Writing | Media

2025

Opinion Piece: Parents, here is why you should stop steering your kids away from the humanities’, Sydney Morning Herald, 17.12.2025

2024

From Political Bees to Talking Pigs: How Ancient Thinkers Saw the Human/Animal Divide. The Conversation, 15 March 2024.

Was the Trojan Horse Real? Did the Greeks Really Trick their Way into Troy inside a Gigantic Wooden Horse? History Today, 74:3. 

2022

‘Queen of Heaven: The Rocky Relationship between a Divine Husband and Wife’ (Review Pironti/Pirenne-Delforge. The Hera of Zeus). Times Literary Supplement, 22.

2021

‘The Female Voice at the Heart of Ancient Greek Religion: The Priestess Pythia at the Delphic Oracle’, Agora 56

2020

‘The Essential is Invisible to the Eye: The Wisdom of the Little Prince in Lockdown’, The Conversation, 4 August 2020

2019

‘Nature’s Ancient History’, Australian Review of Books (ABR) (2000-word article)

‘Hidden Women of History: The Priestess Pythia at the Delphic Oracle’. The Conversation, 23 January 2019

‘Curious Kids: Who Were the Spartans’, The Conversation, Translated into Indonesian as Siapakah Bangsa Sparta Tu, 2 January, 2019

2018

‘On Nostalgia’ Meanjin 77, 199-205

‘Guide to the Classics: Darwin’s On the Origin of Species’, The Conversation, 31 May 2018 (jointly authored with T. Latty)

2017

‘Guide to the Classics: Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War’ The Conversation, 13 June 2017

‘Anticipating the Future from Thucydides to Trump’, Eidolon, 3 April 2017

2016

‘Cheating, Bribery and Scandal: How the Ancient Greeks Did the Olympic Games’, The Conversation, 19 August 2016

‘Friday Essay: Secrets of the Delphic Oracle and How it Speaks to Us Today’, The Conversation, 22 July, 2016

‘Guide to the Classics: Herodotus’ Histories’, The Conversation, 23 May 2016