BOOKS: Political Dissent in Democratic Athens: Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule. Princeton University Press: Princeton Paperback ed

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1 1 JOSIAH OBER PRESENT POSITION: Princeton University. David Magie '97 Class of 1897 Professor of Classics. Joint faculty appointment in the University Center for Human Values. Department of Classics, East Pyne Hall Princeton University Princeton, NJ EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ancient History, Dissertation: "Athenian Reactions to Military Pressure and the Defense of Attica, B.C." Directed by C.G. Starr M.A. University of Michigan, Ancient History, 1977 B.A. University of Minnesota, History, 1975 EMPLOYMENT 1990-Present. Princeton University Present. Joint (half-time) appointment in University Center for Human Values Chairman, Department of Classics Present. David Magie '97 Class of 1897 Professor of Classics Present. Professor of Classics University of Michigan. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History Montana State University. Asst. to Full Professor, Dept. of History and Philosophy. FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS 2005 Wesson Lectures in Problems of Democracy. Stanford University Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences. Fellowship (residential) 2001 Nichols Visiting Professor in Humanities and the Public Sphere. U. of California at Irvine 2000 Professeur invité. Centre de recherche Gustave Glotz, Université Paris 1 Sorbonne 1997 Clare Hall, Cambridge. Visiting Fellowship 1997 National Endowment for the Humanities. Fellowship for University Teachers John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Fellowship 1994 Charles Beebe Martin Classical Lectures. Oberlin College Visiting Fellow, University of New England, Australia American Council of Learned Societies. Fellowship 1989 American Philological Association. Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit (year's best book) for Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens 1989 Montana State University. Wiley Award for Meritorious Research Center for Hellenic Studies. Fellowship (residential) 1989 National Endowment for Humanities. Summer Research Stipend National Humanities Center. Fellowship (residential) 1981 American Council of Learned Societies. Fellowship for Recent Ph.D's 1981 National Endowment for Humanities. Summer Research Stipend

2 2 OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Senior Fellow. Center for Hellenic Studies Paul H. Nitze Senior Fellow, St. Mary s College (Maryland). 3 Lectures Biggs Resident in Classics. Washington University in St. Louis. 3 Lectures Acting Director. University Center for Human Values. Princeton University Senior Fellow. Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts Acting Director. Program in Hellenic Studies. Princeton University (June), 1999 (June) New York University. Faculty Resource Network Workshops on "The Classical World" (Diversity and Democracy, Ancient Slavery). Organizer Member of the Editorial Board and the Board of Trustees, Princeton University Press (Member of the Finance Committee of the Board of Trustees 1998, Chair of the Editorial Board and Member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees 1999) Board of Directors, American Philological Association Co-Director, "Democracy 2500" Project. Public programs commemorating the origins of democracy. Sponsored by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, U.S. National Archives, NEH, Cafritz and Leventis Foundations. BOOKS: Political Dissent in Democratic Athens: Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule. Princeton University Press: Princeton Paperback ed The Athenian Revolution. Essays on Ancient Greek Democracy and Political Theory. Princeton University Press: Princeton Paperback ed Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People. Princeton University Press: Princeton Winner of the Goodwin Award for best book of the year, American Philological Association, 1989 Paperback ed Modern Greek edition: Mazes kai Elit stê Dêmokratikê Athêna. Polytropon: Athens Chapter 4 reprinted in Oxford Readings in Attic Orators (forthcoming) Fortress Attica: Defense of the Athenian Land Frontier, B.C. Mnemosyne Supplement 84. E.J. Brill: Leiden EDITED BOOKS: Demokratia: A Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modern (ed. J. Ober and C. Hedrick), Princeton University Press: Princeton Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstruction of American Democracy (ed. J. P. Euben, J. Wallach, and J. Ober), Cornell University Press: Ithaca 1994.

3 3 The Craft of the Ancient Historian: Essays in Honor of Chester G. Starr (ed. J.W. Eadie and J. Ober), University Press of America: Lanham, Maryland TEXTBOOKS AND BOOKS FOR NON-ACADEMIC AUDIENCES: A Company of Citizens: What the World's First Democracy Teaches Leaders about Building Great Organizations (co-author, with Brook Manville) Harvard Business School Press: Boston, Modern Greek edition. Klidarithmos: Athens forthcoming. Chinese edition. CITIC Publishing House forthcoming. The Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 B.C. 2 nd edition (co-author, with Mark C. Carnes) Reacting to the Past Series. Pearson Custom Publishing: New York Textbook. Reacting to the Past won the Theodore Hesburgh Award: outstanding pedagogical initiative for The Anatomy of Error: Ancient Military Disasters and Their Lessons for Modern Strategists (coauthor, with B.S. Strauss) St. Martin's Press: New York, Paperback ed The Birth of Democracy. Exhibition catalogue, National Archives Rotunda, June January (ed. J. Ober and C. Hedrick), American School of Classical Studies at Athens: Princeton, ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS: I, Socrates The Performative Audacity of Isocrates Antidosis. In T. Poulakos and D. Depew (eds.), Isocrates and Civic Education (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004), Classical Athenian Democracy and Democracy Today: Culture, Knowledge, Power. In J. Morrill (ed.), The Promotion of Knowledge: Essays to Mark the Centenary of the British Academy, = PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY 122 (2004), Postscript: Culture, Thin Coherence, and the Persistence of Politics. In C. Dougherty and L. Kurke (eds.) The Cultures within Greek Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), Tyrant-killing as Therapeutic Stasis: A Political Debate in Images and Texts, in K. Morgan (ed.), Popular Tyranny: Sovereignty and Its Discontents in Ancient Greece (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003), "Conditions for Athenian Democracy," in T. Rabb and E. Suleiman (eds.). The Making and Unmaking of Democracy: Lesssons from History and World Politics. (London and New York: Routledge, 2002), 2-21.

4 4 "Social Science History, Cultural History, and the Amnesty of 403," TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERCIAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 132 (2002), "History, Philosophy, and Democracy (review article: Wallach, The Platonic Political Art)," POLIS 19 (2002), "The Debate over Civic Education in Classical Athens," in Yun Lee Too (ed.) Education in Greek and Roman Antiquity. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2001), "Thucydides Theoretikos/Thucydides Histor: Realist Theory and the Challenge of History," in D.R. McCann and B. S. Strauss (eds.), Democracy and War: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War (Armonk, N.Y. and London: M.E. Sharpe 2001), "Political Conflicts, Political debates, and Political Thought," in R. Osborne (ed.), The Shorter Oxford History of Europe I: Classical Greece (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2000), Living Freely as a Slave of the Law: Notes on Why Socrates Lives in Athens, in P. Flensted-Jensen, T.H. Nielsen, and L. Rubinstein (eds.), Polis and Politics: Studies in Greek History [Festschrift for M.H. Hansen]. (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2000), "The Orators," in C. Rowe and M. Schofield (eds.), The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), Quasi-Rights: Participatory Citizenship and Negative Liberties in Democratic Athens. SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY AND POLICY 17 (2000), Reprinted in E.F. Paul, F.D. Millar, and J. Paul (eds.), Democracy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), Démocratie directe, in R. Darnton and O. Duhamel (eds.), Démocratie (Paris: Editions du Rocher, 1998), "Revolution Matters: Democracy as Demotic Action (Response to Kurt Raaflaub)," in K. Raaflaub and I. Morris (eds.), Democracy 2500? Questions and Challenges. Archaeological Institute of America, Colloquia and Conference Papers 2 (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1998), "Responsible Popularization: An Introduction," CLASSICAL BULLETIN 72 (1996), 85-91

5 5 "Greek Horoi: Artifactual Texts and the Contingency of Meaning," in D. Small (ed.), Methods in the Mediterranean: Historical and Archaeological Views of Texts and Archaeology. Mnemosyne Supplement 135 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995), "Classical Greek Times," in M. Howard, G. Andreopoulos, and M.R. Shulman (eds.), The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World (New Haven: Yale U.P. 1994), 12-26, "How to Criticize Democracy," in P. Euben, J. Wallach, J. Ober (eds.), Athenian Political Thought (Ithaca: Cornell U.P. 1994), "Oratory and Power in Democratic Athens: Demosthenes 21, Against Meidias," in I. Worthington (ed.), Persuasion: Greek Rhetoric in Action (London and New York: Routledge, 1994), Reprinted in E.W. Robinson, Ancient Greek Democracy: Readings and Sources (Blackwell 2004) "Civic Ideology and Counterhegemonic Discourse: Thucydides on the Sicilian Debate," in A.L. Boegehold and A.C. Scafuro (ed.), Athenian Identity and Civic Identity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1994), "Thucydides' Criticism of Democratic Knowledge," in R.M. Rosen and J. Farrell (ed.), Nomodeiktes: Greek Studies in Honor of Martin Ostwald (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), "The Polis as a Society: Aristotle, John Rawls, and the Athenian Social Contract," in M.H. Hansen (ed.), The Ancient Greek City-State: Historisk-filosofiske Meddelelser 67 = Acts of the Copenhagen Polis Centre vol. 1 (Copenhagen: Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 1993), "The Athenian Revolution of 508/7 B.C.E: Violence, Authority, and the Origins of Democracy," in C. Dougherty and L. Kurke (ed.), Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece: Cult, Performance, Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press 1993), Reprinted in E.W. Robinson, Ancient Greek Democracy: Readings and Sources (Blackwell 2004) Reprinted in P.J. Rhodes (ed.) Athenian Democracy (Edinburgh U.P. 2004) "Public Speech and the Power of the People in Democratic Athens," PS: POLITICAL SCIENCE AND POLITICS (September 1993),

6 6 "Towards a Typology of Greek Artillery Towers: The First and Second Generations (c B.C.)," in S. Van de Maele and J.M. Fossey (ed.), Fortificationes Antiquae. McGill University Monographs in Classical Archaeology and History 12 (G.C. Gieben: Amsterdam 1992), "Response to Edward Cohen (on Banking as a `Family Business')," in M. Gagarin (ed.), Symposion 1990: Vorträge zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte (Böhlau Verlag: Cologne 1991), "Aristotle's Political Sociology: Class, Status, and Order in the Politics," in C. Lord and D.K. O'Connor (ed.), Essays on the Foundations of Aristotelian Political Science (University of California Press: Berkeley and L.A. 1991), "National Ideology and Strategic Defense of the Population, from Athens to Star Wars," in N. Lebow and B. S. Strauss (ed.), Hegemonic Rivalry: from Thucydides to the Nuclear Age (Westview Press: Boulder 1991), "The Athenians and Their Democracy" (review article: Wood, Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy; Sinclair, Democracy and Participation in Athens; Farrar, The Origins of Democratic Thinking: The Invention of Politics in Classical Athens), ECHOS DU MONDE CLASSIQUE, 35 (1991), "Hoplites and Obstacles," in Victor D. Hanson (ed.), Hoplites: The Classical Greek Battle Experience (Routledge: London and New York 1991), "Drama, Political Rhetoric, and the Discourse of Athenian Democracy" (co-authored with B.S. Strauss), in J.J. Winkler and F.I. Zeitlin (ed.), Nothing to Do with Dionysos? Athenian Drama in Its Social Context (Princeton U.P.: Princeton 1990), "The Nature of Athenian Democracy (review article: Hansen, Athenian Assembly)," CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY 84 (1989), "Models and Paradigms in Ancient History," ANCIENT HISTORY BULLETIN 3 (1989), "Defense of the Athenian Land Frontier, B.C.: A Reply," PHOENIX 43 (1989), "Early Artillery Towers: Messenia, Boiotia, Attica, Megarid," AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY 91 (1987),

7 7 "Public Opinion and the Role of Sea Power in Athens, B.C." in D.M. Masterson (ed.), Naval History. The Sixth Symposium of the U.S. Naval Academy (Wilmington, Delaware 1987), "Pottery and Miscellaneous Artifacts from Fortified Sites in Northern and Western Attica," HESPERIA 56 (1987), "Thucydides, Pericles, and the Strategy of Defense," in Eadie and Ober (eds.), Essays in Honor of Starr (1985), "Two Ancient Watchtowers above Aigosthena in the Northern Megarid," AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY 87 (1983), "Edward Clarke's Ancient Road to Marathon, A.D. 1801," HESPERIA 51 (1982), "Tiberius and the Political Testament of Augustus," HISTORIA 31 (1982), "Rock-Cut Inscriptions from Mt. Hymettos," HESPERIA 50 (1981), "Views of Sea Power in the Fourth-Century Attic Orators," ANCIENT WORLD 1 (1978), FORTHCOMING: Book: Athenian Legacies: Essays on the Politics of Going on Together. Princeton University Press. Chapter: "The productive marginality of political philosophy in democratic Athens." In The Shape of the Humanities. Keith Baker (ed.). Stanford University Press. Chapter: "Democratic Athens ( B.C.): An exemplary historical narrative and the project of political theory." For A. Creager et al. (eds.) Science Without Laws: Model Systems, Cases and Exemplary Narratives. Duke University Press. Chapter: "Athenian Law and Political Theory." For Cambridge Companion to Greek Law. David Cohen and Michael Gagarin (eds.). Cambridge University Press. Chapter: "Thucydides and the Invention of Politial Science." For Brill Companion to Thucydides. Chapter: "Trial and Condemnation: Socrates and Athenian Democracy," For Cambridge Companion to Socrates. Donald Morrison (ed.). Cambridge University Press.

8 8 REVIEWS: Goldhill, Who Needs Greek? CLASSICAL REVIEW (2003), Hesk, Deception and Democracy. AM POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW (2003), Wilson, Khoregeia. BRYN MAWR CLASSICAL REVIEW (2000). Too, Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates, CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY 93 (1998), Munn, Defense of Attica, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY 98 (1994), Missiou, Subversive Oratory of Andokides, CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY 89 (1994), Euben, Tragedy of Political Theory POLITICAL THEORY, 19 (1991), Bugh, Horsemen of Athens, AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 95 (1990), van Andel and Runnels, Beyond the Acropolis, ECHOS DU MONDE CLASSIQUE 33 (1989), Sealey, Athenian Republic, MODERN GREEK STUDIES YEARBOOK 4 (1988), Whitehead, Demes of Attica and Osborne, Demos, CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY, 83 (1988), Lauter, Lathuresa, GNOMON (1987), Pritchett, Greek State at War IV AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 92 (1987), 105 Hanson, Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece, HELIOS 12 (1985), Pritchett, Studies in Ancient Greek Topography III and IV, PHOENIX 38 (1984), Lawrence, Greek Aims in Fortification, CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY 78 (1983), NON-ACADEMIC ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, AND OCCASIONAL PIECES "Beyond Empowerment: Creating a Company of Citizens." HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW (Jan 2003), Reprinted in Motivating People (HBSP 2003) "Ethics and politics: Individuals' responsibilities to communities." Roudtable Ethics column. DAILY PRINCETONIAN. October 24, page 3. "Not by a Nose: The Triumph of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium, 31 B.C." in Robert Cowley (ed.), What If 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (New York: G.P. Putnam, 2001), "Chester G. Starr" [obituary]. The Independent Conquest Denied: The Premature Death of Alexander the Great, in Robert Cowley (ed.), What If: The Greatest Might Have Beens in Military History (New York: G.P. Putnam, 1999), Evil Empire [Sparta]. MHQ: THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY 10.4 (1998), Alexander Dies Young [counterfactual]. MHQ 10.3 (1998), "What Democracy Meant to the Athenians," HISTORY TODAY 44.1 (January 1994), "Introductory Remarks I: The Athenian Revolution," in J. Ober and C. Hedrick (eds.), The Birth of Democracy (Princeton 1993), 1-3 "Athenian Democracy" (co-authored with C. Vanderpool), PROLOGUE: QUARTERLY OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 25.2 (1993), Reprinted in A Reader's Repertoire ed. G. Gong and S. Dragga (NY: HarperCollins, 1995) "The Origin of Strategy," MHQ 5.3 (1993), "Amazons" (co-authored with A. Mayor), MHQ 3.4 (1991), Reprinted in R. Cowley (ed.), The Experience of War (New York, 1992) "Fortress Attica: Defending the Athenian Frontier," MHQ 3.2 (1991), "Hannibal: How to Win Battles and Lose Wars," MHQ 2.4 (1990), (Remembering EV), in Anamnêseis (Eugene Vanderpool memorial pamphlet. Princeton 1990), "Cry Wulff" (Letter), The Economist. September 30 (1989), 6. Encyclopedia Americana: various articles, including "phalanx" and "Pelononnesian Wars" RECENT PAPERS 2004 New York Classical Club. Northwestern University. Aristotle Conference. University of Bergen, Norway (2 lectures). St. Mary's College (Maryland). Nitze Fellows Program (2 lectures) 2003 Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (Holland). Solon Conference (paper read in absentia) Univerity of Chicago. Conference on Politics and Ancient History Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton). Conference on Greek thought in Islam.

9 9 USC/UCLA Greek Seminar: Authority and Its Resistances in Greek Cuture. Washington University in St. Louis. Biggs Resident in Classics (3 lectures) Macalester College. International Center and Classics Department. St. Mary's College (Maryland). History Dept, Democracy Center, Nitze Fellows Yale University. Classics Conference on Use and Abuse of the Past. Columbia University. Political Philosophy Colloquium Columbia University. Law and Society Seminar. University of Chicago. Danziger Lecture in Humanities. Ohio State University. Schlam Memorial Lecture. Rutgers University. Classics Graduate Student Group National Humanities Center. Conference in Honor of W.R. Connor. University of Michigan. Inaugural Platsis Symposium on War and Democracy UC Santa Cruz. Practicing Democracy. Symposium in honor of Peter Euben. Florida State University. Langford Conference on Athenian Democracy. Soonsgil University, Seoul, South Korea. Inaugural President's Lecture. Bristol University (UK). British Academy Centenary Lecture. Wellesley College. Departments of Classics and Politics (2 lectures) Dickinson College. Classics Department. Cornell University. Department of History. Sibley/LaFeber Lecture. University of South Florida, Tampa. American Foundation for Greek Culture and Language. Keynote PhD'S SUPERVISED Emily Mackil 2003 (director). Koina and Koinonia. Structures and practices of political community around the Corinthian Gulf. (Assistant Professor of Classics, Wesleyan University) Andromache Karanika 2002 (co-director) Women's work songs and Greek poetics (Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics, Stanford University Assistant Professor, Temple University). Kasia Hagemajer 2001 (director). Greeks and barbarians in the fourth century B.C. (Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Wisconsin). Ryan Balot 1998 (director). Genealogy of 'Greed' in Greek thought (Associate Professor of Classics, Washington University St. Louis). Sarah Harrell 1998 (co-director). Cultural geography: Literary representations of Sicilian tyranny. (Assistant Professor of Classics. Trinity College, Hartford). Susan Lape 1998 (co-director). Making Community: Menander and Athenian democracy. (Assistant Professor of Classics, UC-Irvine). Charles Pazdernik 1997 (co-director). Procopius and Thucydides on Freedom and Slavery (Assistant Professor of Classics, Grand Valley State University, Michigan). Sara Forsdyke 1997 (director). Exile in Athenian history and historical imagination (Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Michigan). PhD s IN PROGRESS Sean Corner (director). Politics of the symposium. (Assistant Professor, McMaster University, Ontario) Robert Sobak (director). Craft worlds. Sarah Ferrario (director). The "great man" as causal agent in Greek historiography. Peter Turner (director). Greek poetry of invective. James Woolard (co-director). Marginal lands within ancient empires.

10 10 Jennifer Jordan. Gossip and social control David Teegarden. Hellenistic tyranny PhD's SECOND READER/COMMITTEE Joshua Reynolds 2004 (Classical Philosophy). Sign inference before Aristotle Ken Trethewey The image of Scipio Africanus Katharine Derderian Homeric Lament and Archaic Epigram Benjamin King Eudaimonia in Herodotus Gonda Van Steen Performance of Aristophanes in modern Greece Nancy Worman Style of Helen and Odysseus Kerry Christensen Salamis and ritual: Saronic Gulf as context. David Rosenbloom Aeschylus and empire: Persians and Agamemnon. IN PROGRESS Kyriaki Karoglu (Art and Archaeology). Archaic terracotta plaques. Mimette Gaifman (Art and Archaeology). Aniconic statues. Nick Rynearson. Erotic Socrates ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS AND COMMITTEES (Princeton) Chair of Department of Classics ( ) Executive Committee, Political Philosophy Colloquium (1992, 94- ) Executive Committee, University Center for Human Values (1993- ) Executive Committee, Hellenic Studies (1996- ) Dean of Faculty Search Committee (1994) Trustee and Member of Editorial Board of Princeton University Press ( ) Chair, Faculty Committee on Humanities Center ( ) Acting Director, Hellenic Studies ( ) Faculty Committee on Appointments and Promotions ( Committee of 3, , ) Tanner Committee on Human Values ( ) Interdepartmental Committee for Program in Political Philosophy ( ) Chair, Dean of Graduate School Search Committee (2001) President's Advisory Committee on Architecture and Planning (2001-) Acting Director, Center for Human Values (2002-3)