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Research and Publications

Most Recent Publications:

PUBLICATIONS

a. BOOKS

Apollodoros: The Speeches. The Editio Princeps (the first independent edition), with Introduction, English Translation and Commentary of the seven speeches, and fragments of Apollodoros. (In preparation).

Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (c. 250 pages). Under contract with Edinburgh University Press, Forthcoming 2019

Athenian Law and Society (370 pages). Routledge: London 2018

Prostitution in the ancient Greek World. Berlin 2018, Walter De Gruyter. (pp. 504+viii).

Studies on Greek Law, Oratory and Comedy: The collected articles of D.M. MacDowell. By Konstantinos Kapparis, Ilias Arnaoutoglou and Demos Spatharas (eds.), London 2017, Routledge.

Legal Speeches of Democratic Athens, Co-authored with A. Wolpert, Hackett, 2011 (pp. 340).

Abortion in the Ancient World, London 2002, Duckworth (pp. 272).

Apollodoros “Against Neaira” [D. 59]: Introduction, Translation and Commentary, Berlin-New York 1999, Walter de Gruyter (pp. 462).

πολλοδώρου Κατ Νεαίρας, Εἰσαγωγὴ, Ἀρχαῖο Κείμενο, Ἑρμηνευτικὰ Σχόλια, Κωνσταντῖνος Α. Κάππαρης, Μετάφραση Γεώργιος Ἀ. Χριστοδούλου, Ἀθήνα 2008, Ἐκδόσεις Στιγμή (pp. 481). (Enhanced and expanded version of the 1999 book, in Modern Greek).

B. PUBLISHED PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

“Fake Evidence and Deceptive Tactics in Aeschines Against Timarchos” Forthcoming in the Proceedings of the Conference on Evidence in the Attic Orators held in 2018, at the University of the Peloponnese.

“Rhetorical topoi in prosecutions of women before Athenian courts”. Forthcoming in the Proceedings of the Conference Panel on Identity in the Attic orators, held in Montreal, in 2017.

“The γραφὴ μοιχείας in Athenian legal procedure.” Revue internationale des droits de l” antiquité,  64 (2017) 37-51.

“Forged testimonies in the speeches of the Attic Orators”. Forthcoming in Fakes, Forgeries & Issues of Authenticity in Classical Literature, ed. Javier Martizez. Accepted; in press.

“Rhetoric and performance in the speeches of Apollodoros”. In A Theatre of Justice: aspects of performance in Greco-Roman oratory and rhetoric. Eds. Andreas Seraphim and Beatrice de Vela. Pp. 283-303. Brill: Leiden.(Review by Peter O’Connell in Classical Review, Published online: 16 January 2018: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X17002505 )

“The legal and social position of metics, foreigners and slaves in the Corpus Demosthenicum”. In Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes. Oxford University Press 2018.

 “The Demosthenic edition of Mervin Dilts, and the textual transmission of Apollodoros”. In Grusková, Jana – Bannert, Herbert, (eds.) Demosthenica libris manu scriptis tradita, Wiener Studien, Beiheft 36, Vienna 2014, 107-128. (Reviews by Matthieu Cassin, BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2015/2015-07-18.html, and Francesco Valerio in Medioevo Greco: Rivista di storia e filologia bizantina, 16 (2016) 392-403.

“Hippocrates, Aristophanes and Sex-Crazed Women” Ageless Arts: the Journal of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science. 1 (2015) 47-57.

 “Suetonius and the Terminology of Prostitution in Ancient and Medieval Greek” In Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE, Edited by Madeleine Henry and Allison Glazebrook. University of Wisconsin Press 2011, pp. 222-255. (Reviews: BMCR, Matthew J. Dillon, URL: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2011/2011-11-40.html; CR 2012: 540-543, 2012 by Tanja Susanne Scheer; Phoenix 2012: 449-451 by Susan Lape; JHS 2013: 221-222 2013 by Stephanie Lynn Budin)

“Immigration and Citizenship Procedures in Athenian Law” Revue internationale des droits de l” antiquité 52 (2005) 71-113.

“Greek Women Poets in the Twentieth Century”, Ιn Lessons from the Past: Feminism and the Formation of Ethnic Identity in Greek Culture, ed. Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers. Dedicated Volume, The Classical Bulletin 80 (2004), Number 2, 187-208.

“Has Chariton read Lysias 1 “On the murder of Eratosthenes” ?” Hermes 128 (2000) 380-83.

“Assessors of magistrates (Paredroi) in classical Athens”. Historia 47 (1998) 383-93.

“The law on the age of the speakers in the Athenian assembly”. Rheinisches Museum 141 (1998) 255-259.

“Hare hunting without a dog (A critical note on Aristophanes Lysistrata 791)”. Philologus 141 (1997) 154-156.

“Humiliating the Adulterer: the law and the practice in classical Athens”. Revue internationale des droits de l” antiquité   43 (1996) 63-77.

“The Athenian decree for the naturalisation of the Plataians”. Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 36 (1995) 359-378.

“When were the Athenian adultery laws introduced?”. Revue internationale des droits de l” antiquité 42 (1995) 97-122.

“Critical notes on D.59 ‘Against Neaira’ ”. Hermes 123 (1995) 20-27.

“Was atimia [disfranchisement] for debts to the state inherited through women?”. Revue internationale des droits de l” antiquité 41 (1994) 113-21.

“Is Eratosthenes in Lys.1 the same person as Eratosthenes in Lys. 12?”. Hermes 121 (1993) 364-5.

c. ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

“Prostitution”. Tacitus Encyclopedia, Ed. Victoria Pagan (forthcoming)

“Sparta”. Tacitus Encyclopedia, Ed. Victoria Pagan (forthcoming)

“Greece, Myth and History”. Tacitus Encyclopedia, Ed. Victoria Pagan (forthcoming)

“Paragraphe” In Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Ed. Roger S. Bagnall, Kai Brodersen, Craige B. Champion, Andrew Erskine, and Sabine R. Huebner, print pages 5059–5060. Blackwell Publishing.

“Embryology” In Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Ed. Roger S. Bagnall, Kai Brodersen, Craige B. Champion, Andrew Erskine, and Sabine R. Huebner, print pages 2384–2386. Blackwell Publishing.

“Greek Religions”, Article, Encyclopaedia of Religion and War Routledge, New York 2004, pp. 150-153.

e. SELECT ONLINE OR NON PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

“Lessons from History: Why prostitution should be legal” DeGruyter Conversations, online Newsletter. January 31, 2018.

K. Kapparis – D. Spatharas: ‘Nekrologia’ (Obituary): D.M. MacDowell” (In Modern Greek),
Ariadne: Epistemonike Epeteris Phisosophikes Scholes Panepistemiou Kretes, 15 (2009) 345-347.

‘Women and Family in Athenian Law’
Electronic publication contributed to online seminar by Harvard School of Law, organized by Adriaan M. Lanni: 2003
URL: http://www.stoa.org/projects/demos/article_women_and_family?page=1&greekEncoding=

Ta Nea, Annual Circular of the Center for Greek Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Ediror in chief: 2006-2010
Co-editor with Karelisa Hartigan: 2000-2005

Regular newsletters of the Center for Greek Studies at UF continuously published online
URL: http://www.sites.clas.ufl.edu/classics-dept/CGS/index.html

f. BOOK REVIEWS

Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature: Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, vol. 4. Edited by Koen De Temmerman and Evert van Emde Boas. Leiden: Brill, 2017. Forthcoming in the Classical Review.

The Rhetoric of Seeing in Attic Forensic Oratory. By Peter O’Connell. Austin: University of Texas Press 2017. Classical Review. Published online: 02 November 2017, pp. 1-3. doi:10.1017/S0009840X17001500

Envy, Poison and Death: Women on trial in classical Athens. By Esther Eidinow. Oxford: OUP 2016. Phoenix 70 (2016) 405-407.

Athenian Prostitution. The Business of Sex.  By Edward E. Cohen. Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2017: 513-5.

The Documents in the Attic Orators: Laws and Decrees in the Public Speeches of the Demosthenic Corpus. By Mirko Canevaro, with a chapter by E. M. Harris. Oxford: Oxford UP 2013. XVIII, 389. Gnomon 87 (2015) 40-43.

Dreams, Healing and Medicine in Greece: From Antiquity to the Present. Edited by Steven M. Oberhelman. Farnham, Surrey – Burlington, VT, 2013: Ashgate Publishing. Classical Review, 64 (2014): 377 – 379.

Writing Science: Medical and Mathematical Authorship in Ancient Greece.  Edited by Markus Asper. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2013. Bryn Mawr Classical Review:, 2014.12.08. URL: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2014/2014-12-08.html

The Law of Ancient Athens. Edited by David D. Phillips. University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor 2013. Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought 32, (2015) 245-247. DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340047

Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece. By Ian Worthington. Oxford – New York: Oxford University Press 2013. Pp. xxiv + 382. Phoenix 67, (2013), 206-208.

The social and legal position of widows and orphans in classical Athens. By Richard V. Cudjoe. Symboles, 3. Athens: Centre for Ancient Greek and Hellenistic Law, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, 2010. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2012.02.22; URL: http://www.bmcreview.org/2012/02/20120222.html

Galen on Problematical Movements. By Vivian Nutton with Gerrit Bos, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2011. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 68 (2013) 300-302. DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrs051

Commentary on Demosthenes Against Leptines : with introduction, text, and translation. By Christos Kremmydas. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. Journal of Hellenic Studies 133 (2013) 186-187. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0075426913000347. Published online: 19 September 2013.

The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece. By Brooke Holmes Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2010. xxii, 355 p. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 66 (2011) 249-251. DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrq083.

A commentary on Lysias, Speeches 1-11. Pp x + 783.  By S.C. Todd, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Classical Review 61 (2011) 46-48.

Maimonides On poisons and the Protection against Lethal Drugs. By Gerrit Bos. Journal of the History of Medicine and allied Sciences 65 (2010) 427-428. DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrq008.

Hippocrates and Medical Education. Selected Papers Read at the XIIth Inter national Hippocrates Colloquium, Universiteit Leiden, 24 – 26 August 2005. Leiden – Boston, Br ill, 2010. Edited by Manfred Horshmanshoff. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 66 (2011) 571-573. DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrr028

Asklepios, Medicine, and the Politics of Healing in Fifth, Century Greece: Between Craft and Cult.
By Bronwen L. Wickkiser ,Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 64 (2009) 552-554.

The Rhetoric of Conspiracy in Ancient Athens
By J. Roismann, Berkeley, UC Press, 200
Classical Review, 58 (2008) 385-387

In the Grip of Disease: Studies in the Ancient Greek Imagination.
By G.E.R. Lloyd, Oxford University Press, 2003.
Religious Studies Review, 31 (2005) 198

Science and Mathematics in the Ancient Greek World.
Edited by C.J. Tuplin and T.E. Rihll, Oxford University Press, 2002
Religious Studies Review, 31 (2005) 82-3

Demosthenes Speeches, 50-59.
Translated by Victor Bers; in The Oratory of Classical Greece.
Series Editor: Michael Gagarin. Austin, The University of Texas Press, 2003
Religious Studies Review, 31 (2005) 84

Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan’s Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece,
by D. Hamel, New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2003.
Journal of the History of Sexuality 13 (2004) 104-107).

Antiphon the Sophist: The Fragments
Edited and Translated by Gerard J. Pendrick, Cambridge University Press 2001
Religious Studies Review 30 (2004) 61-2

Antiphon the Athenian: Oratory, Law and Justice in the Age of the Sophists,
By Michael Gagarin, Austin : University of Texas Press, 2002
Religious Studies Review 29 (2003) 372

Scientific Method in Ptolemy’s ‘Harmonics’,
By Andrew Barker, Cambridge University Press 2000
Religious Studies Review 29 (2003) 86

The Science of Man in Ancient Greece,
By Maria Michela Sassi, Chicago, University of Chicago Press 2001
Religious Studies Review, 29 (2003) 84

Interpreting a Classic: Demosthenes and His Ancient Commentators,
By Graig A. Gibson, University of California Press 2002.
American Journal of Philology 124 (2003) 480-484

Medical Latin in the Roman Empire
By D.R. Langslow, Oxford University Press, 2000
Religious Studies Review, 28 (2002) 264

Aeschines Against Timarchos,
Translated by Nick Fisher, Clarendon Ancient History Series, Oxford 2001
Religious Studies Review, 28 (2002) 262

Medical Ethics in the Ancient World
By Paul Carrick Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 2001
Religious Studies Review, 28 (2002) 259

Medicine and the making of Roman women,
By Rebecca Flemming, Oxford University Press 2000,
Religious Studies Review 28 (2002) 167

Ancient Histories of Medicine,
Ed. Philip J. van der Eijk, Boston, Brill 1999,
Religious Studies Review, 28 (2002) 162

Magic, Reason, and Experience,
By G.E.R. Lloyd, Cambridge University Press 1979, Reprinted 1999,
Religious Studies Review 27 (2001) 406

Psyche and Soma: Physicians and Metaphysicians on the Mind – Body problem from antiquity to enlightenment,
Ed. J.P. Wright – P. Potter, Oxford University Press 2000
Classical Review 51 (2001) 305-307

Pseudo Aristotele, I Colori,
By Maria Fernanda Ferrini, Florence : Distiobuzione, PDE, 1999.
Classical Review 51 (2001) 162-3

Große Gestalten der griechischen Antike: 58 historische Portraits von Homer bis Kleopatra,
Ed. K. Brodersen, Munich : Verlag C.H. Beck, 1999
Classical Review 50 (2000) 380-81

Aristotelische Biologie. Akten des Symposions über Aristoteles’ Biologie,
Ed. W. Kullmann – S. Föllinger, Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag, 1997.
Classical Review 49 (1999) 124-126

Aeschines Orationes
Ed. M. R. Dilts, Stuttgart: Stutgardiae : Teubner, 1997
Classical Review 49 (1999) 20-21

Die Rede des Demosthenes für die Freiheit der Rhodier (Or. 15)
Ed. J. Radicke, Stuttgart : B.G. Teubner, 1995
Journal of Hellenic Studies 117 (1997) 220-1

Andocides (Greek Orators IV)
By M. Edwards, Warminster: Aris and Phillips 1995
Journal of Hellenic Studies 117 (1997) 221-2

Isocrates Panegyricus and to Nicocles (Greek Orators III)
By S. Usher, Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1990
Classical Review 44 (1994) 23-4

Apollodoros the son of Pasion
By J. Trevett: Oxford University Press, 1992
Classical Review 43 (1993) 246-8

CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
(In Reverse Chronological Order)

Rhetorical topoi in prosecutions of women before Athenian courts. Invited lecture for the I. Kambitsis lecture series. University of Crete, Rethymno. Scheduled for November 2018

Fake Evidence and Deceptive Tactics in the trial of Timarchos. Invited presentation for the international conference on Evidence in Athenian Courts. University of the Peloponnese, Kalamata, March 2018.

Constructing gender identity: women in Athenian trials. Invited paper, Celtic Conference in Classics, Montreal 2017.

Gendered Medicine: Ancient and Modern. Annual Conference of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science. Myrtle Beach, SC, 2017.

Suetonius Περὶ Βλασφημιῶν, and the invective of masculinity. Society for Classical Studies Meeting, San Francisco 2016

Women in the Dock: Body and Gender in Women’s trials. Classical Association (UK) Conference, Edinburgh 2016

Evaluating Greek Departments, Careers, and Colleagues as External Members of Greek Evaluation Committees Panel Chair and Moderator. Annual Conference of the Modern Greek Studies Association, Atlanta 2015

Teaching Science Fiction in Classics: Lucian’s True Stories. Invited presentation for the University of Florida Global Science Fiction Workshop with theme “International & Minority Science Fiction in a Global World”. University of Florida, Gainesville 2014

Kleopatra: Physician, Cosmetologist, Pharmacologist, Businesswoman. Annual Conference of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, St. Louis, MO, February 2014.

Prostitutes and Male Lovers in Attic Vase Iconography. Invited lecture, Jack Lane Colloquium Speaker, Rollins College, September 2013.

Erotic triangles in Attic Vase Iconography. Invited lecture, College of Charleston, February 2013.

Pioneering Medical Women: The Gynæcology of Aspasia. Annual Meeting, Southern Association of the History of Medicine and Science, 2013.

The Monsters of Pliny. Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Southern Section. Tallahassee, 2012.

Harry Potter as a Classical Hero, and the heroic ideal in Greek culture. Invited Keynote Speech for the travelling exhibit “Harry Potter”s World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine” designed by the National Library of Medicine and presented at the Health Science Center Library, Gainesville, FL, 2012.

Pliny and Aelian on Monsters, Magic, Science and the Feminine. International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando FL, 2012.

Hippocrates, Aristophanes and Female Sexuality. Annual Conference of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 2012.

“ The Demosthenic Edition of Mervin Dilts, and the Transmission of Apollodoros”.
Invited Paper for the forthcoming conference Textüberlieferung des Corpus Demosthenicum: Aktueller Forschungsstand und weitere Perspektiven. (Vienna 2011), organized by Das Institut für Byzanzforschung der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung and the Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel- und Neulatein der Universität Wien.

From Plato to Philip K. Dick: Science Fiction in the Classics Classroom
Invited Discussion Panel, Orlando FL, 2010

Medicine before 1800, Panel Moderator
Annual Conference of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, Louisville, KY, 2010.

Scientific Inquiry and Methodology in Ancient Embryology:
Annual Conference of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, Birmingham AL. 2009

Comatose Revellers and Drunken Patients: The Etymology and original meaning of Coma in Ancient Greek Medicine.
Annual Conference of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, Gainesville, FL, February 2008.

Suetonius and the List of Insults Against Prostitutes (Peri; blasfhmiw’n kai; povqen eJkavsthÚ ejpi; gunaikw’n ajkolavstwn).
APA/AIA Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, January 2007.

Prostitution and the Law: Ancient and Medieval
Respondent for panel organized by Professor A. Lanni (Harvard Law School)
Annual Conference of the American Society for Legal History, Baltimore MD, 2006

Doctors as Expert Witnesses in Athenian Courts,
7th Annual Conference of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, Augusta, GA, February 2005

Contraception and Abortion in the Graeco-Roman World
Invited Presentation, Eta Sigma Phi Induction Ceremony
Gainesville, FL. 2004

Greek Women Authors in the Twentieth Century,
CAMWS, Southern Section, Birmingham, AL, November 2003

The Soul and the Animation of the foetus in Pseudo-Galen,
4th Annual Conference of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, New Orleans, February 2002.

Ancient Embryology and the living universe of Pseudo-Galen,
3rd Annual Conference of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, Jackson, Ms., February 2001

Greek Poetry and Landscape
Invited Lecture, UF Alumni Meeting
Clearwater, FL, October 2000

The queens of ancient Persia,
17th Young Classicists Annual Conference, Belfast, N. Ireland, April 2000

Lysias Fragment 10: An abortion trial in classical Athens,
Invited Lecture for the Annual Meeting of Hibernian Hellenists, Maynooth, Ireland, November 1999. Shorter versions of this paper were also read in the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and the University of Edinburgh.

Daily life through art in classical Athens,
Invited Lecture for the 16th Young Classicists Annual Conference, Belfast, N. Ireland, April 1999

A Woman’s Life in Classical Athens,
Invited Lecture for the Meeting of the Scottish-Hellenic Society, Glasgow, Scotland, November 1998.

Contraception and abortion in the Graeco-Roman world,
Invited Lecture for the Annual Retreat Meeting of the Alexandrian Society of the University of Glasgow, Callander, Scotland, April 1988.

Adultery in classical Athens,
Glasgow1995

Prostitution in classical Athens,
Glasgow1993

Do Cicero’s speeches show him to be hypocritical in his religious beliefs?,
Glasgow 1991.

The naturalisation of the Plataians in Athens,
Glasgow 1990

The prohibition of mixed marriages in fourth century Athens,
Glasgow 1989

Religion and rhetoric in Cicero’s speeches,
3rd Panhellenic Conference of Roman Studies: Roman Rhetoric, Thessaloniki 1987