Professor Daniel Ogden
Research Interests
Greek Bastardy in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods, OUP Classical Monograph (OUP, Oxford, 1996)
The Crooked Kings of Ancient Greece (Duckworth, London, 1997)
Polygamy, Prostitutes and Death. The Hellenistic Dynasties (Duckworth and Classical Press of Wales, London, 1999)
Greek and Roman Necromancy (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2001; German trans., Roter Drache, Rudostadt, 2010)
Aristomenes of Messene. Legends of Sparta’s Nemesis (Classical Press of Wales, Swansea, 2003)
In Search of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice: the Traditional Tales of Lucian’s Lover of Lies (Classical Press of Wales, Swansea, 2007).
Perseus (Routledge, London, 2008)
Night’s Black Agents.: Witches, Wizards and Ghosts in the Ancient World (Hambledon –Continuum, London, 2008)
Magic, Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds. A Sourcebook. 2nd ed. (OUP USA, New York, 2009)
Alexander the Great: Myth, Genesis and Sexuality. (University of Exeter Press, Exeter, 2011, in proof)
(co-author with V. Flint, R. Gordon, G. Luck) The Athlone History of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe. Vol. 2. Ancient Greece and Rome (Athlone, London, and University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1999; Portuguese trans., Madras Sao Paulo, 2004)
(ed.) The Hellenistic World. New Perspectives (Duckworth and Classical Press of Wales, 2002)
(ed.) A Companion to Greek Religion. (Blackwell, Oxford, 2007)
(co-ed. with E.D. Carney) Philip II and Alexander the Great: Father and Son, Lives and Afterlives. (OUP USA, New York, 2010)
`Cleisthenes of Sicyon, leuster' CQ 43 (1993) 353-363.
`Crooked speech: the genesis of the Spartan rhetra' JHS 114 (1994) 85-102. `Women and bastardy in ancient Greece' in Powell, A., ed., The Greek world (Routledge, London, 1995) 219-244.
`Homosexuality and warfare in ancient Greece' in Lloyd, A.B., ed., Battle in antiquity (Duckworth and CPW, London, 1996) 107-68.
`Rape, adultery and the protection of bloodlines in classical Athens' in Deacy, S., and Pierce, K.F., eds, Rape in antiquity (Duckworth & CPW, London, 1997) 25-41. 2nd ed. 2002.
`What was in Pandora's box?' in Fisher, N., and Van Wees, H., eds., Archaic Greece: new approaches and new evidence (Duckworth & CPW, London, 1998) 213-30.
‘Totenorakel in der griechischen Antike’ in Brodersen, K., ed., Prognosis. Studien zur Funktion von Zukunftsvorhersagen in Literatur und Geschichte seit der Antike (2001, Münster). 39-60. ISBN 3-8258-5341-1.
‘The Ancient Greek Oracles of the Dead’, Acta Classica 44 (2001) 167-95. ISSN 0065-1141.
`Controlling women’s dress: gynaikonomoi’ in Llewellyn-Jones, L., ed., Women's Dress in the ancient Greek world (Duckworth & CPW, London, 2002) 203-26.
`Lucan’s Sextus Pompeius episode: its necromantic, political and literary background’ in Powell, A., and Welch, K., eds., Sextus Pompeius (CPW & Duckworth, London, 2002) 249-71.
`Three evocations of the dead with Pausanias’, in Hodkinson, S., ed., Beyond the Spartan mirage (Duckworth and CPW, London, 2002) 111-33.
‘Aristomenes and his talismanic shield’, for Figueira, T.J., ed. Spartan Society (CPW, Swansea, 2004) 283-308.
‘Eucrates and Demainete’ CQ 54 (2004) 484-93.
‘The Apprentice’s Sorcerer: the man and his powers in context: Lucian Philopseudes 33-6’ Acta Classica 47 (2004) 101-126.
‘The function of the Pellichus sequence at Lucian Philopseudes 18-20’ Scripta Classica Israelica 24 (2005) 1-19.
5 entries for Golden, R. M., ed. Encyclopedia of witchcraft: the western tradition. 4 vols., ABC-Clio, Santa Barbara, 2006. Entries are: ‘Circe’, i, 190-1; ‘Defixiones’, i, 255; ‘Greek Magical Papyri’, ii, 456-7; Homer, ii, 5-7-8; ‘Laws on witchcraft (ancient)’, iii, 632-3.
‘Lucian’s tale of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice in context’ in Szpakowska, K., ed. Through a Glass Darkly. Magic, Dreams and Prophecy in Ancient Egypt. CPW, Swansea, 2006.
‘Two studies in the reception and representation of Alexander’s sexuality’ in Heckel, W., Tritle, L., and Wheatley, P., eds. Alexander’s empire . Formulation to decay. Regina Press, Claremont, 2007.
‘Magic in the Severan period’ in Swain, S., Elsner, J., and Harrison, S.J., eds. Severan Culture. CUP, 2007. 454-65.
‘The love of wisdom and the love of lies: the philosophers and philosophical voices of Lucian's Philopseudes’ in Morgan, J.R., and Jones, M., eds. Philosophical Presences in Ancient Narrative. Special issue of Ancient Narrative. 2007. 177-204.
‘Bilistiche and the prominence of courtesans in the Ptolemaic tradition’ in P. McKechnie and P. Guillaume eds., Ptolemy Philadelphus and his World. Brill: Leiden, 2008. 353-85.
‘Bastardy and fatherlessness in the ancient Greek world’ in S. Hübner and D.M. Ratzan eds. Growing up Fatherless in Antiquity. Cambridge: CUP, 2009. 105-19.
‘Alexander’s sex life’ in W. Heckel and L.A. Tritle eds. Alexander the Great: a New History.Blackwell: London, 2009. 203-17.
‘Plutarch at Delphi’ 8-page essay-pamplet in Japanese. Insert for Kyoto Classical Texts (the Japanese ‘Loebs’) volume corresponding to Plutarch Moralia Loeb V, 2009. Kyoto Classical Texts are distributed with a complimentary essay-pamplet insert; to be asked to contribute one of the pamphlets is a considerable honour.
‘Lucianus, Glycon and the two Alexanders’ in M. Çevik ed., International Symposium on Lucianus of Samosata. Adiyaman, 2009. 279-300.
‘Hellenistic royal courtesans and the sacred’ in T. Scheer and M.A. Lindner eds. Tempelprostitution im Altertum - Fakten und Fiktionen. Oikumene 6. Verlag Antike, Berlin, 2009. 344-376.
‘A war of witches at the court of Philip II?’, Ancient Macedonia/Archaia Makedonia 7 (2007), 425-37. [Appeared 2009 (!)]
‘Alexander’s snake sire’ in P. Wheatley and R. Hannah eds. 2009. Alexander and his Successors: Essays from the Antipodes. Regina Books: Claremont, CA. 136-178.
‘Magic’ in M. Gagarin ed. Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. 7 vols. New York: OUP USA. iv, 313-19.
‘Alexander in the Underworld’ in E. Carney and D. Ogden eds. Philip II and Alexander the Great: Father and Son, Lives and Afterlives. New York: OUP USA, 2010. pp...
‘Alexander, Scipio and Octavian: serpent-siring in Macedon and Rome’ Syllecta Classica 20 (2009), 31-52.
‘Dimensions of Death in the Greek and Roman Worlds’ in P. Gemeinhardt and A. Zgoll eds. Weltkonstruktionen. Religiöse Weltdeutung zwischen Chaos und Kosmos vom Alten Orient biz zum Islam. Orientalische Religionen in der Antike (ORA) 5. Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen, 2010. 103-131.
‘The Royal Families of Argead Macedon and the Hellenistic World’ in B. Rawson ed. A Companion to the Ancient Family. Blackwell, Oxford, 2011. 92-107.
‘Homosexuality’ in Golden, M., and Toohey, P., eds. Sexuality in the Classical World. Volume 1 in the series, A Cultural History of Sexuality, Peakman, J., and Laqueur, T., eds. Berg, Oxford, 2011. 37-54, 208-15.
‘How to marry a courtesan in the Macedonian courts’ in A. Erskine and L. Llewellyn-Jones eds. Creating a Hellenistic World. Classical Press of Wales, Swansea, 2011. 221-46.
