Books (as author)
Classics: why it matters (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018).
Thucydides and the Idea of History (London: I.B. Tauris, 2014).
The Roman Empire: roots of imperialism (London: Pluto Press, 2010).
Antiquity and Modernity (Oxford & Malden MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).
Trade in Classical Antiquity (Cambridge: CUP, 2007).
Theories, Models and Concepts in Ancient History (London & New York: Routledge, 2004).
Writing Ancient History (London: Duckworth & Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999; German translation with a new afterword, Heidelberg: Verlag Antike, 2013).
Metropolis and Hinterland: the city of Rome and the Italian Economy (Cambridge: CUP, 1996).
Books (as co-editor)
A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides (Malden MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015), with Christine Lee.
Thucydides and the Modern World: reception, reinterpretation and influence from the Renaissance to today (Cambridge: CUP, 2012), with Katherine Harloe.
Academic Journal Articles
‘Frugality and Roman economic thinking in Varro’s Rerum Rusticarum‘, I Quaderni del Ramo d’Oro Online 10 (2019), pp.41-54. Full text.
‘Thucydides Quote Unquote’, Arion 20.3 (2013), pp. 9-36.
‘Peter Handke’s Thucydides’, Classical Receptions Journal 4.1 (2012), pp. 20-47.
‘Civil war and succession crisis in Roman beekeeping’, Historia 56.2 (2007), pp. 462-70.
‘Decadence as a theory of history’, New Literary History 35.4 (2004), pp. 573-85.
‘The transformation of Italy, 225-28 B.C.’, Journal of Roman Studies XCI (2001), pp. 50-62.
‘Trajan’s Engines’, Greece & Rome 47.2 (2000), pp. 197-210.
‘Marx and the failure of antiquity’, Helios 26.2 (1999), pp.151-64.
‘Political economy and classical antiquity’, Jnl of the History of Ideas 59.1 (1998), pp. 95-114.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
‘Choose Your Own Counterfactual: the Melian Dialogue as text-based adventure’, in C. Rollinger, ed., Classical Antiquity in Video Games: playing with the ancient world (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), pp.179-192.
‘The Anti-Thucydides’, in J. Priestley & V. Zali, eds., Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 143-55.
‘Migration, mobility and the decline of urbanism in the late Roman West’, for J. Oberste, ed., Die bewegte Stadt: Migration, soziale mobilität und Innovation in vormodernen Groβstädten (Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2015), pp.79-88).
‘“The same procedure as last year.” Die Regulierung von Konkurrenz und Konflikt über Wasser im römischen Reich’, in C. Wieland & S. von Reden, eds., Das Wasser. Ressource zwischen Alltagsbedarf, Ingenieurskunst und Repräsentation (Frankfurt a.M.: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015), pp.77-94.
‘The idea of Thucydides in the western tradition’, in C. Lee & N. Morley, eds., A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides (Malden MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015), pp. 591-604.
‘Urban smells and Roman noses’ in M. Bradley, ed., Smell and the Ancient Senses (London & New York: Routledge, 2015), pp. 110-19.
‘Globalisation and the Roman economy’, in M. Pitts & M.J. Versluys, eds., Globalisation and the Roman World: world history, connectivity and material culture (Cambridge: CUP, 2015), pp. 49-68.
‘Orders of magnitude, margins of error’, in F. de Callataÿ, ed., Quantifying the Greco-Roman Economy and Beyond (Bari: Edipuglia, 2014), pp. 29-42.
‘The market in classical antiquity’, in M. Frass, ed., Kauf – Konsum und Märkte (Philippika: Marburger altertumskundliche Abhandlungen (Marburg: Verlag Harrassowitz, 2013), pp. 103-22.
‘Religion, urbanisation and social change’, in M. Jehne, B. Linke & J. Rüpke, eds., Religiöse Vielfalt und soziale Integration. Die Bedeutung der Religion für die kulturelle Identität und die politische Stabilität im republikanischen Italien (Heidelberg: Verlag Antike, 2013), pp. 61-8.
‘Population size: evidence and estimates’, in P. Erdkamp, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the City of Rome (Cambridge: CUP, 2013), pp. 29-44.
‘A forum on trade’, contribution to W. Scheidel, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy (Cambridge: CUP, 2012), pp. 309-14.
‘Thucydides, history and historicism in Wilhelm Roscher’, in K. Harloe & N. Morley, eds., Thucydides and the Modern World: reception, reinterpretation and influence from the Renaissance to today (Cambridge: CUP, 2012), pp. 115-39.
‘Cities and economic development in the Roman Empire’, in A. Bowman & A. Wilson, eds., Settlement, Urbanization and Population (Oxford Studies in the Roman Economy II) (Oxford: OUP, 2011), pp. 143-60.
‘Demography and development in classical antiquity’, in C. Holleran & A. Pudsey, eds., Demography and the Graeco-Roman World: new insights and approaches (Cambridge: CUP 2011), pp. 14-36.
‘Monumentality and the meaning of the past in ancient and modern historiography’, in A. Lianeri, ed., The Western Time of Ancient History: historiographical encounters with the Greek and Roman past (Cambridge: CUP, 2011), pp. 210-26.
‘Slavery under the Principate’, in P. Cartledge & K.R. Bradley, eds., The Cambridge World History of Slavery Volume I: the ancient Mediterranean (Cambridge: CUP 2011), pp. 265-86.
‘Economic and social history’, in A. Erskine, ed., A Companion to Ancient History (Oxford & Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), pp. 112-22.
‘Urbanisation and development in Italy in the late Republic’, in L. de Ligt & S. Northwood, eds., People, Land, and Politics: Demographic Developments and the Transformation of Roman Italy, 300 BC-AD 14 (Leiden: Brill, 2008), pp.121-37.
‘“Das Altertum das sich nicht übersetzen lässt”: translation and untranslatability in ancient history’, in A. Lianeri & V. Zajko, eds., Translation and the Classic: identity as change in the history of culture (Oxford: OUP 2008), pp.128-47.
‘The Early Roman Empire: distribution’, in I. Morris, R. Saller & W. Scheidel, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World (Cambridge: CUP, 2007), 570-91.
‘The poor in the city of Rome’ in R. Osborne & M. Atkins, eds., Poverty in the Roman World (Cambridge: CUP, 2006), pp. 21-39.
‘Social structure and demography’, in N.Rosenstein & R.Morstein-Marx, eds., A Companion to the Roman Republic (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 299-323.
‘Narrative economy’, in P.F. Bang, M. Ikeguchi & H.G. Ziche, eds., Ancient Economies, Modern Methodologies: archaeology, comparative history, models and institutions (Rome and Bari: Edipuglia, 2006), pp. 27-47.
‘The salubriousnessness of the Roman city’, in H. King, ed., Health in Antiquity (London and New York: Routledge, 2005), pp. 192-204.
‘“Unhistorical Greeks’: myth, history and the uses of antiquity’, in P. Bishop, ed., Nietzsche and Antiquity: his reaction and response to the classical tradition (Rochester, NY and Woodbridge, Suffolk: Camden House, 2004), pp. 27-39.
‘Migration and the Metropolis’, in C. Edwards & G. Woolf, eds, Rome the Cosmopolis (Cambridge: CUP, 2003), pp. 147-57.
‘The profits of empire’, in G. Woolf, ed., The Cambridge Illustrated History of Rome (Cambridge: CUP, 2003), pp. 290-319.
‘Markets, marketing and the Roman elite’, in E. Lo Cascio, ed., Mercati Periodici e Mercati Permanenti nel mondo romano (Roma & Bari: Edipuglia, 2000), pp. 211-21.
‘Cities in context: urban systems in Roman Italy’, in H.M. Parkins, ed., Roman Urbanism: beyond the consumer city (London & New York: Routledge, 1997), pp. 42-58.
Popular Journals, Media and Public Engagement
‘Why historians would make bad policy advisers’, Aeon 2/11/16: https://aeon.co/ideas/why-historians-would-make-bad-policy-advisers
‘Why Thucydides?’, Eidolon 18/7/16: https://eidolon.pub/why-thucydides-55b145152ec3#.4mz64sjpb
‘After this referendum can we find any consolation in history?’, Disclaimer 25/6/16: http://www.disclaimermag.com/other-stuff/after-this-referendum-can-we-find-any-consolation-in-history-3689
‘Return to Melos’, Disclaimer 9/4/16: http://www.disclaimermag.com/other-stuff/return-to-melos-facing-the-reality-of-how-things-are-in-order-to-understand-it-better-3520
‘We Philhellenists’, invited contribution to online seminar on Jo Walton’s Thessaly novels, Crooked Timber, 29/1/16: http://crookedtimber.org/2016/01/29/we-philhellenists/
‘How Thucydides helps explain Greece’s problems with Germany’, The Monkey Cage blog, Washington Post 9/4/15 (15,000+ views): http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/04/09/how-thucydides-helps-explain-greeces-problems-with-germany/
Contributor to In Our Time programme on Thucydides, BBC Radio 4, 29/1/15: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050bcf1
Contributor to Poor Us: an animated history of poverty, broadcast internationally November 2012 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxbmjDngois).
‘Monumental folly’, Aeon 22/10/2012 (http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/neville-morley-on-thucydides/).
‘The return of grand narrative in the human sciences’: invited contribution to online colloquium on David Graeber’s Debt: the first 5,000 years at Crooked Timber, 22/2/12: http://crookedtimber.org/2012/02/22/the-return-of-grand-narrative-in-the-human-sciences/
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