Current research themes

• Geographical writings
• Landscapes and societies
• Material culture and society

Periods

• Late Classical and Hellenistic

Locales

• The Greek mainland (especially the Peloponnese)
• The wider Hellenistic world

Planned research

Once current work is more advanced, I aim to initiate international work on material culture and society in the Hellenistic world.

Current research

Landscape, Power, and Resistance: The Macedonian Peloponnese, 338–197 BC

A book for Cambridge University Press, synthesizing landscape theory, archaeology, and written sources to investigate the process and causes of socio-political change in southern Greece between Alexander and the coming of the Romans. Research partly funded by a British Academy–Leverhulme senior research fellowship in 2004–5.

The Hellenistic World: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press)

The latest Greek offering in OUP’s hugely successful VSI series, offering cutting-edge perspectives on a topic. I aim to complete this in 2012.

Selected Greek Geographers (University of North Carolina Press)

I am leading an international team to publish a collection of translations entitled Selected Greek Geographers.

Recent research

Pseudo-Skylax's Periplous (Bristol Phoenix Press/The Exeter Press)

The first full edition since 1855 of an important geographical study written by an unknown author in the Classical period. This is the first ever commentary and translation in English, and includes a fully revised Greek text based on inspection of the original manuscript. The work was written at Athens in the time of Aristotle and Theophrastos, and thus illuminates the earliest stages of scientific geography. Research was partly funded by the Loeb Classical Library Foundation in 2006–7 and by the AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council) in 2009–10.

See the summary webpage on the project work - click here

Topics available for supervision

Topics suitable for Ph.D. supervision could include:

• Greek geographical writings
• Hellenistic societies and economies, especially in Greece and the Aegean world
• field survey data from late Classical, Hellenistic, and early Roman Greece
• late classical and hellenistic states and of Greece and the Aegean (especially the polis or city-state, and federalism)
• Macedonian and Roman rule in Greece
• Hellenistic material culture and society