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The Atlantic

Contribution to the “Big Question” feature, “What Was the Greatest Debate in History?” (August 2019)


Chronicle of Higher Education

A New Path for Classics” (February 11, 2021)

The Little Book That Made the Case for Big Thinking,” on Jo Guldi and David Armitage’s The History Manifesto (part of the special feature The New Canon, on the most influential books of the past 20 years) (October 31, 2018)

Why Don’t More Women Write ‘Big Books’?” (Remixed version of “More Women Classicists Need to Write Big,” originally published on Eidolon) (April 2, 2017)


The Conversation



Extra Newsfeed



Lapham’s Quarterly


Excavating the Insights of a Once Beloved Greek Novelist,” on Andreas Karkavitsas (December 15, 2021)

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New York times

(With Yung In Chae) “Socrates Wants You to Tidy Up, Too,” on Marie Kondo and Xenophon’s Oeconomicus, for The Stone (January 22, 2019)


New York Magazine

What to Buy to Look Like: A Classics Professor” (as told to Karen Iorio Adelson), in the Strategist Insider Goods series (September 6, 2019)


The Press Project (GR)

Όχι, ας μη θάψουμε τον Όμηρο! Μια απάντηση στον Τάκη Θεοδωρόπουλο” / “No, We Shouldn’t Bury Homer: A Response to Takis Theodoropoulos” (in defense and praise of Emily Wilson’s Odyssey). Ζήν, the TPP magazine (September 14, 2019).

Παρακαλώ, μπορούμε να συζητήσουμε για τον Μπακάρι Χέντερσον;” / “Can There Please be a Conversation about Bakari Henderson?Ζήν, the TPP magazine (December 8, 2018)

Ίσως τελικά δεν «Είμαστε όλοι Έλληνες»” / “Maybe We Weren’t All Greeks After All” (in the special feature “End of the Bailout Programmes”) (August 18, 2018)

Αγγλόφωνες σπουδές στην Ελλάδα: μην απομακρύνεστε από την κατασκήνωση!” [“An English-Language Degree in Greece: Don’t Stray from the Campground!”] Ζήν, the TPP magazine (May 12, 2018)

Η σκότεινη άποψη του Τραμπ για τη Δύση” [“Trump’s Dismal View of the West”] (July 15, 2017)

Η αμερικανική «εναλλακτική Δεξιά» λατρεύει την αρχαία Ελλάδα” [“The American Alt-Right ‘Loves the Greeks’”] (July 1, 2017)

Μια-δυο σκέψεις για τον Ομπάμα στην Ακρόπολη” [“Obama on the Acropolis: Just a Thought or Two about It”] (November 22, 2016)

Η ελπίδα παγιδεύτηκε στο πιθάρι της Πανδώρας” (“Hope Stuck in Pandora’s Jar,” in a special feature on the 2016 presidential election; English version here) (November 7, 2016)


She Reeled Us In With The Odyssey. Now: The Hard Stuff,” review of Emily Wilson’s Iliad (September 26, 2023)

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Speak, Hellenic Memory: Greece’s Quest for a Global Identity,” review of Roderick Beaton’s Greece: A Global History (December 24/31, 2021)

All the World Was a Stage: Ancient Greek Drama in the Wider Mediterranean,” review of Eric Csapo and Peter Wilson’s A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 B.C. (April 16, 2021)

Not All Classicists: Worrying Gaps in Well-Meaning Maps,” review of the Postclassicism Collective’s Postclassicisms (July 25, 2020)

Hellenic Heritage,” review of Amanda Wrigley’s Greece on Air (April 20, 2016)

Times Literary Supplement