History of Greece
Meiggs's early writings were closely related to his teaching; one a "masterly revision" of Bury's "History of Greece", another "a large collection of sources in the original tongues for the history of Greece" undertaken with Antony Andrewes. Despite a wide-range of interests which held potential as subjects for books- "a history of the Roman port of Ostia based on the exciting archaeological discoveries, a synthetic treatment of the fifth-century Athenian empire in the light of the great epigraphical material (above all, the Athenian tribute lists), a study of Herodotus"- Meiggs's first major work, "Roman Ostia", was produced "in the midst of a crushing schedule of teaching and college affairs"; his later writing took place after his retirement.