Cardiff School of History, Archaeology and Religion

Research Interests

Greek social history and archaeology

History and archaeology of Greek religion

Mobility and identity

Greek relations with Achaemenid Persia

Selected Publications

Greek Representations of the Achaemenids and their Empire: Persia through the Looking Glass, Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Iran, Edinburgh University Press. (forthcoming May 2013).

The Classical Greek House (Bristol and Exeter 2010)

‘Drunken men and modern myths: searching for the andron in classical Greece,’ in S.D. Lambert (ed.) Sociable Man. Essays in Greek Social Behaviour in Honour of Nick Fisher, (Swansea: Classical Press of Wales 2011) 267-290.

‘Space and the notion of a final frontier: searching for cult boundaries in the classical Athenian home’ Kernos 20 (2007) 113-129.

‘Women, Religion and the Home’ in D. Ogden (ed.) The Blackwell Companion to Greek Religion (Oxford: Blackwell 2007) 297-310.

‘La sociabilité masculine et l’architecture de la maison grecque : l’andrôn revisité’ in Dr. Florence Gherchanoc (ed.). ‘La maison, lieu de sociabilité, dans des communautés urbaines européennes de l’Antiquité à nos jours. Colloque international de l'Université de Paris VII – Denis Diderot, 14-15 Mai 2004’ (Éditions le Manuscrit: Paris 2006) 37-71.

Teaching

Undergraduate

Kingdoms, Cities and Hellenization (HS3315) 30 credits

Gender and Sexuality (HS3362) 20 credits

Greek Values (HS3309) 10 credits

Dissertation Co-ordinator (HS4332) 30 credits

Independent Study Co-ordinator (HS4334) 20 credits

Material Evidence for Ancient History (HS4333) 10 credits

Literary Evidence for Ancient History (HS3325) 10 credits

Introduction to Ancient Greek History (HS3101) 20 credits

Introduction to Roman History (HS3102) 20 credits

Postgraduate Teaching

Themes and Approaches in Ancient History (HST002) 20 credits

Understanding Texts (HST011) 10 credits

Writing the Past (HST300/305) 10 credits