή in Plutarch's Sparta." In Luxury and Wealth in the Archaic to Hellenistic Peloponnese, edited by C. Gallou and S. Hodkinson, Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2022: 119-35.

"Introduction," in The Bloomsbury Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity, P. Christesen and C. Stocking (eds.), London: Bloomsbury, 2021: pp. 1-22.

"The Purpose of Sport," co-authored with Rose MacLean, in The Bloomsbury Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity, P. Christesen and C. Stocking (eds.), London: Bloomsbury, 2021: pp. 23-48.

"Theories of Greek and Roman Sport and Spectacle," in The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World, A. Futrell and T. Scanlon (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021: pp. 14-26.

"Herodotus 9.85 and Spartan Burial Customs." Classica et Mediaevalia 69 (2020): 1-72.

"The Typology and Topography of Spartan Burials from the Protogeometric through Hellenistic Periods: Re-thinking Spartan Exceptionalism and the Ostensible Cessation of Adult Intramural Burials in the Greek World," Annual of the British School at Athens 113 (2018): 307-363 (plus an additional c. 20,000 words of supplementary information in the form of data tables available (only) online on the Cambridge University Press website).

"Athletics and Sparta," in A Companion to Sparta, A. Powell (ed.), Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2018, vol. 2: pp. 543-64.

"Xenophon on Sparta," in the Cambridge Companion to Xenophon, Michael Flower (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 376-400.

"Dreams of Democracy, or The Reasons for Hoosiers' Enduring Appeal," International Journal of the History of Sport 34 (2017): 1-41.

Essays in Brill's New Jacoby on Euhemeros of Messene, Myron of Priene, Euthymenes, and Baton of Sinope.

"Athletics and Social Order in Sparta in the Classical Period," Classical Antiquity 31 (2012), 193-255.

"Treatments of Spartan Land Tenure in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France: From François Fénelon to Fustel de Coulanges," in Sparta in Modern Thought: Politics, History, and Culture, Stephen Hodkinson and Ian Macgregor Morris (eds.), Classical Press of Wales, 2012, pp. 165-230.

"Spartans and Scythians, A Meeting of Mirages: The Portrayal of the Lycurgan Politeia in Ephoros' Histories," in Sparta: The Body Politic, Anton Powell and Stephen Hodkinson (eds.), Classical Press of Wales, 2010, pp. 211-63.

"Kings Playing Politics: The Heroization of Chionis of Sparta," Historia (Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte) 59 (2010): 26-73.

"The Olympic Victor List of Eusebius: Background, Text, and Translation," co-authored with Zara Martirosova-Torlone, Traditio (Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought and Religion) 61 (2006): 31-93.

"Utopia on the Eurotas: Economic Aspects of the Spartan Mirage," in Spartan Society, Thomas Figueira (ed.), Classical Press of Wales, 2004, pp. 309-37.  

"Economic Rationalism in Fourth-Century B.C. Athens," Greece and Rome 50 (2003):1-26.

"Athletics and Sparta," in A Companion to Sparta, A. Powell (ed.), Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2018, vol. 2: pp. 543-64.

"On the Meaning of γυμνάζω," Nikephoros (Zeitschrift für Sport und Kultur im Altertum) 15 (2002): 7-37.

"Ex omnibus in unum, nec hoc nec illud: Genre in Petronius," co-authored with Zara Torlone, Materiali e Discussioni 49 (2002): 1-38.

"Time Stood Still, and It Was Sublime (Proto-Gospel of James 18)." In Making Time for Greek and Roman Literature, ed. K. Gilhuly and J.P. Ulrich, Routledge, 2024, 205–25.

"The Classical Sublime." In The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime, ed. C. Duffy, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 17–28.

"An Image Sublime: The Milky Way in Aratus and Manilius." In Teaching Through Images: Imagery in Ancient Didactic Poetry, ed. J. Strauss Clay and A. Vergados, Brill, 2022, 82–104.

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"inconsistencies in Latin Literature." InThe Oxford Classical Dictionary, digital edition, ed. T. Whitmarsh. Oxford University Press. Article published April 2019. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.8135.

"Playing the Volcano: Prometheus Bound and Fifth Century Volcanic Theory." Classical Philology 113 (2018): 255–78.

"Repurposing the Stars: Manilius, Astronomica 1, and the Aratean Tradition." American Journal of Philology 138 (2017): 267-303.

"Census and commercium: Two Economic Metaphors in Manilius." Ιn Forgotten Stars: Rediscovering Manilius' Astronomica, ed. S. Green and K. Volk, Oxford University Press, 2011, 188-201.

"Phaedrus, Callimachus and the recusatio to Success."  Classical Antiquity 28 (2009): 248-78.

Power and Persuasion in Cicero's Philosophy. Co-edited with Nathan Gilbert and Sean McConnell. Cambridge, 2023.

Seneca: Letters on Ethics. Translated and with an Introduction and Commentary by Margaret Graver and A.A. Long. Chicago, 2015; paperback 2017.

Stoicism and Emotion. Chicago, 2007; paperback 2009.

Cicero on the Emotions: Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4. Chicago, 2002.

Seneca: Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic. Chicago, 2021.

The Stillness of the Sage's heart: Senecan ἀπάθεια and the Involuntary Feelings. In the Mind, In the Body, and In the World: Emotions in Early China and Ancient Greece, ed. Douglas Cairns and Curie Virag. Oxford University Press, 2024.

"Does God Have a Choice? Human and Divine Volition in Stoic Philosophy." Praxis - Handeln und Handelnde in antiker Philosophie, ed. F. Buddensiek and S. Odzuck, 349-370. De Gruyter, 2023.

2021    "Innovation through Recoil from Networks." In Interrogating Networks: Investigating Networks of Knowledge in Antiquity, edited by L. Foxhall, 99–115. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

2021    "The Pylos Tablets Digital Project: Aegean Scripts in the 21st Century." In New Approaches to Ancient Material Culture in the Greek & Roman World: 21st- Century Methods and Classical Antiquity, edited by C.L. Cooper, 161-171. Leiden: Brill (coauthored with Dimitri Nakassis and Kevin Pluta).

2020    "Argos, fouilles de l'Aspis." In Bulletin archéologique des Écoles françaises à l'étranger, (coauthored with Anna Philippa-Touchais, Gilles Touchais, Natalie Abell, Anthi Balitsari, Maria Choleva).

2020    "Messenia." In Collapse and Transformation: The Late Bronze Age to Early Iron in the Aegean, edited by Guy Middleton, 71-76. Oxford: Oxbow Press.

Book review: American Journal of Archaeology 122, April 2018: "The Minnesota Pylos Project, 1990-98, edited by Frederick A. Cooper and Diane Fortenberry (BAR-IS 2856). Pp. 426. BAR Publishing, Oxford 2017." https://www.ajaonline.org/book-review/3641.

"Mourning, Gender, and Agency in Late Bronze Age Tanagra," Hesperia 84, 2015, 627-667

The Land and the Heroes of Lokris in the Iliad," Journal of Hellenic Studies 132, 2012, 87-105

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"What was Crusader about the Crusader States?"  Al-Masāq 30 (2018): 317-330.

"True Romans: Remembering the Crusades among Eastern Christians." Journal of Medieval History 40 (2014): 260-75.

"Martyrdom and the Muslim World through Franciscan Eyes." The Catholic History Review 97 (2011): 1-23.

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“How about the Pace of Change for a Change of Pace?,” in S. W. Manning and M. J. Bruce (eds.), Tree Rings, Kings and Old World Archaeology and Environment: Papers Presented in Honor of Peter Ian Kuniholm (Oxford 2009) 189-194.

Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy (Hesperia Supplement 41) , editor, with A Cohen, (2007).

Chapt. 3.1 “Introduction,” Chapt. 3.3. “Neopalatial and Late Minoan Pottery,” Chapt. 3.4 “Ceramic Imports at Knossos,” and Chapt. 5.1 “Ceramic Evidence for External contact: Neopalatial and Postpalatial,” in Kommos V: The Monumental Buildings at Kommos , J W and M C Shaw (eds.), (2006) 230 pages

“Southern Triangles Revisited: Laconia, Messenia, and Crete in the 14th- 12th-Centuries B.C.,” in Ariadne’s Threads: Connections between Crete and the Greek Mainland in the Postpalatial Period (LM IIIA2 to LM IIIC) , A L D’Agata and J Moody (eds.), (2005) 17-50.

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"Origin Stories: Plundered Libraries and Theories of Appropriation in Greek and Roman Imperial Literature." TAPA 153: 389–430.

"Language and Agency in Sappho's Brothers Poem." Helios 48: 113–143. 2021. Winner of the 2020 John J. Winkler Memorial Prize.

"P. Oxy. 5272. Epictetus, Discourses 2.17.22–24." The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 81: 73–74. 2016.

"P. Oxy. 5273. Epictetus, Discourses 2.22.37–23.1." The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 81: 74–76. 2016.

2014. "The Slave as Roman Outsider," in D. Hammer, ed. Blackwell Companion to Ancient and Modern Democracies and Republics: A Comparative Approach (Wiley-Blackwell) 405-428. 

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Review of Carl J. Richard, "The Golden Age of Classics in America" (Harvard, 2009)

Letter from Ibadan 

On Rainbows and Butterflies: The Classics, The Humanities and Africa

Review-Essay of Mary A. Favret, "War at a Distance:  Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime" (Princeton, 2010)

Edmund Richardson, Review of William W. Cook and James Tatum, African American Writers and Classical Tradition (Chicago, 2010)

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R. Ulrich, 2007. “The representation of technical processes in the Classical world,” Chapter 2 of the Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World ed. J. Oleson. Oxford.

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Whaley, Lindsay J. and Rebacca Asoulin. 2016. Place names in the United States and the colonial past. In Nicholas Ostler and Panchanan Mohanty (eds.) Language Colonization and Endangerment: Long-term Effects, Echoes and Reactions, 21-26. Foundation for Endangered Languages.

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Some ways to endanger an endangered language project, Language and Education 25/4:339-348.

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Grounding in Oroqen narrative: A re-analysis of"present tense" marking with J. Bouton, in Jonathan E. Cihlar, Amy L. Franklin, David W. Kaiser and Irene Kimbara (eds.), Papers from the 39th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (2003), Volume I: The Main Session , 1-15. (2007)

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'Eros the Blacksmith', in Thinking Men: Masculinity and its Self Representation in the Classical Tradition, eds L. Foxhall and J. B. Salmon, 1998.

The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece, ed. with S. Blundell, 1998

'The Mirror-Shield of Knowledge:  a Classicist in the West Indies in 1825', in M. Bradley, ed.  Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire, Oxford University Press, 2010

'Africa or Old Rome? Jamaican Slave Naming Revisited', in Slavery and Abolition vol. 38 no.1, 2017 

'Slave Names and Naming in the Anglophone Atlantic.' In Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. Ed. Trevor Burnard. Oxford University Press, 2018.

'Dictionaries as translations: English in the Lexicon', in Liddell and Scott: the History, Methodology and Languages of the World's Leading Lexicon of Ancient Greek, eds Christopher Stray, Michael Clarke, and Joshua T. Katz, Oxford University Press, 2019.

'"Nero, the mustard!" The ironies of classical slave names in the British Atlantic,' in Classicisms in the Black Atlantic, eds  A. Lecznar, H. Morse and I. Moyer, Oxford University Press, 2020.

Introduction to excerpts from the travel narratives of Thomas Staunton St Clair and Matthew 'Monk' Lewis in Classics and Race: A Historical Reader, eds Sarah Derbew, Daniel Orrells and Phiroze Vasunia, UCL Press Online, 2025.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800088139