PUBLICATIONS
Public-Facing History:
COMING SOON: My debut book 'Gladiators in the Greek World: How A Roman Bloodsport Took Ancient Greece by Storm'
Book chapters:
'The Fates' in A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology (Contubernales Books,ed. Miri Teixera)
Get a copy @ Waterstones, Foyles, Barnes&Noble
Online:
For BadAncient.com:
- Were There Female Gladiators?
- Were Christians Fed to the Lions?
- Were Greek Boxers Ripped?
- Was the Olympic Flame Invented by the Nazis?
- Did Crassus Have Gold Poured Down His Throat?
For Working Classicists:
- Thumbs Up? Discussing How We Discuss Gladiators
- How Aristophanes Met Your Mother
- The Perfect Gladiator is Tom Hanks - Parts One and Two
- Review - 'Gladiator: A Day at the Roman Games' Colchester Museums Exhibition
- Interview - Jim Irvine - Finding the Rutland Mosaic
- So You Want to be a Charioteer... A Beginner's Guide to Racing in the Circus Maximus
- The Working Classicists' Guide to Ancient Athletics
- Did Gladiators Really Do That? (Fact and Fiction in Gladiator II)
Miscellaneous Interviews:
- "The Gladiator II Trailer Looks Epic, But Is Any Of It Accurate? We Asked The Experts" with Owen Rees and Jo Ball for IFL Science
The Working Classicists' Eating Rome series:
- Apicius' Festive Pickle
- Alexandrian Pumpkins
- Moretum - the Virgil Way
- Sauce for Seafood
- Hypotrimma fruit cheese dip
- Game(s) Night Amphitheatre Snacks
Podcast Interviews:
with Let's Talk About Myths, Baby!
- Beware the Splash Zone! Gladiators in the Greek World (20th Oct '23) Spotify Apple Youtube
- Half Naked Dudes and Lots of Blood: Gladiators on Screen (19th Dec '23) Spotify Apple Youtube
- Real Men Compete Naked: The Ancient Olympics (2nd Aug '23) Spotify Apple Youtube
with Movies We Dig
- Discussing HBO's Rome (Season 1 Episodes 7-12) (13th Oct '23) Spotify Apple Youtube
- The Hunger Games: A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and Roman Gladiatorial parallels (1st Feb '24) Spotify Apple Youtube
- Starz' Spartacus: Blood and Sand (28th Mar '24) Spotify Apple Youtube
- Those About to Die Season 1 (12th Sep '24) Spotify Apple Youtube
with History Hack
- Greek Gladiators (5th Feb '24) Spotify Apple Youtube
- Female Gladiators (15th July '24) Spotify Apple Youtube
- Gladiator II (1st May '25) Spotify Apple Youtube
with History Rage
Academic Publications:
- The Tropification of Hollywood Heroes Thrown Into the Arena- Melita Classica Vol.9 2023
- The Colosseum on the Silver Screen: The Allure of Hollywood Gladiators for the Alt-Right - Melita Classica Vol.10 2024
Conference papers:
- The Tropification of Hollywood Heroes Thrown into the Arena Antiquity in Media Studies 2022
- Swords, Singers and Soda: the Pepsi Gladiator Commercial 20 Years On Antiquity in Media Studies 2023
- Greek Gladiators: Adoption and Adaptation of Roman Spectacle in the East Third Annual Conference of Contemporary Research in Classics, 2023
- The Colosseum on the Silver Screen -How Gladiators of Hollywood are Influencing the Far Right Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History 2023
- I'm a Doctor, Not a Gladiator: Roman Spectacle in Science Fiction and Fantasy on Screen: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Speculative Fiction Arenas Classical Association Conference 2024
- Re-examining the Gladiatorial Epigraphy of the Grecophone East Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History 2024
- Spartacus in Metal (with Dr Christina Hotalen) Heavy Metal & Global Premodernity II 2024
- Those About to Die: Locating Roland Emmerich’s Epic in the Landscape of Spectacle Reception Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World, 2024
- A Sequel to MAGA's Maximus - Ridley's Return to the Alt-Right Arena Antigüedad y extrema derecha. X Jornada Clasicismo y Modernidad ANIHO, 2025