Staff profile

I work on Hellenistic and Roman Greek history, with particular interests in epigraphy and numismatics. I am the chief editor of Attic Inscriptions Online, a website providing commented text of Athenian inscriptions in translation.

My first book, Agathokles of Syracuse: Sicilian Tyrant and Hellenistic King uses literary and numismatic evidence to investigate the relevance of the Classical/Hellenistic transition in Sicily, as pre-existing traditions and long-standing links to the wider Mediterranean world conditioned how innovations of the period, such as kingship, were adopted.

My current work focuses on Athens in the Roman period, principally through epigraphic evidence. I have written a long article on how the ephebate, the system of youth training, shaped Athenian society and norms under the Roman empire and am preparing a monograph on the role of the masses in the Athenian polity in this period. I am at an early stage in the production of a new edition of Inscriptiones Graecae II/III³ presenting all Athenian decrees from 86 BC to AD 267.

I began my studies at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and completed them at the University of Oxford in 2017. After a stint as a post-doctoral research fellow and stipendiary lecturer in ancient history at University College Oxford, I arrived at Durham in 2021. 

• Hellenistic history
• Attic epigraphy
• Roman Athens
• Numismatics
• Ancient Sicily

Authored book

• Agathokles of Syracuse: Sicilian Tyrant and Hellenistic King
  
  de Lisle, C. (2021). Agathokles of Syracuse: Sicilian Tyrant and Hellenistic King. Oxford University Press.

Book review

• Ian Worthington, Athens after Empire. A History from Alexander the Great to the Emperor Hadrian, New York – Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2021, 432 S., ISBN 978-0-19-063398-1 (geb.), £ 35,49
  
  de Lisle, C. (2024). Ian Worthington, Athens after Empire. A History from Alexander the Great to the Emperor Hadrian, New York – Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2021, 432 S., ISBN 978-0-19-063398-1 (geb.), £ 35,49. Klio, 106(1), 348-355. https://doi.org/10.1515/klio-2024-2010
• Anna Heller, L'âge d'or des bienfaiteurs: Titres honorifiques et sociétés civiques dans l'Asie Mineure d'époque romaine: Ier s. av. J.-C.–IIIe s. apr. J.-C–Iiie S. Apr. J.-C. Geneva: Droz, 2020. Pp. 307, Maps. ISBN 9782600057462. Chf49.00.
  
  de Lisle, C. (2022). Anna Heller, L’âge d’or des bienfaiteurs: Titres honorifiques et sociétés civiques dans l’Asie Mineure d’époque romaine: Ier s. av. J.-C.–IIIe s. apr. J.-C–Iiie S. Apr. J.-C. Geneva: Droz, 2020. Pp. 307, Maps. ISBN 9782600057462. Chf49.00. The Journal of Roman Studies, 112, 326-327. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435822000028
• Review: M. Jonasch (ed.), The Fight for Greek Sicily: Society, Politics, and Landscape
  
  de Lisle, C. (2022). Review: M. Jonasch (ed.), The Fight for Greek Sicily: Society, Politics, and Landscape. Ancient West & East, 21.
• A. BOWMAN and C. CROWTHER (eds), The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). ISBN 978-0-19-885822-5. £90.00 (Hb)
  
  de Lisle, C. (2022). A. BOWMAN and C. CROWTHER (eds), The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). ISBN 978-0-19-885822-5. £90.00 (Hb). Classics Ireland, 29, 84-86.

Chapter in book

• Crystalising Initiation: The ephebic inscriptions of Hellenistic Athens
  
  de Lisle, C. (2025). Crystalising Initiation: The ephebic inscriptions of Hellenistic Athens. In J. H. Vennebusch (Ed.), Inscribing Initiation: Written Artefacts in Rites of Passage (pp. 135-154). Franz Steiner Verlag.
• Sicily in the Mediterranean ca. 540-30: Evidence from coin circulation
  
  de Lisle, C. (2023). Sicily in the Mediterranean ca. 540-30: Evidence from coin circulation. In D. Rosenbloom, A. Pomery, & J. Armstrong (Eds.), Money, Warfare and Power in the Ancient World: Studies in Honour of Matthew Freeman Trundle. Bloomsbury.
• The Autocratic Theatre of Hieron II
  
  de Lisle, C. (2022). The Autocratic Theatre of Hieron II. In E. Csapo, H. R. Goette, J. R. Green, B. Le Guen, E. Paillard, J. A. A. Stoop, & P. Wilson (Eds.), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (pp. 55-70). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110980356-004
• Coinage and the Creation of the Seleukid Kingdom
  
  Trundle, M., & de Lisle, C. (2022). Coinage and the Creation of the Seleukid Kingdom. In E. Anagnostou-Laoutides & S. Pfeiffer (Eds.), Culture and Ideology under the Seleukids: Unframing a Dynasty (pp. 57-76). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110755626-007
• The Punic Wars (264–146 BCE)
  
  de Lisle, C. (2019). The Punic Wars (264–146 BCE). In B. R. Doak & C. López-Ruiz (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean (pp. 168-180). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190499341.013.13

Journal Article

• Philoxenos of Cyrene and the Evolution of Benefaction in First-century AD Athens
  
  de Lisle, C. (in press). Philoxenos of Cyrene and the Evolution of Benefaction in First-century AD Athens. Mediterraneo Antico: Economie Società Culture, 28(1-2).
• Attic Inscriptions in UK Collections: National Museums Scotland
  
  de Lisle, C., Liddel, P., & Low, P. (2022). Attic Inscriptions in UK Collections: National Museums Scotland. Attic Inscriptions in UK Collections, 14.
• Rezension von: Monika Trümper / Gianfranco Adornato / Thomas Lappi (eds.): Cityscapes of Hellenistic Sicily.
  
  de Lisle, C. (2021). Rezension von: Monika Trümper / Gianfranco Adornato / Thomas Lappi (eds.): Cityscapes of Hellenistic Sicily. Sehepunkte, 21(2).
• The Ephebate in Roman Athens: Outline and Catalogue of Inscriptions
  
  de Lisle, C. (2020). The Ephebate in Roman Athens: Outline and Catalogue of Inscriptions. AIO Papers, 12, 1-103.
• Attic Inscriptions in UK Collections 11: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
  
  de Lisle, C. (2020). Attic Inscriptions in UK Collections 11: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Attic Inscriptions in UK Collections, 11, 1-133.
• The Coinage of Agathokles of Syracuse: Sicilian and Hellenistic Influences
  
  de Lisle, C. (2017). The Coinage of Agathokles of Syracuse: Sicilian and Hellenistic Influences. The Numismatic Chronicle, 177, 9-28.

Other (Print)

• Attic Inscriptions Online
  
  de Lisle, C., Lambert, S., Low, P., & Liddel, P. (2012). Attic Inscriptions Online [Online].