Ancient historiography and history, in particular
Greek history of the fourth century BC, and Roman
history of the Imperial period.
1. 'Aristotle and Callisthenes',
Historia 19 (1970) 407-13
2. 'Philip II and Upper Macedonia',
Classical Quarterly 21 (1971) 93-105
3. 'The Death of Alexander the Great: Rumour and
Propaganda', Classical Quarterly 21 (1971)
112-36
4. 'The Congress Decree: Another Hypothesis',
Historia 20 (1971) 600-16
5. 'Arrian's Literary Development',
Classical Quarterly 22 (1972) 163-5
6. 'Asinius Pollio and Augustus',
Historia 21 (1972) 441-73
7. 'Vespasian and the Provinces: Some Problems
of the early 70's AD', Athenaeum 51 (1973)
245-53
8. 'ASTHETAIROI', Classical
Quarterly 23 (1973) 245-53
9. 'The government of Syria under Alexander the
Great', Classical Quarterly 24 (1974)
46-64
10. 'The Mission of Amphoterus and the Outbreak
of Agis' War', Phoenix 29 (1975) 27-43
11. 'Errors in Arrian', Classical
Quarterly 26 (1976) 117-39
12. 'Arrian in Baetica', Greek, Roman and
Byzantine Studies 17 (1976) 55-64
13. 'Arrian and the Alexander Vulgate, in
Alexandre le Grand: Image et
réalité (Entretiens sur l'
antiquité classique xxii: Geneva 1976)
1-46
14. 'Alexander and Ammon', in Greece and the
Eastern Mediterranean in Ancient History and
Prehistory (ed. K. Kinzl: Berlin 1977)
51-75
15. 'Early Relations between Aetolia and
Macedon', American Journal of Ancient
History 1 (1977) 164-81
16. 'Arrian and the Alani', Harvard Studies
in Classical Philology 71 (1977) 217-55
17. 'Vespasian's Reorganisation of the
North-East Frontier', Antichthon 10 (1976)
63-78
18. 'Eumenes, Neoptolemus and PSI xii
1284', Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies
19 (1978) 227-37
19. 'Tacitus and Asinius Gallus', American
Journal of Ancient History 2 (1977) 173-92
20. 'Firmus of Arretium', Zeitschrift
für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 39 (1980)
267-77
21. 'Alexander and the Iranians', Journal of
Hellenic Studies 100 (1980) 1-21
22. 'A Missing Year in the History of Alexander
the Great', Journal of Hellenic Studies
101 (1981) 17-39
23. 'Augustus and August: Some Pitfalls of
Historical Fiction', Harvard Studies in
Classical Philology 86 (1982) 151-70
24. 'The Location of Alexander's Campaign
against the Illyrians in 335 BC', Studies in
the History of Art (Washington 1982) 75-84
25. 'The Indian Satrapies under Alexander the
Great', Antichthon 17 (1983) 37-45
26. 'The Impossible Dream: Tarn's Alexander in
Retrospect', Ancient Society 13 (1983)
131-50
27. 'Arrian at the Caspian Gates: A Study in
Methodology', Classical Quarterly 33
(1983) 265-76
28. 'Macedonian Manpower under Alexander the
Great', Ancient Macedonia IV
(Thessaloniki 1986) 115-22
29. 'Alexander the Great and the Decline of
Macedon', Journal of Hellenic Studies 106
(1986) 1-12
30. 'Nearchus in Susiana', in Zu Alexander
dem Grossen (ed. W. Will, Amsterdam 1988) i
541-66
31. 'Plutarch, Callisthenes and the Peace of
Callias', Journal of Hellenic Studies 110
(1990) 1-13
32. 'History and Artifice in Plutarch's
Eumenes ', in Plutarch and
the Historical Tradition (ed. P. A. Stadter, Routledge 1992) 56-89
33. 'Athens' First Intervention in Sicily',
Classical Quarterly 42 (1992) 46-55
34. 'Philip III Arrhidaeus and the Chronology of
the Successors', Chiron 22 (1992)
55-81
35. 'Aristotle, India and the Alexander
Historians', TOPOI: Orient-Occident 3
(1993) 407-24 (reprinted in Athens, Aden,
Arikamedu, ed. Marie-Françoise and
Jean-François Salles (New Delhi 1995)
27-44)
36. 'Arrian and Rome', in Aufstieg und
Niedergang der römischen Welt II 34. 1
(Berlin 1993) 226-75
37. 'Autonomia: The Use and Abuse of Political
Terminology', Studi Italiani di filologia
classica [Ser. 3 ]10 (1992) 123-53
38. 'The Humanitarian Aspect of the Melian
Dialogue', Journal of Hellenic Studies 113
(1993) 30-44
39. 'Heracleides of Pontus and the Past: Fact or
Fiction?', in Ventures into Greek History
(ed. I. Worthington, Oxford 1994) 15-27
40. 'Perdiccas and the Kings', Classical
Quarterly 43 (1993) 420-7
41. 'A New Macedonian Prince', Classical
Quarterly 44 (1994) 57-65
42. Cambridge Ancient History ed. 2
Vol. VI (Cambridge 1994), Chapters 16 and 17, pp.
791-875
43. 'The historical setting of Megasthenes'
Indica', Classical Philology 91
(1996) 113-27
44. 'Ingenium und Macht: Fritz Schachermeyr and
Alexander the Great', American Journal of
Ancient History 13 (1988, publ. 1996)
56-78
45. 'The Tumult and the Shouting: Two
Interpretations of the Cleitus Affair', Ancient
History Bulletin 10. 1 (1996) 19-30
46. 'Alexander, Euripides and Dionysos: the
motivation for apotheosis', in Transitions to
Empire: Essays in Greco-Roman History, 360-146 BC,
in Honor of E. Badian , ed. R. W. Wallace and
E. Harris (Norman, Oklahoma, 1996) 140-66
47. Some 55 entries (12,500 words) for the third
edition of the Oxford Classical
Dictionary, ed. Simon Hornblower and Anthony
Spawforth (Oxford 1996)
48. 'The Emasculation of the Calchedonians: A
Forgotten Episode of the Ionian War',
Chiron 27 (1997) 297-313
49,. 'A Cut Too Many? Occam's Razor and
Alexander's Footguard', Ancient History
Bulletin 11.2-3 (1997) 47-56
50. 'Calanus and the Brahman Opposition', in
Alexander der Grosse: eine Welteroberung und
ihr Hintergrund (Vorträge des
Internationalen Bonner Alexanderkolloquiums,
19.-21. 12. 1996: Antiquitas, Reihe 1, Bd. 46), ed.
Wolfgang Will (Bonn 1998) 173-203
51. 'Alessandro: l'impero universale e le
città greche', in I Greci II. 3
(Einaudi, Milan, 1998) 47-80.
52. 'The Origins of the Pontic House',
Journal of Hellenic Studies 118 (1998)
155-64, with Pat Wheatley.
53. 'Augustus, the Res Gestae and
Hellenistic Theories of Apotheosis', Journal of
Roman Studies 89 (1999) 1-18
54. 'Introduction', in Alexander the Great
in Fact and Fiction (above, A6) 1-22
55. 'A Tale of Two Empires: Hernán
Cortés and Alexander the Great, in
Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction
(above, A6) 23-49
56. 'Ptolemy and the Will of Alexander', in
Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction
(above, A6) 207-41
57. 'The historical context of Thucydides'
Funeral Oration', Journal of Hellenic
Studies 120 (2000) 1-16
58. 'Vespasian and the Slave Trade',
Classical Quarterly 52 (2002) 350-7
59. 'Plus ça change.....Ancient
Historians and their Sources',
Classical
Antiquity 22 (2003) 167-97