PUBLICATIONS

•    BOOK:

Pomponius Mela's Description of the World, University of Michigan Press (1998).

•    GUIDEBOOK:

“La sorgente d’Orazio” a Chianciano Terme: Guida Archeologica (with David Soren, Claudio
Bizzarri, and Annalisa Marzano), La Soprintendenza Archeologica per la Toscana and the University of Arizona, 1998.

•    ARTICLES:

 “Chianciano Terme and the Building program of Trajan,” in D. Soren, ed., An Ancient Roman Spa at Mezzomiglio: Chianciano Terme, Tuscany, BAR International Series 1548 (2006) 9-10. 

 “Vopisco et Hasta Consulibus: The Chianciano Brickstamp,” in D. Soren, ed., An Ancient Roman Spa at Mezzomiglio: Chianciano Terme, Tuscany, BAR International Series 1548 (2006) 60. 

 "Geometric Space, Mapping, and Chorography: The ‘Place’ of Pomponius Mela," in Juan José Saldaña, ed., Science and Cultural Diversity: Proceedings of the XXI^st International Congress of the History of Science (Universidad Internacional Autónoma de México: 2005) 2289-2302.

 “Another Incarnation of the Phoenix,” Classica et Mediaevalia 54 (2003) 223-53.

 “Epic Poetry, Polis, and Tyranny: Political Revolution and the Development of Greek Ethnic Identity,” in B. Vivante, ed., Events That Shaped Ancient Greece (Greenwood Press 2002) 27-39.

 "Harmodius and Aristogiton," "Pomponius Mela," "Publilius Syrus," and "Triumvirate," in Thomas Sienkewicz, ed., Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, Salem Press (2002) vol. 2, 603, 775, and vol. 3, 933-34, 1097.

"Ocheiaand Mules in a Prometheus play: Amending LSJ and Unemending F189a R," TAPA 131 (2000) 67-87.

"A Problem of Conception: What Is Breeding at Soph., OT 873?", Eranos 98 (2000) 9-24.

"Famine, Pestilence, and Brigandage in Italy in the Fifth Century A.D.," in D. and N. Soren, eds., A Roman Villa and Late Roman Infant Cemetery (Rome, 1999) 465-75.

"Horace's Healing Spring" (with David Soren), Archaeology 52.1 (Jan.-Feb. 1999) 47-48.

       Reprinted in D. Soren, ed., An Ancient Roman Spa at Mezzomiglio: Chianciano Terme, Tuscany, BAR
       International Series 1548 (2006) 5-8.

"Explaining Suetonius (Tib. 16.1): Tiberius' Tribunicia Potestas in A.D. 4," Eranos 97 (1997) 89-98.

"Good Intentions and thehodós hē es kórakas," in G. Dobrov, ed., The City As Comedy: Society and Representation in Athenian Comedy, University of North Carolina Press (1997) 51-74.

"Diagoras the Melian (Diod. Sic. 13.6.7)," CW 89 (1995/96) 393-401.

"Atheism, Impiety, and the Limos Mêlios at Aristoph., Birds 186," AJP 115 (1994) 351-65.

"Pliny, Vesuvius, and the Troublesome Wind," CW 78 (1985) 587-91.

"A Case of Client-Kingship," AJP 106 (1985) 75-100.

"When is a Bird Not a Bird?", TAPA 113 (1983) 135-42.

"The Aesymnêteia: A Problem in Aristotle's Historical Method," AJP 103 (1982) 25-46, with author's summary in The Philosopher's Index (1982) 440.

"Gaius Caesar's Military Diplomacy in the East," TAPA 109 (1979) 199-214.

"A Numismatic Date for the Departure of C. Caesar?", TAPA 108 (1978) 187-202.

• BOOK REVIEWS

"Stückelberger and G. Grasshoff, eds., Klaudios Ptolemaios, Handbuch der Geographie: Einleitung, Text und Übersetzung, Griechisch-Deutsch,” 2 vols., Imago Mundi 60.1 (2008) 107.

“F. Colin, Les peuples libyens de la Cyrenaïque à l’Égypte. D’après les sources de l’Antiquité classique,” CR 53.2 (2003) 437-8.

“Andrea Augenti, ed., Art and Archaeology of Rome: Ancient Times to Baroque,” BMCR 01.03.05.     

"Jill Harries, Sidonius Apollinaris and the Fall of the Roman Empire," AJP 117 (1996) 663-66.

"A. A. Long and D. N. Sedley, The Hellenistic Philosophers, I-II," CW 82 (1989) 471-72.

"Arthur W. H. Adkins and Peter White (eds.), The Greek Polis," CW 81 (1987) 63-64.

"F. Kleiner, The Arch of Nero," CW 80 (1987) 464-65.

"Elizabeth Rawson, Intellectual Life in the Late Roman Republic," CW 80 (1986) 60.

"Aristotle and His Philosophy by Abraham Edel," Journal of Political Theory 11 (1983) 149-52.

"Brashear, William M., Ptolemäische Urkunden aus Mumienkartonage," Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (1982) 163-64.

"Kitty Chisholm and John Ferguson, Rome: The Augustan Age," AJP 103 (1982) 352-55.

"L. F. Fitzhardinge, The Spartans," Arch. News 10 (1981) 96-97.

"Paul Cartledge, Sparta and Lakonia: A Regional History 1300-362 B.C.," AJP 102 (1981) 455-60.

"Frank Frost, Plutarch's Themistocles: A Historical Commentary," AJP 102 (1981) 226-29.

"Robert Browning, The Emperor Julian," AHR 85 (1980) 96-97.

"The Golden Age of Augustus. Edited by Meyer Reinhold," CJ 75 (1980) 359-62.

"Prosopography of Ptolemaic Cyprus. By Ino Michaelidou-Nicolaou," Journal of the American
         Research Center in Egypt 16 (1979) 197-98.

• MISCELLANEOUS

100 entries (GORDIANUS II-L. Licinius MURENA) in the Encyclopedia of Military Biography (Dupuy Associates, published through McGraw-Hill Co.).

"The Greek Theatre: Ancient or Modern?", program notes for Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, Corner Theater (Baltimore, MD), November-December 1981.

PAPERS AND LECTURES

• INVITED

“Identity, Alterity, and Inner Alterity: Greek Identity in the 19th, 20^th, and Early 21^st Centuries,” APA-AIA Annual Meeting (San Diego), Respondent, Modern Greek Studies Association Panel on Pluralism in Greek Language, Literature, and History, 5 January 2007.

“Malaria in Italy ca. A.D. 450,” ECU Medical History Group, Brody School of Medicine, 27 November 2006.

 “Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy and Greek Revival Performances at Delphi.” Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage, Washington, D.C., 21 September 2006.

“Armor and Armies: Greek and Roman Soldiers in the Collections,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, gallery talk for Lehigh University, Department of Classics, 5 November 2005.

 “Solinus, the Roman Calendar, and Augustan Imperial Ideology,” Duke University, Department of Classics, 27 January 2005.

“The Map of Roman Spain Re-viewed,” Eastern Carolina University, Department of Foreign Languages, 24 January 2005.

“Petra: The Rose-Colored City,” American Museum of Natural History, gallery talk for Lehigh University, Department of Classics, 19 March 2004.

"Catacomb Communities: Defining and Unifying Jewish, Christian and Other Social Groupings," Cardin Chair’s Public Lecture, Loyola College in Maryland, 23 April 2003.

“Roman Funerary Monuments," Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), gallery talk for Lehigh University, 15 Feb. 2003.

“Fascism and the Misappropriation of the Classical Past: A Response,” A.P.A. Classical Tradition Committee Panel (New Orleans: invited response), 4 January 2003.

“The Roman Map of Spain,” Classics Colloquium, Loyola College in Maryland, 23 September 2002.

“Word and Image: An Early Christian Mode of Discourse,” Loyola College in Maryland, 30 Jan. 2002.

 “The Journey of Odysseus,” Classics Colloquium, Lehigh University, for 15 October 2001.

"Geometric Space, Mapping, and Pomponius Mela," colloquium on early scientific mapping, XXI^st International Congress of the History of Science, Mexico City, July 2001.

"Pomponius Mela on Ancient Iberia," invited for conference on Mapas y Imperios, 20-22 November
2000, Universidad Internacional "Menéndez Pelayo" in Valencia, Spain.

"Augustan Ideology," Classics Colloquium, Lehigh University, 1 May 2000.

"Ideas and Words: Problems in Translating History," Philosophy Club UA, 18 November 1999.

"Aristophanes' Lysistrata: Ancient Play, Modern Production," Honors Program and Classics Department, Phoenix College, 6 October 1999.

"Horace's Sacred Spring: Archaeology and Literature," delivered jointly with D. Soren, A.I.A.
(Tucson Chapter), 31 March 1998.

"The 'Best Princeps' at Rome: Trajan and His Edifice Complex," Classical Society (UA)
6 November 1996.

"Violence and State in Archaic Athens," History Department (UA), 30 October 1995.

"Art, Literature, and Society: 'The Greek Miracle' at the Metropolitan Museum," Classics Colloquium,
Lehigh University, 21 April 1993.

"The Greek Miracle," Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), gallery talk for Lehigh University, 22 April 1993.

"Stoic Examples: A Glimpse Inside the Roman Empire," Classics Colloquium, Arizona State
University, 20 November 1992.

"Athenian Ideas About Tyranny," Department of Classics (Duke), 7 September 1992.

"From Stoic Examples to a Mirror for Princes," Department of Classics (UA), 8 April 1992.

"Tacitus and Empire," Department of Classics (UA) 29 January 1992.

"The Real & the Unreal: Poets, Philosophers and Others (Tac. Ann. XV)," C.A.E.S. Banquet
Speaker, Union College, October 1988.

"Solon: the Poet and the Politician," HWS Forum on Literature, Rhetoric, Languages, 5 May 1988.

"American Libertas: The Coins and Art as Ideology," Honor Society, St. John Fisher College, November 1987.

--------, Classics Department, Loyola College (Baltimore), November 1982.

--------, for The Lecture Group, Baltimore Hebrew College, 9 December 1981.

"Greek Tyranny: Its History and Ideology," Costas Memorial Lecture, Classics Department, Brooklyn College (C.U.N.Y.), 29 April 1987.

"The Personality of the Tyrant," C.A.A.S. Luncheon Speaker, Fall Meeting, Drew U., 24 April 1987.

"Tacitus and Writing History," Department of Classics, Lehigh University, 9 September 1986.

"The Five Good Emperors: Their Coins and Politics," Department of Classics, Hampden-Sydney College, 3 March 1986.

--------, A.I.A. (Baltimore  Chapter), 2 October 1981.

"The Legacy of the Mycenaeans: Culture in the Greek Dark Age," The Smithsonian Institutions, 17 July 1985.

"Aeschylus, the Oresteia, and Athenian Political Thought," Department of Classics, Howard University, 16 April 1985.

"Cum fuco ac fallaciis: Cicero's Epistolary False-Face," Johns Hopkins Philological Association, 17 March 1983.

"Greek Coins and History: How the Record Works," Department of Ancient Studies, University of Maryland (Baltimore), 27 April 1982.

"Do Historians Have a History?", Colloquium on History and Self-Understanding, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 15 December 1982.

"The Julio-Claudians: Coins and History," The Walters Art Gallery, 19 March 1981.

"Political Change in Greek Thought," the Lecture Group, Baltimore Hebrew College, 14 Jan. 1981.

"Greek and Roman Lyric Poetry," Lizette Woodward Reese Chapter, Maryland State Poetry Society, Towson Public Library, 16 November 1980.

"Vergil's Fourth Eclogue: Prospectus for the Future," Harford County Poetry Society (Harford County, MD), 13 December 1980.

"Gaius Caesar: A Military Career in the Near East, A. D. 1-4," The Johns Hopkins Philological Association, 10 May 1979.

"Augustus and the Monuments," Ohio State Faculty Archaeological Group, April 1978.

"Archelaus of Cappadocia and Tib. Claudius Caesar," Colloquium, Classics Department, Ohio State University, March 1978.

"What Happened at Samos in 1 B.C.?", Classics Department, Johns Hopkins, February 1978.

"Gaius Caesar on the Danube," Classics Colloquium, Boston University, 13 February 1975.

"The Tribunician Power of Augustus" (Part I: The Evidence), Classics Colloquium, Stanford
University, 18 July 1974.

• CONFERENCE PAPERS (REFEREED)

“Life in the Catacombs,” AIA-APA Annual Meeting (Chicago), Panel on Embodiment and Rembrance in a Mortuary Context, 4 January 2008.

“Solinus and the Paradoxography of Empire: Vagaries of Geography in Late Antiquity,” International Congress of Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo), May 2004, abstract AVISTA Forum Journal 14.1 (Fall 2004).

 “Peutinger Map and Madaba Map: Ways of Looking at the Traveller’s World,” International Congress of Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo), 4 May 2002.

"Porphyry and Sacrifice: Not AboutPoliteia?",A.P.A. (Dallas), 28 December 1999.  

"What is the Genre of Chorographia?", A.P.A. (Washington), 29 December 1998.

"Malaria and the Fall of Rome?", A.P.A. (Chicago), 29 December 1997.

"Claudian Triumphalism and Pomponius Mela's 'Map'," CAMWS  (Boulder), 3 April 1997.

"The 'Map' of Pomponius Mela: An Hypothesis," A.P.A. (New York), 30 December 1996.

"A More Interesting Pomponius Mela," C.A.A.S. (Lafayette College), 12 October 1996.

"Promethean Sacrifice and Aristophanes' Birds," Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies, University of Haifa, 31 May 1995.

"What is Breeding at Soph., OT 873?," C.A.A.S. (Princeton University), 23 April 1993.

"The limos Mêlios at Aristoph., Birds 186," A.P.A. (New Orleans), 30 December 1992.

"Greek Ideas of Tyranny: Their History and Ideology" California Classical Association (Loyola-Marymount), 2 November 1991.

"Good Intentions and thehodós hē es kórakas," A.P.A. (San Francisco), Seminar on Aristophanes' Birds, 29 December 1990.

"Solon and the Idea of the State," Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies, (Ben-Gurion University), 19 May 1988.

"Tacitus on Reading History," C.A.A.S. (Columbia University), September 1986.

"Augustine as Reader of Classics," Conference for Patristics, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies (Villanova), 22 September 1985.

"Tyranny and State-Formation at Athens," A.P.A. (Toronto), 29 December 1984.

"American Libertas: The Coins and Art as Ideology," Virginia Classical Association (University of Virginia), 10 November 1984.

"When Is a Bird Not a Bird?", C.A.A.S. (Fordham, Lincoln Center), 1 October 1983.

"The Force of Law: Aristotle, Augustine, Marsilius," Conference for Patristics, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies (Villanova), 27 September 1981.

"Gaius Caesar, Son of Augustus, in Official Policy," Second Annual Greek, Roman, Byzantine Conference (Highland Falls, NY), April 1978.

"The Tribunicia Potestas of Augustus" (Part II: The Discussion), A.P.A. (Chicago), 30 Dec. 1974.

• CONFERENCE PAPERS (NOT REFEREED)

"Image and Self-Image: Greece, Rome, and the United States," Conference: The Romans: Their
Myths and History (Hobart and William Smith), 20 October 1987.