Associate Professor of Classics, University of Florida, 2006-
Associate Professor of Classics and History, University of Wisconsin, 2003-2005
Assistant Professor of Classics and History, University of Wisconsin, 1998-2003
Assistant Professor of the Classics, Harvard University, 1996-1998
Education
Ph.D., Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, University of Chicago, 1995
M.A., Classical Studies, University of Michigan, 1990
B.A., Greek, Franklin and Marshall College, 1987
Dissertation
“Rebuilding the Walls of Athens: Democratic Ideology, Civic Discourse and the Reconciliation of 403 B.C.,” directed by Ian Morris
Fellowships and Awards
Humanities Enhancement Research Fellowship, University of Florida, 2012
Sustainability Fellowship, University of Florida, 2010-11
Humanities Enhancement Research Fellowship, University of Florida, 2007
Vilas Research Associate, University of Wisconsin, 2004-2005
Resident Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Fall 2000
Clark Grant, Harvard University, 1998
Loeb Faculty Research Grant, Harvard University, 1997
Ryerson Fellowship in Archaeology, University of Chicago, 1995
Whiting Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities, University of Chicago, 1994-1995
University of Chicago Century Scholarship, 1990-1994
Phi Beta Kappa, Franklin and Marshall College, 1987
Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society, Franklin and Marshall College, 1987
Steinman Prize for Excellence in Greek, Franklin and Marshall College, 1987
Publications
Books
Legal Speeches of Democratic Athens: Sources for Athenian History, with Konstantinos Kapparis (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2011).
Remembering Defeat: Civil War and Civic Memory in Ancient Athens (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).
Articles and Book Chapters
“Ritual, Commemoration, and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean World,” in Cultural History of War in Antiquity, edited by Gregory Viggiano (London: Bloomsbury Press, 2025), 185–202.
Was Lysias 1 Delivered in an Athenian Court?” Scripta Classica Israelica 44 (2025): 93–113.
“Xenophon on the Violence of the Thirty,” in Xenophon on Violence, edited by Aggelos Kapellos (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019), 169–185.
“Thucydides on the Four Hundred and the Fall of Athens,” in the Oxford Handbook of Thucydides, edited by Sara Forsdyke, Edith Foster, and Ryan Balot (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), 179-91.
“The Violence of the Thirty Tyrants of Athens,” in Ancient Tyranny, edited by Sian Lewis (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006), 213-23.
“Addresses to the Jury in the Attic Orators,” American Journal of Philology 124 (2003): 537-55.
“Lysias 18 and Athenian Memory of Civil War,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 132 (2002): 109-126.
“Genealogy of Diplomacy in Classical Greece,” Diplomacy and Statecraft 12 (2001): 71-88.
“Lysias 1 and the Politics of the Oikos,” Classical Journal 96 (2001): 415-24.
Reviews
Why the Ancient Greeks Matter: The Problematic Miracle That Was Greece by Reviel Netz, Classical Journal Online Reviews, 2025.07.04.
Amnesty and Reconciliation in Late Fifth-Century Athens: The Rule of Law under Restored Democracy by Christopher Joyce, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2025.4.21.
Brill’s Companion to Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society, edited by Jessica H. Clark and Brian Turner, Ancient History Bulletin 8 (2018): 91–94.
War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens editedby David M. Pritchard, Exemplaria Classica 16 (2012): 265–71.
Polis and Revolution: Responding to Oligarchy in Classical Athens by Julia Shear, Ancient History Bulletin 2 (2012): 113-5.
Greek and Roman Historiography by John Maricola, New England Classical Journal 39 (2012): 221–25. Jointly reviewed with Victoria Pagán.
The Greeks and Their Past: Poetry, Oratory and History in the Fifth Century BCE by Jonas Grethlein, Mouseion: A Journal of the Classical Association of Canada 9 (2009): 210-13.
Civic Rites: Democracy and Religion in Ancient Athens by Nancy Evans, New England Classical Journal 38 (2011): 60–63.
A Companion to Greek Rhetoric edited by Ian Worthington, and The Attic Orators edited by Edwin Carawan, Classical Review 58 (2008): 378-381.
A Companion to the Classical World edited by Konrad Kinzl, New England Classical Journal 35 (2008): 41-4.
Athenian Legacies: Essays on the Politics of Going on Together by Josiah Ober, Classical Journal 103 (2007): 101-3.
Rhetoric of Conspiracy in Ancient Athens by Joseph Roisman, Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2007.03.14), with Victoria Pagán.
Demosthenes, Speeches 18 and 19 by Harvey Yunis, Classical Outlook 83 (2006): 152.
The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece by Kurt Raaflaub, The Review of Politics 67 (2005): 159-61.
Lysias by Stephen Todd, Classical Outlook 78 (2001): 91.
The Litigious Athenian by Matthew Christ, Classical Philology 95 (2000): 490-94.
Encylopaedia Entries
“Athens” and “Greek Orators” in Victoria Pagán, ed., The Tacitus Encyclopedia, (Hoboken NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2023).
“Agraphoi Nomoi,” “Delphinion,” “Dikasterion,” “Dike,” “Epitaphios Logos,” and “Prytaneion” in Roger Bagnall, Kai Brodersen, Craig Champion, Andrew Erksine, and Sabine Huebner, eds., The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Blackwell: Oxford, 2012).
“Battle of Aegospotami,” “Critias,” “Lysias,” and “The Thirty,” in Thomas J. Sienkewicz, ed., Encyclopedia of the Ancient World (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2001).
Papers & Presentations
“Fear and Loathing in Demosthenes 21, Against Meidias,” Online Lecture Series on “The Art of Violence: Reapproaching Violence in Greek and Latin Literature,” Nicolas Copernicus University, Torún, April 8, 2025.
“Fear and Anger in Lysias 12, Against Eratosthenes,” Society for Classical Studies, Philadelphia, January 5, 2025.
“The Rhetorical Strategies of Lysias in His Speech against Eratosthenes,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Southern Section, San Antonio, October 25, 2024.
“Evoking Fear in Athenian Courts, UF Center for Greek Studies International Conference on “Democracy in Peril,” Gainesville, FL, April 11, 2024.
“Make Athens Great Again: Fearmongering in Athenian Courts,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South, St. Louis, MO, April 6, 2024.
“Was Lysias 1 a Rhetorical Exercise?” Classical Association of the Middle West and South—Southern Section, Greensboro, NC, November 3, 2023.
“Sex, Lies, and Murder in Lysias 1,” Cassas Seminar Series in Greek Law and Society, University of Florida, February 28, 2023.
“UF Quest to Reimagine General Education,” with Angela Lindner, Alison Reynolds, and Brenda Smith, Poster Session, AAC&U, New Orleans, LO, February 9, 2023.
“Transforming General Education to Ensure Meaning Making,” with Timothy S. Brophy, M. David Miller, Elayne Colón, AAC&U. Jacksonville, FL, February 22, 2020.
“The UF Quest Program, Florida SUS Assessment and Accreditation, Gainesville, FL, August 2, 2019.
“Thucydides and the Rise of the Four Hundred,” Classical Association of the Middle West and the South. Boulder, CO, March 27, 2015.
“History and Memory in Classical Athens,” Keynote Address to Graduate Student Conference on Memory in the Ancient World, Department of Classics, University of Buffalo, October 18, 2014.
Response to George Rupp, “What is the Good Life?” Gainesville, October 10, 2012.
“Athens under the Shadow of the Thirty,” Annual Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians, Chapel Hill, May 4, 2012.
“Civil War in the Political Imaginary of Democratic Athens, Performing Civil War: An International Conference on Ancient History, sponsored by the University of Heidlberg and the University of Konstanz, Schloss Reisensburg, German, October 7, 2011.
“Ethical Arguments in Athenian Homicide Cases,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Minneapolis, April 2, 2009.
The Rule of Law in Classical Athens,” Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, January 9, 2009.
“Relevance in Athenian Law,” Florida State Univerity, February 28, 2008.
“The Use and Abuse of Classics,” American Philological Association, San Diego, January 7, 2007.
“The People’s Justice: Law, Litigation, and the Jury in Classical Athens,” and panel chair of “Legal Consciousness in the Ancient World,” the International Academy of Law and Mental Health, Université René Descartes (Paris V), Paris, July 7, 2005.
“Democratizing Slavery,” 29th Conference of the Groupement International de recherches sur l’esclavage ancien (GIREA), University of Crete, Rethymno, November 5, 2004.
“Democracy, Diversity, and Community,” Conference on “Diversity and Learning: Democracy’s Compelling Interest,” Association of American Colleges and Universities, Nashville, October 23, 2004.
“The Violence of the Thirty Tyrants,” Conference on Tyrants, Kings, Dynasts and Generals: Modes of Autocracy in the Classical Period (500-320), University of Wales, Cardiff, July 8, 2003.
“Trauma, Memory, and Law in Classical Athens,” XIIth Congress of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 10, 2002.
“The Jury in Classical Athens,” University of Iowa, November 8, 2001.
“Law and Anarchy in Early Fourth-Century Athens,” American Philological Association, San Diego, January 5, 2001.
“Rhetoric of Collectivity and Continuity in Attic Oratory,” Conference on “Greek and Roman Rhetoric,” School of Speech and Department of Classics, Northwestern University, February 12, 2000.
“Lysias 1 and the Politics of Space,” American Philological Association, Dallas, December 30, 1999.
“Deconstructing Theramenes,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Cleveland, April 16, 1999.
“The Genealogy of Diplomacy in Classical Greece,” Workshop on the “Evolution of Diplomacy,” Conference on the 350th Anniversary of the Treaty of Westphalia, University of Twente, Netherlands, July 17, 1998.
“Civil War in Athenian Memory,” Department of Classics, University of Washington, January 23, 1998.
“Law without Theory,” American Philological Association, Chicago, December 30, 1997.
“Negotiating the Athenian Reconciliation,” Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Durham, United Kingdom, March 24, 1997.
“The Democratic Resistance of 403 B.C. in Attic Oratory,” Department of the Classics, Harvard University, January 9, 1996.
“Monumentalizing Compromise: Public Memorials Commemorating the Restoration of the Athenian Democracy,” American Philological Association, San Diego, December 28, 1995.
“Regaining Control of Athens: Representations of the Demos under the Restored Democracy,” American Philological Association, Atlanta, December 29, 1994
“Lysias 26 Reconsidered: The Dokimasia under the Restored Democracy,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Iowa City, April 17, 1993.
Teaching
University of Florida (2006-)
CLA 3433: Athenian Democracy, Fall 2016, Fall 2011, Fall 2009, Fall 2008
CLA 3434: Classical Greece, Fall 2024
CLA 3930: Special Topics in Classical Civilization
Crime in Ancient Athens, Fall 2024, Spring 2023
History of Ancient Greece, Spring 2018
Athenian Democracy (Honors Course), Spring 2007
CLA 6930: Graduate Research Seminar
Athenian Democracy, Fall 2012, Fall 2008 (distance), Fall 2006
Classical Antiquity and Modern Sustainability, Summer Institute 2011
Vice in Ancient Greece, Spring 2009
GRE 1120: Beginning Ancient Greek 1, Spring 2019
GRW 3102: Survey of Greek Literature, Fall 2018
GRW 3501: Plato, Fall 2015, 2007
GRW 4700: Greek Orators, Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Fall 2009, Fall 2006
GRW 4930: Studies in Greek Literature, Fall 2011
GRW 6386: Greek Historians
Thucydides, Fall 2013, Spring 2008
GRW 6705: Attic Orators, Spring 2017, Spring 2015, Spring 2011
GRW 6930: Graduate Greek Seminar
Survey, Fall 2011
Alcibiades, Spring 2010
Demosthenes, Spring 2007
IDS 1161 (previously IUF 1000, HUM 2305): What is the Good Life? Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2012, Spring 2012
IDH 2935: Homer’s Iliad, Spring 2025
LNW 6935: Proseminar, Spring 2025, Fall 2007
University of Wisconsin (1998-2005)
Classics 273: First Year Seminar (Democracy: Ancient and Modern), Fall 2004
Classics 320: Greek Civilization, Fall 2002
Classics/History/Legal Studies 477: Athenian Law and Society, Spring 2003, Spring 2005
Classics/History/Religious Studies 517: Ancient Religion and the Early Church, Spring 1999
Classics 591: Senior Seminar (Work and Leisure in Ancient Greece), Spring 2004
Classics/History 801: Graduate Seminar
Athenian Democracy, Fall 2002
Modern Trends in Ancient History, Spring 2000
Athenian Law and Society, Spring 1999
Greek 104: Elementary Greek, Spring 2000
Greek 303: Intermediate Greek (Plato), Fall 1998
Greek 306: Intermediate Greek (Homer), Spring 2002
Greek 531: Herodotus, Fall 1999
Greek 532: Thucydides, Fall 2001
Greek 551: Attic Orators (Demosthenes), Fall 2003
History 110: History of the Ancient Mediterranean, Fall 1999
History 303: History of Greek Civilization, Fall 1998, 2001, 2002
History 600: Senior Seminar
Peloponnesian War, Spring 2003
Athenian Law and Society, Spring 2002
Athenian Democracy, Spring 2001
History 680/690: Senior Thesis Colloquium, Spring 2004, 2005
Harvard University (1995-1998)
Classical Greek E-1B (Extension School): Elementary Greek, Spring 1998
Classics 158: Ancient Greek World, Fall 1996
Classics 159: Work and Leisure in Ancient Greek World, Spring 1998
Classical Philology 283: Greek Law and Society, Spring 1997
Greek 3: Intermediate Greek (Plato), Fall 1996
Greek 107: Thucydides, Fall 1997
History E-1065 (Extension School): Ancient Greek World, Fall 1997
Services
Professional
Referee for American Journal of Philology, Arethusa, Blackwell Press, Cambridge University Press, Classical Antiquity, Classical Journal, Classical Philology, Greece, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, Greece and Rome, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, University of Michigan Press, Oxford University Press, Peer Review Panelist for the 2014 NEH Summer program
Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Member of the Local Planning Committee, Gainesville, 2006; Madison, 2005
Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians, Chair of the Program Committee and Co-Chair of the Local Planning Committee, Madison, 2000; Member of the Program Committee, Tallahassee, 2023
Member, Undergraduate Research Awards Subcommittee, Humanities, Spring 2002
Department of Classics
Member, Archaeology Search Committee, 1999-2000
Member, Capstone Seminar, Organizer, Spring 2000, 2001
Member, Curriculum Committee, 2001-2003
Director, Undergraduate Studies, 2002-2003
Member, Graduate Admissions and Fellowships Committee, 1998-2000, Fall 2001
Member, Library Committee, 1999-2000
Member, Undergraduate Prizes and Awards Committee, 2001-2003
Department of History
Associate Chair, 2003-2005
Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2003-2005
Member, Graduate Admissions and Fellowships Committee, 2000-2001
Member, Graduate Council, 1999-2001
Chair, Joint Committee on Teaching Assistants, 2003-2005
Member, Joint Committee on Teaching Assistants, 2001-2003
Lectures Committee, 2001-2005
Department Representative for Faculty Senate, 1998-2002
Member, Roman History Search Committee, 2002-2003
Chair, Undergraduate Council, 2003-2005
Member, Undergraduate Council, Member 2001-2003
Harvard University, Department of Classics (1996-1998)
Director, Undergraduate Studies, 1997-1998
Assistant Head Tutor, Fall 1996
Member, Bowdoin Prize Committee, 1996-1998
Member, Curriculum Committee, ex officio, 1996-1998
Member, Lowell Prize Committee, 1996-1998
Public Talks, Outreach, and Community Services
“Reading Between the Lines,” Tiny Talks, UF Center for Undergraduate Research, March 30, 2022.
“Classical Athens,” Institute of Learning in Retirement, Oak Hammock, January 9, 2014.
“Classical Greece” for the sixth grade magnate classes at Howard Bishop Middle School, December 19, 2012.
“Democracy of Ancient Athens,” a series of six lectures for the Institute of Learning in Retirement, Oak Hammock, January 20-February 24, 2012.
“Ancient Athens” for the third grade Magnate Program at Stephen Foster Elementary School, March 25, 2010.
“War, Democracy, and Empire in Classical Greece,” Humanities Forum on Empire, Madison Public Library, Central Branch, November 30, 2004.
“Voyage to Antiquity,” Tour of Greece and Turkey, Wisconsin Alumni Association, September 29-October 9, 2004.
“Ancient Olympics “for “Live at 5,” WISC-TV, Madison, WI, August 18, 2004
“The Spartans,” Huddle with the Faculty: Wisconsin vs Michigan State (pre-game talk), Wisconsin Alumni Association, November 15, 2003.
“Law Courts of Athens,” Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society, University of Wisconsin, November 11, 2003.
“Ancient Greek Democracy,” University of the Air, Wisconsin Public Radio, June 9, 2002.
“Freedom and Democracy: Lessons from Antiquity,” Humanities Forums on the Constitution, Deerfield Library, February 5, 2002; Madison Rotary Club (and subsequently televised), February 6, 2002.
Employment