Professor Daniel Ogden

Professor of Ancient History

Principal research areas:

(1) traditional narratives in antiquity;

(2) Greek religion;

(3) Macedonian and Hellenistic Dynasties.

Books (COVERS HERE)

Ogden, D. 1996. Greek Bastardy in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods. OUP Classical Monographs. Oxford: OUP.

Ogden, D. 1997. The Crooked Kings of Ancient Greece. London: Duckworth-Bloomsbury.

Ogden, D. 1999. Polygamy, Prostitutes and Death: The Hellenistic Dynasties. London, Swansea: Duckworth and The Classical Press of Wales. Second edn.: 2023.

Ogden, D. 2001. Greek and Roman Necromancy. Princeton: Princeton University Press. German translation: Nekromantie: Das antike Wissen über die Totenbeschwörung durch Magie. Rudostadt: Roter Drache, 2010. Greek translation: Archaia hellenike kai romaike nekromanteia. Athens: Hekate [Ekati], 2011. Russian translation: Греческая и римская некромантия. St Petersburg: Academy for Cultural Research, 2021.

Ogden, D. 2002. Magic, Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Sourcebook. OUP USA: New York. Second edn.: 2009.

Ogden, D. 2003. Aristomenes of Messene: Legends of Sparta’s Nemesis. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales.

Ogden, D. 2007. In Search of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice: The Traditional Tales of Lucian’s Lover of Lies. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales.

Ogden, D. 2008. Perseus. Routledge Gods and Heroes series. London: Routledge. Chinese translation: pending.

Ogden, D. 2008. Night’s Black Agents: Witches, Wizards and Ghosts in the Ancient World. London: Hambledon-Continuum-Bloomsbury.

Ogden, D. 2011. Alexander the Great: Myth, Genesis and Sexuality. Exeter, Liverpool: University of Exeter Press, Liverpool University Press.

Ogden, D. 2013. Drakōn: Dragon Myth and Serpent Cult in the Greek and Roman World.  Oxford: OUP.

Ogden, D. 2013. Dragons, Serpents and Slayers in the Classical and Early Christian Worlds: A Sourcebook. New York: OUP USA.

Ogden, D. 2017. The Legend of Seleucus: Kingship, Narrative and Mythmaking. Cambridge: CUP.

Ogden, D. 2021. The Werewolf in the Ancient World. Oxford: OUP. 

Ogden, D. 2021. The Dragon in the West. Oxford: OUP

Ogden, D. 2021. The Strix-Witch. Cambridge Elements. Cambridge: CUP

Ogden, D. 2024. The Tyrants of Corinth: Legends of Cypselus and Periander. London: Routledge:

Ogden, D. (forthcoming, 2025). Pausanias the Regent. New Haven: Yale UP.

Collaborative:

Flint, V., R. Gordon, G. Luck and D. Ogden 1999. [The Athlone History of] Witchcraft and Magic in Europe. ii. Ancient Greece and Rome. Series eds. B. Ankarloo and S. and Clark.  London: Athlone-Continuum-Bloomsbury / Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Portuguese translation: Bruxaria e Magia na Europa: Grécia Antiga e Roma: Sao Paulo: Madras, 2004.

Ogden, D. ed. 2002. The Hellenistic World: New Perspectives. London: Duckworth and Classical Press of Wales.

Ogden, D. ed. 2007. A Companion to Greek Religion. Oxford: Blackwell.

Carney, E. D., and D. Ogden eds. 2010. Philip and Alexander: Father and Son, Lives and Afterlives. New York: OUP USA.

Ogden, D. ed. 2021. The Oxford Handbook to Heracles. New York. OUP USA.

Ogden, D. ed. 2024. The Cambridge Companion to Alexander the Great. Cambridge: CUP. 

My wife is Dr Eriko Ogden, Honorary University Fellow in the department.