Author or co-author:

• ATHENS AFTER THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR: Class, Faction, and Policy, 403-386 B.C. (1987)
• FATHERS AND SONS IN ATHENS: Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War (1993)
• ROWING AGAINST THE CURRENT On Learning to Scull at Forty (1999)
• THE BATTLE OF SALAMIS The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece — and Western Civilization (2004)
• THE TROJAN WAR: A NEW HISTORY (2006)
• THE SPARTACUS WAR (2009)
• WESTERN CIVILIZATION, BEYOND BOUNDARIES, VOLUME 2: Since 1560 (2009)
• MASTERS OF COMMAND: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership (2012)
• THE DEATH OF CAESER: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination (2015)

Editor or co-editor:

• HEGEMONIC RIVALRY: From Thucydides to the Nuclear Age (1991)
• WAR AND DEMOCRACY: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War (2001)