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 CityStates. 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.
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• Mythe et contradiction. Analyse de la VII 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” [3
rd
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 (I
er
s. a.
e
C. – III 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
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• A. Bresson with R. Descat, co-editor of Les cités d’Asie Mineure occidentale au II 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.
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• “Rhodes, Cnide et les Lyciens au début du II 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 I
er
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