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Thomas J. Figueira Distinguished Professor of Classics and of Ancient History Phd, May 1977: University of Pennsylvania E-Mail: Figueira@Classics.Rutgers.Edu Thomas J. Figueira Distinguished Professor of Classics and of Ancient History PhD, May 1977: University of Pennsylvania E-mail: [email protected] Research Interests: Greek History; Greek and Roman historiography; archaic and classical Greek literature; social and economic history of classical antiquity; Greek epigraphy; ancient numismatics Publications: Authored Books: Aegina∗ (New York 1981/1982; repr. 1986, 1998) Athens and Aigina in the Age of Imperial Colonization* (Baltimore 1991) Excursions in Epichoric History* (Lanham, MD 1993) The Power of Money: Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire (Philadelphia 1998) T.J. Figueira, T.C. Brennan, and R.H. Sternberg, Wisdom from the Ancients: Enduring Business Lessons from Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and The Illustrious Leaders of Ancient Greece and Rome (Boston 2001); translated into Korean (2003) Edited Books: T.J. Figueira and G. Nagy, editors, Theognis of Megara: Poetry and the Polis (Baltimore 1985; Books on Demand, 1997) Web Theognis: http://www.stoa.org/chs/ T.J. Figueira, Spartan Society (2004) T. Figueira, with D. Keller, J.H. Oakley, J.S. Traill, Euboia and Athens: Proceedings of a Colloquium in Memory of Malcolm B. Wallace, Occasional Papers of the Canadian Institute in Greece (Athens 2011) T. Figueira, Myth, Text, and History at Sparta (Piscataway NJ 2016) T. Figueira with Carmen Soares, M. do Céu Fialho, Pólis/Cosmópolis: Identidades Globais & Locais, (Coimbra, Série Humanitas Supplementum: Estudos Monográficos 2016) Forthcoming: S.R. Jensen and T. Figueira, Athenian Hegemonic Finances Longer Chapters/Contributions: “The Theognidea and Megarian Society,” Theognis of Megara, 112–68; reissue in Web Theognis, 2000 “Archaic Megara, 800-500 B.C.” Theognis of Megara, 261–303; reissue in Web Theognis, 2000 “Social Conflict in Archaic and Classical Greece,” in City States in Classical Antiquity and Medieval Italy, A. Molho, K.A. Raaflaub, and J. Emlen, editors (Stuttgart 1991) 289–307 ∗ For an overview of Figueira’s Aiginetan research, see A. Karayiannis, “Ἡ ἀρχαία Αἴγινα ὑπὸ τὸ φῶς σύγχρονων ἱστορικῶν ἐρευνῶν: Ἡ συμβολὴ τοῦ Thomas J. Figueira,” Parnassos 51 (2009) 437-52. Figueira CV 2 “The Strange Death of Draco on Aegina,” in Nomodeiktes: Greek Studies in Honor of Martin Ostwald, R. Rosen and J. Farrell, editors (Ann Arbor 1993) 287–304 “KHREMATA: Acquisition and Possession in Archaic Greece,” in Social Justice in the Ancient World, K.D. Irani and M. Silver, editors (Westport, CT 1995) 41–60 “The Evolution of the Messenian Identity,” in Sparta: New Perspectives, S. Hodkinson and A. Powell, editors (London 1999) 211–44 “Iron Money and the Ideology of Consumption in Laconia,” in Sparta: Beyond the Mirage, S. Hodkinson and A. Powell, editors (London 2002) 137–70 “Economic Integration and Monetary Consolidation in the Athenian Arkhê,” in Moneta, Mercanti, Banchieri. I precedenti greci e romani dell'Euro, G. Urso, editor (Pisa 2003) 71–92 “Helot Demography and Class Demarcation in Classical Sparta,” in Helots and their Masters: The History and Sociology of a System of Exploitation, N. Luraghi and S. Alcock, editors (Cambridge, Mass. 2003) 193–239 “The Nature of the Spartan Klêros,” in Spartan Society, T.J. Figueira, editor (Swansea 2004) 47–76 “The Spartan Hippeis,” in Sparta and War, S. Hodkinson and A. Powell, editors (Swansea 2006) 57–84 “The Spartan Constitutions and the Enduring Image of the Spartan Ethos,” in The Legacy of Sparta, N. Birgalias, editor (Athens 2006) 143–58 “Classical Greek Colonization,” in A History of Greek Colonisation and Settlement Overseas, G.R. Tsetskhladze, editor (Leiden 2008) 427–523 with D.M. Figueira, “The Colonial ‘Subject’ and the Ideology of Subjection in Lakōnikē,” in Sparta: Comparative Approaches, S. Hodkinson, editor (Swansea 2009) 305–30 “Gynecocracy: How Women Policed Masculine Behavior in Archaic and Classical Sparta,” in Sparta: The Body Politic, S. Hodkinson and A. Powell, editors (Swansea 2010) 265–96 “Khalkis and Marathon,” in Marathon: The Battle and the Ancient Deme, K. Bursaelis and K. Meidani, editors (Athens 2010) 185-202 “Economic Thought and Economic Fact in the Works of Xenophon,” in Xenophon: Ethical Principle and Historical Enquiry, F. Hobden and C. Tuplin, editors (Leiden 2012) 665–87 “The Aiakidai, the Herald-less War, and Salamis,” Donum natalicium digitaliter confectum Gregorio Nagy septuagenario a discipulis collegis familiaribus oblatum, V. Bers, D. Elmer, D. Frame, & L. Muellner, editors, Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, DC 2012), Harvard University: http://chs.harvard.edu/wa/pageR?tn=ArticleWrapper&bdc=12&mn=4610 “Solon in Fifth-Century Lyric,” in Solon in the Making: Early Reception in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries, Maria Noussia-Fantuzzi and Gregory Nagy, editors = Trends in Classics 7.1 (DeGruyter, Berlin 2015) 24-42 “Modes of Colonization and Elite Integration in Archaic Greece,” in ‘Aristocracy’ in Antiquity: Redefining Greek and Roman elites, N. Fisher and H. van Wees, Editors (Swansea 2015) 311-45 Figueira CV 3 “Politeia and Lakônika in Spartan Historiography’, in Myth, Text, and History at Sparta, T. Figueira, editor (Piscataway NJ 2016) 7–104 “Aigina: Island as Paradigm,” in The Eyesore of Aigina: Anti-Athenian Attitudes in Greek, Hellenistic and Roman History, A. Powell and K. Meidani, editors (Swansea 2016) 19–50 “Archaic Naval Warfare,” in Great is the Power of the Sea: the Power of the Sea and Sea Power in the Greek World of the Archaic and Classical Period, G. Cuniberti, G. Daverio Rocchi, & J. Roy, editors (Historika. Studi di storia greca e romana 5, Turin 2016) 499–515 “Defense and Deterrence in the Context of the Foundation of the Delian League,” in Pólis/Cosmópolis: Identidades Globais & Locais, Carmen Soares, M. do Céu Fialho, & T. Figueira, editors (Coimbra 2016) 17–41 “Helotage and the Spartan Economy,” in A Companion to Sparta, Anton Powell, editor (London 2017) 2.565–95 “Xenophon and the Spartan Economy,” forthcoming [2017] in Xenophon and Sparta, N. Richer and A. Powell, editors (Swansea) “The Aristeidian Tribute and the Peace of Nikias,” forthcoming in Athenian Hegemonic Finances, S.R. Jensen and T. Figueira, editors (Classical Press of Wales, Swansea) “Ethnogenesis and Hegemony in Classical Power Politics,” forthcoming in Sparta in Thucydides, P. Debnar and A. Powell, editors, (Swansea) “Thucydides and the Sexual Politics of Tyrannicide,” forthcoming in Diálogos Interdisciplinares, C. Soares and M. do Céu Fialho, editors (Lisbon) “Fostering in the Spartan Agōgē,” forthcoming in Sparta, M. Aparecida de Oliveira Silva and F. Cerqueira, editors (Sao Paulo) Longer Articles: “Aeginetan Membership in the Peloponnesian League,” CP 76 (1981) 1–24 “Aeginetan Independence,” CJ 79 (1983) 8–29 “Karl Polanyi and Greek Trade,” AW 10 (1984) 15–30 “The Lipari Islanders and their System of Communal Property,” ClAnt 3 (1984) 179–206 “Mess Contributions and Subsistence at Sparta,” TAPA 114 (1984) 87–109 “The Ten Archontes of 579/8 at Athens,” Hesperia 53 (1984) 447–73 “Herodotus on the Early History of Aegina,” AJP 106 (1985) 49–74 “Population Patterns in Late Archaic and Classical Sparta,” TAPA 116 (1986) 165–213 “Sitopolai and Sitophulakes in Lysias’ “Oration Against the Graindealers”: Governmental Intervention in the Athenian Economy,” Phoenix 40 (1986) 149–71 “Xanthippos, Father of Perikles, and the Prutaneis of the Naukraroi,” Historia 35 (1986) 257–79 “Residential Restrictions on the Athenian Ostracized,” GRBS 28 (1987) 281–305 “The Chronology of the Conflict between Athens and Aegina in Herodotus Book 6,” QUCC 28 (1988) 49–90 “Four Notes on the Aiginetans in Exile,” Athenaeum 66 (1988) 523–51 Figueira CV 4 “Aigina in the Naval Strategy of the Late Fifth and Early Fourth Centuries,” RhM 153 (1990) 15–51 “AUTONOMOI KATA TAS SPONDAS (Thuc. 1.67.2),” BICS 37 (1990) 63–88 “СПАРТАНСКИЕ ЖЕЛЕЗНЫЕ ДЕНЪГИ И ИДЕОЛОГИЯ СРЕДСТВ СУЩЕСТВОВАНИЯ В АРХАИЧЄСОЙ ЛАКОНИИ,” (Spartan Iron Money and the Ideology of Exchange in Archaic and Classical Laconia) Antichnaja drevnost i srednie veka 32 (2001) 5–28 (Classical Antiquity and Middle Ages), translated with annotation by A. Zaikov (Urals State University, Ekaterinburg) “Xenêlasia and Social Control at Sparta,” CQ 53 (2003) 44–74 “The Imperial Commercial Tax and the Finances of the Athenian Hegemony,” Incidenza dell’antico 3 (2005) 83–133 “The Copenhagen Polis Centre: A Review-Article of Its Publications, Parts 1-2” Ancient West & East 5 (2006) 252–303 “Reconsidering the Athenian Coinage Decree,” AIIN 52 (2006) 9–44 “The Copenhagen Polis Centre: A Review-Article of Its Publications, Part 3,” AWE 6 (2007) 294–321 “The Copenhagen Polis Centre: A Review-Article of Its Publications, Part 4,” AWE 7 (2008) 304–32 “The Copenhagen Polis Centre: A Review-Article of Its Publications, Part 5,” AWE 8 (2009) 262–78 “The Athenian Naukraroi and Archaic Naval Warfare,” Cadmo 21 (2011) 183–210 “The Copenhagen Polis Centre: A Review-Article of Its Publications – Epilogue,” AWE 11 (2012) 290–92 Shorter Contributions/Articles/Collaborations, Longer Reviews, Encyclopedia Articles: with G. Nagy and V. Cobb-Stevens “Introduction,” Theognis of Megara, 1985, 1–8; reissue in Web Theognis, 2000 “An Aiginetan Elite Family of the Fourth Century B.C.,” AW 14 (1986) In Memoriam Fordyce W. Mitchel, 5–11 “Initiation and Seduction: Two Books on Greek Pederasty,” AJP 107 (1986) 426–32 “The Prospects for Ancient History,” in The Future of the Classics, P. Culham and L. Edmunds, editors (Lanham, MD 1989) 369–81 “Typology in Archaic Greek Maritime States,” AWE 1 (2002) 24–27 “Introduction,” in Spartan Society, T.J. Figueira, editor (Swansea 2004) vii–xv “The Saronic Gulf,” An Inventory of Greek Poleis, M.H Hansen and T.H. Nielsen, editors (Oxford 2004) 620–23 with D.M. Figueira, “Imperialism: Heart over Minds?,” Interlitteraria 11 (2006) 151–60 with D.M. Figueira, “Some Things are Best Left Un-Said: Exile in Ovid and Ransmayr,” Fortgesetzte Metamorphosen/Continuing Metamorphoses:Ovid und die ästhetische Modern/ Ovid and Aesthetic Modernity, M. Schmitz-Emans and M. Schmeling, editors (Würzburg 2010) 63–74 with M.B.
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