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Positions Held
Chair, Department of History, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public
Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY: 5/06-present
Associate Professor of Ancient History and Classics, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public
Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY: 10/03-present
Assistant Professor of Ancient History, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public
Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY: 8/01-10/03
Assistant Professor of Ancient History and Classical Languages, Allegheny College,
Meadville, PA: 8/95-5/01
Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics and Humanities, Reed College, Portland,
OR: 8/93-5/95
Lecturer in Classics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ: Spring Term, 1993
Instructor, The Lewis School and Diagnostic Center of Princeton, Princeton, NJ:
9/92-7/93
Adjunct Professor of History, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ: 9/91-8/92
Lecturer in Classics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ: Spring Terms of 1990
and 1992.
The Landmark Edition of the Histories of Polybius, co-edited with A.M. Eckstein, 2 vols. (New York: Pantheon Books), Forthcoming
ARTICLES
"Empire by Invitation: Greek Political Strategies and Roman Political
Interventions in the Second Century BCE," Transactions of the American Philological Association
137 (2007) 255-75
"In Defense of Hellas: The Antigonid Soteria and Paneia at Delos and the
Aetolian Soteria at Delphi," American Journal of Ancient
History n.s. 3-4 (2004-2005) 2007: 72-88
"Polybian Demagogues in Political Context," Harvard Studies in Classical
Philology 102 (2004) 2005: 199-212
"Romans as Barbaroi: Three Polybian Speeches and the Politics of
Cultural Indeterminacy," Classical Philology 95 (2000) 425-44
"Histories 12.4b.1-4c.1: An Overlooked Key to Polybios' Views on
Rome," HISTOS,
vol. 4 (2000)
"The Nature of Authoritative Evidence in Polybius and the Speech of Agelaus
at Naupactus," Transactions of the American Philological Association 127
(1997) 111-28
"Polybius, Aetolia, and the Gallic Attack on Delphi (279 BC)," Historia
45 (1996) 315-28
"The Soteria at Delphi: Aetolian Propaganda in the Epigraphical
Record," American Journal of Philology 116 (1995) 213-20
"Dialogus 5.3-10.8: A Reconsideration of the Character of Marcus
Aper," Phoenix 48 (1994) 152-63
BOOK CHAPTERS
"The Polybian Plupast." Forthcoming in The Historian's Plupast,
J. Grethlein and Chr. Krebs (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
"Polybius and the Punic Wars." Forthcoming in Blackwell's
Companion to the Punic Wars, B.D. Hoyos (ed.). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
Publishers
"Historiographic Patterns and Historical Obstacles in Polybius' Histories:
Marcellus, Flaminius, and the Mamertine Crisis." Forthcoming in Polybius
1957-2007, B. Gibson and Th. Harrison (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University
Press
"Imperial Ideologies, Citizenship Myths, and Legal Disputes in Classical
Athens and Republican Rome." Forthcoming in Blackwell's Companion to
Greek and Roman Political Thought, R. Balot (ed.). Oxford: Blackwell
Publishers
"Polybius and Aitolia: An Historiographical Approach." in Blackwell's
Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography, J. Marincola (ed.). Oxford:
Blackwell Publishers, 2007. 356-62
Forthcoming in Ian Worthington,
ed., Brill's New
Jacoby (Leiden: Brill Publishers). New Edition of F. Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen
Historiker, I-III:
FGrH 79: Eudoxus of Rhodes
FGrH 80: Pythermus of Ephesus
FGrH 174: Philinus
of Acragas
FGrH 508: Antisthenes of Rhodes
FGrH 511: Dionysius of Rhodes
FGrH 514: Eucrates
FGrH 523: Zeno of Rhodes
FGrH 561: Timonides of Leucas
FGrH 565: Antandros of Syracuse
FGrH 566: Timaeus of Tauromenium
FGrH 571: Andreas of Panormus
FGrH 574: Pisistratus of Lipara
REVIEWS for Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Die römische Republik: Von der Gründung bis
Caesar, by Martin Jehne (Munich, 2006),
BMCR
2006.10.05
The Politics of Plunder: The Aitolians and Their Koinon in the Early
Hellenistic Era, 279-217 BC, by Joseph B. Scholten
(Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, 2000), BMCR
00.10.25
State, Society, and Popular Leaders in Mid-Republican Rome, 241-167 B.C.,
by Rachel Feig Vishnia (London and New York, 1996), BMCR
97.8.2 = vol. 8, no. 2 (1997) 782-92
Contra Arma Verbis: Der Redner vor dem Volk in der später römischen
Republik, by Francisco Pina Polo, trans. E. Liess (Stuttgart, 1996), BMCR
97.3.36= vol. 8, no. 5 (1997) 456-62
Kriegerisches Rom? Zur Frage von Unvermeidbarkeit und Normalität
militärischer Konflikte in der römischen Politik, by Michaela Kostial
(Stuttgart, 1995), in BMCR
97.2.8 = vol. 8, no. 2 (1997) 146-51
Moral Vision in the Histories of Polybius, by A.M. Eckstein (Berkeley and
Los Angeles, 1995), in BMCR
95.7.6 = vol. 6, no. 5 (1995) 392-8
BOOK REVIEWS
Rome Enters the Greek East: From Anarchy to Hierarchy in the Hellenistic
Mediterranean, 230-170 BC, by Arthur M. Eckstein (Oxford and Malden, Mass.,
2008), forthcoming in Classical Philology
Rome, the Greek World, and the East, vol. 2: Government, Society, and
Culture in the Roman Empire, by F. Millar (Chapel Hill, 2004),
forthcoming in The International Journal of the Classical Tradition
Interstate Relations in Classical Greece: Morality and Power, by Polly
Low (Cambridge, 2007),
Scholia
ns 17 (2008) 3
The Persian Empire, by L. Allen (Chicago, 2005), The Classical Outlook,
vol. 84, no. 3 (Spring 2007) 135
The Parthenon: From Antiquity to the Present, edited by J. Neils
(Cambridge, 2005), The Classical Outlook, vol. 84, no. 2 (Winter 2007) 90
Review Article:
The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought, by E. Nelson
(Cambridge, 2004), POLIS: The Journal of the Society for Greek
Political Thought (United Kingdom), vol. 23.2 (2006) 387-98
The Shadow of Polybius: Intertextuality as a Tool in Greek Historiography,
edited by G. Schepens and J. Bollansée (Leuven,
2005), Sehepunkte: Rezensionsjournal für die
Geschichtswissenschaften (Munich), vol. 6 (2006) nr. 7/8,
http://www.sehepunkte.de/2006/07/10331.html
Athenian Legacies: Essays on the Politics of Going On Together, by J.
Ober (Princeton, 2005), in The Classical Outlook, vol. 83, no.1
(Fall 2005) 40
Polybe: Histoires, Tome III, Livre III, J. de Foucault, É. Foulon, and M.
Molin, editors (Paris, 2004), in Classical Review, vol. 56, no. 1 (2006)
71-72
Review Article: The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity, by B.
Isaac (Princeton, 2004),
Scholia ns 14 (2005) 10
Rome at War: Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republic, by
N. Rosenstein (Chapel Hill, 2004), in Journal of
Interdisciplinary History, 36.1 (Summer 2005) 78-79
Rome, the Greek World, and the East, vol. 1: The Roman Republic and the
Augustan Revolution, by F. Millar (Chapel Hill, 2002), The International Journal of the Classical Tradition,
vol. 11.1 (Summer 2004) 114-17
Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture, by J.M. Hall (Chicago,
2002), in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 34.1 (Summer 2003) 65-66
Between Geography and History: Hellenistic Constructions of the Roman World,
by K. Clarke (Oxford, 1999), in Classical World [hereafter CW]
95.4 (2002) 455-56
Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens, D. Boedeker
and K.A. Raaflaub, editors (Cambridge, MA, 1999), in The Review of Communication
(National Communication Association), vol. 2, no. 2 (April, 2002)
Romanization in the Time of Augustus, by R. MacMullen (New Haven and
London, 2000), in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 32.3 (Winter 2002)
452-53
Antiochos III and the Cities of Western Asia Minor, by J. Ma (Oxford,
1999), in Classical Journal, vol. 97 (2001-2002) 198-200.
The Classical Greek Reader, ed. K.J. Atchity (New York and London, 1996),
in The Classical Outlook, vol. 79, no. 1 (Fall 2001) 33
Literary Texts and the Roman Historian, by D.S. Potter (London and New
York, 1999), in CW 94.3 (2001) 286-87
The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens, by
D.S. Allen (Princeton, 2000), in The Classical Outlook 77.4
(Summer, 2000) 164
Temples, Religion and Politics in the Roman Republic, by E.M. Orlin (Leiden,
New York, and Cologne, 1997), in CW 93.3 (2000) 303-304
The Roman Historians, by Ronald Mellor (London and New York, 1999), in
Scholia
Reviews ns 9 (2000) 5
Down From Olympus: Archaeology and Philhellenism in Germany, 1750-1950,
by S. Marchand (Princeton, 1997), in CW 93.2 (1999) 213-14
JOINT REVIEW: Blood in the Arena: The Spectacle of Roman Power, by A.
Futrell (Austin, 1997); Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome, by D.G. Kyle
(London and New York, 1998), in CW 92.6 (1999) 569-70
Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace, by J.J. O'Donnell
(Cambridge, Mass. and London, 1998), in HISTOS
vol. 3 (1999)
The Roman Family in Italy: Status, Sentiment, Space, edd. B. Rawson and
P. Weaver (Oxford, 1997), in CW 92.5 (1999) 471-72
Libri Annales Pontificum Maximorum: The Origins of the Annalistic Tradition,
2nd ed., by B.W. Frier (Ann Arbor, 1999), in Scholia
Reviews ns 8 (1999) 27
The Returns of Odysseus: Colonization and Ethnicity, by I. Malkin
(Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, 1998), in Scholia
Reviews ns 8 (1999) 21
Hellenistic Constructs: Essays in Culture, History, and Historiography,
edd. P. Cartledge, P. Garnsey, and E. Gruen (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London,
1997), in CW 92.4 (1999) 382-83
Polybe: Histoires, Tome X, Livres XIII-XVI. Collections des Universités
de France, ed. E. Foulon (Paris, 1995), in CW 92.3 (1999) 304-305
From Barbarians to New Men: Greek, Roman, and Modern Perceptions of Peoples
from the Central Apennines, by E. Dench (Oxford, 1995), in CW 92.3
(1999) 303-304
The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. X: The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C.-A.D. 69,
2d ed., edd. A.K. Bowman, E. Champlin, A. Lintott (Cambridge, 1996), in CW
92.3 (1999) 300
Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC: A Study in
Cultural Receptivity, by M.C. Miller (Cambridge, 1997), Scholia
Reviews ns 8 (1999) 6
Hellenism and Empire: Language, Classicism, and Power in the Greek World, AD
50-250, by S. Swain (Oxford, 1996), in CW 92.1 (1998) 71-72
Antigonus II Gonatas: A Political Biography, by J.J. Gabbert (London and
New York, 1997), in CW 92.1 (1998) 69
Transitions to Empire. Essays in Greco-Roman History, 360-146 B.C., in Honor
of E. Badian, edd. R.W. Wallace and E.M. Harris (Norman and London, 1996),
in CW 92.1 (1998) 67
Topographies of Hellenism: Mapping the Homeland, by A. Leontis (Ithaca
and London, 1995), in CW 92.1 (1998) 54
Macedonia from Philip II to the Roman Conquest, ed. R. Ginouvès
(Princeton, 1994), in CW 91.5 (1998) 446
Talking Trojan: Speech and Community in the Iliad, by H. Mackie (Lanham,
Md. and London, 1996), in CW 91.5 (1998) 438-39
Hesiod's Works and Days: A Translation and Commentary for the Social
Sciences, by D.W. Tandy and W.C. Neale (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London,
1997), in Scholia
Reviews ns 6 (1997) 16
Tacitus the Sententious Historian: A Sociology of Rhetoric in Annales 1-6,
by P. Sinclair (University Park, PA, 1995), in CW 90.4 (1997) 303-304
MOVIE REVIEW
"300: The Use and Abuse of History," co-authored with Subho
Basu and Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, SPIKED (on-line journal, United
Kingdom), Wednesday, October 3, 2007:
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/3918/
Reprinted in The Classical Outlook, vol. 85, no. 1 (Fall 2007) 28-32
ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES
"Funeral Oration, Latin." Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
(Oxford: Oxford University Press), [hereafter OEAGR], forthcoming
"Funerals, Roman." OEAGR, forthcoming
"Hannibal." OEAGR, forthcoming
"Ideology of the Roman Empire." OEAGR, forthcoming
"Interstate Relations." OEAGR, forthcoming
"Massinissa." OEAGR, forthcoming
"Social Organization, Roman." OEAGR, forthcoming
"Aetolia." Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition
(London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000), 30-1
"Columella's De Re Rustica." The Historical Encyclopedia
of World Slavery, ed. J.P. Rodriguez (Santa Barbara, Denver, and Oxford, UK:
ABC-CLIO, 1997), [hereafter HEWS], vol. 1: 174-5
"Moses Finley." HEWS, vol. I: 268-9
"Polybius and Slavery." HEWS, vol. II: 513-14
"The Law Code of Gortyn." HEWS, vol. I: 310
"The Punic Wars." HEWS, vol. II: 528-9
"The Sicilian Slave Wars under the Roman Republic (135-132 B.C., 104-100
B.C.)." HEWS, vol. II: 586-7
MISCELLANEOUS
Introduction, with A.M. Eckstein. Roman Imperialism: Readings and Sources,
C. Champion, ed. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2004) 1-10.
"Cato the Censor (234-149 B.C.E.),"
"Macedonian Wars (215-146 B.C.E.)," "Cynoscephalae
(197 B.C.E.)," "Philopoemen (ca. 252-182 B.C.E.),"
and "Trebia (218 B.C.E.)." Entries in Magill's
Guide to Military History, 5 vols., C. Moose, ed. (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press,
2001)
Biographical Essay. "Julius Caesar," The Dictionary of Literary
Biography: Ancient Roman Writers, vol. 211 (Detroit, San Francisco, London,
Boston, and Woodbridge, Conn.: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1999) 109-17.
Reprinted in the Concise Dictionary of World Literary Biography, vol. 1:
Ancient Greek and Roman Writers (Detroit, San Francisco, London, Boston, and
Woodbridge, Conn.: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1999) 154-62
Biographical Essay. "Polybius," The Dictionary of Literary
Biography: Ancient Greek Authors, vol. 176 (Detroit, Washington, D.C., and
London: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1997) 330-4
Retirement Eulogy (Latin). "Ovatio: T. James Luce, Jr.," in CW
vol. 89, no. 3 (1996) 213
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