Assoc Professor Matthew Dillon
Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, School of Humanities
Contact
| Email: | mdillon@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 G35 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2049 (or +61 2 6773 2049 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3520 |
Teaching Awards
UNE Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (2007)
Carrick Institute Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (2007)
Affiliations
Professional Activities
HSC (NSW, Board of Studies) Ancient History Syllabus Committee 2002-03
HSC (NSW, Board of Studies) Ancient History Examination Committee 2004, 2005, 2006
HSC (NSW, Board of Studies) Chief Examiner, Ancient History Examination Committee 2007
Publications
Books and Monographs
Dillon, M.P.J. Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion, London & New York, Routledge, 2002 (hbk ISBN 0-415-20272-8; pp. 436 + x; 55 b&w photographs).
Dillon, M.P.J. Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in Ancient Greece, Routledge, London & New York, Routledge, 1997 (hbk ISBN 0-415-127750; pp. 308 + xix).
Dillon, M.P.J. (as Ntilon, Mathiou) PROSKYNHTES KAI IERA PROSKYNHMATA STHN ARXAIA ELLADA, Athens, Ekdoseis Enalios, 2001 (ISBN 960-536-040-3; pp. 431) (translation into modern Greek of Dillon, M.P.J. Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in Ancient Greece, Routledge, London & New York, 1997).
Dillon, M.P.J. & Garland, L. Ancient Greece: Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Socrates, Routledge, London & New York, 1994 (reprinted 1996); 476 pp. + xv; 4 tables, 4 maps (hbk ISBN 0-415-11366-0; pbk ISBN 0-415-11366-0).
Dillon, M.P.J. & Garland, L. Ancient Greece: Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Socrates, Routledge, London & New York, second edition, 2000; 543 pp. + xv; 4 tables, 4 maps (hbk ISBN 0-415-21754-7; pbk ISBN 0-415-21755-5).
Dillon, M.P.J. & Garland, L. Ancient Rome: Social and Historical Documents from the Early Republic to the Death of Julius Caesar, London & New York, Routledge, 2005 (ISBN hdbk: 0-415-22458-6, pbk 0-415-22459-4; 803 pp. + vii).
Dillon, M.P.J. (ed.) Religion in the Ancient World: New Themes and Approaches, Hakkert, Amsterdam, 1996 (pbk ISBN 90-256-1094-3; pp. 548 pp. + ix).
Dillon, M.P.J. The Ancient Greeks in Their Own Words, Sutton, Gloucestershire, 2002 (hbk ISBN 0-7509-2715-1).
Books In Progress
Dillon, M.P.J. Diviners of Archaic and Classical Greece. Prophesy for the Future, Guidance for the Present, Knowledge of the Past.
Under contract:
Dillon, M.P.J. & Garland, L. Ancient Greece: Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander the Great, third edition; Routledge.
Dillon, M.P.J. & Garland, L. Ancient Greece: A Social and Political History from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander the Great, Routledge.
Book ChapterDillon, M.P.J. "Oionomanteia in Greek Divination" in Dillon, M.P.J. (ed.) Religion in the Ancient World: New Themes and Approaches, Amsterdam, 1996, 99–121.
Refereed Articles (International Journals)
Dillon, M.P.J. "The House of the Thebans (FD iii.1 357-58) and Accommodation for Greek Pilgrims", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 83, 64-88, 1990.
Dillon, M.P.J. "Restoring a Manuscript Reading at Paus. 9.3.7", Classical Quarterly, 43, 327-329, 1993.
Dillon, M.P.J. "The Didactic Nature of the Epidaurian Iamata", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 98, 239-260, 1994.
Dillon, M.P.J. "Phrynon of Rhamnous and the Macedonian Pirates: the Political Significance of the Sacred Truces", Historia (Germany) 44, 250–254, 1995.
Dillon, M.P.J. "The Lakedaimonian Dedication to Olympian Zeus: The Date of Meiggs & Lewis 22 (SEG 11, 1203A)," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 107, 60–68, 1995.
Dillon, M.P.J. "Payments to the Disabled at Athens: Social Justice or Fear of Aristocratic Patronage?" Ancient Society (Belgium) 26, 27–57, 1995.
Dillon, M.P.J. "The Importance of the Water Supply at Athens: The Role of the epimeletes ton krenon," Hermes: Zeitschrift für klassische Philologie, 123, 192–204, 1996.
Dillon, M.P.J. "The Ecology of the Greek Sanctuary", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 118, 113-127, 1997.
Dillon, M.P.J. "A Homeric Pun from Abu-Simbel, Egypt (Meiggs & Lewis 7a)" Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 118, 128-130, 1997.
Dillon, M.P.J. "Post-nuptial Sacrifices on Kos (Segre, ED 178) and Ancient Greek Marriage Rites" Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 124, 63–80, 1999.
Dillon, M.P.J. "Did Parthenoi Attend the Olympic Games? Girls and Women Competing, Spectating, and Carrying out Cult Roles at Greek Religious Festivals" Hermes: Zeitschrift für klassische Philologie, 128, 457–480, 2000.
Dillon, M.P.J. "Woe for Adonis – but in Spring, not Summer" Hermes: Zeitschrift für klassische Philologie, 131, 1-16, 2003.
Dillon, M.P.J. "Was Kleisthenes or Pleisthenes Archon at Athens in 525 BC?" Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 155, 91-107, 2006.
Dillon, M.P.J. "The Construction of Women’s Gender Identity Through Religious Activity in Classical Greece" Australian Religion Studies Review 19, 226-245, 2006.
Dillon, M.P.J. “Were Spartan women who died in childbirth honoured with grave inscriptions? Whether to read ἱερῶν or λεχοῦς at Plutarch Lykourgos 27.3" Hermes: Zeitschrift für klassische Philologie, forthcoming, 2007.
Dillon, M.P.J. "‘Xenophon sacrificed on account of an expedition’ (Xenophon Anabasis 6.5.2): divination and the sphagia before ancient Greek battles" in P. Brulè & V. Mehl (eds), Le sacrifice: nouvelles perspectives, Les presses des Universitaires Rennes, 235-51, 2008.
Non-refereed Articles
Dillon, M.P.J. & Garland, L. "Culture, Ceremonial and Condescension: Constantinople through the Eyes of the Early Crusaders", Varangian Voice, 27, 15-17, 1993; 50%
Dillon, M.P.J. ‘Pass the drums and the wine, let down your hair and dance: ancient Greek women and the gods’ Women – Church. An Australian Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 33, 19-24, 2003.
Invited book review articlesDillon, M.P.J. Invited Review Article: Callendar, G. The Eye of Horus (Macmillan 1993) in Ancient History: Resources for Teachers (Macquarie University) 23, 42-51, 1993.
Dillon, M.P.J. Invited Review Article: Rich, J. & G. Shipley (eds), War and Society in the Greek World (Routledge, 1995 pbk ed.) in Ancient History: Resources for Teachers (Macquarie University), 26, 153-64, 1996.
Cartledge, P. Spartan Reflections (London 2001) in Ancient History: Resources for Teachers (Macquarie University), 30, 177-186, 2000.
Invited book reviews
Boedeker, D. & Raaflaub, K. (eds) Democracy, Empire, an the Arts in Fifth-century Athens, (Cambridge MA, 1999) in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms. Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (Cambridge, MA), 6.5, 668-69, 2001.
Bravo, B. Pannychis e simposio. Feste private notturne di donne e uomini nei testi letterari e nul culto (Pisa, 1997) in Classical Review (Oxford University), 50, 318–19, 2000.
Budelmann, F. The Language of Sophocles. Communality, Communication and involvement (Cambridge 2000) in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms. Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (Cambridge, MA), 8.1,152-53, 2002.
Crane, G. Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity: the Limits of Political Realism (Berkeley, 1998) in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms. Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (Cambridge, MA), 6.1, 98-99, 2001.
Faraone, C.A. Ancient Greek Love Magic, Harvard, 1999) in Scholia. Studies in Classical Antiquity (University of Natal), 12, review no. 4 (electronic review section), 2002.
Garland, R. Religion and the Greeks (London, 1994) in Ancient History: Resources for Teachers (Macquarie University), 25.1, 90-93, 1995.
Garland, R. The Eye of the Beholder: Deformity and Disability in the Graeco-Roman World (London, 1995) in Ancient History: Resources for Teachers (Macquarie University), Ancient History: Resources for Teachers 25.2, 162-66, 1995.
Gerber, D.E. Greek Iambic Poetry in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms. Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (Cambridge, MA), 6.6, 835-36, 2001.
Goff, B. Citizen Bacchae: Women’s Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece (Berkeley, 2004) in Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review, forthcoming.
Golden, M. Sport and Society in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 1998) in Culture, Sport, Society (Essex) 2.2, 115–16, 1999.
Green, P. Argonautika (Berkeley, 1997) in Ancient History: Resources for Teachers (Macquarie University), Ancient History: Resources for Teachers, 28.2, 166–69, 1998.
Green, P. The Greco-Persian Wars (Berkeley 1996) in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms. Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (Cambridge, MA), 5.2, 282–3, 2000.
Green, P. The Poems of Catullus. A Bilingual Edition (Berkeley, 2005) in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms. Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (Cambridge, MA), forthcoming.
Henderson, J. Aristophanes. Clouds, Wasps, Peace (Harvard 1998) in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms. Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (Cambridge, MA), 50.1, 151-52, 2000.
Holzberg, N. The Ancient Fable: An Introduction (Darmstadt, 2002) in Australian Folklore 18, 266-68, 2003.
Johnston, S.I. Restless Dead. Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece (Berkeley 1999) in Classical Review (Oxford University), 50.2, 512–4, 2000.
Kebric, R. B. Greek People (California, 1997: second edition) in Ancient History: Resources for Teachers (Macquarie University), 29.1, 83–87, 1999.
Kelley, D. Faces of History from Herodotus to Herder (Yale 1998) in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms. Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (Cambridge, MA), 9.3, 388-90, 2004.
Lohr, G. Verherrlichung Gottes durch Philosophie. Der Hermetische Traktat II im Rahmen der antiken Philosophie- und Religionsgeschichte (Berlin, 1997) in Classical Review (Oxford University), 49.2, 39–40, 1999.
Mikalson, J.D. Ancient Greek Religion, (Malden, MA and Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2005). in Classical Review (Oxford) 55, 502-03, 2005.
Mikalson, J.D. Religion in Hellenistic Athens (UC, 1998) in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms. Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (Cambridge, MA), 6.1, 97–98, 2001.
Munn, M. The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyanny of Asia. A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (Berkeley, University of California, 2006) in Classical Review, forthcoming.
Naiden, F.S. Ancient Supplication (New York, Oxford University Press, 2006) in Classical Review, forthcoming.
Neils, J. (ed.) Goddess and Polis. The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens (1992) in Classical Review (Oxford University) 44, 91–92, 1994.
Nielsen, T.H. (ed.) Even More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis. Papers from the Copenhagen Polis Centre, volume 6, Historia Einzelschriften; Heft 162, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 14.03.2004 (electronic review section).
Ober, J. Athenian Legacies. Essays on the Politics of Going on Together (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2005) in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms. Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (Cambridge, MA), forthcoming.
Parker, R. Athenian Religion. A History (Oxford, 1996) in Ancient History: Resources for Teachers (Macquarie University), 29.1, 87–90, 1999.
Pirenne-Delforge, V. & Suarez de la Torre, E. (eds), Héros et héroïnes dans les mythes et les cultes grecs, Actes du Colloque organisé à l’Université de Vallodolid du 26 au 29 mai 1999, Kernos Supplément 10, Liège, Centre International d’Étude de la Religion Grecque Antique, Liège, 2000, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (US), 07.12.2002 (electronic review section).
Pomeroy, S.B.; Burstein, S.M.; Donlan, W.; Roberts, J.T., Ancient Greece. A Political Social, and Cultural History (Oxford University Press (New York) 1999), in Ancient History: Resources for Teachers (Macquarie University), 29.2, 187–91, 1999.
Rubel, A. Stadt in Angst. Religion und Politik in Athen während des Peloponnesischen Krieges (Darmstadt, 2000) in Classical Review (Oxford University), 52.1, 90-92, 2002.
Rutherford, I. & J. Elsner, J. (eds) Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity. Seeing the Gods (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005) in Journal of Hellenic Studies, 127, 194-95, 2007.
Sammartano, R. Origines Gentium Siciliae. Ellanico, Antioco, Tucidide (Rome 1998) in Classical Review (Oxford University), 50.2, 657, 2000.
Sinnott-Armstrong, W. Pyrrhonian Scepticism, in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms. Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (Cambridge, MA), forthcoming.
Sissa, G. & Detienne, M. The Daily Life of the Greek Gods (Stanford 2000) in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms. Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (Cambridge, MA), 8.2, 231-32, 2003.
Zaidman, L.B. Le commerce des dieux. Eusebeia, essai sur le piété en grèce ancienne (Paris 2001) in Classical Review (Oxford University), 52.1, 92-93, 2002.
Zaidman, L.B., Pantel, S.P., Religion in the Ancient Greek City (Cambridge University Press, 1992) in Ancient History: Resources for Teachers (Macquarie University), 24.2, 163–67, 1994.
Zhmud, L. Wissenschaft, Philosophie und Religion im frühen Pythagoreismus (Berlin, 1997) in Classical Review (Oxford University), 49.1, 102-04, 1999.
Zunino, M.L. Hiera Messeniaka. La storia religiosa della Messenia dall’età micenea all’età ellenistica (Udine 1997) in Classical Review (Oxford University), 50, 126–27, 2000.