2024

• “Alexander and Empire: A Commentary on a New Testimony to Onesicritus (Sen. Ben. 7.2.5).” JHS 144: 182-197.
• “Xerxes I, an Heir of Assyria? The Daiva Inscription in Context.” JNES 83/1: 41-58.
• “Alexander and the Oathbreakers: IG II/III² 1, 318 and the Punishment of Greek Mercenary Service.” Eos 109: 55-75.
• “Approaching ‘Inherited Geographies’ in the Ancient Worlds.” In Ruffing et al. (eds.), Navigating the Worlds of History: Studies in Honor of Robert Rollinger on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday, 3 vols. Wiesbaden 2024: Harrassowitz, 49-83.
• “Revaluating the Sardanapalus Monument in Cilicia: Greek Travelogues and Ancient Near Eastern Hedonism.” SAA 30/2: 371-386 (together with Sebastian Fink).
• “Accessibility to the Argead Ruler. Alexander III’s Court between Macedonian Traditions and Persian Influences.” In K. Nawotka and A. Wojciechowska (eds.), Legacy of the East and Legacy of Alexander. Wiesbaden 2024: Harrassowitz, 155-182.
• “Another Dialogue: Herodotus, Thucydides and the Long Walls of Athens.” In J. Degen et al. (eds.), Ancient Worlds in Perspective: Contextualizing Herodotus (Philippika 150). Wiesbaden 2024: Harrassowitz, 223-237.

2023

• “Documentary Evidence for Syrian Merchants in Maritime Long-Distance Trade in the Roman Empire.” MBAH 41: 149-175 (together with Patrick Reinard).
• “Religion im Schatten des Olymps. Das argeadische Makedonien im kulturellen Spannungsfeld zwischen Griechenland und dem Alten Orient.” In M. Kasper et al.(eds.), Religion in den Bergen (Montafoner Gipfeltreffen 5). Wien et al. 2023: Böhlau Verlag, 24-43.
• “Seleucus I, Appian and Seleucia-on-the-Tigris: Empire Becoming Visible in Seleucid ktíseis.” In M. Canepa, T. Darayee, and R. Rollinger (eds.), Iran and the Transformation of Ancient Near Eastern History: The Seleucids (ca. 312-150 BCE) (Classica et Orientalia 31). Wiesbaden 2023: Harrassowitz, 125-166.

2022

• “Alexander und die κήτεα des Okeanos”. Klio 104/2: 517-549.
• “Source and Criticism: Traces of Alexander’s ‘Official Language’ in the Anabasis.” In R. Rollinger and J. Degen (eds.), The World of Alexander in Perspective Contextualizing Arrian (Classica et Orientalia 30). Wiesbaden 2022: Harrassowitz, 25-72.
• “Introducing Arrian and the World of Alexander.” In R. Rollinger and J. Degen (eds.), The World of Alexander in Perspective Contextualizing Arrian (Classica et Orientalia 30), Wiesbaden 2022: Harrassowitz, 1-10 (together with Robert Rollinger).
• “The ‘End’ of the Achaemenid-Persian Empire: Caesura and Transformation in Dialogue.” In M. Gehler, R. Rollinger, and P. Strobl (eds.), The End of Empires (Universal- und kulturhistorische Studien / Studies in Universal and Cultural History). Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2022, 143-190 (together with Robert Rollinger).
• “Planets, Palaces and Empire: Some Observations on ancient Near Eastern and Greek influences on Herodotus’ portrayal of Deioces’ palace (Hdt. 1.98-99).” In R. Mattila, S. Fink, and S. Ito (eds.), Evidence Combined. Western and Eastern Sources in Dialogue (Melammu Symposia 11 - Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse 920). Wien 2022: Verlag der ÖAW, 49-81.
• “Philipp II. von Makedonien. Expansion zum Großreich: Auf Augenhöhe mit Athen.” DAMALS 54 (Juli) (2022): 26-31.

2021

• “Alexander III, the Achaemenids and the Quest for Dionysos: Framing and Claiming Universal Rulership in the Macedonian World Empire.” In T. Daryaee and R. Rollinger (eds.), Iran and its Histories. From the Beginnings through the Achaemenid Empire (Classica et Orientalia 29). Wiesbaden 2021: Harrassowitz, 239-287.
• “Conceptualizing Universal Rulership: Considerations on the Persian Achaemenid Worldview and the Saka at the ‘End of the World’.” In Klinkott, A. Luther and J. Wiesehöfer (eds.), Beiträge zur Geschichte und Kultur des alten Iran und benachbarter Gebiete. Festschrift für Rüdiger Schmitt (Oriens et Occidens 36). Stuttgart 2021: Franz Steiner Verlag, 187-224 (together with Robert Rollinger).
• “From Darius I to Artaxerxes I: The Establishment of Empire.” In B. Jacobs and R. Rollinger (eds.), A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World). Hoboken, NJ 2021: Wiley Blackwell, 429-456 (together with Robert Rollinger).
• “History of Research in Western Europe.” In B. Jacobs and R. Rollinger (eds.), A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World). Hoboken, NJ 2021: Wiley Blackwell, 1563-1608 (together with Sean Manning).
• “Alexander the Great and the Borders of the World.” In D. Agut-Labordère et al. (eds.), Vingt ans après. Hommage à Pierre Briant (Persika 21). Leuven 2021: Peeters, 321-342 (together with Robert Rollinger).

2020

• “How Greek the Medes were? Herodotus’ medikos logos, Athens and the transformation of empire from symmachia to arche.” In S. Badalkhan, G.P. Basello, and M. De Chiara (eds.), Iranian Studies in Honour of Adriano V. Rossi. Naples: UniorPress 2020, 273-289 (together with Robert Rollinger).
• “Herodot, Sisamnes und der der Topos der grausamen persischen Monarchie.” In M. Zerjadtke (ed.), Der ethnographische Topos in der Alten Geschichte: Annäherungen an ein omnipräsentes Phänomen (Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne 10). Stuttgart 2020: Franz Steiner Verlag, 39-55.
• “Approaching short-termed empires in world history, a first attempt.” In R. Rollinger, J. Degen, and M. Gehler (eds.), Short-term Empires in World History (Universal- und kulturhistorische Studien. Studies in Universal and Cultural History). Wiesbaden 2020: Springer VS, 1-21 (together with Robert Rollinger und Michael Gehler).
• “Ancient Near Eastern Traditions in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia: Conceptions of royal qualities and empire.” In B. Jacobs (ed.), Ancient Information on Persia Re-assessed: Xenophon’s Cyropaedia, Proceedings of a Conference Held at Marburg in Honour of Christopher Tuplin, December 1-2, 2017 (Classica et Orientalia 22). Wiesbaden 2020: Harrassowitz, 197-240.

2019

• “Xenophon and the Light from Heaven.” AHB 33/3-4: 81-107.
• “Alexander III., Dareios I. und das speererworbene Land (Diod. 17, 17, 2).” JANEH 6: 53-95.
• “Deportationen zur Zeit der ersten persischen Eroberung Ägyptens. Kambyses’ Sicherungspolitik im Lichte hellenischer und achaimenidischer Quellen.” In R. Rollinger and H. Stadler (eds.), 700 Millionen Jahre Migrationsgeschichte: Annäherungen zwischen Archäologie, Geschichte und Philologie. Innsbruck 2019: Innsbruck University Press, 183-217.

2017

• “Wahrnehmung und Darstellung von Palästen in den Historien Herodots: Über den Isolationstopos des Deiokes, den angeblichen Palast des Polykrates und die Akropolis des Gaumata.” In R. Rollinger (ed.), Die Sicht auf die Welt zwischen Ost und West (750 v. Chr. - 550 n. Chr.) - Looking at the World from the East and the West (750 BCE - 550 CE) (Classica et Orientalia 12). Wiesbaden 2017: Harrassowitz, Teil A, 31-80.

2016

• “Les Reines de Perse aux pieds d’Alexandre. Rezeption des exeplum virtutis von Curtius Rufus bis Charles le Brun.” historia.scribere 8: 47-82.

2015

• “Die mykenische Löwendarstellung: Ein Fallbeispiel für die Veränderung politischer Symbolik durch Kulturkontakte.” historia.scribere 7: 9-32.

• Review of “Richard Teverson, Visions of the Future in Roman Frontier Kingdoms 100 BCE-100 CE, London 2024.” BMCR: in press.
• Review of “Giustina Monti (ed.), Alexander the Great. Letters: A Selection, Liverpool 2023.” HZ 320 (2024): 169-171.
• Review of “Marie Oellig, Die Sukzession von Weltreichen. Zu den antiken Wurzeln einer geschichtsmächtigen Idee (Oriens et Occidens 38), Stuttgart 2023.” Orientalistische Literaturzeitung (2024): in press.
• Review of “Lynette Mitchell, Cyrus the Great: a biography of kingship (Routledge Ancient Biographies), New York 2023.” Gymnasium 130/6 (2024): 593-595.
• Review of “L. Burckhardt und S. Rebenich (eds.), Jacob Burckhardt: Alte Teilband 1: Ägypten und Alter Orient. Römische Geschichte: Republik (Jacob Burckhardt Werke. Kritische Gesamtausgabe; Bd. 23,1), München 2022.” Klio 106/1 (2024): 400-403.
• Review of “D. Dueck, Illiterate geography in classical Athens and Rome (Routledge monographs in classical studies), Abingdon 2020.” Orbis Terrarum 21 (2023): 305-308.
• Review of “ Allgaier, Embedded Inscriptions in Herodotus and Thucydides (Philippika 157), Wiesbaden 2022.” Gymnasium 129 (2022): 580-581.
• Review of “M. Waters, Ctesias’ Persica and its Near Eastern Context, Madison, WI ” Sehepunkte 21 (2021): http://www.sehepunkte.de/2021/12/34242.html.
• Review of “R. Schulz, Als Odysseus staunte. Die griechische Sicht des Fremden und das ethnographische Vergleichen von Homer bis Herodot (Studien zur Alten Geschichte 29), Göttingen 2020.” Orbis Terrarum 19 (2021): 339-341.
• Review of “H. Schunk, Arrians Indiké. Eine Untersuchung der Darstellungstechnik (Philippika. Marburger Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen 135), Wiesbaden.” Gymnasium 127 (2020): 290-292.
• Review of “I. von Bredow, Kontaktzone Vorderer Orient und Ägypten. Orte, Situationen und Bedingungen für primäre griechisch-orientalische Kontakte vom 10. bis zum 6. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Geographica Historica 38), Stuttgart 2017.” AAHG 70/3-4 (2017): 237-243.
• Review of “H. Klinkott, N. Kramer (eds.), Zwischen Assur und Athen: Altorientalisches in den Historien Herodots (Spielräume der Antike 4), Stuttgart ” AHB 8 (2018): 66-69.

• “Andron of Alexandria.” In V. Liotsakis, et al. (eds.), Greek and Roman Humanities Encyclopedia. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter: in press.
• “Andron of Ephesus.” In V. Liotsakis, et al. (eds.), Greek and Roman Humanities Encyclopedia. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter: in press.
• “Andron of Halicarnassus.” In V. Liotsakis, et al. (eds.), Greek and Roman Humanities Encyclopedia. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter: in press.
• “Andron of Teos.” In V. Liotsakis, et al. (eds.), Greek and Roman Humanities Encyclopedia. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter: in press.
• “Asclepiades.” In V. Liotsakis, et al. (eds.), Greek and Roman Humanities Encyclopedia. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter: in press.
• “Hieron of Soli.” In V. Liotsakis, et al. (eds.), Greek and Roman Humanities Encyclopedia. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter: in press.
• “Lamachus of Smyrna.” In V. Liotsakis, et al. (eds.), Greek and Roman Humanities Encyclopedia. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter: in press.
• “Medius of Larissa.” In V. Liotsakis, et al. (eds.), Greek and Roman Humanities Encyclopedia. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter: in press.
• “Nicobule.” In V. Liotsakis, et al. (eds.), Greek and Roman Humanities Encyclopedia. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter: in press.
• “Potamon of Mytilene.” In V. Liotsakis, et al. (eds.), Greek and Roman Humanities Encyclopedia. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter: in press.
• “Violence.” In Ch. Baron (ed.), The Herodotus Encyclopedia vol. 3. Hoboken, NJ et al.: John Wiley & Sons, 1525-1526 (together with Robert Rollinger).
• “Xerxes.” In Ch. Baron (ed.), The Herodotus Encyclopedia 3. Hoboken, NJ et al.: John Wiley & Sons, 1558-1563 (together with Robert Rollinger).
• “Cyrus I.” In D.T. Potts, E. Harkness, J. Neelis, and R. McIntosh (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Ancient History. Asia and Africa. Hoboken, NJ et al.: John Wiley & Sons (https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119399919.eahaa00362) (together with Robert Rollinger).
• “Cambyses II.” In D.T. Potts, E. Harkness, J. Neelis, and R. McIntosh (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Ancient History. Asia and Africa. Hoboken, NJ et al.: John Wiley & Sons (https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119399919.eahaa00364) (together with Robert Rollinger).
• “Cyrus II.” In D.T. Potts, E. Harkness, J. Neelis, and R. McIntosh (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Ancient History. Asia and Africa. Hoboken, NJ et al.: John Wiley & Sons (https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119399919.eahaa00363) (together with Robert Rollinger).

• 3.12.–6.12.2024: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Commission “Transformation Processes and Empire in the Ancient Afro-Eurasian Worlds” (Austria), University of California, Los Angeles, Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World (USA), University of Wrocław, NAWA Project “From the Achaemenids to the Romans” (Poland), University of Innsbruck (Austria): “The Transformation of Imperial Landscapes: The Elites of Asia Minor and the Coming of Rome” presented at “Between and Beyond Empires: From the Seleucids to the Sasanians (2nd c. BC – 7th c. AD).”
• 28.11.–30.11.2024: University of Augsburg (Germany): “Alexander, Perdiccas, and Asia: Asserting Universalism and Regionalism in the Macedonian World Empire” presented at “World Rulers and/or Territorial Kings: Universalism and Regionalism in the Hellenistic Monarchies.”
• 19.11.–21.11.2024: University of Kiel (Germany): “Rationalising the Strange: Ancient Near Eastern Tales in Herodotus” presented at “Composing Complexity: The Interconnectivity of Literary, Historical, and Cultural Levels in the Histories of Herodotus.”
• 17.10.–18.10.2024: The Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization Centre of Excellence of the World Academy of Art & Science in Bucharest (Romania): “Geography and Empire: Alexander III at the Jaxartes” presented at “Melammu Workshop 24: Crossing geographical barriers and conceptualizing expansion in Eurasia. Exploration, conquest and ideology in antiquity and beyond.”
• 14.10.-15.10.2024 MF Oslo (Norway): “The Achaemenid Empire and Religious Diversity: In Search of the Imperial Perspective” presented at “Diversity and Belonging I: Religious minorities and religious diversity in the Teispid-Achaemenid Empire.”
• 11.04.2024–12.04.2024 University of Augsburg (Germany): “Universalismus und Regionalismus in der Repräsentation altorientalischer Imperien vom 3. bis zum 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr.” presented at “Universalistische und regionalistische Reiche. Die Ideologie der universalen Herrschaft in der Darstellung der Monarchien in diachroner Perspektive.”
• 19.02.2024–21.02.2024 University of Trier (Germany): “Harbours in Strabo’s Geographica: Using Geographical Texts as a Source for Exploring Mediterranean Economies” presented at “Maritime Connections and their Influence on Ancient Sea Trade: Objects, People, Places.”
• 17.01.2024–19.01.2024 University of Innsbruck (Austria): “Inherited Geographies in Herodotus’ Histories” presented at “From Athens to Samarqand: Spatial Perception in Antiquity from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Taklamakan Desert. Melammu Workshop 20.”
• 29.11.2023-02.12.2023: Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Innsbruck (Austria), University of California Irvine (UCI) (USA): “Opening up new perspectives II: the end of empire vs. a period of transmission and restructuring” presented at “Farhad Ebrahimi Workshop: The Achaemenid-Persian Empire at its Heyday? The Era between Darius II and Darius III.”
• 10.10.2023: invited lecture “Pompeius und Alexander an den Rändern der Welt” given at University of Basel (Switzerland).
• 05.10.2023 University of Kassel (Germany): “Importing Tin from the British Isles: The Interplay of Extractivism, Maritime Economies and Imperial Politics in the Roman Period” presented at “Extractive Regimes and Energy Transitions: Historizing Extractivism.”
• 26.09.2023 invited lecture “The Book of Esther and Achaemenid Imperial Narratives” given at MF Oslo (Norway) in the series “MF CASR lunch” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn1y0ra6Gvo).
• 03.-07.07.2023 University of Innsbruck (Austria), University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) (USA) “Narrating Imperial Success from the Achaemenid Period to the Late Roman Republic” presented at “Achaemenid Workshop II: The Achaemenid Persian Empire and Imperial Transformations in the Ancient Near East (7th – 2nd c. BC).”
• 12.-14.04.2023 University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) (USA): “The Achaemenids and the Desert” presented at “Achaemenid Workshop I: Identity, Alterity, and the Imperial Impress in the Achaemenid World” (https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/video/the-achaemenids-and-the-desert/).
• 12.01.2023 University of Wrocław (Poland): “Pompey, Transcaucasia, and the Contest for Empire” presented at “NAWA-Workshop”.
• 23.11.2022 invited lecture “Alexander und die Seeungeheuer des Okeanos“ given at Universität Darmstadt (Germany).
• 15.11.2022 invited lecture “Alexander, die Achaimeniden und der Indische Ozean. Zum neuen Testimonium zu Onesikritos (Sen. Ben. 7, 2, 5)” given at University of Kassel (Germany).
• 02.11.-04.11.2022 Istanbul University Faculty of Letters Department of Ancient History/Bodrum City Municipality (Turkey): “The Discourse on Empire in the Histories of Herodotus” presented at “International Bodrum Herodotus Workshop 2022/ Uluslararası Bodrum Herodot Çalıştayı”
• 10.-11.10.2022: MF School of Theology, Religion, and Society Oslo (Norway): “Responses to Achaemenid Imperial Narratives. Xerxes I’s Daiva-Inscription, Herodotus, and the Book of Esther” presented at “Perceptions and Receptions of Persia among Hellenistic and Sasanian Jews: Historical Considerations and Comparative Insights from Studies of Contemporary Cultural/Religious Minorities” (read in absentia).
• 20.-24.06.2022 University of Innsbruck (Austria), University of Trier (Germany): “The Macedonian Miracle: Argead Macedonia as a Borderland” presented at “Contextualizing Imperial Borderlands (9th c. BC – 9th c. AD, and Beyond)”.
• 15.06.2022 invited lecture “Strabon und Roms westliche Mittelmeerwelt. Die Geographika als Quelle für die römische Wirtschaftsgeschichte” given at University of Trier (Germany) in the series “Probleme des römischen Westens.”
• 10.03.2022 invited lecture “Alexander und die κήτεα des Okeanos” given at University of Innsbruck (Austria) in the series “AWOSA.”
• 30.11.–2.12.2021: “The Perils and Limits of Empire: Alexander the Great in India” presented at “International digital Conference Empires through the Ages: Short Term Empires – Rule or Exception?”
• 19.-23.10.2021: “Religion im Schatten des Olymps. Berge als sakrale Orte und Konnektivitätsfaktoren im argeadischen Makedonien” presented at “5. Montafoner Gipfeltreffen. Internationale Wissenschaftstagung im Montafon: Religion in den Bergen” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST_YSJ5ZINE&t=24606s).
• 02.-03.12.2020: Universities of Kiel (Germany), Kassel (Germany), and Innsbruck (Austria), Online: “Netting the Ionians: The Place of Achaemenid Propaganda in the Herodotean Narrative” presented at “Ancient Worlds in Perspective: Contextualizing Herodotus. Internationale Tagung zum zwanzigsten Publikationsjahr von Reinhold Bichlers ‘Herodots Welt’.”
• 24.-25.02.2020: University of California Irvine (UCI) (USA): “Seleucus I between East and West: Appian on the Foundation of Seleucia-on-the-Tigris” presented at “Payravi Conference on Iranian History III: Iran and the Transformation of Ancient Near Eastern History: The Seleucids (ca. 312-150 BCE).”
• 18.-20.02.2020: University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) (USA): “Herodotus and the Persian Priests: The Histories as a Source for Iranian Religion” presented at “14^th Melammu Symposium: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGFxcFSHFgA).
• 02.-06.12.2019: University of Innsbruck (Austria) in Bregenz (Austria): “Source and Criticism: Traces of Alexander’s Official Language in Arrian” presented at “The World of Alexander in Perspective: Contextualizing Arrian.”
• 13.-16.05.2019: University of Wrocław (Poland): “Alexander and Achaemenid Structures: The Career of Chares of Mytilene in Perspective” presented at “The Ancient Near Eastern Legacy and Alexander vs. Alexander’s Legacy to the World: Thirteenth Symposium of the Melammu Project.”
• 11.-12.03.2019: University of California Irvine (UCI) (USA): “The Persian Achaemenid-Empire and Alexander the Great: Where to end with?” presented at “Payravi Conference on Ancient Iranian History II: The Persian-Achaemenid Empire as a ‘World-System’: New Approaches & Contexts.”
• 15.-17.11.2018: University of Vienna (Austria): “Dareios I., Xerxes I. und Alexander III. an den Rändern der Welt. Altorientalisches in der Herrschaftsrepräsentation Alexanders des Großen” presented at “17. Österreichischer Althistorikerinnen - und Althistoriker-Tag.”
• 14.-15.09.2018: University of Hamburg (Germany): “Zur Konstruktion des Topos der gewalttätigen asiatischen Despotie bei Herodot und Ktesias” presented at “Der Toposbegriff in der Alten Geschichte. Annäherung an ein omnipräsentes Phänomen.”
• 19.-21.04.2018 University of Kiel (Germany): “Von Sargon II. bis Seleukos I. Zur Persistenz altorientalischer Praktiken bei der Gründung der ‚Hauptstadt‘ im frühen Hellenismus” presented at “Melammu-Workshop: Hellenistic Poleis and Near Eastern City Culture in the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empire.”
• 01.12.2017 University of Marburg (Germany): “The Cyropaedia as a Source for Ancient Near Eastern History. Questioning the ‘Persian decore’” presented at “Melammu Workshop 4: Ancient Information on Persia Re-Assessed: The Impact of Xenophon’s Kyroupaideia.”
• 07.07.2017 University of Graz (Austria): “Physische Gewalt und das Achaimenidische Imperium. Ein Beitrag zu den herodoteischen Quellen” presented at “Antike Kulturen des Mittelmeerraums: Doktoratsprogramm der Universitäten Innsbruck und Graz.”
• 03.-05.04.2017 American University in Beirut (Lebanon): “Herodotus’s description of the Walls of Agbatana and its astronomical Dimension” presented at “Melammu 11: Evidence Combined: Western and Eastern Sources in Dialogue.”
• 27.01.2017 University of Innsbruck (Austria): “Wahrnehmung und Darstellung von Palästen bei Herodot” presented at “Antike Kulturen des Mittelmeerraums: Doktoratsprogramm der Universitäten Innsbruck und Graz.”