Transgendering Clytemnestra
Many Greek tragedies have mysteriously evaded the controlling influence of time; they are read today with as much admiration and emotion as they would have inspired in their first audiences.
Exile in Homeric Epic
This dissertation examines exile in Homeric epic and in particular the relationship between exile as a narrative motif and the thematic significance of exile in specific contexts.
The Making of the Wooden Horse
Just as it is within the Odyssey, the story of the wooden horse has been perpetually told and retold. And just as Demodocus is familiar with the tale, so is almost everyone today.
Dedications in clay: terracotta figurines in early Iron Age Greece (c. 1100-700 BCE)
This dissertation explores early Greek religion and society through a contextual analysis of the ritual use of terracotta votive figurines in the Early Iron Age, c. 1100-700 BCE.
A Perspective of the History of Women’s Sport in Ancient Greece
This investigation examines literary, archaeological, and epigraphical evidence in four historical periods in order to draw as accurate a picture as possible of women’s sport in ancient Greece.
The Myth of the Synagogue on Delos
The identification of a synagogue on Delos has been problematic ever since it was first made in 1913 because while there is some evidence relating to Jews and/or Samaritans on Delos not one single piece of it refers to a synagogue or association house. When we come to look at the material relating to how a building on the island came to be identified as a synagogue…
The eighth-century revolution
The eighth-century revolution Ian Morris (Stanford University) Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics: December (2005) Abstract Through most of the 20th century classicists saw…
The growth of Greek cities in the first millennium BC
The growth of Greek cities in the first millennium BC Ian Morris Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics: December (2005) Abstract In this paper I…
The collapse and regeneration of complex society in Greece, 1500-500 BC
The collapse and regeneration of complex society in Greece, 1500-500 BC Ian Morris Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics: December (2005) Abstract Greece between 1500…
The eighth-century revolution
Ever since a post-Mycenaean Dark Age was defined in the 1890s, archaeologists have seen the eighth century as the beginning of a revival from it. In the first archaeological synthesis of early Greek history, Starr suggested that ‘the age of revolution, 750-650, was the most dramatic development in all Greek history’…