Thomas has authored two books on the subject of literacy in Ancient Greece, and two on Greek historiography:[4]
- Oral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens, Cambridge University Press (1989); called "rich and invigorating" by the London Review of Books[5]
- Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece, Cambridge University Press (1992)[6]
- Herodotus in Context: Ethnography, Science and the Art of Persuasion, Cambridge University Press (2000)[7]
- Polis Histories, Collective Memories and the Greek World, Cambridge University Press (2019).
Aside from these, she has published many chapters in edited volumes, including but not limited to Cambridge Companion to Greek Law (ed. M. Gagarin & D. Cohen, 2005), Cambridge Companion to Herodotus (ed. J. Marincola and C. Dewald, 2006) and Fourth Century Greek Historiography: A Reevaluation (ed. N. Luraghi and R. Vattuone, 2012).[1]
She was a Program in the Ancient World Fellow at Princeton University in 2013.[8]
