Articles

‘Plato and Stoicism’, Montréal Review, November/December 2023

‘Plato Goes to Syracuse’, Ancient History Magazine 45 (September 2023), 44-7

‘Some Things Are Up To Us and Some Are Not’, Montréal Review, December 2022

‘The Chremonidean War: Ancient Athens’ Forgotten Conflict’, Ancient Warfare 15.4 (2022), 8-13

‘Xenophon and Socrates’, Appendix A in Shane Brennan and David Thomas (eds), The Landmark Xenophon’s Anabasis (Pantheon Books, 2021), 267-76

(with Robert K. Pitt) ‘A New Gymnasiarchal Inscription from Lakonia’, Grammateion 9 (2020), 13-15

‘The United States of Greece’, History Today 68 (5) (2018), 24-31

‘The Quest for the Historical Socrates’, in John Bussanich & Nicholas Smith (eds), The Bloomsbury Companion to Socrates (London: Bloomsbury, 2013), 1-19, 328-34

Xenophon on Socrates’ Trial and Death’, in Fiona Hobden & Christopher Tuplin (eds), Xenophon: Ethical Principles and Historical Enquiry (Leiden: Brill, 2012 = Mnemosyne suppl. vol. 348), 269-305

‘Greed and the Mixed Constitution in Xenophon’s Anabasis’, Ariadne 17 (2011), 127-56.

‘Olympias’ Funeral Games’, History Today 61(8) (2011), 19-24

‘On “Fussy Authorial Nudges” in Herodotus’, Classical World 102 (2009), 485-94

‘The Historical Socrates’, History Today 59(1) (2009), 24-9

‘Themistocles’, ‘Alcibiades’, ‘Xenophon’ – articles in Andrew Roberts (ed.), The Art of War: Great Commanders of the Ancient and Medieval World (Quercus, 2008), 84-91, 100-7, 108-15. [The book was reissued in a non-illustrated paperback format in 2011, with different pagination.]

‘The Return of Xenophon’, The Philosophers’ Magazine 37 (2007), 27-9

‘Anatolian Retreat’, History Today 56 (9) (2006), 70-1

‘Xenophon’s Socratic Mission’, in Christopher Tuplin (ed.), Xenophon and His World (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2004 = Historia Einzelschriften 172), 79-113

‘Translating Plato’s Republic’, Polis 18 (2001), 117-24

‘The Evidence for Astrology in Classical Greece’, Culture and Cosmos 3 (1999), 3-15

‘The Pathology of ps.-Hippocrates, On Ancient Medicine’, in Lewis Ayres (ed.), The Passionate Intellect: Essays on the Transformation of Classical Traditions Presented to Professor I.G. Kidd (Rutgers University Studies in the Classical Humanities vol. 7, Transaction Publishers, 1995), 249-58