Prof. Michael D. Dixon
EDUCATION
The Ohio State University, PhD, Spring 2000
Dissertation: "Disputed Territories: International Arbitration in the Northeast Peloponnesos, ca. 250-150 B.C."
Drs. Stephen V. Tracy and Jack M. Balcer, Co-Advisors
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Associate Member, 1997-1999
Regular Member, 1996-1997
The Ohio State University, MA, Spring 1994
Thesis: "The Age of Cimon: The Delian League's Foundation and Early History"
The University of Massachusetts at Amherst, BA, Classics, 1991
PUBLICATIONS
"Corinth, Greek Freedom, and the Diadochoi, 323-301 B.C.," in Alexander's Empire. From Formulation to Decay. W. Heckel, L. Tritle, and P. Wheatley, eds. (Claremont, CA 2007), pp. 151-178.
"Menander's Perikeiromene and Demetrios Poliorketes," Classical Bulletin 81 (2005), pp. 131-143.
"IG IV2.1.75+ and the Date of the Arbitration between Epidauros and Hermion," Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik 137 (2001), pp. 169-173.
"A New Latin and Greek Inscription from Corinth," Hesperia 69 (2000), pp. 335-342.
"Two Archaic Inscriptions from Asprokampos, Corinthia," Annual of the British School at Athens 95 (2000), pp. 253-258.
"Epigraphy and Topographical Survey: The Case of the Corinthian-Epidaurian Border in the Hellenistic Period," in Ancient Greece at the Turn of the Millennium: Recent Work and Future Perspectives. Proceedings of the Athens Symposium, N. Kennell and J. Tomlinson, eds. Publications of the Canadian Archaeological Institute at Athens, no. 4 (Athens, Greece 2005), pp. 137-145.
"Hellenistic Arbitration: The Achaian League and Ptolemaic Arsinoe," in ARGOSARWNIKOS. The Proceedings of the First International Conference on the History and Archaeology of the Argo-Saronic Gulf, Volume 2. E. Konsolaki, ed. (Athens, Greece 2003), pp. 81-87.
Book Reviews
Review of Elizabeth Carney. Olympias, Mother of Alexander the Great. Routledge (2006). Classical Journal-Online 2007.11.01 (available on-line).
Review of Diana Kleiner. Cleopatra and Rome (Cambridge, MA 2005). Classical Bulletin 82 (2006), pp. 272-273.
Review of Craige B. Champion. Cultural Politics in Polybius's Hisotries. Hellenistic Culture and Society Vol. XLI. Berkeley 2004. Classical Journal 101 (2005), pp. 104-106.
Review of A. B. Bosworth. The Legacy of Alexander: Politics, Warfare, and Propaganda under the Successors. Oxford 2002. Classical Journal 99 (2004), pp. 469-472.
Review of J. C. Yardley. Justin and Trogus. A Study of the Language of Justin's Epitome of Trogus. Phoenix Supplement 41. Toronto 2003. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.02.23 (available on-line).
Review of Francois Chamoux. Hellenistic Civilization. First Published as La civilisation hellenistique (Paris 1981). Translated by M. Roussel. Blackwell 2003. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.02.16 (available on-line).
Review of Joseph. B. Scholten. The Politics of Plunder. Aitolians and their Koinon in the Early Hellenistic Era, 279-217 B.C. Hellenistic Culture and Society Vol. XXIV. Berkeley 2000. Classical Journal 97 (2001-2002), pp. 199-201.
PRESENTATIONS
"Corinth, Greek Freedom, and Polyperchon's Diagramma," presented at the International Symposium "Alexander and After," University of Calgary, January 2005.
"[Nikokles] the son of Gnikon and the History of Late Hellenistic Troizen," presented at the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy’s panel “New Epigraphical Discoveries in Greek Prosopography” at the Joint Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association and the Archaeological Institute of America, Boston, MA, January 2005.
"Menander's Perikeiromene and Demetrios Poliorketes," presented at the 100th annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, St. Louis, MO, April 2004.
"The 'Spartan Savior' in Thucydides and Polybius," presented at the 99th annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Lexington, KY, April 2003.
"Ptolemaic Egypt between Greece and Rome," presented at the 98th annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Austin, TX, April 2002.
"When is a Stone or a Stone Cairn a Herm? Methods of Defining Territorial Boundaries in the Peloponnese," presented at the 103rd annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Philadelphia, PA January 2002, abstract in American Journal of Archaeology 106 (2002), p. 240.
“Epigraphy and Topographical Survey: The Case of the Corinthian-Epidaurian Border in the Hellenistic Period,” presented at “Ancient Greece at the Turn of the Millennium: Recent Work and Future Perspectives,” Canadian Archaeological Institute, Athens, Greece, May 2001.
"Polybios on the Admission of Cities to the Achaian League," 97th annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Provo, UT, April 2001.
"Rhodian Arbitrators in the Second Century B.C.," 132nd Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, San Diego, CA, January 2001.
"A Corinthian Fortification, Thucydides, and the Epidaurian Border," 101st Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Dallas, TX, December 1999, abstract in American Journal of Archaeology 104 (2000), p. 360.
"The Achaian League and Polybios Book Six," 92nd Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Nashville, TN, April 1996
ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK
Gordion Regional Survey, 1999
Corinth Excavations, Training Session and Summer Season, 1997
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Hellenistic History
Greek Epigraphy
Polybios