Welcome!

I am currently a Research Associate at Darwin College and an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, UK. My research focuses on the ancient history and archaeology of the Greek and Roman worlds.

Use the links on this page to find out more about my academic and popular history projects, read my CV, review my news archive and get in touch.

LATEST NEWS:

Academic Studies

Risk with Cambridge University Press

The book of the Darwin Lecture Series 2010, on the theme of Risk, which I co-edited with Layla Skinns and Tony Cox, is now available in print.

Darwin Lecture Series 2012 - Life

I have been asked to give one of the prestigious Darwin Lectures as part of the 2012 Darwin Lecture series. The theme for the whole series will be Life, and I will be tackling 'Life in the Ancient World'. The lecture will take place at 5.30pm on Friday 10th February 2012 at the Lady Mitchell Hall auditorium, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge. All welcome. For more information on my lecture, click here

Delphi & Olympia

Cambridge University Press has published my stand alone monograph entitled ‘Delphi and Olympia: the spatial politics of panhellenism in the archaic and classical periods.’
The book is based on my PhD research and is now available.

Space and Society in the Greek and Roman worlds

This project, to be published by Cambridge University Press within their Key Themes in Ancient History series, is based on the idea that spaces and spatial structures both construct and are constructed by their users as part of a continuous process. The book seeks to demonstrate that the analysis of such spatial interaction is a usable, useful and indeed important way for ancient historians to approach a well-rounded study of the ancient world.

For more information click here.

Popular History

Delphi with Princeton University Press

I have agreed to write a full history of the oracle and sanctuary of Delphi for Princeton University Press. The book, due for publication in 2013, will make the latest scholarship on the long life of this crucial centre of the ancient Greek world accessible to all.

Luxury in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds - BBC 4

My two-part series for BBC 4 Guilty Pleasures: Luxury in the Ancient Greek and Medieval worlds aired in June and July 2011 as part of BBC 4’s Luxury Season. Working again with Tern TV, these programmes were filmed across Athens, Sparta and Vergina in Greece, as well as at numerous sites in the UK, and explored how attitudes to luxury (as well as the nature of luxury itself) have changed from ancient to medieval times, and how past attitudes to luxury still influence us today.

For more information on the programme click here (my website) and click here (BBC website).

For reviews of the programmes, click here

To see these programmes, click here: (Ancient Greece) and (Medieval world)

Delphi: bellybutton of the ancient world:

I wrote and presented a one hour documentary for BBC4 on Delphi: bellybutton of the ancient world. It was shown in November 2010. For more information click here (my website) and click here (BBC).

For reviews of the programme, click here.

To watch the programme on-line, click here.

From Democrats to Kings

The paperback of my book on the changing world of 4th century BC Greece 'From Democrats to Kings: the brutal dawn of a new world from the downfall of Athens to the rise of Alexander the Great' is available to buy here

The book is also available in Dutch, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, as well as an audiobook

To find out more, click here