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Hobden, Fiona (2024). The trouble with Xenophon: marching with the Ten Thousand in 21st-century fiction. In: Farrell, C and Gish, D eds. Brill's Companion to the Reception of Xenophon. Brill (In press).

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Hobden, Fiona (2023). [Book Review] Xenophon and the Athenian Democracy: The Education of an Elite Citizenry, written by Matthew R. Christ. Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought, 40(1) pp. 175–178.

Hobden, Fiona (2021). Travels with Odysseus and the Odyssey in twenty-first-century television documentaries. In: Potter, Amanda and Gardner, Hunter eds. Ancient Epic in Film and Television. Screening Antiquity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 135–151.

Hobden, Fiona (2020). Xenophon. Ancients in Action. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Hobden, Fiona and Potter, Amanda (2020). Redirecting the gaze: the woman and the gladiator on television in the twenty-first century. New Voices in Classical Reception Studies. Conference Proceedings Volume Two, article no. 3.

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Hobden, Fiona (2020). Making leaders great again? Xenophon on leadership. Omnibus, 79

Hobden, Fiona (2019). Spartacus: Blood and Sand (STARZ, 2010): a necessary fiction? In: van Helden, Daniël and Witcher, Robert eds. Researching the Archaeological Past through Imagined Narratives: A Necessary Fiction. Routledge Studies in Archaeology. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, pp. 238–254.

Hobden, Fiona and Wrigley, Amanda (2018). Broadcasting Greece: an introduction to Greek antiquity on the small screen. In: Hobden, Fiona and Wrigley, Amanda eds. Ancient Greece on British Television. Screening Antiquity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1–23.

Hobden, Fiona (2018). Are We the Greeks? Understanding Antiquity and Ourselves in Television Documentaries. In: Hobden, Fiona and Wrigley, Amanda eds. Ancient Greece on British Television. Screening Antiquity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 24–43.

Hobden, Fiona (2018). Augustus and the politics of the past today in television documentaries. In: Goodman, Penelope ed. Afterlives of Augustus, AD 14 - 2014. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 294–321.

Hobden, Fiona (2017). Ancient world documentaries. In: Pomeroy, Arthur ed. A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 491–514.

Hobden, Fiona (2016). Between media and genres: Pompeii and the construction of historical knowledge on British television today. In: Sabban, Annette and Jaki, Sylvia eds. Wissenformate in den Medien: Analysen aus Medienlinguistik und Medienwissenschaft. Kulturen – Kommunikation – Kontakte (25). Berlin: Frank & Timme, pp. 119–138.

Hobden, Fiona (2016). Xenophon's Oeconomicus. In: Flower, Michael A. ed. The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 152–173.

Hobden, Fiona (2016). From philosophy to psychotherapy: retelling the story in Jeanette Winterson's Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles (2005). New Voices in Classical Reception Studies(11) pp. 16–31.

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Hobden, Fiona (2014). Andron. In: Smith, Claire ed. Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. New York, NY: Springer, pp. 243–247.

Hobden, Fiona (2014). Symposion. In: Smith, Claire ed. Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. New York, NY: Springer, pp. 7189–7193.

Hobden, Fiona (2013). The Symposion in Ancient Greek Society and Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hobden, Fiona (2013). Presenting the past: authenticity and authority in Athens: The Truth about Democracy (Lion TV, 2007). Classical Receptions Journal, 5(1) pp. 1–37.

Hobden, Fiona and Kempf, Damien (2013). Introduction. Envisioning Landscapes: Adaptation & Renewal/Special Issue of Cultural History, 2(2) pp. 125–132.

Hobden, Fiona (2013). The archaeological aesthetic in ancient world documentary. Media, Culture & Society, 35(3) pp. 366–381.

Hobden, Fiona and Tuplin, Christopher (2012). Introduction. In: Hobden, Fiona and Tuplin, Christopher eds. Xenophon: Ethical Principles and Historical Enquiry. Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity, 348. Leiden: Brill, pp. 1–41.

Hobden, Fiona (2011). Enter The Divine: Sympotic Performance And Religious Experience. In: Lardinois, André; Blok, Josine and Van Der Poel, Marc eds. Sacred Words: Orality, Literacy and Religion. Orality and Literature in the Ancient World, vol. 8. Mnemosyne, Supplements., 332. Leiden: Brill, pp. 37–58.

Hobden, Fiona (2010). Did Euphiletus murder Eratosthenes? Omnibus, 59 pp. 11–13.

Hobden, Fiona (2009). History meets fiction in Doctor Who, 'The Fires of Pompeii': a BBC reception of ancient Rome on screen and online. Greece & Rome, 56(2) pp. 147–163.

Hobden, Fiona (2009). The Politics of the Sumposion. In: Graziosi, Barbara; Vasunia, Phiroze and Boys-Stones, George eds. The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 271–280.

Hobden, Fiona (2009). Symposion and the rhetorics of commensality in Demosthenes 19, On the False Embassy. In: Mann, Christian; Haake, Matthias and von den Hoff, Ralf eds. Rollenbilder in der athenischen Demokratie: Medien, Gruppen, Räume im politischen und sozialen System. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlagen, pp. 71–87.

Hobden, Fiona (2007). Imagining past and present: a rhetorical strategy in Aeschines 3, "Against Ctesiphon". Classical Quarterly, 57(2) pp. 490–501.

Hobden, Fiona (2007). The 'Men from Phyle' from agora to agôn: the rhetorical life of Athens' democratic counterrevolutionaries. Advances in the History of Rhetoric, 10 pp. 151–174.

Hobden, Fiona (2005). Reading Xenophon's Symposium. Ramus, 34(2) pp. 93–111.

Hobden, Fiona (2004). How to be a good symposiast and other lessons from Xenophon's Symposium. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, 50 pp. 121–140.