Writing | Media
My research places a strong emphasis on public engagement and participation. In the last few years, I have contributed to TLS, History Today, Meanjin, The Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Book Review, The Conversation, and other magazines.
Publications
2025
ABC Nightlife, hosted by Suzanne Hill
This Mortal Coil: What is the Truth and Why Should we Care?
23 November 2025
2024
New Books Network
on The Trojan Horse and Other Stories.
4 September 2024
2014
Demythifying
On The Trojan Horse and Other Stories
28 March 2014
2006
Counterpoint, hosted by Michael Duffy
Studying the Classics - jointly with Alastair Blanshard
27 November 2006
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