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‘The Place of the Philebus in Plato’s Dialogues’, Phronesis 25 (1980), pp. 270-305

‘Double Standards in Euripides’ Troades’, Maia 34 (1982), pp. 139-42

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

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

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

‘Marcus Aurelius, Emperor and Stoic’, Stoicism Today (website), April 2021

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

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

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

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‘Ancient Greek Supremacism and the Effeminisation of Asians,’ in Kaushik Roy and Dennis Showalter (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Warfare in Asia (OUP, 2026), 173-90