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Classics Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Crocus Costumes in Aegean Art
(University of Texas Press, 2004)This study of the women-oriented wall paintings from Xeste 3, Akrotiri, Thera (ca. 1600 BCE) broadens Rehak's earlier studies of the frescoes to suggest that the fresco program pertains to women's transition from adolescence ... -
Tekhnitides: Women Artists in Ancient Greece
(Peter Lang, 2011)This study summarizes what is known about Greek women artists in antiquity. -
Aegean Art before and after the LM I B Cretan Destructions
(Université de Liège, 1997)This study focuses on the loss of art forms after the LM IB destructions, possibly because of the Mycenaean take-over of the island. -
The Spectacle-Eyes Group: An Assessment of Its Iconography, Techniques, and Style
(Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2000)This study summarizes the Spectacle Eye group of sealstones made for the Mycenaean administration at Knossos, ca. 1400-1375 BCE. -
Paul Rehak 1954-2004
(American Journal of Archaeology, 2004)An obituary for Paul Rehak (1954-2004). -
review of The Parthenon Frieze by J. Neils
(Classical Review, 2003)This review of J. Neils' The Parthenon Frieze (Cambridge U.P. 2001) gives it high praise but also corrects the repeated notions that the Parthenon is a temple (it is a treasury building) and that the Parthenon is perfect ... -
Food Rations and Portions in Cretan Hieroglyphic Documents
(Aegaeum, 2008)This study looks at Cretan Hieroglyphic texts that probably mention food and deduces information about possible feasting. -
New Observations on Hieroglyphic Seals
(Studi Micenea ed Anatolici, 1990)This study of Minoan Hieroglyphic seals, all prisms, deduces from the orientations of the faces, that some Hieroglyphic signgroups were complementary and others were contradictory. -
"Preface" and "Entrhoned Figures in Aegean Art and the Function of the Mycenaean Megaron"
(Aegaeum, 1995)This study examines the depictions of seated figures in Minoan-Mycenaean art and discusses if they are representations of rulers or divinities. -
The Iconography of Rulership in the Aegean: a Conspectus
(Aegaeum, 1995)This study brings together various illustrations having to do with Minoan-Mycenaean administration and power. -
A View from the Sea
(The Danish Institute at Athens, 2011)This study takes a close look at the Naval Fresco from the West House at Akrotiri, Thera (end of the 17th c. B.C.), describing it as an illustrated naval voyage — not enough is preserved to know where the voyage may have ... -
Sexual Peculiarities of the Ancient Greeks and Romans
(Berg Publishing, 2011)This study looks at ancient Greek and Roman sexual practices from the point of view of their (implied) differences from modern western practices. There are eight major themes: sex and status, the ubiquity of sex, the body, ... -
Aeneas or Numa? Rethinking the Meaning of the Ara Pacis Augustae
(The Art Bulletin, 2001)This study identifies the figure on the Ara Pacis, usually identified as Aeneas, as Numa instead, a more fitting subject for Augustus's policies of religious revival. -
The Aegean 'Priest' on CMS I.223
(Kadmos, 1994)This study notes that the so-called priest on the sealstone CMS I 223 from the Vapheio tholos cist (LH IIA) wears a sealstone on his left wrist, making the seal one of the first objects in Aegean art and administration to ... -
Review of Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World
(Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2010)Book review -
Mycenaean Seals and Sealings
(Oxford University Press, 2010)This encyclopedia entry summarizes what we know about the use of seals on the Mycenaean mainland. -
Review of Aegean Prehistory VII: Neopalatial, Final Palatial, and Postpalatial Crete
(American Journal of Archaeology; AJA Supplement, 2001)This study, part of a series of articles that appeared in the American Journal of Archaeology in the middle to late 1990s, summarizes the history and archaeology of Crete in the Late Bronze Age. -
Aegean Breechcloths, Kilts and the Keftiu Paintings
(American Journal of Archaeology, 1996-01)Differences in rendering Aegean men's costumes in Egyptian paintings has long been thought to represent cultural differences (Minoans vs. Mycenaeans). But Minoan men wore both kilts and breechcloths, while Mycenaean men ... -
Attributing Aegean Seals: Looking Back, Glacing Ahead
(Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2010)This paper summarizes the methodology used for attributing Minoan-Mycenaean sealstones to stylistic groups, and assesses the reception of this method since the mid 1980s. A closing section points out that little work has ... -
Review of Archaeological Atlas of Mycenae by Spyros Iakovidis, Elizabeth B. French, Kim Shelton, Charalambos Ioannides, Anton Jansen, and John Lavery
(Gnomon, 2010)This detailed review of the Mycenae Atlas summarizes the book's main points and supplements the book with important information that is either new or was omitted.