Dr Lara O'Sullivan

UWA Re-entry Postdoctoral Fellow

Room: Arts Building, 1.26
Telephone: (61 8) 6488 2162
Email: losulliv@arts.uwa.edu.au

Research interests

Hellenistic Athenian history

Publications

Monograph

The regime of Demetrius of Phalerum in Athens, 317-307 BCE. A philosopher in politics. [Mnemosyne Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 318.] (Leiden, 2009)

Refereed Articles

‘Athenian impiety trials in the late fourth century B.C.’
Classical Quarterly 47 (1997) 136 - 52.

‘Asander, Athens and IG ii2 450: A New Interpretation.’
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 119 (1997) 107-116.

‘Philochorus, Pollux and the nomophulakes of Demetrius of Phalerum.’
Journal of Hellenic Studies 121 (2001) 51–62.

‘The law of Sophocles and the beginnings of permanent philosophical schools in Athens.’ Rheinisches Museum 145 (2002) 252–262.

‘Athens, Intellectuals and Demetrius of Phalerum’s Socrates.’
Transactions of the American Philological Association 138 (2008) 393-410.

‘Marrying Athena. A note on Clement Protrepticus 4.54.’
Classical Journal 103 (2008) 295-300.

‘Le Roi Soleil: Demetrius Poliorcetes and the dawn of the sun king.’
Antichthon 42 (2008) 78-99.

With P. Weinstein, A. Cook & A. Jardine
‘Trees, mosquitoes, and Rome: Are we slow learners?’
Bioscience 58 (2008) 756-60.

‘History from comic hypotheses: Stratocles, Lachares and P.Oxy. 1235.’
Greek, Roman & Byzantine Studies 49 (2009) 53-79.

Book chapter

‘Macedonians, Heroes and Athenian Burial Laws.’ In
P.V. Wheatley & R. Hannah (eds), Alexander and his Successors. Essays from the Antipodes. (Claremont CA, 2009).

Other publications

‘Demetrius of Phaleron’ in
Classical Rhetorics and Rhetoricians. Critical Studies and Sources.
[ed] M. Balliff & M. G. Moran (Praeger, Westport CT 2005) 118 – 122

‘Demetrius of Phaleron’ in
Encyclopaedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. [Ed.] M. Gagarin (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)