Analyses how the democracy of the classical Athenians revolutionized military practices and underwrote their unprecedented commitment to war-making.

Studies all four branches of the Athenian armed forces to show how they helped make democratic Athens a superpower.

This book explains why the democracy of classical Athens generously sponsored elite sport and idolised its sporting victors.

This 1999 book discusses the ways performance is central to the practice and ideology of Athenian democracy.

This book is a study of the ways in which classical Athenian texts represent and evaluate the morality of deception. It is particularly concerned with the way i