Emeritus Professor; formerly Regius Professor of Greek, 2003-15, and McConnell Laing Fellow and Praelector in Classics, University College, Oxford, 1975-2003.
Fellow of the British Academy; Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
Plutarch, Life of Antony (Cambridge, 1988) Literary texts and the Greek historian (Routledge, 2000). Plutarch and History (Duckworth and Classical Press of Wales, 493 pages, 2002): collected Plutarch articles, together with a few new paper Plutarch, Caesar (Clarendon Ancient History series, Oxford, 2011).
(with Maria Wyke): Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times (Oxford, 2014).
(with E. Barker, S. Bouzarovski, and L. Isaksen): New Worlds out of old Texts: Developing Techniques for the Spatial Analysis of Ancient Narratives (Oxford, 2016).
(with Simon Hornblower): Herodotus 6 (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, 2017)