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Professor Neville Morley
Professor in Classics and Ancient History
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Overview
I've worked in Exeter since 2016, and research and teach in three different areas of ancient history:
(i) ancient economic and social history, including trade, urbanisation, slavery, agriculture and demography, with a particular focus on Roman Italy and the city of Rome;
(ii) the reception and influence of ancient texts and examples in the modern world, especially in the social sciences, with a particular focus on the influence of the Greek historian Thucydides in historiography and political theory;
(iii) theoretical and methodological approaches to ancient history, especially social-scientific approaches.
I am currently writing a book on What Thucydides Knew for Princeton University Press, about how Thucydides has been read as a guide to modern politics and how he could help us understand them if we read him better. In the longer term I am developing a long-delayed project on Marx and Antiquity and writing a book on Class: antiquity and its legacy, thinking about decadence as a form of political thinking, and co-editing books on Capital in Classical Antiquity and The Futures of Greek and Roman History.
Research
I have three main research areas - though in practice they overlap and influence one another, as well as leading in new directions.
(i) Ancient economic and social history, including trade, urbanisation, slavery, agriculture and demography, with a particular focus on Roman Italy and the city of Rome. I have published monographs on the impact of the city of Rome on the Italian economy and on approaches to trade in classical antiquity, as well as articles and chapters on a wide range of economic topics. I am currently working on a series of article-length pieces on Roman economic thought and the Roman agronomists, seeking to develop a proper understanding of the concepts and values that shaped Roman thinking about economic matters. In the longer term, I have an interest in exploring the relationship between economy and ecology - the role of the environment in shaping economic structures - in the ancient Mediterranean. I am currently co-editing with Max Koedijk from Berlin a volume on Capital in Classical Antiquity, based on a conference we co-organised a couple of years ago.
(ii) The reception and influence of ancient texts and examples in the modern world, especially in the social sciences, with a particular focus on the influence of the Greek historian Thucydides in historiography and political theory. I have written on the development of different conceptions of 'modernity' and the contrast with 'antiquity' in the nineteenth century, as well as chapters on important figures like Marx and Nietzsche, and am currently working on a monograph on Marx and Antiquity. I ran a four-year research project, funded by the AHRC, on Thucydides: reception, reinterpretation and influence, which considered the modern reception of the ancient Greek historian in different fields, especially historiography; I am currently writing a book on his influence in modern political thought, What Thucydides Knew. I am in the early stages of developing a new project on 'The Politics of Decadence', with the aim of taking it seriously as a political and rhetorical concept.
(iii) Theoretical and methodological approaches to ancient history, especially social-scientific approaches. I have written about the rhetorical structures of economic history, quantitative methods, translation, and conceptions of time and change; further, my work on Thucydides is directly concerned with the dynamics of the relationship between history and social science. I am co-editing, with Lakshmi Ramgopal of Columbia University, a volume on The Futures of Greek and Roman History that will explore the different ways in which the discipline is changing and needs to change in the 21st century, and am working on books on Class: antiquity and its legacy and on Marx and Antiquity.
Research collaborations
I have a long-standing collaboration with Prof. Christian Wendt (formerly Freie Universitaet Berlin, now at Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum), which included a period as Einstein Visiting Fellow at the FU (2015-18) when we worked together on a project entitled 'Kinesis: Bewegung als Prinzip' on ideas of change and transformation in classical Greece.
I am working with Lakshmi Ramgopal of Columbia University on a project to explore The Futures of Greek and Roman History.
Supervision
I am happy to discuss research proposals related to any of my interests: ancient economic and social history, Thucydides and his reception, ancient and modern political thought, the modern influence of ancient ideas, and historiography and historical theory. Topics studied by students I have supervised in the past include the city in late antique Gaul and Britain, money and the economy in the Roman empire, Thucydides in seventeenth-century political thought, the reception of Thucydides in modern military education, Michel de Montaigne's reading of Sparta, ancient and modern ideas of plague, and Roman elite property management.
Publications
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2024
- Morley N. (2024) 'Freedom is the sure possession...': modern receptions of Pericles' funeral oration, The Athenian Funeral Oration: After Nicole Loraux, Cambridge University Press, 414-435.
2023
- Morley N. (2023) Polly Low (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides, Society, volume 61, no. 1, pages 131-134, DOI:10.1007/s12115-023-00941-x.
- Morley N. (2023) 'The society that separates its scholars from its keyboard warriors...': tracking Thucydides on Twitter, Authority and History: Ancient Models, Modern Questions, Bloomsbury Academic, 109-126.
2022
- Koedijk M, Morley N. (2022) Introduction: Capital and Classical Antiquity, Capital in Classical Antiquity, Springer Nature, 1-17, DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-93834-5_1.
- Morley N. (2022) Re-Thinking the Ancient Economy, Once Again, Oikonomia und Ökonomie im klassischen Griechenland: Theorie – Praxis – Transformation, Franz Steiner Verlag, 19-33.
- Morley NDG. (2022) The poetics and politics of exchange in Roman agronomy, Oxford University Press, DOI:10.1093/oso/9780197647172.003.0006.
2021
- Morley N. (2021) Thucydides and the Politics of Truth, In Gremium, volume 15, pages 7-25, DOI:10.34768/ig.vi15.375. [PDF]
- Morley N. (2021) What To Do When The Dead Linger: First Response, Epoiesen: A Journal for Creative Engagement in History and Archaeology, volume 2021, no. 12, DOI:10.22215/epoiesen/2021.12.
- Morley N. (2021) Thucydides' Legacy in Grand Strategy, The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy, Oxford University Press, 41-56, DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198840299.013.2.
- Morley N. (2021) Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Trump, Caesarenwahn. Ein Topos zwischen Antiwilhelminismus, antikem Kaiserbild und moderner Populärkultur, Böhlau Verlag, 331-356, DOI:10.7788/9783412520922.
- Morley N. (2021) Economy, ancient, approaches to, Oxford Classical Dictionary, online edition, Oxford University Press, DOI:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.8598.
- Morley N. (2021) Politics: ideologies of decadence, The Oxford Handbook of Decadence, Oxford University Press, DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190066956.013.34.
2020
- Morley N. (2020) Thucydides and the Historiography of the Future, Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History, De Gruyter, 355-367, DOI:10.1515/9783110627305.
- Morley N. (2020) Thucydides and Herodotus. Edited by Edith Foster and Donald Lateiner . (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xiv, 399. $150.00.), Historian, volume 76, no. 1, pages 171-172, DOI:10.1111/hisn.12030_56.
- Morley N. (2020) Edward J. Watts. Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny, The American Historical Review, volume 125, no. 3, pages 1074-1075, DOI:10.1093/ahr/rhz788.
- Morley N. (2020) Drinking the Hemlock: Socrates and free speech, The Free Speech Wars, Manchester University Press, 95-102.
- Morley N. (2020) Thucydides and International Relations, Omnibus, volume 80, pages 31-32.
- Morley N. (2020) Thucydides is a Virus, Eidolon. [PDF]
- Morley N, Mitchell L. (2020) To Help Students Understand Political Power, We Have To Begin At The Beginning, Times Educational Supplement, pages 36-37.
- Morley NDG. (2020) Choose Your Own Counterfactual: the Melian Dialogue as text-based adventure, Classical Antiquity in Video Games: playing with the ancient world, Bloomsbury Academic, 179-192.
- Morley NDG. (2020) Thucydides and the Idea of History, I.B. Tauris, DOI:10.5040/9780755610716.
2019
- Morley N. (2019) Counterfactualism and Anticipation, Handbook of Anticipation, Springer Nature, 595-613, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-91554-8_58.
- Kelly C, Thonemann P, Borg B, Hillner J, Lavan M, Morley N, Mullen A, Orlandi S, Pillinger E, Prag J. (2019) Gender Bias and the Journal of Roman Studies, Journal of Roman Studies, volume 109, pages 441-448, DOI:10.1017/s0075435819000935. [PDF]
- Morley N. (2019) Status as Performance in Roman Society, Istraživanja, volume 30, pages 7-23, DOI:10.19090/i.2019.30.7-23.
- Morley N. (2019) Escaping the Thucydides Trap in Political Commentary, History & Policy.
- Morley NDG. (2019) The Melian Dilemma: Remaking Thucydides, Epoiesen, DOI:10.22215/epoiesen/2019.2. [PDF]
- Morley NDG. (2019) Frugality and Roman economic thinking in Varro's Rerum Rusticarum, I Quaderni del Ramo d’Oro Online, volume 10, pages 41-54. [PDF]
2018
- Morley N. (2018) AN OVERVIEW OF PERSPECTIVES ON THUCYDIDES, The Classical Review, volume 68, no. 2, pages 349-351, DOI:10.1017/s0009840x18000318.
- Morley N. (2018) Classics Why It Matters, Polity.
- Morley NDG. (2018) Afterword on 'Economic growth and towns in classical antiquity, Keith Hopkins: Sociological Studies in Roman History, Cambridge University Press, 207-212, DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139093552.007.
- Morley NDG. (2018) Thucydides: the origins of political realism?, The Edinburgh Companion to Political Realism, Edinburgh University Press, 111-123.
- Morley NDG. (2018) Legitimising War and Defending Peace: Thucydides in WWI and After, Classical Receptions Journal, volume 10.4, pages 415-434, DOI:10.1093/crj/cly016.
2017
- Morley N. (2017) Counterfactualism and Anticipation, Handbook of Anticipation, Springer Nature, 1-19, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-31737-3_58-1.
- Morley NDG. (2017) History Can't Always Help to Make Sense of the Future, Texas National Security Review.
- Morley NDG. (2017) Destory History: first response, Epoiesen, DOI:10.22215/epoiesen/2017.5.
- Morley NDG. (2017) Counterfactualism and Anticipation, Handbook of Anticipation: Theoretical and Applied Aspects of the Use of Future in Decision Making, Springer International, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-31737-3_58-1.
- Morley NDG. (2017) Thucydides and the Historiography of Trauma, Ktema: civilisations de l'Orient, de la Grece et de Rome Antiques, volume 42, pages 195-206.
2016
- Morley N. (2016) A Festschrift honouring Jean Andreau, Journal of Roman Archaeology, volume 29, pages 684-687, DOI:10.1017/s1047759400072585.
- Morley N. (2016) T. CORNELL and O. MURRAY (EDS), THE LEGACY OF ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO (Warburg Institute Colloquia 25). London: Warburg Institute/Turin: Nino Aragno, 2014. Pp. xii + 203. isbn 9781908590480. £50.00, The Journal of Roman Studies, volume 106, pages 327-328, DOI:10.1017/s0075435816000782.
- Morley NDG. (2016) Trade and the Integration of the Roman Empire, Connecting the Ancient World: Mediterranean shipping, maritime networks and their impact, Verlag Marie Leidorf, 105-113.
- Morley NDG. (2016) Contextualism and Universality in Thucydidean Thought, Thucydides and Political Order: concepts of order and the History of the Peloponnesian War, Palgrave Macmillan, 23-40.
- Morley NDG. (2016) The Anti-Thucydides, Brill's Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond, Brill, 143-155.
2015
- Morley N. (2015) Karl Moore & David Charles Lewis. The Origins of Globalization. New York: Routledge, 2009. xvi + 276 pp. ISBN10 0-415-77720-8, $62.63 (hardback); ISBN10 0-415-80598-8, $40.62 (paperback); ISBN10 0-203-88097-8, $19.22 (e-book), Enterprise & Society, volume 12, no. 1, pages 233-235, DOI:10.1017/s1467222700009782.
- Morley N. (2015) Garnsey's collected papers on cities, peasants and food, Journal of Roman Archaeology, volume 13, pages 485-486, DOI:10.1017/s1047759400019152.
- Morley N. (2015) The grain supply and the Roman economy, Journal of Roman Archaeology, volume 20, pages 491-492, DOI:10.1017/s1047759400005730.
- Morley N. (2015) J. TONER, ROMAN DISASTERS. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 220, illus. isbn 9780745651026. £20.00, The Journal of Roman Studies, volume 105, pages 336-337, DOI:10.1017/s0075435815000210.
- . (2015) Antonis Tsakmakis / Melina Tamiolaki (Eds.), Thucydides Between History and Literature. (Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes, Vol. 17.) Berlin/New York, de Gruyter 2013, Historische Zeitschrift, volume 300, no. 1, pages 153-155, DOI:10.1515/hzhz-2015-0021.
- Morley N. (2015) Faithful Narratives: Historians, Religion, and the Challenge of Objectivity, JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY, volume 46, no. 1, pages 107-109, DOI:10.1162/JINH_r_00799. [PDF]
- Morley NDG. (2015) Migration, mobility and the decline of urbanism in the late Roman West, Die Bewegte Stadt: Migration, soziale Mobititaet und Innovation in vormodernen Grossstaedten, Schnell & Steiner, 79-88.
- Morley NDG. (2015) Urban smells and Roman noses, Smell and the Ancient Senses, Routledge, 110-119-110-119.
- Morley NDG. (2015) “The same procedure as last year.” Die Regulierung von Konkurrenz und Konflikt über Wasser im römischen Reich, Wasser: Alltagsbedarf, Ingenieurskunst und Repraesentation zwischen Antike und Neuzeit, Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht, 77-94.
2014
- Morley N. (2014) The Idea of Thucydides in the Western Tradition, A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides, Wiley, 589-604, DOI:10.1002/9781118980194.ch33.
- . (2014) Luuk de Ligt, Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers. Studies in the Democraphic History of Roman Italy, 225 BC–AD 100. Cambridge/New York/Melbourne, Cambridge University Press 2012, Historische Zeitschrift, volume 298, no. 3, pages 750-752, DOI:10.1515/hzhz-2014-0243.
- Morley N. (2014) Shopping in ancient Rome: the retail trade in the late Republic and the Principate, ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, volume 67, no. 1, pages 306-307, DOI:10.1111/1468-0289.12055_11. [PDF]
- Morley NDG. (2014) Globalisation and the Roman Economy, Globalisation and the Roman World: Archaeological and Theoretical Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 49-68, DOI:10.1017/CBO9781107338920.005.
- Morley NDG. (2014) The Idea of Thucydides in the Western Tradition, A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides, John Wiley & Sons, 591-604.
- Lee C, Morley N. (2014) A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides, Wiley-Blackwell.
2013
- Morley N. (2013) Ray Laurence / Simon Esmonde Cleary / Sears, The City in the Roman West, c. 250 BC – c. AD 250. Cambridge/New York/Melbourne, Cambridge University Press 2011, Historische Zeitschrift, volume 297, no. 3, DOI:10.1515/hzhz.2013.0530.
- Morley N. (2013) Economic origins of Roman Christianity, ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, volume 66, no. 1, pages 373-374, DOI:10.1111/ehr.12005_19. [PDF]
- Morley N. (2013) The empire never ended: A response to adrian Campbell, Global Discourse, volume 3, no. 1, pages 48-51, DOI:10.1080/23269995.2013.809207.
- Morley NDG. (2013) Thucydides Quote Unquote, Arion: a journal of humanities and the classics, volume 20.3, pages 9-36.
2012
- Morley N. (2012) Consumption, The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, Wiley, DOI:10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah06087.
- Morley N. (2012) Capitalism, The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, Wiley, DOI:10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah06054.
- Morley N. (2012) Autarky, self‐sufficiency, The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, Wiley, DOI:10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah06033.
- Morley N. (2012) Barter, The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, Wiley, DOI:10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah06038.
- Morley N. (2012) (S.) Hornblower Thucydidean Themes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xvii + 415. £75. 9780199562336, The Journal of Hellenic Studies, volume 132, pages 220-221, DOI:10.1017/s0075426912000535.
- Morley N. (2012) (M.) Silver Economic Structures of Antiquity. (Contributions in Economics and Economic History 159.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995. Pp. xxiv + 262. 0313293805, The Journal of Hellenic Studies, volume 119, pages 203-203, DOI:10.2307/632356.
- Morley N. (2012) (W.T.) Loomis Wages, Welfare Costs and Inflation in Classical Athens. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. Pp. xix + 403. $42.50/£32.50. 0472108034, The Journal of Hellenic Studies, volume 120, pages 182-182, DOI:10.2307/632528.
- Morley N. (2012) The Freedman, The Classical Review, volume 62, no. 2, pages 591-593, DOI:10.1017/s0009840x12001199.
- Morley N. (2012) D. P. Kehoe, Investment, Profit and Tenancy: the Jurists and the Roman Agrarian Economy. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1997. Pp. xiv + 369. ISBN 0-472-10802-6. US$44.50/£28.77, The Journal of Roman Studies, volume 90, pages 233-234, DOI:10.2307/300237.
- Morley N. (2012) R. Alston, The City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Pp. xvi + 479. ISBN 0-415-23701-7. £65.00, The Journal of Roman Studies, volume 93, pages 311-311, DOI:10.2307/3184654.
- Morley N. (2012) A. Giovannini (ed.), La révolution romaine après Ronald Syme: Bilans et perspectives (Entretiens sur l'Antiquité Classique 46). Geneva: Fondation Hardt, 2000. Pp. xi + 342. ISBN 2-600-00746-6. ISSN 0071–0822, The Journal of Roman Studies, volume 92, pages 197-198, DOI:10.2307/3184868.
- Morley N. (2012) J.-J. Aubert and B. Sirks (eds), Speculum Iuris: Roman Law as a Reflection of Social and Economic Life in Antiquity. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. Pp. xi + 203. ISBN 0-472-11251-1. £35.50/US$49.50, The Journal of Roman Studies, volume 94, pages 201-202, DOI:10.2307/4135025.
- Morley N. (2012) Cities and Economic Development in the Roman Empire, Settlement, Urbanization, and Population, DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199602353.003.0006.
- Harloe K, Morley N. (2012) Introduction: The modern reception of thucydides, Thucydides and the Modern World: Reception, Reinterpretation and Influence from the Renaissance to the Present, 1-24, DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139094214.001.
- Morley N. (2012) Thucydides, history and historicism in Wilhelm Roscher, Thucydides and the Modern World: Reception, Reinterpretation and Influence from the Renaissance to the Present, 115-139, DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139094214.006.
- Morley N. (2012) Rome's imperial economy: twelve essays, ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, volume 65, no. 1, pages 396-397, DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0289.2011.00622_17.x. [PDF]
- Morley N. (2012) The Classical Foundations of Population Thought, POPULATION STUDIES-A JOURNAL OF DEMOGRAPHY, volume 66, no. 3, pages 347-348, DOI:10.1080/00324728.2012.719716. [PDF]
- Morley N. (2012) The Transformation of Italy, 225–28 B.C, Journal of Roman Studies, volume 91, pages 50-62, DOI:10.2307/3184769. [PDF]
- Morley NDG. (2012) Peter Handke's Thucydides, Classical Receptions Journal, pages 20-47.
- Harloe K, Morley N. (2012) Thucydides and the Modern World Reception, Reinterpretation and Influence from the Renaissance to the Present, Cambridge University Press.
2011
- Morley N. (2011) Population size and social structure, The Cambridge Companion to: Ancient Rome, 29-44, DOI:10.1017/CCO9781139025973.004.
- Morley N. (2011) Slavery under the Principate, The Cambridge World History of Slavery Volume 1: The Ancient Mediterranean World, 265-286, DOI:10.1017/CHOL9780521840668.015.
- Morley N. (2011) Monumentality and the meaning of the past in ancient and modern historiography, The Western Time of Ancient History: Historiographical Encounters with the Greek and Roman Pasts, 210-226, DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511975998.010.
- Morley N. (2011) Demography and development in classical antiquity, Demography and the Graeco-Roman World: New Insights and Approaches, 14-36, DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511863295.002.
- Morley N. (2011) Why America is not a new Rome, ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, volume 64, no. 1, pages 339-340, DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00567_27.x. [PDF]
2010
- Morley N. (2010) The Roman Bazaar A Comparative Study of Trade and Markets in a Tributary Empire, AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, volume 115, no. 1, pages 267-268, DOI:10.1086/ahr.115.1.267. [PDF]
- Morley N. (2010) Quantifying the Roman economy: methods and problems, ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, volume 63, no. 4, pages 1183-1184, DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00551_16.x. [PDF]
- Morley N. (2010) A forum on trade, The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy, 309-318, DOI:10.1017/CCO9781139030199.
- Morley N. (2010) The Roman Empire Roots of Imperialism, Pluto Pr.
2009
- Morley N. (2009) M. De'Spagnolis Conticello: Il Pons Sarni di Scafati e la Via Nuceria-Pompeios. (Ministero per i beni culturali e ambientali. Soprintendza Archeologica di Pompei Monografie, 8.) Pp. 112, 71 plates, 4 maps. Rome: ‘L'Erma’ di Bretschneider, 1994. ISBN: 88-7062-878-7, The Classical Review, volume 47, no. 1, pages 223-224, DOI:10.1093/cr/47.1.223-a.
- Morley N. (2009) Economic and Social History, A Companion to Ancient History, 112-122, DOI:10.1002/9781444308372.ch11.
- Morley N. (2009) Antiquity and Modernity, John Wiley & Sons.
2008
- Morley N. (2008) P. J. Goodman, The Roman City and its Periphery: From Rome to Gaul. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xv + 309, 12 pls, 33 figs. ISBN 0-415-33865-4; 978-0-415-33865-3. £50.00, The Journal of Roman Studies, volume 98, pages 262-263, DOI:10.1017/s0075435800002318.
- Morley N. (2008) 'Das Altertum das sich nicht übersetzen lässt': Translation and Untranslatability in Ancient History, Translation and the Classic: Identity as Change in the History of Culture, DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199288076.003.0007.
- Morley N. (2008) Urbanisation and development in Italy in the late republic, Mnemosyne, Supplements, volume 303, pages 121-137.
- Morley N. (2008) Olive cultivation in ancient Greece: seeking the ancient economy, ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, volume 61, no. 3, pages 751-752, DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0289.2008.00436_20.x. [PDF]
2007
- Morley N. (2007) Civil war and succession crisis in roman beekeeping, Historia - Zeitschrift fur Alte Geschichte, volume 56, no. 4, pages 462-470.
- Morley N. (2007) The early Roman empire: Distribution, The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World, 570-591, DOI:10.1017/CHOL9780521780537.022.
- Morley N. (2007) Social Structure and Demography, A Companion to the Roman Republic, 297-323, DOI:10.1002/9780470996980.ch14.
- Morley NDG. (2007) Civil War and Succession Crisis in Roman Beekeeping, Historia, volume 56.2, pages 452-470.
- Morley N. (2007) Trade in Classical Antiquity, Cambridge University Press.
2006
- MORLEY N. (2006) (M.) Pani (ed.) Storia romana e storia moderna. (Documenti e Studi 38.) Pp. 166. Bari: Edipuglia, 2005. Paper, €20. ISBN: 88-7228-410-4, The Classical Review, volume 56, no. 2, pages 439-440, DOI:10.1017/s0009840x06002320.
- Morley N. (2006) W. M. Calder III: Men in Their Books. Studies in the Modern History of Classical Scholarship (edd. J. P. Harris, R. C. Smith). Pp. xlvi + 324. Hildesheim, etc.: Georg Olms, 1998. Paper, DM 88. ISBN: 3-487-10686-8, The Classical Review, volume 49, no. 2, pages 624-625, DOI:10.1017/s0009840x99112058.
- MORLEY N. (2006) (W.V.) Harris (ed.) Rethinking the Mediterranean. Pp. xxvi + 414, maps, ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Cased, £65. ISBN: 0-19-926545-3, The Classical Review, volume 56, no. 1, pages 197-199, DOI:10.1017/s0009840x05001022.
- Morley N. (2006) C. B. Champion (ed.): Roman Imperialism. Readings and Sources. Pp. xii + 324, maps, ill., figs. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Paper, £17.99, US$34.95 (Cased, £55, US$69.95). ISBN: 0-631-23119-6 (0-631-23118-8 hbk), The Classical Review, volume 55, no. 1, pages 360-360, DOI:10.1093/clrevj/bni203.
- Morley N. (2006) AMMIANUS, The Classical Review, volume 50, no. 1, pages 85-87, DOI:10.1093/cr/50.1.85.
- Morley N. (2006) K. J. Hölkeskamp, E. Stein-Hölkeskamp (edd.): Von Romulus zu Augustus. Grosse Gestalten der römischen Republik. Pp. 394. Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2000. Cased, DM 58.90. ISBN: 3-406-46697-4, The Classical Review, volume 52, no. 1, pages 183-184, DOI:10.1093/cr/52.1.183.
- Morley N. (2006) E. Amato, A. Capo, D. Viscido: Weimar, le Letterature Classiche e l’Europa del 2000. Atti delle giornate di studio Liceo-Ginnasio Statale ‘F. De Sanctis’ di Salerno, 27 settembre 1999–31 gennaio 2000. (Quaderni di Filologia Classica 5.) Pp. xvi + 330. Salerno: Helios Editrice, 2000. Paper, L. 50,000, The Classical Review, volume 52, no. 2, pages 407-408, DOI:10.1093/cr/52.2.407.
- Morley N. (2006) The poor in the city of Rome, Poverty in the Roman World, 21-39, DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511482700.003.
- Morley N. (2006) Making, moving and managing: The new world of ancient economies, 323-31 BC, ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, volume 59, no. 3, pages 654-655, DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0289.2006.00361_13.x. [PDF]
2005
- Morley N. (2005) The salubriousness of the Roman city, Health in Antiquity, 192-204, DOI:10.4324/9780203323847.
- Morley N. (2005) Rome at war: Farms, families, and death in the Middle Republic, AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, volume 110, no. 4, pages 1231-1232, DOI:10.1086/ahr.110.4.1231. [PDF]
2004
- Morley N. (2004) Decadence as a Theory of History, New Literary History, volume 35, no. 4, pages 573-585, DOI:10.1353/nlh.2005.0008. [PDF]
- Morley NDG. (2004) Theories, Models and Concepts in Ancient History, Routledge.
2002
- Morley N. (2002) Rome's place in history, The Classical Review, volume 52, no. 1, pages 146-147, DOI:10.1093/cr/52.1.146.
- Morley N. (2002) Metropolis and Hinterland The City of Rome and the Italian Economy, 200 BC-AD 200, Cambridge University Press.
2000
- Morley N. (2000) Politicizing latin literature, The Classical Review, volume 50, no. 1, pages 107-109, DOI:10.1093/cr/50.1.107.
- Morley N. (2000) Border crossing, The Classical Review, volume 50, no. 2, pages 470-471, DOI:10.1093/cr/50.2.470.
- Morley N. (2000) Thucydides diegematikos, The Classical Review, volume 50, no. 1, pages 18-20, DOI:10.1093/cr/50.1.18.
- Morley NDG. (2000) Trajan's Engines, Greece and Rome, volume 47.2, pages 197-210.
1999
- Morley N. (1999) Roman Villas and Society, The Classical Review, volume 49, no. 1, pages 199-201, DOI:10.1093/cr/49.1.199.
- Morley N. (1999) Caesar's art, The Classical Review, volume 49, no. 2, pages 406-407, DOI:10.1093/cr/49.2.406.
- Morley NDG. (1999) Marx and the Failure of Antiquity, Helios: a journal devoted to critical and methodological studies of classical culture, literature, and society, volume 26.2, pages 151-164.
- Morley N. (1999) Writing Ancient History, Cornell University Press.
1998
- Morley N. (1998) Political Economy and Classical Antiquity, Journal of the History of Ideas, volume 59, no. 1, pages 95-114, DOI:10.1353/jhi.1998.0007. [PDF]
External impact and engagement
Together with my colleague Lynette Mitchell, and in collaboration with community interest company The Politics Project, we have developed a project to make use of activites built around the ideas of the ancient Greek historian Thucydides as a means of developing political literacy and engagement in schools.
I am currently leading a project, funded by the AHRC (AH/T004142/1), to explore the dramatic potential of Thucydides' Melian Dialogue and how this can help us better understand the dynamics of power, justice and negotiation; this involves working with two theatre groups, Arch 468 and Fast Familiar, to develop and stage multiple versions of the Dialogue, and then to turn it into an interactive experience. Further details of the first phase here; the second phase, recreating the Dialogue as an immersive event to explore decision-making under conditions of uncertainty, is being premiered at the COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow this autumn.
I blog regularly about my research, about the reception of Thucydides and his potential relevance to contemporary issues, and about anything else that catches my interest, at http://thesphinxblog.com, and on Twitter @NevilleMorley. I also seek to correct misquotations and misappropriations of Thucydides on Twitter, via the Thucydides Bot (@Thucydiocy).
Contribution to discipline
Reviews Editor and Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Roman Studies
Associate Editor, Classical Receptions Journal
Area Editor for Economic History, Oxford Classical Dictionary Online
Member of Academic Board, Historische Zeitschrift
Member of Scientific Board,Quaderni del Ramo d'Oro online: link
Member of Editorial Board, KSIO Humanities Journal (Belgrade): link
Standing Committee member, Council of University Classics Departments
Member of Publications Committee, Institute of Classical Studies
Editorial Board, Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing, Bloomsbury
Editorial Board, New Directions in Classics, Bloomsbury
Editorial Board, Thoukidideia, Vandenhoek & Rupprecht
Media
Contributor to In Our Time on Vergil's Georgics, BBC Radio 4 18/5/23: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001lyt4
Contributor to Classical Association podcast, ‘The Causes of the Peloponnesian War’, 2022: https://classicalassociation.org/the-classics-podcast-does/
‘Thucydides on epidemics and social norms’, History and Policy, 2020: https://www.historyandpolicy.org/opinion-articles/articles/thucydides-on-epidemics-and-social-norms
‘Thucydides is a virus’, Eidolon 9/4/20: https://eidolon.pub/thucydides-is-a-virus-61de9dc72a85
‘The plague and the Peloponnesian War’, podcast, War on the Rocks 23/3/20: https://warontherocks.com/2020/03/the-plague-and-the-peloponnesian-war/
Contributor to In Our Time on Roman slavery, BBC Radio 4, 5/4/18: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09xnl51
'Classical Delusions;, The New European 7/4/17
‘How Thucydides helps explain Greece’s problems with Germany’, The Monkey Cage blog, Washington Post 9/4/15 (15,000+ views): http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/04/09/how-thucydides-helps-explain-greeces-problems-with-germany/
Contributor to In Our Time on Thucydides, BBC Radio 4, 29/1/15: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050bcf1
Contributor to Poor Us: an animated history of poverty, broadcast internationally November 2012 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxbmjDngois).
Teaching
Teaching has always been absolutely central to my career; if I had to choose between teaching and research, it would be teaching every time - but in practice they support and reinforce one another, as I teach a wide range of subjects related to my research interests and often find that teaching a subject then informs my research in that area, and offers a chance to try out ideas. I have always taught both Greek and Roman history and historiography, as well as historical theory and methodology, and different topics in classical reception; in recent years I’ve found myself teaching more Greek than Roman, and more cultural/historiographical themes than economic and social - but that can easily change, depending on what needs to be taught. I also have a long-standing interest in experimenting with new forms of teaching, new technology and new approaches to assessment - I’ll try anything that looks as if it might improve students’ engagement with and understanding of the subject. I was an early member of the Institute for Higher Education (the precursor of the Higher Education Academy), and published various working papers on new approaches to assessment, which have probably now disappeared from the internet. Most recently I've been reflecting on teaching under pandemic conditions, including the lessons I've learnt from being a student again; see https://cucdeducation.wordpress.com/2021/04/27/on-the-other-side-of-the-screen/, a piece I wrote for the CUCD HE blog.
Modules taught
- CLA1001 - Greek History: Problems and Sources
- CLA1002 - Roman History: Problems and Sources
- CLA2001 - Greek History: Problems and Sources
- CLA2002 - Roman History: Problems and Sources
- CLA3045 - Thucydides and the Idea of History
- CLA3255 - Greek Political Thought
- CLA3257 - Living in the Roman World: Society and Culture
- CLAM084 - Politics Ancient and Modern
Biography
I studied History and then Classics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, continuing on to a PhD, under the supervision of Peter Garnsey, on the city of Rome and its influence on the economy of Italy. I worked as a temporary lecturer in Classics at the University of Wales Lampeter (as it then was) in 1994-5 before moving to a lectureship in Bristol, where I spent more than twenty years, working my way up to a personal chair, and also serving for eight years as Undergraduate Dean and Faculty Education Director. I moved to Exeter in 2016 in search of new challenges and exciting new colleagues - while being very happy to remain in the West Country, where in my spare time I grow vegetables, brew, make sausages and salami, and play jazz guitar and bass rather badly.