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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. 

‘Status as Performance in Roman Society‘, Istraživanja 30(2019), pp.7-23. Full text. DOI. 
‘The Melian Dilemma: Remaking Thucydides‘, Epoiesen (2019) Full text. DOI.
‘Legitimising War and Defending Peace: Thucydides in WWI and After‘, Classical Receptions Journal, 10.4 (2018), pp. 415-434.

‘Thucydides and the Historiography of Trauma‘, Ktema: civilisations de l’Orient, de la Grece et de Rome Antiques, 42 (2017), pp.195-206. 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.

‘Thucydides: the origins of political realism?’, in M. Hollingsworth & R. Schuett, eds., The Edinburgh Companion to Political Realism (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018), pp.111-123.
‘Counterfactualism and Anticipation’, in R. Poli, ed., Handbook of Anticipation: Theoretical and Applied Aspects of the Use of Future in Decision Making (Springer International, 2017). DOI. 
‘Contextualism and universality in Thucydidean thought’, in E. Baltrusch, C. Thauer & C. Wendt, eds., Between Anarchy and Order: conceptions of domination in Thucydides (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp.23-40.

‘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: webpage no longer extant. Archived version: Return to Melos: Facing the reality of how things are, in order to understand it better

‘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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