Alain Bresson – Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor

Classics and History – The University of Chicago – Publications and CV

PUBLICATIONS – June 2016

Books

Author

In progress:

• Why coinage? (to be published by Oxford University Press)

Published:

• The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy: Institutions, Markets, and Growth in the City-

States. 2016. Princeton: Princeton University Press (updated translation from the

French edition 2007–2008).

• L’économie de la Grèce des cites. 2 vols. 2007–2008. Paris: Collection U Armand Colin.

BMCR Review

• La cité marchande. 2000. Scripta Antiqua. Bordeaux: Ausonius. BMCR Review

• Recueil des inscriptions de la Pérée rhodienne. 1991. Annales Littéraires de l’Université de

Besançon 445. Paris: Les Belles Lettres.

• Mythe et contradiction. Analyse de la VIIe Olympique de Pindare. 1979. Annales Littéraires

de l’Université de Besançon 230. Paris: Les Belles Lettres.

Editor

In progress:

• New Oxford Handbook for the Economies of the Ancient World, co-editor with F. Velde

(Chicago) and E. Lo Cascio (Rome). 45 chapters and 40 co-authors.

Published:

• A. Bresson, with A. Ivantchik, co-editor of Une koinè nord-pontique. 2007. Mémoires 17.

Bordeaux: Ausonius, with paper pp. 49–68.

• A. Bresson, with M.-P. Masson, S. Perentidis and J. Wilgaux, co-editor of Parenté et société

dans le monde grec de l’Antiquité à l’âge modern. 2006. Études 12. Bordeaux:

Ausonius, with paper pp. 13–22.

• A. Bresson, with A.-M. Cocula and Chr. Pébarthe, co-editor of L’écriture publique du

pouvoir. 2005. Études 10 Bordeaux: Ausonius, with papers p. 11–16 and p. 153–168.

BMCR Review

• A. Bresson with R. Descat, co-editor of Les cités d’Asie Mineure occidentale au IIe siècle

a.C. 2001. Études 8, Bordeaux: Ausonius, with papers pp. 197–211 and pp. 235–240.

BMCR Review

• A. Bresson with P. Rouillard, co-editor of L’emporion. 1993. Paris: De Boccard, with paper

pp. 163–226.

Publications sorted by topic

1.Ancient Economy

2.Rhodes and Asia Minor

3.Anthropology and Kinship

4.Varia epigraphica et historica

(the books and edited volumes are not repeated in this list, except when it is necessary to

mention a specific title in the publication).

1.Ancient Economy

In press:

• “Coins and Trade in Hellenistic Asia Minor: the Pamphylian Hub.” In B. Wojtek, ed.

Proceedings of the conference “Infrastructure and Distribution in Ancient Economies.”

Vienna, Austrian Academy.

• “The Choice for Electrum Monometallism: When and Why.” In C. Lorber and H. Gitler,

eds. White Gold, New York.

• “Anthropogenic Pollution in Greece and Rome.” In O. Cordovana and G. F. Chiai, eds.

Pollution and the Environment in Ancient Times.

• “Le change à Délos et la question du kollybos.” in Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique

138, 2014: 5–23.

• “Women and Inheritance in Ancient Sparta: the Gortynian Connection.” Studi Ellenistici 30,

2016: 9–68.

Published:

• “Aristotle and Foreign Trade.” In E. M. Harris, D. M. Lewis, M. Woolmer, eds. 2016. The

Ancient Greek Economy: Markets, Households and City-States. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 41–65 (= English tr. of “Aristote et le commerce

extérieur” [REA 1987])

• “The Cost of Getting Money in Early Ptolemaic Egypt: the Case of Pap.Cair.Zen. I 59021

(258 BCE).” In D. Kehoe, D. M. Ratzan, and U. Yiftach, eds. 2015. Transactions Costs

in the Ancient Economy: University of Michigan Press, 118–144.

• “Red Fishermen from Anthedon.” In S. Panzram, S., W. Riess, and C. Schäfer, eds. 2015.

Menschen und Orte der Antike. Festschrift für Helmut Halfmann zum 65. Geburtstag.

Rahden: Marie Leidorf, 69–83.

• “The Ancient World: a Climatic Challenge.” In F. de Callataÿ, ed. 2014. Quantifying the

Greco-Roman Economy and Beyond. Bari: Edipuglia, 43–62.

• “Capitalism and the Ancient Greek economy.” In L. Neal and J. Williamson, eds. 2014. The

Cambridge History of Capitalism. Vol. 1. The Rise of Capitalism. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 43–74.

• “Polybius and the Economy.” In V. Grieb and C. Koehn, eds. 2013. Polybios und seine

Historien. Stuttgart: 269–284.

• With F. de Callataÿ “The Greek Vase Trade: Some Reflections about Scale, Value and

Market.” In A. Tsingarida and D. Viviers, eds. 2013. Pottery Markets in The Ancient

Greek World (8th - 1st centuries B.C.). Brussels: 21–24.

• “Greek Epigraphy and Ancient Economics.” In J. K. Davies and J. Wilkes, eds. 2012.

Epigraphy and the Historical Sciences. Oxford: 223–247.

• “Le marché des philosophes: Platon, Aristote et la monnaie.” In V. Chankowski and P.

Karvonis, eds. Tout vendre, tout acheter. Structures et équipements des marchés

antiques. Bordeaux, 2012: 365–384.

• “Wine, Oil and Delicacies at the Pelousion Customs.” In L.-M. Günther and V. Grieb, eds.

2012. Das imperiale Rom und der hellenistische Osten. Festschrift für Jürgen

Deininger zum 75. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden: 69–88.

• “Grain from Cyrene.” In Z. Archibald, J. K. Davies, and V. Gabrielsen, eds. 2011. The

Economies of Hellenistic Societies, Third to First Centuries BC. Oxford: 66–95.

• “Économie de la Grèce antique.” In C. Delacroix et al. eds. 2010. Historiographies, vol. 2,

Paris: 1000–1010.

• “Electrum Coins, Currency Exchange and Transaction Costs in Archaic and Classical

Greece.” Revue Belge de Numismatique et de Sigillographie 140, 2009: 71–80.

• “L’entrée dans les ports en Grèce ancienne.” In C. Moatti and W. Kaiser, eds. 2007. Gens de

passage en Méditerranée de l’Antiquité à l’époque moderne. Procédures de contrôle et

d’identification, Paris: 37–78.

• With A. Ivantchik, co-editor of La koinè nord-pontique, Ausonius Mémoires 17, Bordeaux,

2007, with paper “La construction d’un espace d’approvisionnement: les cités égéennes

et le grain de mer Noire”: 49–68.

• “Au delà du modernisme et du primitivisme: Max Weber ou John Nash?” Pallas 74, 2007:

15–28.

• “The Athenian Mint in the 2nd Century BC and the Amphictionic Decree.” Annali

dell’Istituto Italiano di Numismatica, 2006: 45–85.

• “The Origin of Lydian and Greek Coinage: Cost and Quantity” [3rd International

Conference of Ancient History, Fudan University, Shanghai, 17-21.08.2005], Historical

Research 5, 2006: 149–165 (in Chinese translation).

• “La machine d’Héron et le coût de l’énergie dans le monde antique.” In E. Lo Cascio, ed.

2006. Innovazione tecnica e progesso economico nel mondo romano. Bari: 55–80.

• “Marché et prix à Délos: charbon, bois, porcs, huile et grains.” In R. Descat, ed. 2006.

Approches de l’économie hellénistique. Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges: 311–339.

• “Économie et institution. Bilan critique des thèses polanyiennes et propositions nouvelles.”

In P. Cressier and P. Rouillard, eds. 2005. Autour de Polanyi. Paris: 97–111.

• “Ecology and Beyond.” In W. V. Harris, ed. 2005. Rethinking the Mediterranean. Oxford:

94–114.

• “Coinage and Money Supply in the Hellenistic World.” In Z. Archibald, J. K. Davies, V.

Gabrielsen eds. 2005. Making, Moving, Managing, The New World of Ancient

Economies (323–31 BCE). Oxford: 44–72.

• “Naucratis: de l’emporion à la cité.” Topoi 12–13, 2005: 133–155.

• “Les accords romano-carthaginois.” In C. Moatti, ed. La mobilité des personnes en

Méditerranée de l’Antiquité à l’époque moderne II, La mobilité négociée. Collection de

l’École française de Rome 341, 2004: 649–676.

•With François Bresson, “Max Weber, la comptabilité rationnelle et l’économie du monde

gréco-romain.” In H. Bruhns and J. Andreau, eds. “Sociologie économique et économie

de l’Antiquité. À propos de Max Weber.” Cahiers du Centre de Recherches historiques

34, 2004: 91–114.

• “Merchants and Politics in Ancient Greece: Economic Aspects.” In C. Zaccagnini, ed. 2003.

Mercanti e politica nel mondo antico. Rome: 139–163.

• “Moses Finley.” In Les historiens, Paris, 2003: 178–192.

• “Quatre emporia antiques: Abul, La Picola, Elizavetovskoie, Naucratis.” REA 104, 2002:

475–505.

• “Monnayage et société dans les mondes antiques.” RN 157, 2001: 51–68.

• “Timon de Syracuse et les drachmes rhodiennes à Délos.” REA 103, 2001: 131–156.

• “Prosodoi publics, prosodoi privés: le paradoxe de l’économie civique.” Ktema 23, 1998:

243–262 (= Cité marchande 2000, 243–261).

• “L’attentat d’Hiéron et le commerce grec.” In P. Briant, R. Descat, and J. Andreau, eds.

1994. Les échanges dans l’Antiquité: le rôle de l’État, Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges:

47–68 (= Cité marchande 2000, 131–149).

•A. Bresson with P. Rouillard, co-editor of L’emporion, Paris, 1993, with paper “Les cités

grecques et leurs emporia”: 163–226.

• “Le fils de Pythéas, Égyptien de Naucratis.” In N. Fick and J.-C. Carrière, eds. 1991.

Mélanges E. Bernand. Annales Littéraires de l’Université de Besançon 445. Paris: 37—

42.

• “Aristote et le commerce extérieur.” REA 89, 1987: 217–238 (= Cité marchande 2000, 109–

130).

• “Démographie grecque antique et modèle statistique.” Revue, Informatique et Statistique

dans les Sciences Humaines 21, 1985: 7–34.

• “La dynamique des cités de Lesbos.” Cahiers Radet (Université de Bordeaux III) 3 1983: 11

p. (= Cité marchande 2000, 101–108).

Reviews:

• Revue des Etudes Anciennes, 117, 2015: 334–35, review of C. Balandier and C. Chandezon,

eds. 2014. Institutions, sociétés et cultes de la Méditerranée antique. Mélanges

d’histoire ancienne rassemblés en l’honneur de Claude Vial. Bordeaux 2014: Ausonius.

• Economic History Review, 61-2008, 1021–1022, review of W. Scheidel, I. Morris, R. Saller

eds. The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World, Cambridge, UK and

New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

2.Rhodes and Asia Minor

In progress

Review of P. Thonemann, The Maeander Valley. A Historical Geography from Antiquity to

Byzantium, for BMCR.

In press:

• “Pidasa, Miletos, and the Karian revolt.” In O. Henry and K. Konuk eds. Karia Arkhaia. La

Carie, des origines à la période pré-hécatomnide, Istanbul.

• “A new Procurator of the quadragesima Asiae at Apameia.” In L. Summerer, A. Ivantchik

and A. von Kienlin, eds. 2016. Kelainai–Apameia Kibotos II, Bordeaux: Ausonius, 29

pages.

Published:

• “Painted Portrait and Statues: Honors for Polystratos at Phrygian Apameia.” In K. Konuk,

ed. 2012. Stephanèphoros. De l’économie antique à l’Asie mineure. Hommages à

Raymond Descat, Bordeaux: 203–219.

• 7 entries in The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, First Edition. 2012 Edited by Roger S.

Bagnall, Kai Brodersen, Craige B. Champion, Andrew Erskine, and Sabine R. Huebner:

“Bargylia.” ibid., 1048–1049; “Ceramic Gulf.” ibid. 1417–1418; “Euromos/Philippoi.”

ibid. 2574; “Herakleia Salbake.” ibid. 3141–3142; “Knidos.” ibid. 3141–3142; “Latmos

mountain.” ibid. 3926–3927; “Triopion Cape.” ibid. 6864.

• “Naviguer au large du cap Triopion.” Anatolia Antiqua 19 2011: 395–409.

• “An Introduction to the Funerary Inscriptions of Apameia.” In L. Summerer, A. Ivantchik

and A. von Kienlin, eds. 2011. Kelainai–Apameia Kibotos: Développement urbain dans

le contexte anatolien, Bordeaux, 2011: 383–401.

• “The Siege of Rhodes of 305–304 BC: Population, Territory and Defense Strategy.” In N.

Faucherre and I. Pimouguet-Pédarros eds. Les sièges de Rhodes de l’Antiquité à la

période modern. Rennes, 2010: 103–133.

• “Knidos: Topography for a Battle.” In R. van Bremen and J.-M. Carbon, eds. 2010.

Hellenistic Karia, Bordeaux: 435–451.

• “Metropolis in Phrygia.” In L. Summerer and A. von Kienlin, eds. 2010. The Return of the

Colours, Istanbul.

• “Karien und die dorische Kolonisation.” In F. Rumscheid, ed. 2009. Die Karer und die

Anderen. Internationales Kolloquium an der Freien Universität Berlin 13. bis 15.

Oktober 2005, Habelt, Bonn: 109–120.

• With D. Rousset and J. M. Carbon, “Les estampages du Fonds Louis Robert. Précédé d’une

présentation par M. Glen Bowersock, Associé étranger de l’Académie.” Comptes

Rendus de l’Académie des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres, 2007 [2009]: 643–660.

• “Unity, Diversity and Conflict in Hellenistic Lykia.” In H. Elton and G. Reger eds. 2007.

Regionalism in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, Bordeaux: 11–16.

• “Hamaxitos en Troade.” In J. Dalaison, ed. 2007. Espaces et pouvoirs dans l’Antiquité. De

l’Anatolie à la Gaule, Mélanges Bernard Rémy, Grenoble: 139–158.

• “Rhodes, Rome et les pirates tyrrhéniens.” In P. Brun, ed. 2007. Scripta Anatolica.

Hommages à Pierre Debord, Ausonius Editions Études 18, Bordeaux: 145–164.

• “Les Cariens ou la mauvaise conscience du barbare.” In G. Urso, ed. 2007. Tra Oriente e

Occidente. Indigeni, Greci e Romani in Asia Minore, Fondazione Niccolò Canussio,

Pisa: 209–228.

• “Relire la Chronique de Lindos.” Topoi 14, 2006: 527–551.

• “Rhodes.” In J. Leclant, ed. 2005. Dictionnaire de l’Antiquité, Paris: 1894–1896.

• With P. Brun, R. Descat, K. Konuk, “Un décret honorifique des Kodapeis (Carie du sud).”

REA 107, 2005: 69–81.

• “Dédicaces de Lindos et de Rhodes pour Titus Flavius Aglôchartos.” In S. Follet, ed. 2004.

L’hellénisme d’époque romaine. Nouveaux documents et nouvelles approches (Ier s. a.

C. – IIIe s. p. C.), Acts of the Conference dedicated to the memory of Louis Robert

Paris 7–8 July 2000, Paris: 178–192.

• “Les intérêts rhodiens en Carie l’époque hellénistique jusqu’en 167 a.C..” In F. Prost, ed.

2003. L’Orient méditerranéen de la mort d’Alexandre aux campagnes de Pompée. Cités

et royaumes à l’époque hellénistique. Rennes (= Pallas, 62): 169–192.

• “Italiens et Romains à Rhodes et à Caunos.” In C. Müller and C. Hasenohr, eds. 2002. Les

Italiens dans le monde grec (IIe s. av. J.-C. - Ier s. ap. J.-C. (Colloque Paris ENS juillet

1999), BCH Supplément 41, Athens – Paris: 147–162.

• With P. Brun and E. Varinlioǧlu, “Les inscriptions grecques et latines.” In P. Debord and E.

Varinlioǧlu, eds. 2001. Les hautes terres de Carie, Ausonius Mémoires 4, Bordeaux (99

inscriptions, pp. 81–328 of a volume of 328 pages). BMCR Review

• A. Bresson with R. Descat, co-editor of Les cités d’Asie Mineure occidentale au IIe siècle

a.C., Ausonius Études 8, Bordeaux, 2001, with papers “La conjoncture du IIe siècle

a.C..” 11–16, “Monétaires rhodiens du IIe siècle a.C.: onomastique et société”: 197–211

and “Dédicace des Xanthiens à Antiochos III”: 235–240.

• “Grecs et Cariens dans la Chersonèse de Rhodes.” In V. Fromentin and S. Gotteland, eds.

2001. Origines Gentium. Bordeaux: 147–160.

• “Rhodes and Lycia in Hellenistic Times.” In V. Gabrielsen, P. Bilde, T. Engberg-Pedersen,

L. Hannestad, and J. Zahle, eds. 1999. Hellenistic Rhodes: Politics, Culture and

Society, Aarhus: 98–131.

• “Cnide à l’époque classique: La cité et ses villes.” REA 101, 1999: 83–114.

• “Rhodes, Cnide et les Lyciens au début du IIe siècle av. J.-C..” REA 100, 1998: 65–88.

• “Rhodes et Kéos.” In L. Mendoni and A. I. Mazarakis Ainian, eds. 1998. Kea-Kythnos:

History and Archaeology. Athens: 643–647.

• With Jean-Noël Barrandon, “Imitations crétoises et monnaies rhodiennes: analyse

physique.” RN 152, 1997: 137–156.

• “Remarques préliminaires sur l’onomastique des esclaves dans la Rhodes antique.” In M.

Moggi and G. Cordiano, eds. 1997. Schiavi e dipendenti nell’ambito dell” “oikos” e

della “familia.” Pisa: 117–126.

• “La monnaie rhodienne au Ier s. a.C. Nouveautés et interrogations.” Topoi 7, 1997: 11–32.

• “Drachmes rhodiennes et imitations: une politique économique de Rhodes?” REA 98, 1996:

65–77.

• “L’onomastique romaine à Rhodes.” In A. Rizakis, ed. 1996. Roman Onomastics in the

Greek East. Social and Political Aspects. Athens: 225–238.

• “La circulation des monnaies rhodiennes.” DHA 19, 1993: 119–169.

• With E. Varinlioǧlu, P. Brun, P. Debord, R. Descat: “Ouranion en Carie.” REA 94, 1992:

155–174.

• “Chios de Carie.” DHA 16, 1990: 97–113.

• With E. Varinlioǧlu, P. Brun, P. Debord and R. Descat: “Une inscription de Pladasa en

Carie.” REA 92, 1990: 59–78.

• “Richesse et pouvoir à Lindos (époque hellénistique).” In S. Dietz and I. Papachristodoulou,

eds. 1988. Archaeology in the Dodecanese. Copenhagen: 145–154.

• “Deux légendes rhodiennes.” In Les Grandes figures religieuses, Annales Littéraires de

l’Université de Besançon 329, Paris, 1986: 411–421.

• “Remarques sur la dispersion des amphores rhodiennes.” Recherches sur les amphores

grecques. BCH Supplt. XIII. 1986: 81–86.

• “Notes rhodiennes. III Monnaies aux dauphins.” REA 87, 1985: 233–244.

• “Notes rhodiennes. 2 Inscription de la Pérée rhodienne.” REA 85, 1983: 45–52.

• “Notes rhodiennes. 1 Monnaies à palmette.” REA 83, 1981: 211–226.

• “Règles de nomination dans la Rhodes antique.” DHA 7, 1981: 345–362.

• “Rhodes, l’Hellénion et le statut de Naucratis.” DHA 6, 1980, 291–349 (= Cité marchande

2000, 13–63).

• “Rhodes: une famille camiréenne de commerçants en blé.” Index 9, 1980: 144–149 (= Cité

marchande 2000, 95–99).

Reviews:

• “Un diadoque pas comme les autres.” DHA 21, 1995: 83–88, review of C. Franco, Il regno

di Lisimaco: Strutture amministrative e rapporti con le città, Studi Ellenistici VI, Pisa:

Giardini, 1993.

3.Anthropology and Kinship

In press:

(See also above under § 1. Ancient Economy, “Women and Inheritance in Ancient Sparta: the

Gortynian Connection.” 2016)

Published:

• “Conclusion.” In L. Capdetrey and Y. Lafond, eds. 2010. La cité et ses élites. Pratiques et

représentation des formes de domination et de contrôle social dans les cités grecques.

Bordeaux: 379–384.

•With M.-P. Masson, S. Perentidis and J. Wilgaux, co-editor of Parenté et société dans le

monde grec de l’Antiquité à l’âge moderne, Bordeaux, 2006, with paper “La parenté

grecque en palindrome”: 13–22.

• “Un “Athénien” à Sparte ou Plutarque lecteur de Xénophon.” REG 115, 2002: 22–57.

• “Le cercle des oikeioi à Sparte.” In Mélanges Pierre Lévêque, V, Paris, 1990: 53–59.

• “Graphes et réseaux de parenté en Grèce ancienne.” Informatique et prosopographie. Table

ronde CNRS. Paris, 1984: 261–277.

• “Nomination et règles de droit dans l’Athènes classique.” L’Uomo 7, 1983: 39–50.

4.Varia epigraphica et historica

Published:

• “The chōrai of Munatius Hilarianus or Neapolitan Phratries as collegia.” Mediterraneo

Antico 16, 2013: 203–222.

•With J. Bresson, N. Liu, M. Fischler, “Anesthesia, Sleep and Death: From Mythology to the

Operating Room.” The Open Mind 117.5, 2013: 1257–1259.

• “Revisiting the Pentekontaetia.” In V. Fromentin, S. Gotteland, and P. Payen, eds. 2010.

Ombres de Thucydide, Bordeaux: 383–401.

•A. Bresson, with A.-M. Cocula and Chr. Pébarthe, co-editor of L’écriture publique du

pouvoir, Ausonius Études 10, 2005, with papers “Avant-propos”: 11–16, and “Les cités

grecques et leurs inscriptions”: 153–168.

• “Inscriptions grecques de Dougga.” In L. Maurin and M. Khanoussi, eds. 2002. Mourir à

Dougga, Bordeaux: 569–571.

• With T. Drew-Bear, coeditor of the Greek inscriptions from Novae, no. 107 and 174–184, in

J. Kolendo and V. Bozilova, eds. 1997. Inscriptions grecques et latines de Novae (Mésie

Inférieure), Ausonius Mémoires 1, Bordeaux.

• “Lettres lunaires de Marseille à Milet. I. Zeus Patrôos à Marseille – II. Les Temenitai de

Milet.” REA 99, 1997: 491–506.

• With T. Drew-Bear and C. Zuckerman, “Une dédicace de primipilaires à Novae pour la

Victoire impériale.” Antiquité Tardive 3, 1995: 139–146.

• “Sur une inscription de Mesembria (IGBulg, I 2, 335 septies).” Tarih Boyunca Karadeniz

Kongresi Bildirileri - Congrès International sur la mer Noire, Samsun, 1990: 501–504.

• With P. Debord, “Syngénéia.” REA 87, 1985: 191–211.

CURRICULUM VITAE

June 2016

Jan. 1 2008 – Dec. 31 2013: Professor of Classics and the College, University of Chicago,

Department of Classics

Jan.1 2014: Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago,

Department of Classics

Jan. 1 2016: Member of the Department of History

Degrees:

• “State Doctorate.” University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, 1994

• Degree in Social Mathematics and Applied Computing. University

of Bordeaux 2, 1984

• “Third cycle Doctorate.” University of Franche-Comté, Besançon,

1977

• Agrégation (History). Paris, 1972

• MA in history. University of Lyons 2, 1971

• BA in history. University of Lyons 2, 1970

Professional career

• JSince, January 2008, Professor of Classics and the College at the

University of Chicago

• July 1 2011 – June 30 2014 Chair of the Department of Classics

• Assistant (1978), assistant professor (1986) and professor of Ancient

History (1994–2007) at the University of Bordeaux 3.

• Secondary school teacher in Paris (1972–1978)

Visiting

• Spring quarter 2004–2005, Visiting Professor at the University of

Chicago (dept. of Classics)

• Summer term 1999/2000, Visiting professor at the University of

Hamburg (dept. of History)

Teaching / Supervising

• Ancient Greek History, with a specialization in the economic

history, and Greek Epigraphy courses for undergraduate and graduate

students

• Chair of one dissertation committee, committee member of four

others (departments of Classics, History and NELC).

• July 2011, co-organizer with V. Chankowski of the on-site École

Française d’Athènes international graduate seminar “Archaeology of

Economic Life” in Delos.

• Winter quarter 2010, co-teaching of a course with F. Velde (Federal

Reserve Bank of Chicago) on the topic “Growth & Institutions in the

Economy of the Ancient World” in the framework of the Center for

Disciplinary Innovation (CDI).

• Eleven of my former Bordeaux students have submitted a doctoral

dissertation and one at Chicago (2012)

Research

– Major focus

• The ancient economy

• History and epigraphy of Rhodes and Asia Minor

– Minor focus

• Anthropology of the ancient Greek world

• General ancient Greek history and epigraphy

Research program

New programs:

•Participation in the project CRESCAT (A Computational Research

Ecosystem for Scientific Collaboration on Ancient Topics) for a

statistical analysis of ancient Greek coin hoards of the late Archaic

and Classical periods

CRESCAT Page

•Participation as expert for trade relations in the Neubauer

Collegium project ”Economic Analysis of Ancient Trade: The Case

of the Old Assyrian Merchants of the 19th Century BCE”

Neubauer Collegium Assyrian Trade Web Page

Past program:

•2013–2015. Direction, with D. Schloen, Gary Herrigel and Brian

Muhs (and Glen Weyl in the first year), of the two-year program

Working Group in Comparative Economics in the framework of the

Neubauer Collegium, UoC.

—Topic of year 2013–2014: “The Boundaries of the Firm”

Boundaries of the Firm Web Page

—Topic of year 2014–2015: “Bound Labor” Bound Labor Web

Page

Field research • Since 1988, regular epigraphic field surveys in Asia Minor. In 2008, 2009,

2010, participation in the Archaeological survey in Kelainai –

Apameia Kibotos (modern Dinar)

Administration

• 2015–2016 Member of the Graduate Recruitment Committee, UoC

• July 1 2011– June 30 2014, Chair of the Classics department, UoC.

• 2010–2012 Member of the Board of the Franke Institute for the

Humanities, UoC.

• 2008–2009, 2009–2010 and 2011–2012 Faculty Co-Sponsor of the

Ancient Societies Workshop, Council on Advanced Studies, UoC.

• 2008–2009 and 2009–2010 Member of the Graduate Recruitment

Committee, UoC.

• 2008–2009 and 2009–2010 Graduate Advisor for the Program in the

Ancient Mediterranean World, Classics, UoC.

• 2008–2009 Member of the Harper Schmidt Committee, UoC.

• 2005–2007 Member of the Scientific Council of the University of

Bordeaux 3

• 2003–2007 Head of the graduate school for Humanities University

of Bordeaux 3

• 1994–2007 Manager of six Socrates–Erasmus agreements with the

universities of Hamburg, Münster, Freiburg, Zurich, Rome and

Nicosia

• 1994–2004 Founder and director of Ausonius Editions (4 main

collections, 50 books published)

Distinctions

• January 1 2014: Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service

Professorship, University of Chicago

• June–July 2012, Eric P. Newman Graduate Summer Seminar

Visiting Scholar at the American Numismatic Society, New York

• Sept 2010 – June 2011, Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center

• Corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute

(DAI)

• Delepierre Prize 2002 of the Association des Études Grecques for La

cité marchande (Bordeaux 2000)

• Fall term 2001–2002, Member of the School for Historical Research,

Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton

Conference organization

•   Co-organizer with F. Velde and E. Lo Cascio of the conference

“Growth and factors of growth in the ancient economy’. Chicago –

Friday 28 – Saturday 29 January 2011, Federal Reserve Bank of

Chicago / The University of Chicago.

• For other conferences previously organized in Europe, see

Bibliography

Invited lectures/conferences

• Berlin November 18–21 2016. Workshop Economic Growth in

Antiquity. “Money, Debt and Economic Growth in Greece and Rome

(7th c. – 1 c. CE)”

• Paris September 19–21 2016. 10th workshop Chicago-Paris on

Ancient Religions. “Kolossoi and Cyrenean Rituals of the Classical

Period”

• Ghent September 15–7 2016. Conference Long-Distance Trade in

the Greco-Roman World, Medieval Europe and the Arab and Turk

Middle Ages. “Transacting in the Ancient Greek World”

• Geneva August 21–27 2016 Fondation Hardt 63rd Entretiens sur

l’Antiquité classique. Economy and Inequality: Resources, Exchange

and Power in Classical Antiquity. “Money Exchange and the

Economics of Inequality in the Ancient Greek World”

• Toronto, April 21–22 2016, Conference Cultural History of Work in

Antiquity. “The political culture of work”

• Nottingham, April 14–15 2016 Luxury and Wealth in the Archaic to

Hellenistic Peloponnese. “Were the Spartans the plousioi   or

the ptochoi of the Peloponnese?”

• Paris, EHESS, March 17 2016. “Autour de la production des textiles

en Grèce ancienne”

• San Francisco, SCS Conference, Jan. 7 2016. “Middlemen: The

Villains and Secret Heroes of the Ancient Greek Market”

• Columbia University Dec. 4 2015, Department of Classics (Seminar

Prof. John Ma). “How to Make Money Out of Money, or Cash

Exchange in Ancient Greece”

• Copenhagen, Nov. 30 2015, Symposium on the Occasion of Vincent

Gabrielsen’s 65th Birthday. “The koinon of the Leukoideis and the

Rhodian control of the Peraia”

• Yale Nov. 4, 2015, Rostovtzeff Lecture. “In the Land of Cleruchs:

Soldiers & their Lots from Athens to Alexandria” Rostovtzeff Lecture

• Taranto, Sept. Opening lecture of the LV Convegno Internazionale di

Studi sulla Magna Grecia, Sept. 24–27 settembre 2015. “Produzioni e

committenze in Magna Grecia.”

• Lille, April 24 215, Conference Allagè et kollybos: le change dans

l'économie antique. “De Délos à Mylasa: la question du kollybos.”

• Villa Vigoni, Como April 16 2015, Griechische Heiligtümer als

Handlungsorte. Zur Multifunktionalität supralokaler Heiligtümer von

der frühen Archaik bis in die römische Kaiserzeit. “Slaves, Fairs and

Fears in the Sanctuaries of Western Greece” (paper read in absentia)

• Brown University February 25 2015. “Price Control and Taxes: at

the Delian Customs House”.

• Vienna, Oct. 28-31 2014, Conference Infrastructure and Distribution

in Ancient Economies. “Money, Trade and Prices in the Hellenistic

Economy.”

• Berlin, Oct. 21 2014, Excellence Cluster Topoi. “Coinage, Money

and Innovation in the Ancient Greek World.”

• Berlin, Oct. 16–18 2014, Conference Pollution and the Environment

in Ancient Life and Thought. “Industrial Pollution in Greece and

Rome.”

• Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 12–14 2014, Economic History Association

Conference, panel on the Hellenistic economy with Joseph Manning

(Yale) and Graham Oliver (Brown). “Flexible Interfaces of the

Hellenistic World.”

• Cologne – Bonn, June 27 2014. “Die spartanische Wirtschaft: Texte,

Archäologie und moderne Parallelen.”

• New York, 15–16 November 2013, Conference at the American

Numismatic Society The Beginning of Coinage: New Discoveries and

Research on Early Electrum Coinage. “The Choice for Electrum

Monometallism: When and Why.”

• Istanbul, Karia Arkhaia, International Symposium organized at the

IFEA, 14–16 Nov. 2013. “Pedasa and Pidasa in Karia” (paper read in

absentia).

• Yale, Oct. 21 2013. 13 2012, Invitation Economic History Seminar.

“Money, trade and taxes in Southern Anatolia in the Second Century

BCE”

• Cambridge, Dec. 12–13 2012: Conference Crossing boundaries:

ancient history explores its future. “Economics for the ancient world?

The challenge and its difficulties”

• Jerusalem, June 25–26 2012, Israel National Museum, White Gold

International Congress. “The Origin of the Lydian-Greek Coinage:

Cost and Quantity”

• New York, July 18 2012, American Numismatic Society Lecture.

“The Three Ages of Greek Coinage and Monetary Policy”

• New York, July 12 2012, New York Numismatic Club. “Rhodian

Coins and the Phaistos 1987 Hoard”

• Rome, Dec. 2011, Conference “Attraverso l’epigrafia. Ricordando

Luigi Moretti.” “The chōrai of Munatius: Neapolitan phratries as

collegia”

• Glasgow, April 11–14 2012, Chair of one session of the European

Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), and paper “Silver coins

and commercial networks in Western Asia Minor in the Late

Hellenistic period”

• San Antonio, Jan. 7–9 2011, 112th Archaeological Institute of

American and American Philological Association Annual Meeting,

“Trade and Coinage Circulation in the Hellenistic World: Beyond the

Mirage”

• Stanford, Dec. 7 2010 Stanford Humanities Center. “Of Coins and

Men”

• Yale, Nov. 7 2010, Yale Symposium “The Resource Curse in

Historical Perspective.” “Silver, Coins, Economy and Democracy in

Late Archaic and Early Classical Athens”

• Berkeley, Nov. 5 2010, Onassis Conference, U. of Berkeley, “State

and Coinage in Ancient Greece: from Electrum to Bronze”

• Berkeley Nov. 4 2010, Onassis Conference, U. of Berkeley, “Money

Exchange in the Ancient Greek World: a View from the Inscriptions”

• Berkeley Nov. 3 2010, Onassis Conference, U. of Berkeley,

“Ancient Views on the Origin of Coinage in the Greek Cities: Plato vs

Aristotle”

• Hamburg, April 16–18 2010, Conference Hamburg Bundeswehr

Universität, “Polybios.” Paper “Polybios und die Wirtschaft”

• Brussels, October 15–16th 2009, Fourth Francqui Conference,

“Long-Term Quantification in Ancient Mediterranean History”

Brussels, Paper “Grain, Market and Agricultural Production in

Greece: Ancient and Modern Data’.

• Yale, Sept. 21 2009, Yale University, on the invitation of prof. T.

Guinnane, “The Origin of Lydian and Greek Coinage: Cost and

Quantity”

• Washington, July 27–28 2009, Conference Transaction Costs in the

Ancient World: Washington DC, Harvard University’s Center for

Hellenic Studies, Paper “The cost of money exchange in early

Ptolemaic Egypt: the case of Pap.Cair.Zen. I 59021 (258 BCE)”

• Athens, June 16–19 2009, Conference “Tout vendre, tout acheter.

Structures et équipements des marchés antiques.” participation in the

opening seminar June 16th and paper June 19th, “Usages monétaires

sur l’agora.” Ecole Française d’Athènes

• Nantes, June 8 2009, Nantes University (France), Conference “Les

sièges de Rhodes.” Paper “The city of Rhodes under siege (305–

304).” Read (in French) in absentia by the organizers of the

conference.

• Rome, April 22 2009, Rome, Istituto Italiano per la storia antica,

Conference on the book “The Cambridge Economic History of the

Greco-Roman World.” Paper on the referred book

• Munich, April 2–4 2009, Conference Munich University “Kelainai –

Apameia Kibotos.” Paper “Le formulaire des inscriptions funéraires

d’Apamée Kibôtos” and conclusions of the conference.

• Ann Arbor, March 23–24 2009, The University of Michigan,

invitation of prof. I. Moyer, Paper: “Storm on the Nile: a note on

P.Hibeh 198”; “Feeding the ancient Greek city: old grain and new

harvest”

• Chicago, Jan. 27 2009, Ancient Society Workshop, “Some notes on

the epigraphy of Rhodian sanctuaries”

• Uppsala–Stockholm–Göteborg, Three seminars in Sweden on the

invitation of three Swedish Universities, Dec. 15 2008: Uppsala, “The

Origin of Coinage: a new perspective’; Dec. 16 2008: Stockholm,

“The grain trade in ancient Greece. New perspectives on an old

issue.” Dec. 17 2008: Göteborg, “Knidos, Old and New”

• Los Angeles, Oct. 24 2008, Workshop Univ. of Southern California

at Los Angeles, invitation of prof. C. Moatti, “Crossing the frontier of

a Greek city: the economic side”

• Oxford, Sept. 2007, Keynote speaker International Congress of

Greek and Roman Epigraphy, “Greek epigraphy and the Ancient

Greek Economics.” Oxford

• Berkeley April 2007, Sara B. Aleshire Center for Greek Epigraphy,

Berkeley University (prof. R. Stroud)

• Stanford, April 2007 University of Stanford, Prof. J. Manning)

• Brussels, March 2007 Société Royale de Numismatique, invitation

prof. F. de Callataÿ

• Munich, Dec. 2006 Kommission für Alte Geschichte und

Epigraphik, invitation prof. R. Haensch

• Florence, 2005, Istituto di Studi Umanistici (prof. L. Capogrossi

Colognesi and E. Lo Cascio)

• Oxford, 2004 David Lewis Conference, invitation prof. A. Bowman

• Munich, 2003 Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik,

invitation prof. M. Wörrle

• Münster, 2001 University of Münster, invitation prof. P. Funke

• Princeton, 2001 University of Princeton, invitation prof. F. Graf

• Hanover, 2000 University of Hanover (Assoc. of the Professors of

Ancient History of Northern Germany)

• Princeton, 2000 University of Princeton, David Magie memorial

lectures, invitation proff. J. Ma and G. Rogers

• Moscow, 1999, Russian Science Academy Moscow, invitation prof.

Bongard-Levin

• Oxford, 1997, University of Oxford, Oxford Dr. C. Crowther

• Athens, 1997, KERA, invitation L. Loukopoulou

• Copenhagen, 1997 University of Copenhagen, invitation V.

Gabrielsen

• Rome, 1995 University Roma La Sapienza, invitation Prof. M.-L.

Lazzarini

Evaluation

• Evaluator of projects or applications for several major American

institutions, for the Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del Sistema

Universitario e della Ricerca (Rome, 2013), Agence Nationale pour la

Recherche (Paris, 2013) and for the Austrian Academy (Vienna,

2013).

• Referee for articles for Hesperia, Transactions of the American

Philogical Association, Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies,

Classical Philology, The Journal of Hellenic Studies.

Other academic occupations

•   Member of the Editorial Board of Revue des Etudes Anciennes

(Bordeaux)

• Member of the Comité Scientifique of Dialogues d’Histoire

ancienne

• Member of the Advisory Board of Ancient Civilizations from Scythia

to Siberia (Rome-Moscow-Bordeaux-Leiden)

• Member of the International Council of Vestnik drevnej istorii -

Journal of Ancient History, Moscow.

• Associate Editor of Classical Philology (Chicago) since January

2008

• Member of the editorial board of Scienze dell’Antichità, Rome

(since 2011)

Membership in associations

• Society for Classical Studies (former American Philological

Association)

• Archaeological Institute of America

• American Numismatic Society

• Association des Études Grecques

• Société Française de Numismatique