Publications

Books

(2015) Phaenias of Eresus: Text, Translation, and Discussion, Oliver Hellmann and David Mirhady (eds), Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities (RUSCH), Volume 19.

(2012) Praxiphanes of Mytilene and Chamaeleon of Heraclea. Text, Translation, and Discussion. Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities (RUSCH), Volume 18. Co-authored with Elisabetta Matelli and Andrea Martano. New Brunswick, NJ.

(2011) Aristotle Volume XVI
 Loeb Classical Library 317.  Problems, Volume II Books 20-38. Rhetoric to Alexander. Edited And Translated By Robert Mayhew and David C. Mirhady.  Cambridge, MA.

(2011)  A New Working Bibliography of Ancient Greek Law (7th-4th centuries BC).    M Sundahl, D.C. Mirhady, I. Arnaoutoglou (eds.). Athens.

(2007) Influences on Peripatetic Rhetoric.  Essays in Honor of William W. Fortenbaugh.  Edited by David C. Mirhady.  (Philosophia Antiqua 105) Leiden: Brill. x, 286 pp.  ISBN 978 9004156 68 5.

(2000) The Oratory of Classical Greece. Translated with Notes.  Volume 4.1: Isocrates 1. Translated by David Mirhady and Yun Lee Too.  Austin: University of Texas Press.

(1994) Peripatetic Rhetoric After Aristotle. Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities, vol. 6.  W. W. Fortenbaugh and D. C. Mirhady, eds.  New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.

(1992) Theophrastus of  Eresus.  Sources for His Life, Thought, Writings and Influence.  Two Volumes. W. Fortenbaugh, P. Huby, R. Sharples, D. Gutas, et al., eds.  Leiden: Brill. 
78 pages in these volumes contain material prepared for my dissertation.

Book Chapters and Journal Articles

(2021) "The Rhetoric of Commercial Law in 4th-Century BC Athens," in Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making, edited by Serge Dauchy, Heikki Pihlajamäki, Albrecht Cordes and Dave De Ruysscher (Leiden: Brill), pp. 10-20.

(2021) "The Torture of Prometheus." In Witnesses and Evidence, edited by Andreas Markantonatos, Vassileios Liotsakis, and Andreas Serafim, (Trends in Classics, Berlin: de Gruyter) pp. 215-28.

(2019) "A Thankless People (Hdt. 5.91.2)", Mouseion, Series III, Vol. 16 Supplement 3, 351–365.

(2019) "Arguments," in A Cultural History of Law in Antiquity, ed. by Julen Euxtabe, Bloomsbury, ch. 5, pp. 91-107, 167-68.

(2016) "Ethos in On the Crown," in Demosthenes' "On the Crown": Rhetorical Perspectives, 2nd edition, edited by James J. Murphy, Southern Illinois University Press, pp. 114-29.

(2016) "Urbane Expressions in Aristotle and Anaximenes," Papers on Rhetoric XIII: 257-88.

(2015) "Knowing the law and deciding justice: lay expertise in the democratic Athenian courts," Comparative Legal History, 3:2, 231-244.

(2015) "Problemata 29 and Athenian Law," in The Aristotelian Problemata: Philosophical & Scientific Investigations, edited by Robert Mayhew. Leiden: Brill. Pp. 337-356.

(2013) with Domingo Aviles, "Law Courts", in A Companion to Ancient Greek Government, ed. by H. Beck, Wiley-Blackwell. Pp. 205-218.

(2012) "Something to do with Dionysus: Chamaeleon on the Origins of Tragedy," in Praxiphanes of Mytilene and Chamaeleon of Heraclea. Text, Translation, and Discussion, (above) Pp. 387-409.

(2011) with Carl Schwarz, “Dikastic Participation,” CQ 6: 753-757.

(2011) “Aristotle and Anaximenes on Arrangement,” Rhetorica 29: 293-404.

(2009) "Is the Wasps Anger Democratic?" in The Play of Texts and Fragments. Essays in Honour of Martin Cropp. Edited by J. R. C. Cousland and J. R. Hume. Leiden.  Pp. 371-87.

(2008) “The Disappearance and Reappearance of Exetasis.” Mouseion 8: 395-408.

(2008) "Draconian Procedure" in Epigraphy and the Greek Historian, edited by Craig Cooper (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), pp. 15-30.

(2007) "Aristotle's Enthymeme, Thymos, and Plato" in Influences on Peripatetic Rhetoric, above, pp. 53-64.

(2007) "Introduction," in Influences on Peripatetic Rhetoric, above, pp. 1-18.

(2007) "The Dikasts' Oath and the Question of Fact," in Horkos: The Oath in Greek Society, edited by A. Sommerstein and  J. Fletcher  (Bristol: Bristol Classical Press),  pp. 48-59, 228-233.

(2006) "Aristotle and the Law Courts," Polis 23.2: 302-318.

(2005) "Response to Adele Scafuro" in Symposion 2001, edited by R. W. Wallace and M. Gagarin, Vienna, , pp. 71-7.

(2004) "Hieronymus on Isocrates' Style" in Lyco of Troas and Hieronymus of Rhodes: Text, Translation, and Discussion, W.W. Fortenbaugh and S.A. White, eds. (Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities, vol. 12) pp. 443-456.

(2004)  "Contracts in Athens", in Law, Rhetoric and Comedy in Classical Athens.  Essays in Honour of Douglas M. MacDowell, edited by  C. Carey, D.L. Cairns, and R.A. Knox (Swansea: Classical Press of Wales), pp. 51-63.

(2004) "Forensic Evidence in Euripides'  Hippolytus,"  Mouseion 4: 17-34.

(2003) "Classical Responses on Trauma, and Poiesis," West Coast Line 37: 67-73.

(2002) "Athens' Democratic Witnesses," Phoenix 56: 255-74.

(2001) "Dicaearchus of Messana: A New Edition of the Texts with an English Translation," in Dicaearchus of Messana, edited by E. Schütrumpf (Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities, vol. 10.) pp. 1-135.

(2000) “Politics, Law and the Military" in Classical Greek Civilization (800-323 BCE). World Eras, volume 2. Edited by J. Kirby (Detroit: Gale Research), pp. 161-205.

(2000) "Demosthenes as Advocate: The Private Speeches," in Demosthenes: Statesman and Orator, edited by  I. Worthington (London: Routledge), pp. 181-204.

(2000) "The Athenian Rationale for Torture," in Law and Social Status in Classical Athens, edited by J. Edmondson and V. Hunter (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 53-74.

(1997) "The Ritual Background of Athenian Ostracism," The Ancient History Bulletin 11: 13-19.

(1996) "Torture and Rhetoric in Athens," The Journal of Hellenic Studies 116: 119-131, reprinted in (2007) Oxford Readings in the Attic Orators, edited by E. Carawan (Oxford), pp. 247-68.

(1995) "A Note on Aristotle, Rhetoric 1.3 1358b5-6," Philosophy and Rhetoric 28: 405-9.

(1995) "Plutarch's Use of Theophrastus' Pros tous kairous," in Teoria e Prassi Politica nelle Opere di Plutarco, edited by I. Gallo  (Naples: M. D'Auria) pp. 269-73.

(1994) "Aristotle, the Rhetorica ad Alexandrum and the tria genera causarum," in Peripatetic Rhetoric After Aristotle. (see above) pp. 54-65.

(1993-4) "Torture in Athenian Litigation," Proceedings of the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric 5: 1-10.

(1992) "The Great Fuss over Philebus 15b," Apeiron 25: 171-7.

(1991) "The Oath-Challenge in Athens," Classical Quarterly 41: 78-83.

(1991) "Non-Technical pisteis in Aristotle and Anaximenes," American Journal of Philology 112: 5-28.

(1990) "Aristotle on the Rhetoric of Law," Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 31: 393-410.

Encyclopedia Articles

"Demosthenes," in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Greece and Rome, Ed. by M. Gagarin. (2009) Vol. 2, pp. 403-7.

"Oaths: Ancient Athens" in Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, Ed. Stanley Katz. (2009) Vol. 4, pp. 241-2.

"Religion and Law: Ancient Greece" in Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal Historyy, Ed. Stanley Katz. (2009) Vol. 5, pp. 110-113.

"Witnesses: Ancient Greece" in Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, Ed. Stanley Katz. (2009) Vol. 6, pp. 110-111.

"Theft: Ancient Greek Law" in Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, Ed. Stanley Katz. (2009)  Vol. 5, pp. 456-7.

"Inheritance, Greek," in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Greece and Rome. Ed. by M. Gagarin. (2009) Vol. 4, pp. 69-71.

"Marriage and Divorce: Greek Marriage," in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Greece and Rome Ed. by M. Gagarin. (2009) Vol. 4, pp. 350-353.

"WYSE, William (1860-1929)" Dictionary of British Classicists, Robert B. Todd, General Editor (Bristol : Thoemmes Continuum, c2004) Vol. 3, pp. 1082-1083.

"HEADLAM-MORLEY, Sir James Wycliffe (1863-1929)" Dictionary of British Classicists, Vol. 1, pp. 440-441.

"NEWMAN, William Lambert (1834-1923)" Dictionary of British Classicists, Vol. 2, pp. 712-713.

"BARKER, Ernest (1874-1960)",  Dictionary of British Classicists, Vol. 1, pp. 49-50.

"Peitho," Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik, Band 6, pp. 741-745.

"Ancient Athens,"  in Legal Systems of the World: A Political, Social, and Cultural Encyclopedia. H. Kritzer, ed.  Volume 1, pp. 44-47

Reviews

David Lloyd Dusenbury, Platonic Legislations. An Essay on Legal Critique in Ancient Greece. Springer, 2017. for Polis 35.1 (2019) 181-2.

Adriaan Lanni, Law and Order in Ancient Athens, Cambridge 2016, in Polis 35 (2018) 316-18.             

Camille Rambourg, Topos: Les premières méthodes d'argumentation dans la rhétorique grecque des ve-ive siècles, Vrin (Paris) 2014, in Mouseion 15.1 (2018) 161-62.

Gabriel Herman,  Morality and Behaviour in Democratic Athens: A Social History, in Ancient History Bulletin 21 (2009)  124-6.

Sara Forsdyke, Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy: The Politics of Expulsion in Ancient Greece. (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2005) in Classical Philology 102 no.4 (2007), pp. 403–8.

Joseph A. Almeida, Justice as an Aspect of the Polis Idea in Solon's Political Poems: A Reading of the Fragments in Light of the Researches of New Classical Archaeology (Leiden: Brill 2003), Polis, 22 (2005) 177-9.

Demosthenes. On the crown.  Edited by Harvey Yunis.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics). 2001.  Pp. xii, 314, Phoenix 58 (2004) 156-7.

R. Mariss, Alkidamas: Über diejenigen, die schriftliche Reden schreiben, oder Über die Sophisten.  Einen Sophistenrede aus dem 4. jahrhundert v. Chr. Eingeleitet und kommentiert, in Classical Review 54 (2004) 331-3.

D. Whitehead, Hypereides.  The Forensic Speeches. in The Classical Bulletin 80 (2004) 331-34.

N. Livingstone, A Commentary on Isocrates' Busiris (Leiden: Brill, 2001) for Bryn Mawr Classical Review  2004.09.37.  http://ccat/sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2004/2004-09-37.html

Barbara Koziak, Retrieving Political Emotion.  Thumos, Aristotle, and Gender, for Ancient Philosophy 22 (2002) 440-2.

Marion Findlay,  Roman Religion, for Scholia Reviews ns 11 (2002) 24.

E. Schiappa, The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical Greece, for Phoenix 55 (2001) 173-5.

Danielle S. Allen, The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens, for Polis 18 (2001) 161-4.

Aristotle, Politics, Books V and VI. Translated with a commentary by D. Keyt, for Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 4.17 (2000).

M. R. Christ, The Litigious Athenian, in Classical World 93 (2000) 641.

R. Wardy, The Birth of Rhetoric: Gorgias, Plato and their Successors, for Classical Views/Echos du monde classique 44 (2000) 409-11.

I. Rutherford, Canons of Style in the Antonine Age, in Religious Studies Review 25 (1999) 417.

I. Arnaoutoglou, Ancient Greek Laws: A Sourcebook, in The American Journal of Legal History 42 (1998) 308-9.

J. Yatromanolaki, Sympheron, Dikaion and Nomoi in Deliberative Rhetoric, in Phoenix 52 (1998) 157-9.

A. Tulin, Dike Phonou: The Right of Prosecution and Attic Homicide Procedure, in American Journal of Philology 119 (1998) 639-642.

P. Garnsey, Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine, in Classical World 91 (1998) 434-5.

L. Foxhall and A. D. E. Lewis, eds.,  Greek Law in its Political Setting.  Justifications not Justice,  in Classical World 91 (1998) 419-20.

A. Rorty, ed., Essays on Aristotle's Rhetoric, in Classical World 91 (1998) 289-90.

M. Gagarin, ed., Antiphon. The Speeches, in Religious Studies Review 24 (1998) 69.

J. Kastely, Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition: From Plato to Post-Modernism, in Religious Studies Review 24 (1998) 176.

K. Eden, Hermeneutics and the Rhetorical Tradition, in Religious Studies Review 24 (1998) 195.

Aeschinis orationes.  Ed. M. Dilts, in Religious Studies Review 24 (1998) 189.

A. Scarfuro & A. Boegehold, eds., Athenian Identity and Civic Ideology,  and R. Osborne & S. Hornblower, eds.,  Ritual, Finance, Politics: Athenian Democratic Accounts Presented to David Lewis,  joint review in Classical World 90 (1997) 382-3.

Carlos Lévy and Laurent Pernot, eds. Dire l'évidence. (Philosophie et rhétorique antiques), in Phoenix 51 (1997) 432-5.

R. Sealey, The Justice of the Greeks, in Classical Views/Echos du monde classique 40 (1996) 325-8.

M. Lang, Life, Death and Litigation in the Athenian Agora, in Classical World 89 (1996) 509.

D.J. Furley and A. Nehamas, eds., Aristotle's Rhetoric: Philosophical Essays, in Philosophy and Rhetoric 29 (1996) 441-4.

E. Garver, Aristotle's Rhetoric: An Art of Character, in Phoenix 50 (1996) 179-80.

E. Cohen, Athenian Economy and Society. A Banking Perspective, in Classical World 88 (1995) 123.

J. Swanson, The Public and the Private in Aristotle's Political Philosophy, in Classical World 87 (1994) 333.

H.-G. Gadamer, Plato's Dialectical Ethics,  in Classical World 86 (1993) 256-7.

R. Just, Women in Athenian Law and Life, in Classical World 86 (1993) 146.

Translation of a Scholarly Work

H. Meyer-Laurin, "Law and Equity in the Attic Trial" (Gesetz und Billigkeit im attischen Prozess) in Oxford Readings in the Attic Orators, edited by E. Carawan.  Oxford, pp. 116-39 and http://www.sfu.ca/nomoi/ml5-7.htm.