Dr Richard Miles
On leave Semester 1, 2010
Senior Lecturer
Department of Classics and Ancient History
Rm J6.08
A14- Quadrangle
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006
Australia
Phone: +61 2 9351 2074
Fax: +61 2 9351 3918
Email:
Fields of Expertise
- Late Antique History and Archaeology
- Punic History and Archaeology
- Roman North Africa
Education
- BA Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Liverpool
- PhD Classics, University of Cambridge
Select Publications
Books
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Mediterranean Civilisation Allen Lane Penguin: 2010
The Vandals - Co-written with Dr A. Merrills. Blackwell: 2010.
(ed) Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity Routledge: 1999.
Articles
‘Hannibal and Propaganda’ in D. Hoyos (ed), Blackwell Companion to the Age of Hannibal (Wiley-Blackwell 2010)
“Lets (not) talk about it”: the Epistolary ‘Dialogue’ of Augustine of Hippo, in S. Goldhill (ed), The End of Ancient Dialogue (CUP 2008)
‘British Excavations at Bir Messaouda: the Byzantine Basilica’
Babesch-Bulletin Antieke Beschaving (Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology 81 2006): 199-226
‘The Anthologia Latina and the Creation of Secular Space in Vandal North Africa’,
[[i||Antiquité Tardive (13: 2005): 305-320
‘Rivalling Rome: Carthage as Cosmopolis’ in C. Edwards and G. Woolf (eds), Rome Cosmopolis (Cambridge: 2004), 123-146.
With Dr J. Haubold ‘Communality and Theatre in Libanius’ in B. Sandwell (ed),
Antioch in Late Antiquity (Oxbow: 2004), 24- 34.
‘Unmasking the Self: Church and Theatre in the Homilies of John Chrysostom’ in E. Theodorapoulous (ed), Attitudes to Theatre from Plato to Milton, Nottingham Classical Literature Studies, Midlands Classical Studies 7 (Bari: 2003), 103-116.
‘Interim Reports, the Bir Messaouda Project’ 1998-2003 , CEDAC 1999-2004
‘Communicating Power, Culture and Identity in the Roman World’ in J. Huskinson (ed), Experiencing Rome (Routledge: 2000)
‘Letter-Writing’ and ‘Messengers’ in G. Bowersock, P. Brown and O. Grabar, A Guide to Late Antiquity (Harvard:2000)
with Professor Pat Easterling, ‘Dramatic Identities: Tragedy in Late Antiquity’ in R.T.Miles (ed), Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity (Routledge:1999)