Featured Articles and Essays

 

 

‘The Iliad of Homer’

Review: Emily Wilson Makes Achilles Modern

The Wall Street Journal - October 13,2023

“Euripides, with Notes”

NYR Daily - April 21,2019


Review of “Soldier, Priest and God: A Life of Alexander the Great”

The Wall Street Journal - December 13,2018


Review of “The Search for Atlantis”

The Wall Street Journal - October 4,2018


“Seneca could have written the anonymous op-ed piece about Trump”

newyorker.com - September 6, 2018


“Loving Assassins” 

Review essay in New York Review of Books - August 16, 2018


“This was a Man,” review of Kathryn Tempest’s Brutus

Times Literary Supplement - June 12, 2018


“A Stoic in Nero’s Court”

Review essay in New York Review of Books - December 21, 2017


Review of “The Daily Stoic” by Ryan Holiday

The Wall Street Journal - November 8, 2016


“Trump vs. Clinton, according to Aristophanes”

newyorker.com - October 12, 2016


Ben-Hur is an Ancient and Modern Mess”

The Daily Beast on-line - August 20, 2016


“Trump, Troilus and Cressida”

newyorker.com - August 9, 2016


Review of “The Hellenistic Age” by Peter Thonemann

The Wall Street Journal - July 26, 2016


“The Great Rescue in Timbuktu,” Review essay

New York Review of Books - July 14, 2016


Review of “Catullus’ Bedspread” by Daisy Dunn

The New Republic on-line - July 11, 2016


Life Lessons From "Fishing With Dad"

The New Yorker - June 19, 2016


A Show About the Hellenistic One Per Cent

The New Yorker - April 20, 2016


The Depths of Okeanos

Aeon - March 24, 2016


Beginning Greek, Again and Again

The New York Times Sunday Review - January 2, 2016