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Dr ThonemannUniversity Lecturer in Ancient History
Forrest-Derow Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Wadham College
Lecturer in Ancient History, Keble College

Tel No. 01865 277998
Email peter.thonemann@wadh.ox.ac.uk

Department Information
Faculty of Classics
www.classics.ox.ac.uk

Dr Peter Thonemann, MA, DPhil (Oxon) studied Classics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, between 1997 and 2001.  In 2002 he was elected a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he wrote his doctoral thesis, Maiandros: Studies in the Historical Geography of the Maeander Valley. He was appointed as the Ancient History tutor at Wadham in 2007.

Research Interests
The history and archaeology of pre-Islamic Turkey; Greek inscriptions, particularly of Asia Minor; Hellenistic history and coinage; land tenure and village life in the Byzantine world; Mark Pattison, Rector of Lincoln 1861-1884.

Courses taught (undergraduate): Greek History and selected Roman History options

Current Projects
Peter is currently engaged in preparing an expanded version of his doctoral thesis for publication with Cambridge University Press.  This is a study of the historical ecology of the Maeander valley in western Asia Minor from the early first millennium BC to (roughly) the mid-thirteenth century AD.
He currently holds a major AHRC Early Career Research Grant (2009-2012) as director of the MAMA XI project.  The aim of this project is to edit and publish a substantial body of Greek inscriptions from central Anatolia collected by the late Michael Ballance in the 1950s.  The grant will support the simultaneous online and print-publication of Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua XI: Monuments from Phrygia, Lycaonia, and Cappadocia.
 

Publications

Articles

  1. ‘Charias on the Acropolis’, ZPE 144 (2003) 123-124
  2. ‘Inscriptions from Kerkyra and Leukas’, ZPE 145 (2003) 114-116
  3. ‘Notes on Inscriptions from Konya’, EpigAnat 36 (2003) 87-94
  4. 'Hellenistic Inscriptions from Lydia’, EpigAnat 36 (2003) 95-108
  5. ‘The Date of Lucullus’ Quaestorship’, ZPE 149 (2004) 80-82
  6. ‘Polemo, son of Polemo (Dio, 59.12.2)’, EpigAnat 37 (2004) 144-150
  7. ‘The Tragic King: Demetrios Poliorketes and the City of Athens’, in O. Hekster & R. Fowler (eds.) Imaginary Kings: The Royal Image in the Near East, Greece and Rome (Stuttgart: F. Steiner, 2005), 63-86
  8. (with F. ErtuÄŸrul) ‘The Carminii of Attouda’, EpigAnat 38 (2005), 75-86
  9. ‘Neilomandros.  A contribution to the history of Greek personal names’, Chiron 36 (2006) 11-43
  10. ‘Magnesia and the Greeks of Asia (I.Magnesia 16.16)’, GRBS 47 (2007) 151-160
  11. ‘Estates and the Land in Late Roman Asia Minor’, Chiron 37 (2007), 435-478
  12. (with N. Papazarkadas) ‘Athens and Kydonia (Agora I 7602)’, Hesperia 77 (2008), 73-87
  13. ‘A Ptolemaic decree from Kourion’, ZPE  165 (2008), 87-95
  14. ‘Cistophoric Geography: Toriaion and Kormasa’, Numismatic Chronicle (2008), 43-60
  15. ‘Asia Minor’, in A. Erskine (ed.) A Companion to Ancient History (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), 222-235
  16. ‘Lycia, Athens and Amorges’, in J. Ma et al. (eds.), Interpreting the Athenian Empire (Duckworth, 2009), 167-194
  17. ‘Abercius of Hierapolis: Christianisation and Social Memory in Late Antique Asia Minor’, in B. Dignas & R.R.R. Smith, Creating the Past, Controlling the Present: Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World (Oxford: OUP), forthcoming

Reviews

  1. Inscriptiones Graecae IX 1(2) 4 Inscriptiones insularum maris Ionii, CR 54/1 (2004) 215-218
  2. L.D. Loukopoulou et al., Inscriptiones antiquae partis Thraciae quae ad ora maris aegaei sita est, CR 56/2 (2006), 458-459
  3. P. Herrmann et al., Inschriften von Milet, Teil 3, CR 57/2 (2007), 544-546
  4. H.S. Jones, Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don, LRB 30.3, 7 February 2008, 23-24
  5. Inscriptiones Graecae IV(2) 2: Inscriptiones Aeginae Insulae, CR 58/2 (2008), 506-507
  6. B. Iplikçioglu et al., Epigraphische Forschungen in Termessos und seinem Territorium IV, JHS 128 (2008), 230-231