Books

• 2011 - Pseudo-Skylax's Periplous: The Circumnavigation of the Inhabited World. Text, Translation, and Commentary (Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press). The first full edition since 1855 of this neglected work of scientific geography (dating from the mid-fourth century BC), together with the first English translation and commentary.
• 2006 - The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization (1st editor with J. Vanderspoel, D. Mattingly, and L. Foxhall; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). An innovative encyclopaedic treatment of the Greco-Roman world and its near neighbours, containing 1,700 entries by nearly 200 scholars. (Reprinted in paperback 2008)

• 2004 - Hellenizein: A Flexible Structure for Teaching Greek to Archaeologists and Ancient Historians (2nd author with E. Parisinou; Milton Keynes: Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for History, Classics, & Archaeology)

• 2002 - Continuity and Change in a Greek Rural Lanscape: The Laconia Survey, i: Methodology and Interpretation (4th author with W. Cavanagh, J. Crouwel, R. Catling; London: British School at Athens).

• 2000 - The Greek World after Alexander: 323–30 BC (Routledge History of the Ancient World; London–New York: Routledge). Widely regarded as the standard English work on the Hellenistic period. As well as historical narratives, it includes detailed treatments of cities, monarchy, literature, philosophy, religion, and science. Those cultural aspects are understood in their social contexts, rather than as free-standing phenomena. Short-listed for the Runciman Prize 2001.
• 1996 - Continuity and Change in a Greek Rural Lanscape: The Laconia Survey, ii: Archaeological Data (4th author with W. Cavanagh, J. Crouwel, R. Catling; London: British School at Athens).
• 1996 - Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity: Environment and Culture (1st editor with J. Salmon; London–New York: Routledge). A collection of papers examining the management and conceptualization of ancient Greek and Roman landscapes.
• 1993 - War and Society in the Greek World and War and Society in the Roman World (2nd editor with J. Rich; Leicester–Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society, 4; London–New York: Routledge; reprinted in paperback 1996). Both regularly cited for studies of the social history of ancient warfare.
• 1987 - A History of Samos 800–188 BC (Oxford: Clarendon Press). Draws on historical, epigraphical, archaeological, and landscape data as well as Annales history, to give a holistic portrait of an island community.

Journal editing

• I edited the Annual of the British School at Athens from 1992 to 1996, introducing many improvements in refereeing, editing, and indexing.

Articles and chapters (selected)

Forthcoming

'Pseudo-Skylax the Peripatetic' (provisional title), Journal of Hellenic Studies

'Aineias Taktikos in his intellectual context', in M. Pretzler (ed.), Aeneas Tacticus: War, Politics and Literature in Classical Greece (Leiden: Brill) (paper from the Aeneas Tacticus conference)

'2046. [Skylax]', in H.-J. Gehrke (ed.), Fragmente der griechischen Historiker V. 2 (Leiden: Brill), ch. 23 (with translation of Pseudo-Skylax by J. Nikolaus)

Published

2010 - 'Pseudo-Skylax on Attica', in N. V. Sekunda (ed.), Ergasteria: Works presented to John Ellis Jones (Gdansk: Project), 100–14

2009 - 'Early hellenistic Sparta: changing modes of interaction with the wider world?' In N. Kaltsas (ed.), Athens–Sparta  (New York/Athens: Alexander S. Onassis Foundation/National Museum of Greece), 55–60

2008 - ‘Approaching the Macedonian Peloponnese’, in C. Grandjean (ed.), Le Péloponnèse d’Épaminondas à Hadrien (Bordeaux: Ausonius), 53–68

2008 - 'Pseudo-Skylax on the Peloponnese', in C. Gallou et al. (eds), Dioskouroi: Studies presented to W. G. Cavanagh and C. B. Mee (Oxford: Archaeopress), 281–91

2007 - ‘A new presentation of selected Greek geographers’, Syllecta classica 18 241–57

2007 - 'A tile stamp of Apollo Geronthratas', Pharos 15 11–13

2006 - ‘Sparta and its perioikic neighbours: a century of reassessment’, Hermathena 181 (Winter) 51–82

2006 - (1st author with M. H. Hansen) ‘The polis and federalism’, and (as sole author) ‘Recent trends and new directions’, in G. R. Bugh (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World (New York: Cambridge University Press), 52–72 and 315–26

2006 - ‘Landscapes of the ancient Peloponnese: a human-geographical approach’, Leidschrift 21 (1) 27–43

2005 - ‘Little boxes on the hillside: Greek town planning, Hippodamos, and polis ideology’, in M. H. Hansen (ed.) The Imaginary Polis (Copenhagen: Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab), 335–403

2005 - ‘Between Macedonia and Rome: political landscapes and social change in southern Greece in the early hellenistic period’, Annual of the British School at Athens 100 315–30

2004 - ‘Messenia’ and ‘Lakedaimon’, in M. H. Hansen and T. H. Nielsen (eds.) An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 547–68 and 569–98

2003 - ‘Laconia Survey inscriptions’ Website (Oxford University)

2002 - (2nd author with W. G. Cavanagh, J. Crouwel) ‘The Laconia Survey: background and methodology’, (as sole author) ‘The survey area in the hellenistic and Roman periods’ and 'Indexes', in Laconia Survey i (details above), pp. 1–55, 257–337, and 439–65

2002 - ‘Rural landscape change in hellenistic Greece’, in K. Ascani et al. (eds.), Ancient History Matters: Studies presented to Jens Erik Skydsgaard on his 70th Birthday (Rome: ‘L’Erma’ di Bretschneider), 39–45

2002 - ‘Perioecic society’, in M. Whitby (ed.) Sparta (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), 182–9 (partial reprint of a 1992 paper)

2002 - ‘Hidden landscapes: Greek field survey data and hellenistic history’, in D. Ogden (ed.) The Hellenistic World: New Perspectives (Swansea/London: Classical Press of Wales/Duckworth), 177–98

2001–2 - 'Κοινωνικές μεταβολές στην Σπάρτη και Λακωνία κατά την ελληνιστική περίοδο: η συμβολή δεδομένων επιφανειακής έρευνας' [Social changes in Sparta and Laconia during the hellenistic period: the contribution of surface survey data], in Proceedings of the 6th International Congress of Peloponnesian Studies (Athens: Society for Peloponnesian Studies), ii. 433–45

2000 - ‘The extent of Spartan territory in the late classical and hellenistic periods’, Annual of the British School at Athens 95 367–90

1998 - 'Archaic into classical', and (with H. Parkins) 'Greek kings and Roman emperors', in B. A. Sparkes (ed.), Greek Civilization: an Introduction (Oxford–Malden, Mass.: Blackwell), 54–75 and 76–95

1997 - '"The other Lakedaimonians": the dependent perioikic poleis of Laconia and Messenia', in M. H. Hansen (ed.), The Polis as an Urban Centre and as a Political Community (Copenhagen: Danish Academy of Sciences), 189–281

1996 - 'The epigraphic material', 'Archaeological sites in Laconia and the Thyreatis', 'Site catalogue of the survey', and 'Indexes', in Laconia Survey ii (details above), pp. 213–34, 263–313, 315–438, and 439–59

1996 - 14 entries in The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd edition (ed. S. Hornblower, A. Spawforth; Oxford: Oxford University Press), viz. 'Antissa', 'Calauria', 'Chios', 'Eresus', 'Icaros', 'Imbros', 'Lesbos', 'Methymna', 'Mytilene', 'Peparethos', 'Pyrrha', 'Samos', 'Sciathos', and 'Scyros' [to be reprinted, with revisions, in the 4th edition (2012)]

1996 - 'The Kerameikos of Athens', History Today 46 (9) 62–3

1995 - 'New imperial subscripts to the Spartans' (2nd author with A. J. S. Spawforth), Annual of the British School at Athens 90 429–34

1993 - 'Distance, development, decline? World-systems analysis and the "hellenistic" world', in P. Bilde et al. (eds), Centre and Periphery in the Hellenistic World (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press), 271–84

1993 - 'Introduction: the limits of war', in J. Rich and G. Shipley (eds), War and Society in the Greek World (details above), 1–24

1992 - 'Perioikos: the discovery of classical Lakonia', in J. M. Sanders (ed.), Φιλολάκων [Philolakon]: Lakonian Studies in Honour of Hector Catling (London: British School at Athens), 211–26

1992 - 'Crossing the river: reflections on routes and bridges in Lakonia from the classical to Byzantine periods', Annual of the British School at Athens 87 293–309

1989 - 'Messapian Zeus: an early sixth-century inscribed cup from Lakonia' (2nd author with R. W. V. Catling), Annual of the British School at Athens 84 187–200

1988 - 'From Schliemann to surveys: archaeology and the study of Greek history', History Today 38 (5) 45–9