Articles

Geography of Euripides’ Tauris

1987 ‘The Geography of Euripides’ Iphigenia among the Taurians’,  AJP 108, 427-33. 

 

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When Did Trojans Get Called Phrygian?

1988 ‘When did the Trojans turn into Phrygians? Alcaeus 42.15’, ZPE 73, 15-18  

 

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Euripides’ ORESTES

1993 ‘Political and cosmic turbulence in Euripides’ Orestes’, in A. Sommerstein et al. (eds.), Tragedy, Comedy and the Polis, 263-85. Levante. 

 

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The Theatricality of Athenian Lawcourts

1995 ‘Lawcourt Dramas: Performance in Greek Forensic Oratory’, BICS 40, 39-58.

 

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Social context of Greek tragedy

1997 ‘The Sociology of Athenian Tragedy’, in P. Easterling (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy, 93-126. CUP. 

 

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Theatre and Material Evidence

1997 ‘Theatrical Archaeology’, American Journal of Archaeology, 101, 154-158. 

 

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Personifications of Tragedy in Antiquity

2007 ‘Tragedy Personified’ in C. Kraus et al. (eds.), Visualizing the Tragic: Drama, Myth & Ritual in Greek Art & Literature, 221-56.  OUP. 

 

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Ancient Pantomime (Ballet) Dancing

2008 ’16 Ancient Pantomime and the Rise of Ballet’, in Edith Hall, and Rosie Wyles (eds), New Directions in Ancient Pantomime (Oxford)

 

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Aristotle’s Unity of Time in Historical Context

2011 ‘The Social Significance of the “Unity of Time”, Atti Accademia Pontaniana, suppl. 60, 145-54. 

 

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Pain in Sophocles’ PHILOCTETES

2011 ‘Ancient Greek Responses to Suffering: Thinking with Philoctetes’, in Jeff Malpas  (ed.) Human Suffering: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Springer 

 

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Politics of Metrical Variety in Greek Drama

2012 ‘The Politics of Metrical Variety in Classical Athenian Drama’, in D. Yatromanolakis (ed.), Music & Politics in Ancient Greek Societies, 1-28. Routledge. 

 

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Deliberation in Sophocles

2012 ‘Deliberation and the Divine in Sophocles’ Theban plays’, in Kirk Ormand (ed.) The Blackwell Companion to Sophocles, 342–360. Oxford. 

 

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Aesop and Aristophanes

2013 ‘The Aesopic in Aristophanes’, in E. Bakola, L. Prauscello and M. Telò (eds.) Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres, 277-97. CUP. 

 

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Vocal Performers in Hellenistic Times

2013 ‘Rhetorical Actors and Other Versatile Hellenistic Vocalists’, in C. Kremmydas and K. Tempest (eds.) Hellenistic Oratory, 109-36. CUP. 

 

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Olbia Vase

2014 ‘Gender and Performance on a Fifth-century Red-figure Fragmentary Athenian Vase from Olbia’, JHS 134, co-authored with David Braund. 

 

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Medea, the Human and the Divine

2014    ‘Divine & Human in Euripides’ Medea,’ in D. Stuttard (ed.) Looking at Medea, 139-55. Bloomsbury. 

 

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Adventures in Ancient Libraries

2015 ‘Adventures in the Ancient Library,’ in A. Crawford (ed.) The Meaning of the Library, 1-30. PUP.  

 

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Conflict Resolution in Eumenides

2015 ‘Peaceful conflict resolution & its discontents in Aeschylus’s Eumenides’, Common Knowledge 21, 253-269. 

 

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Women in Aristotle’s Politics I

2016 ‘Citizens but Second-class: Women in Aristotle’s Politics’, in Patriarchal Moments ed. Cesare Cuttica and Gaby Mahlberg, 35-42. Bloomsbury. 

 

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Bacchae in its Original Context

2016 ‘Perspectives on the Impact of Bacchae at its Original Performance’, in D. Stuttard (ed.) Looking at Bacchae, 11-28. Bloomsbury. 

 

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Aristotle’s Theory of Katharsis

2017 ‘Aristotle’s Theory of Katharsis in its Historical and Social Contexts’, in E. Fischer-Lichte &  Benjamin Wihstutz (eds.) Transformative Aesthetics, 26-47. Routledge. 

 

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Article in Cambridge Companion to Xenophon

2017 ‘Xenophon: Magician and Friend’, in M. Flower (ed.) Cambridge Companion to Xenophon, 449-58. CUP. 

 

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Cleon article in Cartledge Festschrift

2018  ‘The Boys from Cydathenaeum: Aristophanes versus Cleon Again’, in D. Allen, P. Christensen and P. Millett (eds.) How to Do Things with History (Festschrift for Paul Cartledge, 339-63). OUP.

 

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How to Read Objects in Greek Tragedy

2018 ‘Materialisms Old & New’, in M. Mueller & M. Telò (eds.) The Materialities of Greek Tragedy, 203-17. Bloomsbury. 

 

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Hephaestus, Lameness & Comedy

2018  ‘Hephaestus the Hobbling Humorist: The Club-Footed God in the History of Early Greek Comedy’, Illinois Classical Studies 43, 366-87. 

 

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Cleon’s Oratory & the Sausage Man

2019 ‘Competitive Vocal Performance in Aristophanes’ Knights’, in Poet and Orator, ed. Andreas Markantonatos and Eleni Volonaki, 71-82. de Gruyter. 

 

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Slavery in Ploutos by Aristophanes

2020 ‘In Praise of Cario, the Nonpareil Comic Slave of Aristophanes’ Wealth’, in Ancient Greek Comedy (Essays in Honour of Angus M. Bowie), ed. A. Fries & D. Kanellakis,…

 

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Thracian Setting of Birds

2020 ‘Aristophanes’ Birds as Satire on Athenian Opportunists in Thrace’, in Aristophanes and Politics, ed. Ralph M. Rosen & Helene P. Foley, 187-213. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 

 

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Cheiron the Centaur as Author

2020 ‘Cheiron as youth author: ancient example, modern responses’, in K. Marciniak (ed.) Chasing Mythical Beasts, 301-26. Heidelberg: Winter. 

 

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Actors in Aristotle’s Rhetoric

2021 ‘Actors and Theatre in Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Beyond’, in G. Moretti and Biagio Santorelli (eds.) Atti Il Teatro dell’ Oratoria (= Maia suppl). 496-511. Bologna. 

 

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Aristotle and Obscurantism

2021 ‘Aristotle’s Lost Works for the Public & the Politics of Academic Form’, in Phiroze Vasunia (ed.) The Politics of Form in Greek Culture, 161-78. I.B. Tauris. 

 

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Euripides’ HIPPOLYTUS

2021 ‘Goddesses, a Whore-Wife and a Slave: Euripides’ Hippolytus and Epistemic Injustice towards Women’, in New Directions in the Study of Women, ed. R. Ancona and G. Tsouvala. OUP. 

 

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Review in The Guardian of Charlotte Higgins’ Greek Myths (2021)

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Review in Literary Review of Robin Lane Fox’s The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates (2020).

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Review of Stephen Fry’s MythosThe Greek Myths Retold , The Guardian 2 November 2017.

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Guardian article ‘Classics for the People‘, June 20th 2015. 

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Review in Prospect magazine of Rowan Williams’ The Tragic Imagination (2016).

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