University Lecturer in Ancient History
Forrest-Derow Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Wadham College

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

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

Peter Thonemann, MA, DPhil (Oxon) has taught ancient history at Wadham since 2007.  He is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement.

Research interests History, mostly pre-modern; geography; gender; society and economy.

Courses taught (undergraduate and graduate): Greek, Roman and Near Eastern History, from the eighth century BC to the fourth century AD.

Current Projects I am currently working on documents from central Anatolia (http://mama.csad.ox.ac.uk).

Selected publications

Books

The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine (London: Allen Lane, 2010), with Simon Price

The Maeander Valley: A Historical Geography from Antiquity to Byzantium (Cambridge: University Press, 2011).

Recent articles

‘Estates and the Land in Late Roman Asia Minor’, Chiron 37 (2007), 435-478

‘Estates and the Land in Early Hellenistic Asia Minor’, Chiron 39 (2009), 363-394

‘The Women of Akmoneia’, JRS 100 (2010), 163-178

‘Amphilochius of Iconium and Lycaonian Asceticism’, JRS 101 (2011), forthcoming

Website

Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua XI: Monuments from Phrygia, Lycaonia and Cappadocia (http://mama.csad.ox.ac.uk)