The Historical Socrates

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

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

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

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

‘Thucydides for All Time’, History Today, September 2025, 40-51 ‘Plato and Stoicism’, Montréal Review, November/December 2023