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Classics Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Time and Event in Aegean Art. Illustrating a Bronze Age Calendar
(Phoibos Verlag, Vienna, 2007)Using the Athenian calendar as a template, this study suggests what a Minoan-Mycenaean calendar may have looked like, using Aegean works of art and texts that seem to depict time and events. -
Music in the Aegean Bronze Age
(Paul Åströms Förlag, 1998)This book catalogues and discusses all extant and depicted musical instruments and musicians dating to the prehistoric period in Greece. -
Bronze Age Representations of Aegean Bull-Games, III
(Université de Liège, 1995)This study catalogues all the Minoan-Mycenaean representations of Aegean bull-games (from bull-capture through bull-vaulting, bull-leaping, bull-sacrifice) and discusses the location of the games and their social significance. -
Bronze Age Representations of Aegean Jewelry
(Université de Liège, 1992)This study of the representations of jewelry in the Aegean Bronze Age contains a full catalogue and discussion of the jewelry types and the types of their representations. -
The Mycenae-Vapheio Lion Group
(American Journal of Archaeology, 1978)A large number of works of art dating from early in the Aegean Late Bronze Age (ca. 1550-1450 BCE) share stylistic features; for instance, lions will have a peculiarly raised mane like a fish-gill, furred belly and haunch, ... -
Bronze Age Representations of Aegean Bull-Leaping
(American Journal of Archaeology, 1976)There were three main ways to depict bull-leaping in the Aegean Late Bronze Age (ca. 1600-1300 BCE): grabbing the bull's horns and having the bull flip the leaper over its back (Evans's Schema), diving down the bull's neck ... -
'We Are Woman': Girl, Maiden, Matron in Aegean Art
(Aegeaeum 30, 2009)Several Aegean (Minoan & Mycenaean) works of art depict trios of females: a girl, an adolescent, and a young woman (sometimes an older woman is also depicted). This theme may refer to a universal, female socialization process. -
"Some Unpublished Studies by Paul Rehak on Gender in Aegean Art," edited by John Younger
(Aegaeum 30, 2009)Three short studies by Paul Rehak are edited and fleshed out: 1) "The Earliest Figure-Eight Shield Friezes in the Aegean and their Meaning," 2) "Aegean Hairpins and Linear A," 3) "Nothing to Do with Myth?" (why Aegean ... -
Review of: The Mycenaean Feast, edited by J.C. Wright (Princeton 2004), JNES 68.2 (2009) 150-52
(Journal of Near Eastern Studies (JNES), 2009-04)Review: feasting in the Mycenaean world (Greece & Cyprus) was of two types: patron-sponsored or communal. -
Technical Observations on the Sculptures from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia
(Hesperia, 2009)An understanding of the processes in building a Greek temple and of the processes in creating large marble sculpture supports the idea that the metopes and pedimental sculptures were installed unfinished in the Temple of ... -
The Island Sanctuaries Group: Date and Significance.
(Gebrüder Mann Verlag, 1981)The Island Sanctuaries Group of sealstones is the last hard-stone sealstone group in the Bronze Age Aegean (ca. 1325 B.C.E.). -
The 'Genius' in Mycenaean Glyptic: the Later Evolution of an Aegean Cult Figure
(Gebrüder Mann Verlag, 1995)This study traces the treatment and development of the Minoan "genius" (deriving from the Egyptian Taweret) in Mycenaean art, especially sealstones. -
The End of Mycenaean Art
(Wasmuth Verlag, 1987)The end of the Mycenaean style did not come about all at once, but the practitioners of first one medium then another died out; the total process may have taken over a century, beginning with the loss of sculpture and ... -
Interactions between Aegean Seals and Other Minoan-Mycenaean Art Forms
(Gebrüder Mann Verlag, 1995)Minoan-Mycenaean sealstones and finger rings display a complex iconography and set of compositions. The artistic interplay between this art form and other forms, especially fresco painting, was close and in many cases it ... -
The Elgin Plaques from the Treasury of Atreus: Evidence for a New Reconstruction of the Façade
(Deutschen Archäologen-Verband, 1987)The Elgin plaques in the British Museum are assigned places within the relieving triangle of the Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae. -
A New Look at Aegean Bull-Leaping
(Muse. Annual of the Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1983)Publishing a sealstone in the Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia. -
"Aegean Seals of the Late Bronze Age: Stylistic Groups. VII. Concordance"
(Kadmos, 1989)The seventh, and last, in a series of articles attributing Aegean sealstones and finger rings of the Late Bronze Age to stylistic groups. -
Aegean Seals of the Late Bronze Age: Stylistic Groups, VI. Fourteenth Century Mainland and Later Fourteenth Century Cretan Workshops
(Kadmos, 1986)The sixth in a series of articles attributing Aegean sealstones and finger rings of the Late Bronze Age to stylistic groups. -
Aegean Seals of the Late Bronze Age: Stylistic Groups, V. Minoan Groups Contemporary with LM IIIA1
(Kadmos, 1986)The fifth in a series of articles attributing Aegean sealstones and finger rings of the Late Bronze Age to stylistic groups. -
Aegean Seals of the Late Bronze Age: Stylistic Groups, IV. Almond-and Dot-Eye Groups of the Fifteenth Century B.C.
(Kadmos, 1984)The fourth in a series of articles attributing Aegean sealstones and finger rings of the Late Bronze Age to stylistic groups.