All Scholars

Dignitatis contentio. Studien zur Motivation und politischen Taktik im Bürgerkrieg zwischen Caesar und Pompeius. Vestigia 20 (Munich: Beck, 1974); Die Entdeckung der Freiheit. Zur historischen Semantik und Gesellschaftsgeschichte eines politischen Grundbegriffes der Griechen. Vestigia 37 (Munich: Beck, 1985; English ed. revised and updated, The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece, (Chicago: University Press, 2004); Studien zum Attischen Seebund, with J.M. Balcer, H.J. Gehrke, & W. Schuller (Konstanz: Universitätsverlag, 1984); Social Struggles in Archaic Rome: New Perspectives on the Conflict of the Orders (ed. & contrib.) (Berkeley and Los Angeles: U. of California Press, 1986; New edn., updated and expanded Malden, MA, & Oxford: Blackwell, 2005): Aspects of Athenian Democracy with W.R. Connor, M.H. Hansen, B.S. Strauss (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Pr., 1990); Between Republic and Empire: Interpretations of Augustus and his Principate, ed. with Mark Toher (Berkeley and Los Angeles: U. of California Press,1990; paperback ed., 1993); Athens and Rome, Florence and Venice: City-States in Classical Antiquity and Medieval Italy, with Julia Emlen and Anthony Molho (Stuttgart: Steiner & Ann Arbor: Michigan U. Press, 1991); Anfänge politischen Denkens in der Antike: Die vorderasiatischen Kulturen und die Griechen, with Elisabeth Müller-Luckner (Munich: Oldenbourg, 1993): Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis, ed. with Mogens H. Hansen, Historia Suppl. vol. 95 (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1995); More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis, ed. with Mogens H. Hansen, Historia Suppl. ser. vol. 108 (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1996); Democracy 2500? Questions and Challenges, ed. with Ian Morris, Archaeol. Institute of America, Colloquium & Conference Papers 2. (Dubuque, IA: Kendall & Hunt, 1997); Ancient History: Recent Work and New Directions, with S. M. Burstein, R. MacMullen, & A. M. Ward (Claremont CA: Regina Books, 1997); Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens, ed. with Deborah Boedeker, Center for Hellenic Studies Colloquia 2 (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1998); War and Society in the Ancient andMedieval Worlds, ed. with Nathan Rosenstein, Center for Hellenic Studies Colloquia 3 (Washington, D.C.: Center for Hellenic Studies, and Cambridge MA: Harvard UP, 1999; paperback ed. 2001); Social Struggles in Archaic Rome: New Perspectives on the Conflict of the Orders (Oxford & Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005); Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece, ed. with Josiah Ober and Robert W. Wallace (Berkeley: U. of California Press, 2007); War and Peace in the Ancient World (Malden MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007); A Companion to Archaic Greece, ed. with Hans van Wees (Malden MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing: 2009); Geography, Ethnography, and Perspectives of the World in Premodern Societies, ed. with Richart Talbert (Malden MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell: 2009); Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World (Chichester & Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2014); Peace in the Ancient World: Concepts and Theories (ed.) (Chichester & Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2016).

Articles:

 “Zum politischen Wirken der caesarfreundlichen Volkstribunen am Vorabend des

Bürgerkrieges,” Chiron 4 (1974) 293-326; “Caesar und die Friedensverhandlungen zu Beginn des Bürgerkrieges von 49 v. Chr.”, Chiron 5 (1975) 247-300; "Beute, Vergeltung, Freiheit? - Zur Zielsetzung des Delisch-Attischen Seebundes,” Chiron 9 (1979) 1-22; “Zeus als Retter- und Befreiergott. Zur Verbindung von Religion, Kult und Politik in der Antike,” Journal für Geschichte 3 (1981) 32-35; “Democracy, Oligarchy, and the Concept of the 'Free Citizen' in Late Fifth-Century Athens,” Political Theory 11 (1983) 517-44; “Freiheit in Athen und Rom: Ein Beispiel divergierender politischer Begriffsentwicklung in der Antike,” HZ 238 (1984) 529-67; “Homer and the Beginnings of Political Thought in Greece,” in Proceedings of the Boston

Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 4 (1988) 1-25; “Contemporary Perceptions of Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens,” C&M 40 (1989) 33-70, also in Aspects of Athenian Democracy with W.R. Connor, M.H. Hansen, B.S. Strauss (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Pr., 1990) 33-70; “Die Anfänge des politischen Denkens bei den Griechen," HZ 248 (1989)

1-32; “Politisches Denken und Krise der Polis: Athen im Verfassungskonflikt des späten 5.

Jh.v.Chr.,” HZ 255 (1992) 1-60; “I Greci scoprono la libertà,” Opus 9-10 (1990-91 [1993]) 7-28; “Politics and Interstate Relations in the World of Early Greek Poleis: Homer and Beyond,”

Antichthon 31 (1997) 1-27; “Homer, the Trojan War, and History,” CW 91 (1997-8) 386-403; “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Reflections on the Role of Ancient History in a Modern University,” CJ 98 (2003) 415-31; “Homeric Warriors and Battles: Trying to Resolve Old Problems.” CW 101.4 (2008) 469-83; “Conceptualizing and Theorizing Peace in Ancient Greece,” TAPA 139 (2009) 225-50; “Friedenskonzepte und Friedenstheorien im griechischen Altertum,” HZ 290 (2010) 593-619; “Riding on Homer's Chariot: The Search for a Historical ‘Epic Society’,” Antichthon 45 (2011) 1-34; “La invención de un género : Heródoto, Tucídides y los retos de escribir prosa histórica a gran escala,” Nova Tellus 31 (2013) 35-67; “Homer and the Agony of Hoplite Battle,” AHB 27 (2013) 1-22; Ancient Greece: The Historical Needle’s Eye of Modern Politics and Political Thought,” CW 109 (2015-16) 3-37; “Die grosse Herausforderung : Herodot, Thukydides und die Erfindung einer neuen Form von Geschichtsschreibung,” HZ 302 (2016) 593-622; “Reconstructing the Chronology of Caesar’s Gallic Wars,” with John T. Ramsey, Histos 11 (2017) 1-74; “Chronological Tables for Caesar’s Wars (58-45 BCE),” with John T. Ramsey, Histos 11 (2017) 162-217; “Caesar and Genocide: Confronting the Dark Side of Caesar’s Gallic Wars,” NECN 48 (2021) 54-80.

Chapters in Books:

“Vorgeschichte und Ausbruch des ersten punischen Krieges,” in Crustula Basiliensia, P. Von

der Mühll, H. Fuchs, B. Wyss oblata (Basel 1965; unpublished Festschrift); “Polis tyrannos: Zur Entstehung einer politischen Metapher,”" in Arktouros: Studies Presented to B.M.W. Knox (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 1979) 237-52;  “The Political Significance of Augustus' Military Reforms,” in Roman Frontier Studies, 1979. Acts of the XII International Conference of Roman Frontier Studies. BAR Intern. Ser. 72 (1980) 1005-25; “Des freien Bürgers Recht der freien Rede. Ein Beitrag zur Sozial- und Begriffsgeschichte der athenischen Demokratie,”

in Studien zur antiken Sozialgeschichte. Festschrift F. Vittinghoff, ed. W. Eck et al. (Cologne and Vienna1980) 7-57; “Zum Freiheitsbegriff der Griechen. Materialien und Untersuchungen zur

Bedeutungsentwicklung von eleutheros/eleutheria in der archaischen und klassischen Zeit,” in Soziale Typenbegriffe im alten Griechenland und ihr Nachleben bis in die modernen Sprachen IV, ed. E.C. Welskopf (Berlin 1981) 180-405; “Politisches Denken und Handeln bei den Griechen,” in Propyläen Geschichte der Literatur I: Die Welt der Antike (Berlin 1981) 36-67; “Athens 'Ideologie der Macht' und die Freiheit des Tyrannen,” in Studien zum Attischen

Seebund (Konstanz: Universitätsverlag, 1984) 45-86; Preface and comprehensive Research Bibliography, in Social Struggles, ed. Raaflaub (Berkeley and Los Angeles: U. of California Press, 1986) xv-xxv; 379-433; “The Conflict of the Orders in Archaic Rome: A Comprehensive and Comparative Approach,” ibid., 1-51; “From Protection and Defense to Offense and Participation: Stages in the Conflict of the Orders,” ibid., 198-243; “Herodotus, Political Thought and the Meaning of History,” in Herodotus and the Invention of History, ed. D. Boedeker and J. Peradotto, Arethusa 20 (1987) 221-48; “Grundzüge, Ziele und Ideen der Opposition gegen die Kaiser im 1. Jh. n. Chr.: Versuch einer Standortbestimmung,” in, Oppositions et résistances à l'empire d'Auguste à Trajan, ed. O. Reverdin and B. Grange, Entretiens sur l'antiquité classique 33 (Vandoeuvres - Geneva 1987) 1-55; “Die Militärreformen des Augustus und die politische Problematik des frühen Prinzipats,” in Saeculum Augustum I: Herrschaft und Gesellschaft, ed. G.Binder, Wege der Forschung 266 (Darmstadt 1987) 246-307; “Die Anfänge des politischen Denkens bei den Griechen,” in Pipers Handbuch der politischen Ideen I: Frühe Hochkulturen und europäische Antike, ed. I. Fetscher and H. Münkler (Munich 1988) 189-271; “Politisches Denken im Zeitalter Athens, ibid., 273-368; “Die Entdeckung der Freiheit durch die Griechen,” in Der Name der Freiheit, 1288 – 1988, Exhibition Catalogue (Cologne 1988) 7-16; “Athenische Geschichte und mündliche Überlieferung,” in Vergangenheit in mündlicher Überlieferung, ed. J. von Ungern-Sternberg and H.Reinau, Colloquium Rauricum I (Stuttgart 1988) 197-225; “Homer and the Beginning of Political Thought in Greece, IV,” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in ancient philosophy, IV, ed. John J. Cleary &Daniel C. Shartin (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1989) 1-25; “Opposition to Augustus,” with L.J. Samons in Between Republic and Empire, ed. with M.Toher (Berkeley and Los Angeles: U. of California Press,1990) 417-54; “Expansion und Machtbildung in frühen Polis-Systemen," in Staat und Staatlichkeit in der frühen römischen Republik, ed. W. Eder(Stuttgart 1990) 511-45; “Contemporary Perceptions of Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens,” in Aspects of Athenian Democracy, ed. J. Rufus Fears (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1990) 33-70;

“City-State, Territory and Empire in Classical Antiquity,” in Athens and Rome.. ed. with J. Emlen & A. Molho (Stuttgart:Steiner & Ann Arbor: Michigan U. Press, 1991) 565-88; “Homer und die Geschichte des 8. Jh.v.Chr.,” in Zweihundert Jahre modern Homerforschung: Rückblick und Ausblick, ed. J. Latacz, Coll. Rauricum 2 (Stuttgart 1991) 205-56; “Rome, Italy, and Appius Claudius Caecus before the Pyrrhic Wars,” with J.D. Richards & L.J. Samons in The Age of Pyrrhus: Papers Delivered at the International Conference, Brown University, 8-10 April, 1988 (Louvain-la-Neuve: Département d’archéologie et d’histoire de l’art, 1992) 13-50; “Politics and Society in Fifth-Century Rome,” in Bilancio Critico su Roma arcaica fra monarchia e repubblica, in memoria di Ferdinando Castagnoli, ed. M.A. Levi (Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1993) 129-57; “Zur Einführung,” in Anfänge politischen Denkens, ed. with E. Müller-Luckner (Munich: Oldenbourg, 1993) vii-xxii; “Homer to Solon: The Rise of the Polis (The Written Sources),” in The Ancient Greek City-State, ed. M. H. Hansen (Copenhagen 1993) 41-105; “Rome, Italy, and Appius Claudius Caecus before the Pyrrhic Wars,” with J.D. Richards and L.J. Samons II, in The Age of Pyrrhus, ed.  T. Hackens and R. R. Holloway, Archaeologia Transatlantica 11 (Louvain-la Neuve, Belgium, and Providence, R.I. 1992 [1995]), 16-50; “Democracy, Power, and Imperialism in Fifth-Century Athens,” in Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstruction of AmericanDemocracy, ed. J.P. Euben, J. Ober, & J. Wallach (Ithaca, NY: Cornell U. Press, 1994) 103-46; “Einleitung und Bilanz: Kleisthenes, Ephialtes und die Begründung der Demokratie,” in Demokratia: Der Weg zur Demokratie bei den Griechen, ed. K. Kinzl, Wege der Forschung 657 (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1995) 1-54, 451-2; “Equalities and Inequalities in Athenian Democracy," in J. Ober & C. Hedrick (eds.), Demokratia: A Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modern (Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1996) 139-74; “Born to be Wolves? Origins of Roman Imperialism,” in Transitions to Empire in the Graeco-Roman World, 360-146 B.C., ed. E. Harris & R. W. Wallace (Norman, OK: U. of Oklahoma Press, 1996) 273-314; “Solon and the Emergence of Politics in Greece,” in I Greci, vol. II.1, ed. S. Settis(Turin: Einaudi, 1996) 1035-81; “Freedom in the Ancient World,” in Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996) 609-11; “Homeric Society,” in A New Companion to Homer , ed. I. Morris & B. Powell (Leiden:Brill, 1997) 624-48; “Legend or Historical Personality? Solon Reconsidered,” in Acta: First Panhellenic and International Conference on Ancient Greek Literature, Athens 1994, ed. J. Papademetriou (Athens: Hellenic Society for Humanistic Studies, 1997) 97-117; “Power in the Hands of the People: Foundations of Athenian Democracy,” in Democracy 2500? Questions and Challenges, ed. with I. Morris (Dubuque, IA: Kendall & Hunt, 1997) 31-66; “The Thetes and Democracy: Response to J. Ober,” ibid., 87-103; “Soldiers, Citizens, and the Evolution of the Early Greek Polis,” in The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece, ed. L. Mitchell and P. J. Rhodes (London: Routledge, 1997) 49-59; “Greece,” in Ancient History: Recent Work and New Directions, ed. with  S. Burstein, R. MacMullen, & A. Ward (Claremont CA: Regina Books, 1997) 1-35; “Homer, the Trojan War, and History,” in The World of Troy: Homer,Schliemann, and the Treasures of Priam, ed. D. Boedeker (Washington DC: Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage, 1997) 74-97; repr. CW 91 (1998) 386-403; “A Historian’s Headache: How to Read ‘Homeric Society’?” in Archaic Greece: New Evidence and New Approaches, ed. N.R.E. Fisher & H. van Wees (London: Duckworth & Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 1998) 169-93; “The Transformation of Athens in the Fifth Century,” in Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens, ed. with  D. Boedeker ((Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1998) 15-41; “Introduction” (with D. Boedeker), ibid. 1-13;  “Reflections and Conclusions,” with D. Boedeker, ibid. 319-44; “Leaders in War and Bravery: The Ideology of War in Late Fifth-Century Athens,” in The Gail A. Burnett Lectures in Classics, ed. E. N. Genovese (San Diego: Dept. of Classics and Humanities, SDSU, 1998) 9-32; “Homer, Political Thought, and the Discovery of Civic Responsibility,” in The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Real World, ed. D. Boedeker (Washington DC: Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage, 1998) 97-118; “War and Society in Archaic and Classical Greece,” in War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds, ed. with N. Rosenstein (Washington, D.C.: Center for Hellenic Studies, and Cambridge MA: Harvard UP, 1999) 129-61; “Influence, Adaptation, and Interaction: Near Eastern and Early Greek Political Thought,” in The Heirs of Assyria, ed. S. Aro & R. Whiting (Helsinki: State Archives of Assyria Project, 2000) 51-64; “Poets, Lawgivers, and the Beginnings of Greek Political Reflection,” in C. Rowe & M. Schofield (eds.), The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) 23-59; 

“Zeus Eleutherios, Dionysos the Liberator, and the Athenian Tyrannicides: Anachronistic Uses of Fifth-Century Political Concepts,” in Polis and Politics: Studies in Ancient Greek History Presented to Mogens Herman Hansen, ed. Pernille Flensted Jensen et al. (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2000) 249-75; ““Den Olympier herausfordern?: Prozesse im Umkreis des Perikles,” in Great Trials in Ancient Athens (Grosse Prozesse im antiken Athen), ed. L. Burckhardt & J. von Ungern-Sternberg (Munich: Beck, 2000) 96-113; “Political Thought, Civic Responsibility, and the Greek Polis,” in  Agon, Logos, Polis: The Greek Achievement and Its Aftermath, ed. Thomas Arnason & Peter Murphy (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2001) 72-117; “Father of All—Destroyer of All: War in Late Fifth-Century Athenian Discourse and Ideology,” in War and Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War, ed. Barry Strauss & D. McClain (Armonk NY& London: M. E. Sharpe, 2001) 307-56; “Philosophy, Science, Politics: Herodotus and the Intellectual Trends of His Time,” in A Companion to Herodotus, ed. Egbert Bakker et al. (Leiden: Brill, 2002) 149-86; “Herodot und Thukydides: Persischer Imperialismus im Lichte der athenischen Sizilienpolitik,” in Widerstand— Anpassung — Integration: Die griechische Staatenwelt und Rom. Festschrift für Jürgen Deininger Norbert Ehrhardt and Linda-Marie Günther (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2002) 11-40; “Enki e Prometeu: o herói de cultura no mito e pensamento da Mesopotâmia e da Grécia,” Letras Clássicas 6 (2002) 11-23;

“Stick and Glue: The Function of Tyranny in Fifth-Century Athenian Democracy,” in Popular Tyranny: Sovereignty and Its Discontents in Ancient Greece, ed. Kathryn A. Morgan (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003) 59-93; “Zwischen Adel und Volk: Freiheit als Sinnkonzept in Griechenland und Rom” in Sinn (in) der Antike: Orientierungssysteme, Leitbilder und Wertkonzepte im Altertum, ed. K.-J. Hölkeskamp, J. Rüsen, E. Stein-Hölkeskamp & H. T. Grütter (Mainz: von Zabern, 2003) 55-80;  “Caesar the Liberator? Factional Politics, Civil War, and Ideology,” in Caesar against Liberty? Perspectives on His Autocracy, ed. Francis Cairns & Elaine Fantham (Cambridge: Francis Cairns, 2003) 35-67; “Die Bedeutung der Dark Ages: Mykene, Troia und die Griechen in Der neue Streit um Troia. Eine Bilanz, ed. Christoph Ulf (Munich: Beck, 2003) 309-29; “Freedom for the Messenians? A Note on the Impact of Slavery and Helotage on the GreekConcept of Freedom," in Susan Alcock and Nino Luraghi (eds.), Helots and Their Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures (Washington DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2003) 169-90; “The Alleged Ostracism of Damon,” in Gestures: Essays in Ancient History, Literature, and Philosophy Presented to Alan L. Boegehold, ed.Geoffrey W. Bakewell and James P. Sickinger (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2003) 317-31; “Polis, ‘The Political,’ and Political Thought: New Departures in Ancient Greece, c. 800-500 BCE,” in The Axial Age Revisited, ed. Johannes Arnason (Leiden: Brill, 2004) 253-83; “Between East and West: Phoenician Influences on the Formation of the Greek Polis?” (in German), in, Griechische Archaik und der Orient: Interne und externe Impulsei, ed. Robert Rollinger and Christoph Ulf (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 2004) 271-89; “Aristocracy and Freedom of Speech in the Graeco-Roman World,” in Freedom of Speech in Classical Antiquity, ed. Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter (Leiden: Brill, 2004) 41-61; “Archaic Greek Aristocrats as Carriers of Cultural Interaction,” in Commerce and Monetary Systems in the Ancient World:Means of Transmission and Cultural Interaction: 5th International MelammuConference 2002, ed. Robert Rollinger and Christoph Ulf (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2004) 197-217; (together with Deborah Boedeker): “Tragedy and City,” with Deborah Bodeker, in A Companion to Tragedy, ed. Rebecca Bushnell (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005) 109-27; “The Significance of Hellenische Poleis and Soziale Typenbegriffe after Thirty Years” (in German), in Elisabeth Charlotte Welskopf und die Alte Geschichte in der DDR, ed. Isolde Stark (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2005) 252-65; “Epic and History,” in A Companion to Ancient Epic, ed. John M. Foley (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005) 55-70; 

“Homeric Warriors, Protohoplites, and the Polis: Toward the Solution of Old Problems” (in German) in War – Society – Institutions: Contributions to a Comparative History of War (Krieg – Gesellschaft –Institutionen: Beiträge zu einer vergleichenden Kriegsgeschichte), ed. Burkhard Meissner et al. (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 2005) 209-66; “Athenian and Spartan εὐνομία,  or: What to Do with Solon’s Timocracy?” In Solon: New Historical and Philological Perspectives, ed.Josine Blok and André Lardinois (Leiden: Brill, 2006) 390-428; “Historical Approaches to Homer,” in Ancient Greece: From the Mycenaean Palaces to the Age of Homer, ed. Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy & Irene S. Lemos (Edinburgh: Edinburgh U. Press, 2006) 449-62; “Romulus und die Wölfin: Roms Anfänge zwischen Mythos und Geschichte” in Erinnerungsorteder Antike: die römische Welt (Places of Memory in Antiquity: the Roman World), ed. Elke Stein-Hölkeskamp and Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp (Munich: Beck, 2006) 18-39; “Introduction,” In Raaflaub et al., Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (Berkeley: U. of California Press, 2007) 1-21; “People’s Power and Egalitarian Trends in Archaic Greece,” with Robert W. Wallace, ibid. 22-48; “The Break-Through of demokratia in Mid-Fifth-Century Athens,” ibid., 105-54; “Thucydides on Democracy and Oligarchy,” in Brill’s Companion to Thucydides, ed. Antonios Rengakos & Antonios Tsakmakis (Leiden: Brill, 2006) 189-222; “Introduction: Searching for Peace in the Ancient World.” In Raaflaub (ed.), War and Peace in the Ancient World, (ed.) (Malden MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007) 1-33; “Between Myth and History: Rome’s Rise from Village to Empire (the Eighth Century to 264)” in A Companion to

the Roman Republic, ed. Nathan Rosenstein and Robert Morstein-Marx (Malden MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006): 125-46; “Warfare in Athenian Society” in The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles ed. Loren J. Samons II (Cambridge: University Press, 2007): 6-124; “Democracy” in A Companion to the Classical Greek World, ed. Konrad H. Kinzl (Malden MA & Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006) 387-415; “Homer and Thucydides on Peace and Just War” in Experiencing War: Trauma and Society in Ancient Greece and Today ed. Michael B. Cosmopoulos (Chicago: Ares Publishers, 2007) 81-94; “Caesar and Augustus as Liberators?” in Caesar, ed. Ernst Baltrusch (Darmstadt:Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2007) 229-61; “Enki and Prometheus: The Culture Hero in Mesopotamian and Greek Myth and Thought” (in Portuguese) Letras Clássicas 6 (2002 [2007]) 11-23; “The Reforms of Josiah and Solon: The Usefulness of Comparison” (in German) in Lawgiving in Ancient Societies (West Asia, Israel, Greece, and Rome), ed. Leonhard Burckhardt and Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2007); “Zeus und Prometheus: zur griechischen Interpretation vorderasiatischer Mythen” in Christian Meier zur Diskussion, ed. M. Bernett, W. Nippel & A. Winterling (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2008) 33-60; “The Truth about Tyranny: Tacitus and the Historian's Responsibility in Early Imperial Rome” in The Children of Herodotus: Greek and Roman Historiography and Related Genres, ed. Jakub Pigoń (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publ., 2008) 253-70; “Learning from the Enemy: Athenian and Persian ‘Instruments of Empire’,” in Interpreting the Athenian Empire, ed. John T. Ma, Nikolaos Papazarkadas & Robert C.T. Parker (London: Duckworth, 2009) 89-124; “Early Greek Political Thought in its Mediterranean Context,” in A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought, ed. Ryan K. Balot (Oxford & Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2009) 37-56; “Ulterior Motives in Ancient Historiography: What Exactly, and Why?” in Intentional History: Spinning Time in Ancient Greece, ed. Lin Foxhall, Hans-Joachim Gehrke & Nino Luraghi (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2010) 189-210; “Proto-Phalanx und Polis: der frühgriechische Massenkampf im interkulturellen Zusammenhang des östlichen Mittelmeerraumes” in Studia hellenistica et historiographica: Festschrift für Andreas Mehl, ed. Thomas Brüggemann, Burkhard Meissner & Christian Mileta (Gutenberg: Computus, 2010) 357-72; “Herodotus, Marathon, and the Historian’s Choice” in Μαραθών: η μάχη και ο αρχαίος δήμος, ed. Kostas Bourazelis, Katerina S. Meidani (Athens: Ekd. Kardamitsa, 2010) 221-35; “Between Tradition and Innovation: Shifts in Caesar's Political Propaganda and Self-Presentation,” in Cesare: precursore o visionario ? : : atti del convegno internazionale, Cividale del Friuli, 17-19 settembre 2009, ed. Gianpaolo Urso (Pisa: Ed. ETS, 2010) 141-57; “Creating a Grand Coalition of True Roman Citizens: On Caesar's political Strategy in the Civil War,” in Citizens of Discord: Rome and Its Civil Wars,ed. Brian W. Breed, Cynthis Damon & Andreola Francesca Rossi (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2010) 159-70; “Persian Army and Warfare in the Mirror of Herodotus’ Interpretation” in Herodot und das Persische Weltreich = Herodotus and the Persian Empire: Akten des 3. Internationalen Kolloquiums zum Thema « Vorderasien im Spannungsfeld klassischer und altorientalischer Überlieferungen » Innsbruck, 24.-28. November 2008, ed. Robert Rollinger, Brigitte Truschnegg & Reinhold Bichler (Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz, 2011) 5-37; “From City-State to Empire: Rome in Comparative Perspective,” in The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, ed. with Jóhann Páll Arnason (Chichester & Hoboken, NJ: 2011) 39-66; “Die Versuchung der Macht: Thukydides und das Versagen hegemonialer Bundesstrukturen,” in Ein Besitz für immer?: Geschichte, Polis und Völkerrecht bei Thukydides, ed. Ernst A. 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