Summer Academic Reading Plans

One thing I’ve noticed in working on my primary research project, first as a dissertation and now as a book, is that I’ve gotten away from reading things that are not directly related to that research. As such, I am setting a summer reading goal of one article or book chapter on on the history of the Mediterranean (non-research category), theory or methodology, or pedagogy per weekday. By my count this is about seventy articles. So far the list (see below), consists of twenty five articles—a good start, but too short.

The problem is that I don’t know what I don’t know or, more specifically, I don’t necessarily know what I should be reading. The current iteration of this list is developed from perusing recent journal tables of contents as well as some suggestions crowd-sourced from Twitter, but I could still use more.

So, please, if you have a favorite article or book chapter** that fits the parameters listed above and published in the last fifteen years, I want to hear about it. Tell me what I should be reading!

**I am also open to book suggestions in the same fields and fiction, but already have a long backlog of both.

The List

• S. Fachard, “A decade of research on Greek fortifications,” AR 62 (2015–2016), 77–88
• R. Stoneman, “How Many Miles to Babylon?,” G&R 62 (2015), 60–74
• D.M. Pritchard “Public Finance and War in Ancient Greece,” G&R 62 (2015), 48–59
• M.J. Taylor, “Sacred Plunder and the Seleucid Near East,” G&R 61 (2014), 222–41
• D.M. Pritchard, “The Position of Attic Women in Democratic Athens,” G&R 61 (2014) 174–93
• D.M. Pritchard, “The Archers of Classical Athens,” G&R 65 (2018), 86–102
• L.M. Yarrow, “How to Read a Diodoros Fragment,” in Diodoros of Sicily, edd. L.I. Hau, A. Meeus, and B. Sheridan (Leuven: 2018), 247–74
• S.E. Kidd, “How to Gamble in Greek” JHS 137 (2017), 119–34
• Ali Akhtar, “Enterprising Sultans and the Doge of Venice,” in Arabic Humanities, Islamic Thought, edd. S. Toorawa and J. Lowry (2017), 361–74
• C. Belsey, Criticism: Ideas in Profile (Profile Books: 2016)
• M.E. Irwin, “Venturing where Vine and Olive don’t grow.” SyllClass 14 (2003), 83–99
• D. Tober, “Greek Local Historiography and Its Audiences,” CQ2 67 (2017), 460–84
• A.W. Collins, “The Persian Royal Tent and Ceremonial and Alexander the Great,” CQ2 67 (2017), 71–6
• R. Konijnendijk, “Mardonius’ Senseless Greeks,” CQ2 66 (2016), 1–12
• A. Livarda, “Archaeobotany in Greece,” AR 60 (2013–2014), 106–16
• M. Yue, “Naming the Greeks in the Archaic Period,” JAC 31 (2016), 45–84
• S.C. Murray, “Lights and Darks: Data, Labeling, and Language in the History of Scholarship on Early Greece,” Hesperia 87 (2018), 17–54
• R. Sobak, “Sokrates among the Shoemakers,” Hesperia 84 (2015), 669–712
• L. Khatchadourian, “The Satrapal Condition,” in Imperial Matter (Los Angeles and Berkeley: 2016), 1–24
• S.E. Psoma, “Athenian Owls and the royal Macedonian monopoly on Timber,” MHR 30 (2015), 1–18
• J. Giebfried, “The Mongol Invasions and the Aegean World (1241–61),” MHR 28 (2013), 129–39
• C. Rowan, “Coinage as commodity and bullion in the Western Mediterranean,” MHR 28 (2013), 105–27
• J. Haubold, “The Achaemenid Empire and the Sea,” MHR 27 (2012), 5–24
• K.L. Gaca “Reinterpreting the Homeric Simile of Iliad 16.7–11: The Girl and Her Mother in Ancient Greek Warfare,” AJPh 129 (2008), 145–71
• S. Greenblatt, “Theatrical Mobility”, in Cultural Mobility, ed. S. Greenblatt (Cambridge: 2009), 75–95