Newcastle University

Research Interests

Research Interests: Latin poetry, ancient philosophy and ancient historiography

Research Roles

Director of Research

Esteem Indicators

2001-7: invited speaker at Chapel Hill, Mannheim, Nijmegen, Oxford, Dublin (twice), Columbia, Cambridge, Durham (both Classics and twice at the Durham New Testament Seminar), Virginia, Yale, FSU Tallahassee, Princeton, Geneva, Lampeter, Gregynog, Bordeaux
Oxford and Cambridge D. Phil Examiner (2004-6)
Assessor for Readership in Classics, Swansea (2005)
Book assessor: Blackwell’s, OUP (2004/5)
Reader for JHS/CQ (2003-7)
Reader for AJP (2006-7)
Participant in the Leverhulme-funded ‘Rethinking Revolution’ project (Cambridge, August 2004)
Participant in the ‘Herodotus Book Five’ project (Cambridge, August 2004)
Invited contributor to Brill Companion to Herodotus and Companion to Thucydides, CUP Companion to Roman Satire and Companion to Horace, Blackwell Companion to the Greek and Roman Historians, festschriften in honour of E.L. Bowie and A.J. Woodman.
Invited participant at ‘Lies and Fiction 2’ (Gregynog, July 2007) and ‘Velleius Conference’ (Leicester, April 2008).

Postgraduate Teaching

Professor Moles welcomes postgraduate students in any of his main areas of research

• Moles J. Reconstructing Plancus (Horace, 'C. 1.7'). Journal of Roman Studies 2002, 92, 86-109.
• Moles J. The Thirteenth Oration of Dio Chrysostom: Complexity and simplicity, rhetoric and moralism, literature and life. Journal of Hellenic Studies 2005, 125(1), 112-138.
• Moles J. A False Dilemma: Thucydides' History and Historicism. In: Harrison, SJ, ed. Texts, Ideas, and the Classics : Scholarship, Theory, and Classical Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 195-219.
• Moles J. Jesus and Dionysus in The Acts of the Apostles and early Christianity. Hermathena 2006, 180, 65-104.
• Moles J. Poetry, Philosophy, Politics and Play: Epistles I. In: Woodman, T; Feeney, D, ed. Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace. Cambridge: CUP, 2002, pp. 141-157; 235-237.
• Moles J. Cynic Influence upon First-century Judaism and Early Christianity?. In: McGing, B; Mossman, J, ed. The Limits of Ancient Biography. Swansea: University of Wales Press, 2006, pp. 89-116.
• Moles J. Philosophy and Ethics. In: Harrison, S, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Horace. Cambridge: CUP, 2007, pp. 165-180.
• Moles J. Dio und Trajan. In: Piepenbrink, K, ed. Philosophie und Lebenswelt in der Antike. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2003, pp. 186-207.
• Moles J. Herodotus and Athens. In: Bakker, EJ; de Jong, IJF; van Wees, H, ed. The Brill’s Companion to Herodotus. Amsterdam: Brill, 2002, pp. 33-52.
• Moles J. The Dionian Charidemus. In: Swain, S, ed. Dio Chrysostom: Politics, Letters, and Philosophy. Oxford: OUP, 2000, pp. 187-210.
• Moles J. Anathema kai ktema: the Inscriptional Inheritance of Ancient Historiography. Histos 1999, 3.
• Moles J. Politics, Philosophy, and Friendship in Horace: Odes 2, 7. In: Anderson, WS, ed. Why Horace?: A Collection of Interpretations. Wauconda, Illinois: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, U.S., 1999, pp. 130-142.
• Moles J. Opposition or Accommodation: Luke–Acts on Rome. In: Madsen, J,M. ; Rees, R, ed. Double Vision: Reflections of Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012. In Press.
• Moles J. Time and Space Travel in Luke-Acts. In: Dupertuis, R. ; Penner, T, ed. Reading Acts in the Second Century. Sheffield: Equinox, 2012. In Press.
• Moles J. Luke's Preface: the Greek Decree, Classical Historiography, and Christian Redefinitions. New Testament Studies 2011, 57(4), 461-482.
• Moles J. Narrative and Speech Problems in Thucydides Book I. In: Kraus, C.S. ; Marincola, J. ; Pelling, C, ed. Ancient Historiography and its Contexts: Studies in Honour of A. J. Woodman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp.15-39.
• Moles JL. The Cynics. In: Rowe, C., Schofield, M., (in association with Harrison, S., Lane, M.), ed. The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp.415-434.
• Moles JL. Herodotus warns the Athenians. In: Cairns, F. ; Heath, M, ed. Papers of the Leeds International Latin Seminar: vol 9 Roman Poetry and Prose, Greek Poetry, Etymology, Historiography, 9. Francis Cairns Publications Ltd, 1996, pp.259-284.