Clara McCafferty Wright

Ph.D. Student in Classics

Klarman Hall
cmw272@cornell.edu

Departments and programs

Alan van den Arend

ALI Postdoctoral Associate

Publications

Klarman Hall
143 Klarman Hall
arv24@cornell.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., History, Johns Hopkins (2022)
  • M.A. w/ distinction, History, Johns Hopkins (2020)
  • M.A., Classics, University of Kentucky (2017)
  • A.B., Classics, Cornell (2010)

Departments and programs

Rebecca Gerdes

Ph.D. Candidate in Classics

Klarman Hall
Mcgraw Hall, Room 101
rfg75@cornell.edu

Education

M.A. Classical Archaeology, Cornell University '19

M.Sc. Archaeological Science, U. of Oxford '16

A.B. Chemistry and Classics, Smith College '15

Departments and programs

Keywords

  • Organic residue analysis
  • Radiocarbon dating
  • Archaeology of Greece, Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean
  • Foodways, food networks, and food practices
  • Biomolecular archaeology
  • Archaeological sciences
  • Science communication

Astrid Van Oyen

Associate Professor

Publications

Books:

  • The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage: Agriculture, Trade, and Family. Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press. 2020 
  • How Things Make History. The Roman Empire and its Terra Sigillata Pottery.  Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 2016

Edited volume:

  • Materialising Roman Histories.  Ed. with Pitts, Martin. Oxford: Oxbow. 2017

Academic Articles:

  • Van Oyen, A., G.W. Tol, R.G. Vennarucci, A. Agostini, V. Serneels, A.M. Mercury, E. Rattighieri and A. Benatti. Forging the Roman rural economy: a blacksmithing workshop and its toolset at Marzuolo (Tuscany). American Journal of Archaeology 126(1): 53-77. 2022
  • Innovation and investment in the Roman rural economy through the lens of Marzuolo (Tuscany, Italy). Past & Present 248: 3-40. 2020
  • Van Oyen, A., R.G. Vennarucci, A.L. Fischetti and G. Tol. Un centro artigianale di epoca romana: terzo anno di scavo a Podere Marzuolo (Cinigiano, GR). Bollettino di Archeologia Online 10(3-4): 71-84. 2019
  • Rural time. World Archaeology 51(2): 191-207. 2019
  • Agents and commodities: a response to Brughmans and Poblome (2016) on modelling the Roman economy.  Antiquity 91: 1356-1363. 2017
  • Historicising material agency: from relations to relational constellations.  Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.  23: 354-378. 2016
  • Actor-Network Theory’s take on archaeological types: becoming, material agency, and historical explanation.  Cambridge Archaeological Journal.  25: 63-78. 2015
  • Deconstructing and reassembling the Romanization debate through the lens of postcolonial theory: from global to local and back?.  Terra Incognita.  5: 205-226. 2015
  • The Roman city as articulated through terra sigillata.  Oxford Journal of Archaeology.  34: 279-299. 2015
  • The moral architecture of villa storage in Italy in the 1st c. B.C.  Journal of Roman Archaeology.  28: 97-124. 2015
  • Les acteurs-réseaux en archéologie: état de la question et perspectives futures.  Les Nouvelles de l’archéologie 135: 14-21. 2014
  • Towards a postcolonial artifact analysis.  Archaeological Dialogues 20: 79-105. 2013

Chapters:

  • Van Oyen, A., G.W. Tol and R.G. Vennarucci. The missing link: a nucleated rural centre at Podere Marzuolo (Cinigiano - Grosseto). In Archaeological Landscapes of Rural Etruria. Research and Field Papers (MEDITO 1). Turnhout: Brepols, 237-250. 2021
  • Duckworth, C.N., A. Wilson, A. Van Oyen, C. Alexander, J. Evans, C. Green and D.J. Mattingly. When the statue is both marble, and lime. In Recycling and the Ancient Economy, eds. C.N. Duckworth and A. Wilson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 449-459. 2020
  • Material agency. In The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences, ed. S.L. López-Varela. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119188230.saseas0363. 2018
  • Vennarucci, R., A. Van Oyen and G.W. Tol. Una comunità artigianale nella Toscana rurale: Il sito di Marzuolo. In Antico e non antico. Scritti multidisciplinari offerti a Giuseppe Pucci, eds. V. Nizzo and A. Pizzo. Sesto San Giovanni: Mimesis Edizioni, 589-597. 2018
  • Material culture and mobility: A brief history of archaeological thought. In Mobility and Pottery Production, eds. Heitz, Caroline and Regine Stapfer. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 53-65. 2018
  • Material culture in the Romanization debate. In The Diversity of Classical Archaeology. Studies in Classical Archaeology 1, eds. Lichtenberger, Achim and Rubina Raja. Turnhout: Brepols, 287-300. 2017
  • Van Oyen, A. and M. Pitts. What did objects do in the Roman world? Beyond representation. In Materialising Roman Histories, eds. Van Oyen, Astrid and Martin Pitts. Oxford: Oxbow, 3-19. 2017
  • Finding the material in ‘material culture’: form and matter in Roman concrete. In Materialising Roman Histories, eds. Van Oyen, Astrid and Martin Pitts. Oxford: Oxbow, 133-152. 2017
  • Networks or work-nets? Actor-Network Theory and multiple social topologies in the production of Roman terra sigillata.  In The Connected Past. Network Studies in Archaeology and History. Eds. Brughmans, Tom, Anna Collar, and Fiona Coward.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press. 35-56. 2016
  • Knowledge systems in the production of terra sigillata. Moving beyond the local/global paradox.  In TRAC 2011. Proceedings of the Twenty First Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Newcastle 2011. Ed. Duggan, M.  Oxford: Oxbow. 2012

Reviews:

  • Globalisation and material culture: the road ahead, review of M. Pitts and M.J. Versluys (eds) (2015) Globalisation and the Roman World. World History, Connectivity, and Material Culture, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Journal of Roman Archaeology 28, 641-646. 2015
  • Review of C. Orton and M. Hughes (2013) Pottery in Archaeology. Second Edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Journal of Roman Studies 104, 261-262. 2014
  • Review of C. Knappett (2011) An Archaeology of Interaction. Network Perspectives on Material Culture and Society, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Archaeological Review from Cambridge 27 (2), 220-228. 2012
Klarman Hall
av475@cornell.edu

Departments and programs

Eric Rebillard

Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities

Publications

Books

  • The Early Martyr Narratives: Neither Authentic Accounts Nor Forgeries. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
  • Greek and Latin Narratives about the Ancient Martyrs. Oxford Early Christian Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • Transformations of Religious Practices in Late Antiquity. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014.
  • Christians and their Many Identities in Late Antiquity, North Africa, 200-450 CE. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012 (paperback 2016).
  • The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009 [English translation of Religion et sépulture: l’Église, les vivants et les morts dans l’Antiquité tardive (IIIe-Ve siècles). Civilisations et sociétés 115. Paris: Éd. de l’EHESS, 2003].
  • Musarna. 3, La nécropole impériale. Collection de l’École française de Rome 415. Rome: École française de Rome, 2009.
  • In hora mortis: évolution de la pastorale chrétienne de la mort aux IVe et Ve siècles dans l’Occident latin. Bibliothèque des Écoles Françaises d’Athènes et de Rome 283. Rome: École française de Rome, 1994.

Edited volumes

  • Group Identity and Religious Individuality in Late Antiquity. Edited by Éric Rebillard and Jörg Rüpke. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2015.
  • Les frontières du profane dans l’Antiquité tardive. Edited by Éric Rebillard and Claire Sotinel. Rome: École française de Rome, 2010.
  • Economie et religion dans l’Antiquité tardive. Edited by Éric Rebillard and Claire Sotinel.  Special issue of Antiquité tardive 14 (2006): 15-116.
  • Hellénisme et christianisme. Edited by Michel Narcy and Éric Rebillard. Lille: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2004.
  • Orthodoxie, christianisme, histoire = Orthodoxy, christianity, history. Collection de l’École française de Rome 270. Edited by Susanna Elm, Éric Rebillard and Antonella Romano, Rome: École française de Rome, 2000.
  • L’évêque dans la cité du IVe au Ve siècle: image et autorité. Collection de l’École française de Rome 248. Edited by Éric Rebillard and Claire Sotinel. Rome: École française de Rome, 1998.
Klarman Hall
120 Goldwin Smith Hall
er97@cornell.edu
607/255-8640

Education

Professor Rebillard received his PhD from the Sorbonne (Paris, France) in 1993 and is a former member of the Ecole française de Rome. He came at Cornell in 2004 after having held a research position in the French CNRS between 1996 and 2003.

Departments and programs

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Roman History

 

Verity Platt

Professor, on leave 2023-2024

Publications

Monographs

Edited Volumes

Articles:

  • “Undisciplining the University through Shared Purpose, Practice, and Place,” Nature: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 9, no. 172 (2022), with A. Freiband et al.

  • “Ancient Relief: Terminology, Medium, Ontology”, in J. Elsner, M. Gaifman and N. Jones (eds.), Rethinking Classical Relief, Yale Classical Studies/Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

  • “Art, Nature, and the Material Divine in Roman Landscape Painting,” in J. Powers, (ed.), Art, Nature, and Myth in Ancient Rome, exhibition catalogue, San Antonio Museum of Art. Forthcoming October 2021.

  • “Bodies, Bases and Borders: Framing the Divine in Greco-Roman Antiquity,” in R. Wood and J. Elsner (eds.), Imagining the Divine: Exploring Art in Religions of Late Antiquity across Eurasia, British Museum Press, 2021: 19–36. 

  • "Beeswax: The Natural History of an Archetypal Medium," in A. Anguissola and A. Grüner (eds.), The Nature of Art: Pliny the Elder on Materials. Brepols series on "Art and Materiality", 2021: 51–64.

    • Translated into Italian as "Cera d’api: la storia naturale di un medium archetipico," transl. C. Ballestrazzi, Journal of the Istituto universitario olandese di storia dell’arte. Forthcoming.

  • “Re-membering the Belvedere Torso: Ekphrastic Restoration and the Teeth of Time,” Critical Inquiry 46 (Autumn 2020): 49–75.

  • "Color in Ancient Religion and Ritual," in D. Wharton (ed.), A Cultural History of Color in Antiquity. Bloomsbury, 2020: 63–80.

  • “The Seal of Polycrates: A Discourse on Discourse Channel Conditions,” in P. Michelakis (ed.), Classics and Media Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, series on “Classical Presences”, 2020: 53–76.

  • “De l’original perdu aux séries de répliques : nouvelles approches des multiples gréco-romains,” transl. G. Mélère, invited contribution to Perspective: actualité en histoire de l’art, special issue on Multiples. 2019.2: 165–78.

  • ​"Ecology, Ethics and Aesthetics in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History," Journal of the Clark Art Institute 17, special issue on Ecologies, Agents, Terrains, ed. C. P. Heuer and R. Zorach, Yale University Press, 2018. 219-42.​

  • "Orphaned Objects: Pliny’s Natural History and the Phenomenology of the Incomplete," Art History 41.3 (June 2018), special issue on The Embodied Object, 492-517.

  • "The Embodied Object," Introduction to Art History 41.3 (June 2018), special issue on The Embodied Object (co-authored with M. Gaifman), 402-19.

  • “Ex votos in the Ancient World”, in I. Weinryb (ed.), Agents of Faith: Votive Giving Across Cultures. Bard Graduate Center Gallery Publications, Yale University Press, 2018, 2-19.

  • "Silent Bones and Singing Stones: Materializing the Poetic Corpus in Hellenistic Greece", in N. Goldschmidt and B. Graziosi (eds.), Tombs of the Poets: Between Text and Material Culture. Oxford University Press, 2018, 21-49.

  • "Of Sponges and Stones: Matter and Ornament in Roman Painting," in N. Dietrich and M. Squire (eds.), Ornament and Figure in Graeco-Roman Art: Rethinking Visual Ontologies in Classical Antiquity. De Gruyter, 2018, 241-78. 

  • "Double Vision: Epiphanies of the Dioscuri in Greece and Rome," Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 20.1, March 2018, 229-56.

  • "Framing the Visual in Greco-Roman Antiquity: an Introduction," in V. Platt and M. Squire (eds.), The Frame in Classical Art: A Cultural History. Cambridge University Press (2017), 3-99 (co-authored with M. Squire).

  • "Framing the Sacred,"  in V. Platt and M. Squire (eds.), The Frame in Classical Art: A Cultural History. Cambridge University Press (2017), 384–91.

  • "Framing Pictorial Space," in V. Platt and M. Squire (eds.), The Frame in Classical Art: A Cultural History. Cambridge University Press (2017), 102–16.

  • "Getting to Grips with Classical Art: Rethinking the Haptics of Graeco-Roman Visual Culture," in A. Purves (ed.), Touch and the Ancient Senses. The Senses in Antiquity, Vol. 6. Routledge (2017), 74-100 (co-authored with M. Squire).

  • "The Matter of Classical Art History”, in What’s New About the Old? Reassessing the Ancient World, special issue of Daedalus edited by M. Santirocco (Spring 2016), 5–14.

  • "The Artist as Anecdote: Creating Creators in Ancient Texts and Modern Art History," in J. Haninck and R. Fletcher (eds.), Creative Lives in the Ancient World. Cambridge University Press (2016), 274-304.

  • "Epiphanies," in The Oxford Handbook of Greek Religion, eds. E. Eidinow and J. Kindt, Oxford University Press (2015), 491-504.

  • "Agamemnon's Grief: on the Limits of Expression in Roman Rhetoric and Painting," in J. Elsner and M. Meyer (eds.), Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture. Cambridge University Press (2014), 211-31.

  • "Likeness and Likelihood in Classical Greek Art," in V. Wohl (ed.), Probabilities, Hypotheticals, and Counterfactuals in Ancient Greek Thought. Cambridge University Press (2014), 185-207. 

  • "Sight and the Gods: On the Desire to See Naked Nymphs," in M. Squire (ed.), Sight and the Ancient Senses. The Senses in Antiquity, Vol. 4, Routledge (2015), 169-87. 

  • "Framing the Dead on Roman Sarcophagi," RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 61/62 (Spring/Autumn 2012), 213-27.

  • "Art History in the Temple," Arethusa 43.2 (Spring 2010), 197-213. 

  • "Viewing the Past: Cinematic Paideia in the Caverns of Macedonia," in P. Cartledge and F. Rose Greenland (eds.), Responses to Oliver Stone's Alexander. Film, History and Cultural Studies. University of Wisconsin Press (2010), 285-304. 

  • "Where The Wild Things Are: Locating the Marvellous in Augustan Wall-Painting", in P. Hardie (ed.), Paradox and the Marvellous in Augustan Literature and Culture. Oxford University Press (2009), 41-74. 

  • "Virtual Visions: Phantasia and the Perception of the Divine in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana," in E. L. Bowie and J. Elsner (eds.), Philostratus. Cambridge University Press (2009), 131-54. 

  • "Burning Butterflies: Seals, Symbols and the Soul in Antiquity", in L. Gilmour (ed.), Pagans and Christians - from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, British Archaeological Reports series, Archaeopress (2007), 89-99. 

  • "Honour Takes Wing: Unstable Images and Anxious Orators in the Greek Tradition," in Z. Newby and R. Leader-Newby (eds.), Art and Inscriptions in the Ancient World. Cambridge University Press (2006), 247-71.

  • "Making an Impression: Replication and the Ontology of the Graeco-Roman Seal Stone", Art History, special edition on Replication in Ancient Art, 29.2 (April, 2006), 233-57. 

  • "Shattered Visages: Speaking Statues from the Ancient World," Apollo (July, 2003), 9-14. 

  • "Evasive Epiphany in Ekphrastic Epigram," Ramus 31 (2002), 33-50.

  • "Viewing, Desiring, Believing: Confronting the Divine in a Pompeian House," Art History 25.1 (Feb, 2002), 87-112.

Online articles and journalism

Curated exhibitions

Klarman Hall
120 Goldwin Smith Hall
vjp33@cornell.edu

Education

Prof. Platt received her DPhil in Classics from Oxford University, and also has a Masters in Classical Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. She joined the Classics and History of Art departments at Cornell in 2010 having previously taught at the University of Chicago, following a post-doctoral research fellowship at University College, Oxford. She has held fellowships at the Institute of Advanced Study (Princeton), the Franke Institute for the Humanities (University of Chicago), the Society for the Humanities (Cornell), and the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (Cornell).

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Keywords

 

 

The history and historiography of Greek and Roman art; text and object/word and image; Roman wall-painting and sarcophagi; seal-stones/glyptics; art and religion; Hellenistic and Imperial Greek literature; Pliny the Elder; cast collections; classics and media studies; eco-art history; classical reception studies; classicism and contemporary art.

 

Sturt Manning

Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Classical Archaeology

Publications

BOOKS:

Manning, S.W. (ed.). 2022. Critical Approaches to Cypriot and Wider Mediterranean Archaeology. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing.

Kearns, C. and Manning, S.W. (eds.). 2019. New Directions in Cypriot Archaeology. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Manning, S.W. 2014. A Test of Time and A Test of Time Revisited. The volcano of Thera and the chronology and history of the Aegean and east Mediterranean in the mid-second millennium BC. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

Manning, S.W. and Bruce, M.J. (eds.). 2009. Tree-Rings, Kings and Old World Archaeology and Environment: Papers Presented in Honor of Peter Ian Kuniholm. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

Manning, S.W., et al. 2002. The Late Roman Church at Maroni Petrera: Survey and salvage excavations 1990-1997, and other traces of Roman remains in the lower Maroni Valley, Cyprus. Nicosia: The A.G. Leventis Foundation.

Manning, S.W. 2001. The Absolute Chronology of the Aegean Early Bronze Age: archaeology, history and radiocarbon. Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 1. Reprint (from 1995). Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.

SELECTED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS 2023-2018:

Manning, S.W., Kocik, C., Lorentzen, B. and Sparks, J.P. 2023. Sever multi-year drought coincident with Hittite collapse around 1198-1196 BC. Nature 614: 719-724. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05693-y 

Manning, S.W. 2023. Dendrochronology and Archaeology. In A.M. Pollard, R.A. Armitage and C.A. Makarewicz (eds.), Handbook of Archaeological Sciences, Second Edition: 37-68. Wiley: Hoboken.  https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119592112.ch3

Atkins, C.E. and Manning, S.W. 2022. Re-survey of the anchorage at Maroni Tsaroukkas, Cyprus: defining and viewing a Late Bronze Age coastscape. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 41: 278-302. https://doi.org/10.1111/ojoa.12244

Manning, S.W. 2022. Second Intermediate Period date for the Thera (Santorini) eruption and historical implications. PLoS ONE 17(9): e0274835. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274835

Manning, S.W. 2022. Climate, environment, and resources. In S. von Reden (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Ancient Greek Economy: 373-391. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Manning, S.W., Lorentzen, B., and Demesticha, S. 2022. Dating Mediterranean shipwrecks: The Mazotos ship, radiocarbon dating and the need for independent chronological anchors. Antiquity 96: 968-980.

Höflmayer, F. and Manning, S.W. 2022. A synchronized early Middle Bronze Age chronology for Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 81: 1-24.

Manning, S.W., Lorentzen, B. and Hart, J.P. 2021. Resolving Indigenous village occupations and social history across the long century of European permanent settlement in Northeastern North America: The Mohawk River Valley ~1450-1635 CE. PLoS ONE 16(10): e0258555. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258555

Manning, S.W., Huey, P.R., Lucas, M.T. and Hart, J.P. 2021. Radiocarbon and Artifactual Evidence for Early 17th Century A.D. Dutch Activity at the Site of Fort Orange, Albany, New York, USA. Journal of Field Archaeology 46: 192-209.

Birch, J., Manning, S.W., Sanft, S. and Conger, M.A. 2021. Refined radiocarbon chronologies for Northern Iroquoian site sequences: implications for coalescence, conflict, and the reception of European goods. American Antiquity 86: 61-89.

Manning, S.W., Lorentzen, B., Welton, L., Batiuk, S., Harrison, T.P. 2020. Beyond megadrought and collapse in the Northern Levant: The chronology of Tell Tayinat and two historical inflection episodes, around 4.2ka BP, and following 3.2ka BP. PLoS ONE 15(10): e0240799. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240799.

Manning, S.W., Wacker, L., Büntgen, U., Bronk Ramsey, C., Dee, M.W., Kromer, B., Lorentzen, B. and Tegel, W. 2020. Radiocarbon offsets and old world chronology as relevant to Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia and Thera (Santorini). Scientific Reports 10: 41598. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69287-2

Manning, S.W., Kromer, B., Cremaschi, M., Dee, M.W., Friedrich, R., Griggs, C. and Hadden, C.S. 2020. Mediterranean radiocarbon offsets and calendar dates for prehistory. Science Advances 6: eaaz1096. https://doi:10.1126/sciadv.aaz1096

Manning, S.W. 2019. Environment and Sociopolitical Complexity on Prehistoric Cyprus: Observations, Trajectories, and Sketch. In C. Kearns and S.W. Manning (eds.), New Directions in Cypriot Archaeology: 99-130. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Fisher, K.D., Manning, S.W. and Urban, T.M. 2019. New Approaches to Late Bronze Age Urban Landscapes on Cyprus: Investigations at Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios, 2012-2016. American Journal of Archaeology 123: 473-507.

Griggs, C., Kocik, C., Urban, T.M. and Manning, S.W. 2019. Dendrochronology of Swift Water Place and Other Tree-Ring Samples from Northwest Alaska. In D.D. Anderson and W.W. Anderson (eds.), Life at Swift Water Place: Northwest Alaska at the threshold of European contact: 129-153. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press.

Urban, T.M., Rasic, J.T., Alix, C., Anderson, D.D., Chisholm, L., Jacob, R.W., Manning, S.W., Mason, O.K., Tremayne, A.H., Vinson, D. 2019. Magnetic detection of archaeological hearths in Alaska: a tool for investigating the full span of human presence at the gateway to North America. Quaternary Science Reviews 211: 73-92.

Manning, S.W., Birch, J., Conger, M.A., Dee, M.W., Griggs, C., Hadden, C.S., Hogg, A.G., Bronk Ramsey, C., Sanft, S., Steier, P., Wild, E.M. 2018. Radiocarbon re-dating of contact-era Iroquoian history in northeastern North America. Science Advances 4: eaav0280.

Manning, S.W., Smith, A.T., Khatchadourian, L., Badalyan, R., Lindsay, I., Greene, A., Marshall, M. 2018. A new chronological model for the Bronze and Iron Age South Caucasus: radiocarbon results from Project ArAGATS, Armenia. Antiquity 92: 1530-1551.

Manning, S.W. 2018. Events, Episodes and History: Chronology and the Resolution of Historical Processes. In L. Nevett and J. Whitley (eds.), An Age of Experiment: Classical Archaeology Transformed (1976-2014): 119-137. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

Manning, S.W. and Fisher, K.D. 2018. Locating the Late Bronze Age peasant in Cyprus? In L. Hulin, L. Crewe and J.M. Webb (eds.), Structures of Inequality on Bronze Age Cyprus. Studies in Honour of Alison K. South: 121-138. Nicosia: Astrom Editions.

Urban, T.M., Bustos, D., Jakeway, J., Manning, S.W., Bennett, M.R. 2018. Use of magnetometry for detecting and documenting multi-species Pleistocene megafauna tracks at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, U.S.A. Quaternary Science Reviews 199: 206-213.

Manning, S.W., Griggs, C., Lorentzen, B., Bronk Ramsey, C., Chivall, D., Jull, A.J.T., Lange, T.E. 2018. Fluctuating radiocarbon offsets observed in the southern Levant and implications for archaeological chronology debates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115: 6141-6146.

Manning, S.W. 2018. Some Perspectives on the Frequency of Significant, Historically Forcing Drought and Subsistence Crises in Anatolia and Region. In E. Holt (ed.), Water and Power in Past Societies: 279-295. IEMA Proceedings, volume 7. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Manning, S.W. 2018. The Development of Complex Society on Crete: The Balance between Wider Context and Local Agency. In A.R. Knodell and T.P. Leppard (eds.), Regional Approaches to Society and Complexity: 29-58. Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 15. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing.

Klarman Hall
120 Goldwin Smith Hall
sm456@cornell.edu
607/255-8650

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

Classical archaeology, east Mediterranean archaeology, climate and archaeology, dendrochronology, radiocarbon dating and analysis

Caitie Barrett

Associate Professor

Publications

MONOGRAPHS

  • Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens (2019). Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. [430 pp. + 100 figures]
  • Egyptianizing Figurines from Delos: A Study in Hellenistic Religion (2011). Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 36. Leiden/Boston: Brill. [731 pp. + 80 plates]

EDITED VOLUMES

  • Figurines grecques en contexte: Présence muette dans le sanctuaire, la tombe et la maison (2015), eds. S. Huysecom-Haxhi and A. Muller (editors-in-chief) and C. Aubry, C. Barrett, C. Blume, and T. Kopestonsky (collaborating editors). Archaiologia. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. [534 pp.]

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

  • "Magical Gems as Material Texts" (forthcoming). In Textual Archaeology of the Ancient Near East: Are We Doing It Wrong?, ed. Y. Heffron. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. 
  • "The Valuation of Terracotta Figurines in Domestic Contexts: Reconsidering the Gap between Material and Ritual" (forthcoming). In Stuff of the Gods: The Material Aspects of Religion in Ancient Greece, eds. M. Haysom, M. Mili, and J. Wallensten. Athens: Swedish Institute at Athens.
  • "Recontextualizing Nilotic Scenes: Interactive Landscapes in the Garden of the Casa dell’Efebo, Pompeii.” American Journal of Archaeology 121: 293-332. [40 pp.]
  • "Egypt in Roman Visual and Material Culture" (2017). In G. Williams (ed.), Oxford Handbooks Online in Classical Studies. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. (http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935390.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935390-e-18) [43 pp.]
  • "Archaeology of Ancient Religions" (2016). In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion, eds. J. Barton et al. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. (http://oxfordre.com/religion/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-48) [24 pp.]
  • "Avant-propos" (with C. Aubry, C. Blume, S. Huysecom-Haxhi, T. Kopestonsky, and A. Muller) (2015). In Figurines grecques en contexte: Présence muette dans le sanctuaire, la tombe et la maison, eds. S. Huysecom-Haxhi et al., 7-9. Archaiologia. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. [3 pp.]
  • "Terracotta Figurines and the Archaeology of Ritual: Domestic Cult in Greco-Roman Egypt" (2015). In Figurines grecques en contexte: Présence muette dans le sanctuaire, la tombe et la maison, eds. S. Huysecom-Haxhi et al., 401-420. Archaiologia. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. [20 pp.]
  • "Harpocrates on Rheneia: Two Egyptian Figurines from the Necropolis of Delos" (2015). In Figurines de terre cuite en Méditerranée orientale grecque et romaine. II: Iconographie et contextes, eds. E. Laflı and A. Muller, 187-200. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion.
  • "Material Evidence for Ancient Greek Religion" (2015). In Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, eds. E. Eidinow and J. Kindt, 113-130. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [18 pp.]
  • "Hellenistic and Roman Egypt" (2015). In D.L. Clayman (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Classics. New York: Oxford University Press. [87 pp.]
  • "The Perceived Value of Minoan and Minoanizing Pottery in Egypt" (2009). Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 22.2: 211-234. [24 pp.]
  • "Was Dust Their Food and Clay Their Bread? Grave Goods, the Mesopotamian Afterlife, and the Liminal Role of Inana/Ishtar" (2007). Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 7: 7-65. [59 pp.]

OTHER ARTICLES, BRIEF ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES, AND ENTRIES IN MUSEUM CATALOGS

  • “Casa della Regina Carolina, Regio VIII.3.14” (2020). K.L. Gleason, C.E. Barrett, and A. Marzano. Fasti Online (http://www.fastionline.org/excavation/micro_view.php?fst_cd=AIAC_4667&curcol=sea_cd-AIAC_10402). 
  • Multiple entries (2018) in Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World, eds. J. Spier et al., 250, 252–253, 272, 276-277, no. 174. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum. 
  • "Figurines" (with E. Darby) (2016). In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, ed. E. Orlin, 344-346. New York: Routledge. [3 pp.]
  • "Harpokrates" (2016). In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, ed. E. Orlin, 388. New York: Routledge. [1 p.]
  • "Gems" (with V. Platt) (2015). In Cornell Collection of Antiquities, ed. A. Alexandridis and V. Platt (http://antiquities.stg.library.cornell.edu/gems). [3 pp.]
  • "Plaster Perspectives on 'Magical Gems': Rethinking the Meaning of 'Magic' in Cornell's Dactyliotheca" (2015). In Cornell Collection of Antiquities, ed. A. Alexandridis and V. Platt (http://antiquities.stg.library.cornell.edu/gems/plaster-perspectives-on-magical-gems). 
  • "Terracotta Figurines of Harpocrates from Greco-Roman Egypt" (2013). In C.M. Manassa (ed.), Echoes of Egypt: Conjuring the Land of the Pharaohs (http://echoesofegypt.peabody.yale.edu/overview/harpocrates-figurines). Online exhibit catalog for a 2013-2014 exhibition at the Yale Peabody Museum. [4 pp.]
  • "'Campana' Relief with Roman Nilotic Landscape" (2013). In C.M. Manassa (ed.), Echoes of Egypt: Conjuring the Land of the Pharaohs (http://echoesofegypt.peabody.yale.edu/overview/campana-relief-roman-nilotic-landscape). Online exhibit catalog for a 2013-2014 exhibition at the Yale Peabody Museum. [3 pp.]
  • "Egyptianizing Graeco-Roman Objects" (with C.M. Manassa) (2013). In C.M. Manassa (ed.), Echoes of Egypt: Conjuring the Land of the Pharaohs, pp. 15-16 [print edition]. New Haven: Yale Peabody Museum. Exhibit catalog for a 2013-2014 exhibition at the Yale Peabody Museum. [2 pp.]

INVITED BOOK REVIEWS

  • Review (2013) of M. Trümper, Die 'Agora des Italiens' in Delos: Baugeschichte, Architektur, Ausstattung und Funktion einer späthellenistischen Porticus-Anlage. Journal of Hellenic Studies 133: 116-117. [2 pp.]
  • Review (2012) of B. Rabe, Zwischen Entwurf und Produkt: Die griechisch-römischen Gipsformen aus Ägypten im Museum August Kestner, Hannover. Coroplastic Studies Interest Group Book Reviews (http://www.coroplasticstudies.org/reviews-rabe.html).

NOTES, RESEARCH REPORTS, AND BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS

  • "Nilotic Scenes, Egyptian Religion, and Roman Perceptions" (2013). Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 5: 3-5. [3 pp.]
  • "Recent Research in Greco-Egyptian Interactions" (2012). Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 4:4. [1 p.]
  • "Egyptian Imagery in Hellenistic Bulgaria: Lamps from the Thracian City of Seuthopolis" (2010). CSIG News: Newsletter of the Coroplastic Studies Interest Group 4: 17. [1 p.]
  • "Religious Syncretism in Egyptianizing Terracotta Figurines from Delos" (2009). CSIG News: Annual Newsletter of the Coroplastic Studies Interest Group 1: 10. [1 p.]

 

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120 Goldwin Smith Hall
ceb329@cornell.edu

Education

PhD in Anthropology (Archaeology Subfield), Yale University, 2009

BA in Anthropology (Archaeology Subfield), summa cum laude, Harvard University, 2003

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Mediterranean archaeology, Greek and Roman archaeology, Egyptian archaeology, Egypt under Ptolemaic and Roman rule, archaeology of religion and ritual, household archaeology, household religion, connectivity, cross-cultural interactions, Hellenistic period, Roman empire, Hieroglyphic Egyptian language, Pompeii

 

Benjamin Anderson

Associate Professor

Publications

Books:

Authored:

Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017).

Palmyra 1885: The Wolfe Expedition and the Photographs of John Henry Haynes (co-author, with Robert G. Ousterhout) (Istanbul: Cornucopia Books, 2016).

 

Edited:

Hagia Sophia in the Long Nineteenth Century (co-editor, with Emily Neumeier) Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024).

Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? Toward a Critical Historiography (co-editor, with Mirela Ivanova) (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2023). (Read the introduction.)

Otros pasados: ontologías alternativas y el estudio de lo que ha sido (co-editor, with Felipe Rojas and Byron Ellsworth Hamann) (Bogotá: MUSA, 2022). (Read the introduction.)

The Byzantine Neighbourhood: Urban Space and Political Action (co-editor, with Fotini Kondyli) Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies 31 (Abingdon: Routledge, 2022). (Read the introduction.)

Robert Wood, The Ruins of Palmyra and Baalbek (London: Bloomsbury, 2021). (Read the introduction.)

Antiquarianisms: Contact, Conflict, Comparison (co-editor, with Felipe Rojas) Joukowsky Institute Publication 8 (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2017). (Read the introduction.)

 

Selected essays:

On late antique and Byzantine art:

"Between Diagram and Image: On Yuval's Harp," in Jeffrey F. Hamburger, David J. Roxburgh, and Linda Safran, eds., The Diagram as Paradigm: Cross-Cultural Approaches (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2022), 93-112.

"The Great Kosmos of All Armenia: On the Sarcophagus of Isaac," in Helen C. Evans, ed., Art and Religion in Medieval Armenia (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022), 16-26.

"The Imperial Arts," in Ellen C. Schwartz, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Art and Architecture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), 133-146.

"Images in Byzantine Thought and Practice, ca. 500-700," in Mike Humphreys, ed., A Companion to Byzantine Iconoclasm (Leiden: Brill, 2021), 144-187.

"Oracular Images and the Limits of Political Knowledge in Byzantium," in Michael Grünbart, ed., Unterstützung bei herrscherlichem Entscheiden: Experten und ihr Wissen in transkultureller und komparativer Perspektive (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021), 22-39.

“Images Down Low,” in Sabine Feist, ed., Transforming Sacred Spaces: New Approaches to Byzantine Ecclesiastical Architecture from the Transitional Period (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2020), 161-87.

“The Prussian Tondo,” in Niccolò Zorzi, Albrecht Berger, and Lorenzo Lazzarini, eds., I tondi di Venezia e Dumbarton Oaks: Arte e ideologia imperiale tra Bisanzio e Venezia (Rome: Viella, 2019), 35-49.

"The Disappearing Imperial Statue: Toward a Social Approach," in Troels Myrup Kristensen and Lea Stirling, eds., The Afterlife of Greek and Roman Sculpture: Late Antique Responses and Practices (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016), 290-309.

 

On the urban history of Constantinople:

"From the Mouth of Angels: Folkloric Hagia Sophia," in Emily Neumeier and Benjamin Anderson, eds, Hagia Sophia in the Long Nineteenth Century (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024), 125-147.

"Constantinople's Medieval Antiquarians of the Future," in Elizabeth Key Fowden, Suna Çağaptay, Edward Zychowicz-Coghill and Louise Blanke, eds., Cities as Palimpsests? Reponses to Antiquity in Eastern Mediterranean Urbanism (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2022), 125-140.

"The Oxeia: A Neighbourhood Biography," in Fotini Kondyli and Benjamin Anderson, eds., The Byzantine Neighbourhood: Urban Space and Political Action (Abindgon: Routledge, 2022), 155-173.

"Eros and the Army (Constantinople and Context)," in Peter D. De Staebler and Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta, eds., Roman Sculpture in Context (Boston: Archaeological Institute of America, 2021), 241-257.

“The Forum of Theodosius: Labour and the Gods,” in Vasileios Marinis, Amy Papalexandrou, and Jordan Pickett, eds., Architecture and Visual Culture in the Late Antique and Medieval Mediterranean: Studies in Honor of Robert G. Ousterhout (Turnhout: Brepols, 2020), 3-17.

"Social Clustering in 5th-c. Constantinople: The Evidence of the Notitia," Journal of Roman Archaeology 29 (2016), 494-508.

"Public Clocks in Late Antique and Early Medieval Constantinople," Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 64 (2014), 23-32.

"Classified Knowledge: The Epistemology of Statuary in the Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai," Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 35 (2011), 1-19.

"Leo III and the Anemodoulion," Byzantinische Zeitschrift 104 (2011), 41-54.

 

On the history of archaeology:

"The Science of Talismans Today," History Compass 22 (2023).

"La Quimera de Vasari: ontologías del estilo," in Felipe Rojas, Byron Ellsworth Hamann, and Benjamin Anderson, eds., Otros pasados: ontologías alternativas y el estudio de lo que ha sido  (Bogotá: MUSA, 2022), 283-306.

"The Uncanny Encounter," in Armin Bergmeier and Andrew Griebeler, eds., Time and Presence in Art: Moments of Encounter (200-1600 CE) (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2022), 159-174.

"Classical Ground: Robert Wood's Palmyra and Balbec," in Robert Wood, The Ruins of Palmyra and Baalbek (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), 1-22.

"The Defacement of the Parthenon Metopes," Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 57 (2017), 248-260.

"Forgetting Athens," in Benjamin Anderson and Felipe Rojas, eds., Antiquarianisms: Contact, Conflict, Comparison (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2017), 184-209.

"'An Alternative Discourse': Local Interpreters of Antiquities in the Ottoman Empire," Journal of Field Archaeology 40 (2015), 450-460.

Klarman Hall
GM08 Goldwin Smith Hall
bwa32@cornell.edu

Education

Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College

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Annetta Alexandridis

Associate Professor, on leave Fall 2023

Publications

Books

Authored 

Die Frauen des römischen Kaiserhauses. Eine Untersuchung ihrer bildlichen Darstellung von Livia bis Iulia Domna (Mainz: von Zabern, 2004)

Archäologie der Photographie. Bilder aus der Photothek der Berliner Antikensammlung (with Wolf-Dieter Heilmeyer) (Mainz: von Zabern, 2004)

 

Edited

Destroy the Copy - Plaster Cast Colletions in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Demolition, Defacement, Disposal in Europe and Beyond (with Lorenz Winkler-Horaček) (Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2022).

Mensch und Tier in der Antike: Grenzziehung und Grenzüberschreitung (with Markus Wild and Lorenz Winkler-Horaček) (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2008).

 

Articles (selection)

On images of (Roman Imperial) Women:

“Portraiture of Flavian Imperial Women,” in: Elizabeth Carney – Sabine Müller (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World (London – New York: Routledge 2021) 423–438.

“The Women of the Severan Dynasty: Coining Female Power?” in: Carmen Arnold-Biucchi and Martin Beckmann (eds.), Sculpture and Coins: Margarete Bieber as Scholar and Collector (Cambridge/Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018) 89–145. 

‘Töchter der Wirklichkeit’? – Darstellungen alter Frauen in der griechisch-römischen Antike,” in: Christiane Nowak - Lorenz Winkler-Horaček (eds.), Auf der Suche nach der Wirklichkeit Berlin: Abguss-Sammlung Antiker Plastik (Rahden/Westf.: Marie Leidorf, 2018) 55 –72.

“Frauen um Nero – Ehefrauen und Geliebte,” in: Jürgen Merten (ed.), Nero – Kaiser, Künstler und Tyrann (exhibition catalogue Landesmuseum Trier, 2016) 64–73.

“Mimesis oder Metapher? Aphroditekörper im römischen Frauenportät,” in: Dietrich Boschung and Ludwig Jäger (eds.), Formkonstanz und Bedeutungswandel. Archäologische und medienwissenschaftliche Reflexionen (Paderborn: Fink, 2014) 67–102.

“Neutral bodies? Female portrait statue types from the late Republic to the 2nd century C.E.,” in: Shelley Hales and Tamar Hodos (eds.), Material Culture and Social Identities in the Ancient World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) 252–279.

“The Other Side of the Coin: The Women of the Flavian Imperial Family,” in: Norbert Kramer and Christiane Reitz (eds.), Tradition und Erneuerung: Mediale Strategien in der Zeit der Flavier, Beiträge zur Altertumskunde vol. 285 (Berlin & New York: de Gruyter, 2010) 191–237.

“Individualisierung, Homogenisierung, Angst vor Vergänglichkeit. Weibliche Grab- und Ehrenstatuen der römischen Republik und der Kaiserzeit,” in: Natascha Sojc (ed.), Neue Fragen, neue Antworten. Antike Kunst als Thema der Gender Studies. Geschlecht – Symbol – Religion 3 (Berlin: LIT-Verlag, 2005) 111–124.

“Überall (götter)gleich? Theomorphe Bildnisse der Frauen des römischen Kaiserhauses,” in: Mirjana Sanader and Ante Rendic Miočevic (eds.), The Proceedings of the 8th International Colloquium on Problems of Roman Provincial Art, Zagreb 5.-8.5. 2003. Religion and myth as an impetus for the Roman provincial sculpture (Zagreb: Golden Marketing – Tehnička Knjiga, 2005) 415–422.

“Schmucklos oder trachtlos. Bildnisse römischer Frauen vom 1. Jh.v. – 2. Jh. n. Chr.,” in: Akten des Internationalen Symposiums über Schmuck und Tracht der Antike im Laufe der Zeit, Modra- Harmónia 2003, Anodos 3, 2003: 9–22

“Eine Hochzeitsgöttin im Römergrab von Köln-Weiden. Zur Chalcedon-Statuette der Berliner Antikensammlung,” Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 43, 2001: 53–56. 

Reviews of:

Molly M. Lindner, Portraits of the Vestal Virgins, Priestesses of Ancient Rome (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015). Journal of Roman Archaeology 31.2, 2018, 682–688.

Martin Beckmann, Diva Faustina. Coinage and Cult in Rome and the Provinces. Numismatic Studies 26 (New York: The American Numismatic Society, 2012). Journal of Roman Archaeology 29, 2016: 732–741.

Sheila Dillon, The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Gnomon 87.3, 2015: 245–251.

Dietrich Boschung, Gens Augusta. Untersuchungen zur Aufstellung, Wirkung und Bedeutung der Statuengruppen des julisch-claudischen Kaiserhauses (Mainz: von Zabern, 2002), Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 8, 2005: 1019–28. http://gfa.gbv.de/dr,gfa,008,2005,r,03.pdf

Kathrin Schade, Frauen in der Spätantike. Eine Untersuchung zur römischen und frühbyzantinischen Bildniskunst (Mainz: von Zabbern, 2003), in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 10. 11. 2003. http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2003-4-079.pdf

Hildegard Temporini-Gräfin Vitzthum (Hrsg.), Die Kaiserinnen Roms. Von Livia bis Theodora (München: Beck, 2002), in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 26. 05. 2003. http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2003-2-116.pdf

Tomasz Mikocki, Sub specie deae. Les impératrices et princesses romaines assimilées à des déesses. Étude iconologique (Rom: Bretschneider, 1995), Gnomon 71, 1999: 704–8.

 

On humans and animals (and others) in Greek iconography:

“Weder Mann noch Mensch. Projektionen der Geschlechterdifferenz im Mythos,” in: Stefan Krmnicek (ed.), Antike Rollenbilder. Wertvorstellungen in Münzbildern (Bonn: Habelt, 2018) 125–131. 

“The Minotaur and other monsters in the Greek imagination,” in: Nick Hopwood, Rebecca Flemming, Lauren Kassell (eds.), Reproduction: From Antiquity to the Present Day (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), exhibit 2 (between pp. 180–181).

“Tod eines Roboters. Talos und der ‘ganz besondre Saft’,” in: Michael Busch, Stefan Kroll and Małgorzata Anna Maksymiak (eds.), Hippokratische Grenzgänge – Ausflüge in kultur- und medizingeschichtliche Wissensfelder. Festschrift für Hans-Uwe Lammel zum 65. Geburtstag (Hamburg: Dr. Kovač 2017) 11–27. 

“Κρητικές διασταυρώσεις. Υβριδισμός και μεταμόρφωση στους μύθους της Ευρώπης και της Πασιφάη/ Cretan Crossbreeds: Hybridity and Metamorphosis in the Myths of Europa and Pasiphae,” in: Panayotis Soukakos – Minas Paschopoulos – Ariadne Gartsiou-Tatti (eds.) Υβριδικά και ιδιότυπα όντα. Αποκλίσεις από την «κανονικότητα» στην Αρχαία Ελληνική Μυθολογία και στη σύγχρονη Ιατρική/ Hybrid and Εxtraordinary Βeings.  Deviations from “Νormality” in Ancient Greek Mythology and Μodern Medicine (Ioannina, 2017) 31–39.

“Ζῷα: Bilder des Körpers zwischen Mensch und Tier im Mythos von Aktaion, ” in: Dietrich Boschung – Alan Shapiro – Frank Waschek (eds.), Bodies in Transition. Dissolving the Boundaries of Embodied Knowledge (Paderborn: Fink, 2015) 313–349. 

“Zwischen Mensch und Tier: Bilder der Metamorphose und der Zoophilie im griechischen Mythos,” in: Luca Tori – Aline Steinbrecher (eds.), Animali. Tiere und Fabelwesen von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit. Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum (Geneva – Milan: Skira, 2013) 70–79. 

“Animals,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010) 108–112. 

“Shifting species. Animal and Human Bodies in Attic Vase Painting of the 6th and 5th Centuries B.C.,” in: Thorsten Fögen and Mireille Lee (eds.) Bodies and Boundaries in Graeco-Roman Antiquity (Berlin & New York: de Gruyter, 2009) 267–286. 

“Wenn Götter lieben, wenn Götter strafen. Zur Ikonographie der Zoophilie im griechischen Mythos,” in: Annetta Alexandridis, Markus Wild, Lorenz Winkler-Horaček (eds.), Mensch und Tier in der Antike. Grenzziehung und Grenzüberschreitung (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2008) 285–311. 

Reviews of:

Claudia Lang-Auinger – Elisabeth Trinkl (Hg.), ΦΥΤΑ ΚΑΙ ΖΩΙΑ. Pflanzen und Tiere auf griechischen Vasen. Akten des internationalen Symposiums an der Universität Graz, 26.-28. September 2013. CVA Österreich Bhft. 2. (Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2015). Gnomon 91.8, 2019, 725–730.

Emma Aston, Mixanthropoi. Animal-Human Hybrid Deities in Greek Religion. Kernos Suppl. 25 (Liège: Centre international d'étude de la religion grecque antique, 2011). Mnemosyne 67, 2014: 150-154 (DOI: 10.1163/1568525X-12341590). 2014

Harald Mielsch, Griechische Tiergeschichten in der antiken Kunst (Mainz: von Zabern, 2005). BMCR 2006.05.30. http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2006/2006-05-30.html

 

On funerary culture (at Sardis):

“Funerary Containers from Roman Sardis,” in: Maria Aurenhammer (ed.), Sculpture in Roman Asia minor. Sonderschriften des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes 56 (Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2018) 265–280. 

“Death and the City: Asiatic Columnar Sarcophagi in Context,” in: James Osborne (ed.), Approaching Monumentality in Archaeology (Albany: SUNY Press, 2014) 233–256.

 

On the history and media of archaeology and collecting:

“Plaster Casts in Enlightenment and Colonialist Discourses on Race,” in: Annetta Alexandridis and Lorenz Winkler-Horaček (eds.). Destroy the Copy - Plaster Cast Collections in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Demolition, Defacement, Disposal in Europe and Beyond (Berlin - New York: De Gruyter, 2022) 494–525.

“Die ungeliebte Sammlung. Zur transatlantischen Geschichte einiger Skulpturen der Collezione Giustiniani,” in: Johanna Stapelfeldt – Ulrike Vedder – Klaus Wiehl (eds.), Museales Erzählen. Dinge, Räume, Narrative (Paderborn: Brill – Fink, 2020) 263–296.

“Gipse in der ‘Neuen Welt’,” in: Nele Schröder and Lorenz Winkler-Horacek (eds.), Von Gestern bis Morgen. Zur Geschichte der Berliner Gipsabgusssammlung(en) (Rahden/Westf.: Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2012) 297–300. 

“John Henry Parker – the “Archaeologist of Rome”?,” in: Christine Kühn (ed.), Italienische Fotografien der Sammlung John Henry Parker (Berlin: Staatliche Museen, 2000) 80–95.

Reviews of:

Daniel Graepler - Jorun Ruppel (eds.), Weiß wie Gips? Die Behandlung der Oberflächen von Gipsabgüssen/White as Plaster? Plaster Casts and the Treatment of Their Surface. Göttinger Studien zur Mediterranen Archäologie 10. (Rahden/Westfalen: Marie Leidorf, 2019), Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 22: 1161-1172.       DOI: 10.14628/GFA_022_2019_R20

Vincent Jolivet, Ruines Italiennes. Photographies des collections Alinari (Paris: Gallimard, 2006), BMCR 2008.03.19. http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2008/2008-03-19.html

 

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35 Goldwin Smith Hall
aa376@cornell.edu
607/255-9861

Education

Ph.D. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich

Departments and programs

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