Born in 1949, he was educated at Eton College, where he was a scholar, at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in 1969, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took first-class honours in Literae Humaniores in 1971 (BA and hence subsequently MA) and a DPhil in 1978 with a thesis entitled Maussollos of Karia.
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His latest sole-authored book is Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2004).
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