Classics Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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The Stelai of Mycenae Grave Circles A and B
(Université de Liège and the Program in Aegean Prehistory and Scripts, 1997)This study catalogues the sculpted tombstones (stelai) from the MH III/LH I Shaft Graves at Mycenae, Greece, and draws attention to their iconography, technique, and effect. -
Review of The Middle Minoan Three-Sided Soft Stone Prism (CMS Beiheft 9), 2 vols., by Maria Anastasiadou.
(Gnomon, 2013-01)A review of the two-volume work on Middle Minoan prisms, most by the Malia Workshop, by Maria Anastasiadou. -
Review of Aegean and Cypro-Aegean Non-Sphragistic Decorated Gold Finger Rings of the Bronze Age
(American Journal of Archaeology, 2012-04)Review of a book cataloguing the unengraved gold finger rings dating to the Aegean and Cypriot Bronze Ages. -
"The Material Culture of Neopalatial Crete" & "Minoan Culture: Religion, Burial Customs, Administration"
(Cambridge University Press, 2008)These two chapters in the Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age, edited by Cynthia Shelmerdine, summarize the archaeology, art, and society of Crete in the Neopalatial period (ca. 1700-1400 BCE). -
Saffron Crocus and Yellow Garments in Aegean Wall-Painting
(self, 2001)This paper was prepared for the conference, Colour in the Ancient Mediterranean World, Edinburgh, 9-11 September 2001. The author revised the paper and published it in the volume dedicated to Sara Immerwahr (online at this ... -
The Mycenaean Warrior Goddess Revisited
(Université de Liège and the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, University of Texas at Austin, 1998)This study updates Rehak 1984 (Archäologischer Anzeiger, 535-545) by bringing new evidence to bear on the identification of a Mycenaean warrior goddess and by treating the individual elements of her iconography. -
Tradition and Innovation in the Fresco from Room 31 in the 'Cult Center' at Mycenae
(Université de Liège and the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, University of Texas at Austin., 1992)This study thoroughly explores the iconography and meaning of the fresco in the House with the Fresco (rm 31) in the Cult Center at Mycenae. -
Aegean Natives in the Theban Tomb Paintings: The Keftiu Revisited
(Université de Liège and the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, University of Texas at Austin., 1998)The study updates Rehak 1996 (AJA 100, pp. 35-51) by stressing the international aspect of depicting the Keftiu in Egyptian tomb paintings in early Dynasty 18. -
Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture? Medicine, Myth and Matriarchy in the Thera Frescoes
(Archaeological Institute of America, 1997)This unpublished presentation examines the frescoes in Xeste 3, Akrotiri, Thera, identifies the presence of saffron in the frescoes, and correlates the effects of consuming large amounts of saffron (and thereby large amounts ... -
The Use and Destruction of Minoan Stone Bull's Head Rhyta
(Université de Liège and the Program for Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, University of Texas at Austin, 1995)This study of Minoan bull-head rhyta examines all the surviving fragments and concludes that they were deliberately smashed, probably in some kind of ritual. -
Unfinished Hair and the Installation of the Pedimental Sculptures of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia
(University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1998)This study examines the various hair and beards of the pedimental and metope figures in the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, and concludes that they betray various stages of being unfinished. -
Duke University Undergraduate LGB Studies Program
(Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter, 1995)This short piece presents the courses and minor in lesbian, gay, and bisexual studies at Duke University in the early 1990s and then summarizes similar programs and courses at other universities in the US. -
The Ritual Destruction of Minoan Art?
(Archaeological News, 1995)This study investigates the likelihood that many Minoan art objects were made to be destroyed. -
Ten Unpublished Letters by John Addington Symonds at Duke University
(The Victorian Newsletter, 1999)This study presents 10 previously unpublished letters from John Addington Symonds to Edmund Gosse, dated 1889-1892. The letters discuss many aspects in the early history of modern homosexuality. -
The Role of Religious Painting in the Function of the Minoan Villa: The Case of Ayia Triadha
(Swedish Institute in Athens, 1997)This study relates the style of the large painting in Ayia Triada room 14 to wall paintings at Knossos and its iconography to peak sanctuaries. -
Imag(in)ing a Women's World in Prehistoric Greece: The Frescoes from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri
(University of Texas Press, 2002)This is Rehak's penultimate study on the women-oriented wall paintings from Xeste 3, Akrotiri, Thera (ca. 1600 BCE), exploring their iconography and pertinence to the maturation process of women from adolescence to adulthood. -
The Fourth Flamen of the Ara Pacis Augustae
(Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2001)On technical grounds this study concludes that the fourth flamen sculpted on the Ara Pacis was a late addition to the frieze. -
The Isopata Ring and the Question of Narrative in Neopalatial Glypic
(Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel, 2000)This study of the famous Isopata gold ring begins with basic compositional principles and concludes that the ring may not depict a religious scene, as is commonly held. -
The Aegean Landscape and the Body: A New Interpretation of the Thera Frescoes
(British Archaeological Reports, 1999)This study was the first published in his series that explores the hypothesis that the women-oriented wall paintings in Xeste 3, Akrotiri, Thera (ca. 1600) depicted scenes relating to a woman's transition from adolescence ... -
Immortal and Ageless: Artemis in a Fresco from Akrotiri, Thera
(Archaeological Institute of America, 2005)This abstract of a paper sketches out an interpretation of the goddess in the women-oriented wall paintings from Xeste 3, Akrotiri, Thera (ca. 1600 BCE). The author proposes that she is Artemis.