Biography
Peter is interested in how people wrote the history of their own and others’ communities in the ancient world. He has recently finished a book project (The Makings of Greek and Roman Historiography, under review) on the development of Greek and Roman history writing from Herodotus and historiography’s origins in the 5th century BCE to the Late-Antique historian Ammianus Marcellinus in the 4th century CE. He is interested in how and why the practice of history writing changed during this 800-year time period. He is also interested in the politics of physical appearance (see ‘Undescribed Appearances in Classical Greek Politics’, Scripta Classica Israelica 43 [2024], 151–77); and in the politics of future time (see ‘Eternal Rome in Turmoil’ in eds. T. Joho and G. Martin, Κίνησις und Krise [under review]).
Peter is the Mary and Moses Finley Fellow at Darwin College. Prior to that, Peter was the Dan David Fellow at Tel Aviv University (2022–2023), and a visiting lecturer in Greek History at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (2022). He received his BA, MPhil, and PhD in Classics at Cambridge. In Lent and Easter 2024, he was the Acting Director of Studies at Magdalene and Lucy Cavendish Colleges.
