Assoc Professor Matthew Dillon
Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, School of Humanities
Qualifications
BA (University of Queensland)[1981-83], BA Hons I (UQ) [1984], MA (UQ)[1985-87], PhD (UNE)[1988-92]
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)
[Study Leave 2008]
UNE Unit Commendation Award for ANCH304 (2009: 80% of teaching)
UNE Unit Commendation Award for HIST513 (2010: 20% of teaching)
UNE Unit Commendation Award for ANCH325 (2010: 100% of teaching) [1122 units monitored with 52 Unit Commendations: 4.63% of units awarded commendations]
UNE Unit Commendation Award for EXSC100 (2010: 50% of teaching) [1122 units monitored with 52 Unit Commendations: 4.63% of units awarded commendations]
UNE Unit Commendation Award for RELS388 (2010: 100% of teaching) [1271 units monitored with 51 Unit Commendations: 4.01% of units awarded commendations]
UNE Unit Commendation Award for HIST512 (2011: 50% of teaching)
UNE Unit Commendation Award for ANCH324 (2011: 100% of teaching)
UNE Unit Commendation Award for ANCH326 (2011: 80% of teaching)
[Leave 2012]
Affiliations
Professional Activities
HSC (High School Certificate [Year 12], NSW, Board of Studies, NSW Department of Education) Ancient History Syllabus Committee 2002-03 (preparation of new HSC syllabus)
HSC (NSW, Board of Studies) Ancient History Examination Committee 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, [Study leave 2008], 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
HSC (NSW, Board of Studies) Chief Examiner, Ancient History Examination Committee 2007, [Study leave 2008], 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Treasurer, Australian Association for the Study of Religion, July 2008-2013
Australian National Curriculum Advisory Committee 2010-11 (History [Ancient History])
Chair Board of Studies UNE, Faculty of Arts, 2004-06
UNE Ancient History and Classical Languages Convenor (1993, 1996-97, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006-2011)
Various UNE Committees 1991-2011
Reviewer of book proposals and book chapters for Oxford University Press, Bristol Classical Press, and Routledge (Taylor & Francis)
Reviewer of articles for The Journal of Religious History; Hesperia; American Journal of Archaeology; The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms; Australian Society for Classical Studies
Editorial Advisory Boards
Open Access [academic book publishing program]: History & Archaeology (Versita)
Journal of Social Sciences
Membership of Professional Affiliations (*associations with conferences; #papers delivered at these *associations)
American Classical League
American Ancient Historians
American Historical Association
*#American Philological Association
Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens (Sydney)
*#Australasian Society of Classical Studies
*#Australian Society for the Study of Religion (Treasurer)
*#British Classical Association (UK)
British Epigraphy Society (UK)
*Classical Association of the South and Mid-West (US)
*International Association for the History of Religions / Association Internationale pour l’Histoire des Religions (via AASR membership)
*International Epigraphy Association
*#Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions (US)
Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (UK)
Areas of Teaching
| ANCH | 110 (introduction to Greek History) |
| (Ancient History) | 111 (Introduction to Roman History) |
| 201/301 (Greek Democracy and Imperialism) | |
| 202/302 (Unity and Disunity Among the Greeks) | |
| 203/303 (The Roman Political Tradition) | |
| 304/504 (Citizen and Society in Classical Greece) | |
| 312 (Rome under the Caesars) | |
| 314 (Roman Social History) | |
| 321/521 (Mesopotamia & the Hittites) | |
| 322/522 (Bronze Age Greece and the Aegean) | |
| 324/524 (Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids) | |
| 325/525 (New Kingdom Egypt) | |
| 326/526 (Art and Architecture of the Ancient World) | |
| 401H & 402H (Ancient History Honours) | |
| [112 (Introduction to Egyptian and Near Eastern History: under development for 2013)] | |
| Classical Studies research units | |
| CLLA | 102 (Introductory Greek) |
| (Classical Languages) | Greek & Latin texts taught: Aristophanes, Demosthenes, Euripides, Herodotos, Homer, Lysias, Gospel of Mark, Plato, Sophokles, Thucydides, Xenophon; Suetonius, Tacitus, Virgil |
| EXSC HIST | 100 (The History and Practice of Sport) |
| (History) | 305/505 (Byzantine History AD 330-1056) |
| 308/508 (The Crusades) | |
| 322 (History as Film) | |
| 511 (Crime, Incarceration, Servitude: Historical Views) | |
| 512 (Cities of the Ancient and Modern World) | |
| 513 (Empires: Conquest and Conflict) | |
| 595 (Understanding History) | |
| HINQ | 100 (What is History?) (Historical Inquiry) |
| HUMS | 300 Various special research units. |
| RELS | 384/584 (Religions of the Ancient Near East) |
| (Studies in | 385/585 (Women and Religion) |
| Religion) | 387/587 (Earliest Christianity: Social Context and Sacred Text) |
| 388/588 (Pagan Religions of Ancient Greece and Rome) | |
| 401H, 402H (Studies in Religion Honours) |
Publications
Books and Monographs
Monographs
Dillon, M.P.J. Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion, Routledge, London & New York, 2002 (hbk ISBN 0-415-20272-8; pp. 436 + x; 55 b&w photographs).
Dillon, M.P.J. The Ancient Greeks in Their Own Words, Sutton, Gloucestershire, 2002 (hbk ISBN 0-7509-2715-1).
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, Ekdoseis Enalios, Athens, 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).
Edited book
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).
Research based textbooks
Dillon, M.P.J. & Garland, L. The Ancient Greeks: Social and Political History from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander the Great, Routledge, Oxford & New York, pp. xxxiii + 656, 182 b&w maps and illustrations, 2012. [Commissioned companion volume to Ancient Greece: Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander the Great]
Dillon, M.P.J. & Garland, L. Ancient Greece: Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander the Great, Routledge, Oxford & New York, third edition, 2010; 600 pp.; 4 tables, 6 maps (hbk ISBN 0-415-47329-2; pbk ISBN 0-415-47330-6; ebk: 0-203-85455-1).
Dillon, M.P.J. & Garland, L. Ancient Rome: Social and Historical Documents from the Early Republic to the Death of Julius Caesar, Routledge, London & New York, 2005 (ISBN hdbk: 0-415-22458-6, pbk 0-415-22459-4; 803 pp. + vii). (Routledge [April '12] has requested the authors to write a second edition with a new chapter)
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 Greece: Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Socrates, Routledge, London & New York, first edition, 1994 (reprinted 1996); 476 pp. + xv; 4 tables, 4 maps (hbk ISBN 0-415-11366-0; pbk ISBN 0-415-11366-0).
In progress
Dillon, M.P.J. Divination in Archaic and Classical Greece. Prophesy for the Future, Guidance for the Present, Knowledge of the Past. Ashgate, Surrey UK. Due Dec. 2013.
Dillon, M.P.J. & Garland, L. Ancient Rome: Social and Historical Documents from the Early Republic to the Death of Augustus, Routledge, Oxford & New York, second edition. Due Sept. 2014.
Dillon, M.P.J. & Garland, L. The Ancient Romans: Social and Political History from the Early Republic to the Death of Augustus, Routledge, Oxford & New York, first edition. Due Oct. 2014.
Book Chapters (ERA rankings for journals are given in square brackets; nearly all are top of the ERA ratings: [A*] or [A])
[A*] Dillon, M.P.J. ‘Educating Sappho's Daughters. Girls' and Women's Literacy in Classical Greece' in Parkin, T. & Evans-Grubbs, J. (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Ancient World, Oxford University Press, Oxon, 2012. In press.
[A*] Dillon, M.P.J. '"Festive crowds welcome the god with the piping of the flute, competing with the courageous strength of their limbs.’ Pindar Nemean Ode 5.37-39' in Scanlon, T. & Futrell, A. (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Sport in the Ancient World, Oxford University Press, Oxon, 2012. In press.
[A*] Dillon, M.P.J. 'Home and Hearth. The Classical Greek Experience of Domestic Religion' in The Oxford Handbook of Religion in the Ancient World, Oxford University Press, Oxon 2013. In preparation.
[A*] 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 antique. Vestiges, procédures et stratégies, Presses Universitaires Rennes, Rennes, pp. 235-51, 2008.
Dillon, M.P.J. ‘Oionomanteia in Greek Divination’ in Dillon, M.P.J. (ed.) Religion in the Ancient World: New Themes and Approaches, Amsterdam, pp. 99–121, 1996.
Refereed Articles (International Journals)
[A] Dillon, M.P.J. ‘Solon as prophet and diviner: was the Athenian archon and mediator of 594 BC inspired by mania?’ in Che, J. & Pappas, N.C.J. (eds) The Traditional Mediterranean: Essays from the Ancient to the Early Modern Era, Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens:63-76, 2011.
[B] Dillon, M.P.J. ‘Kassandra: mantic, maenadic or manic? Gender and the nature of prophetic experience in ancient Greece.’ Annual Conference Proceedings of the Proceedings of the Australian Association for the Study of Religions, 1-21, 2009, from the Joint International Conference of the Australian Association for the Study of Religions and the US Society of Biblical Literature, Auckland, New Zealand July 2008, 1-21.
Double blind peer reviewed. Available at: http://escholarship.usyd.edu.au/journals/index.php/AASR/article/viewFile/2341/2763
[A] 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, 135, pp. 149-6, 2007.
[A*] Dillon, M.P.J. ‘Was Kleisthenes or Pleisthenes Archon at Athens in 525 BC?’ Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 155, pp. 91-107, 2006.
[B] Dillon, M.P.J. ‘The construction of women’s gender identity through religious activity in classical Greece’ Australian Religion Studies Review 19, pp. 226-245, 2006.
[A] Dillon, M.P.J. ‘Woe for Adonis – but in spring, not summer’ Hermes: Zeitschrift für klassische Philologie, 131, 1-16, 2003.
[B] 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
[A] 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.
[A*] 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.
[A*] Dillon, M.P.J. ‘The ecology of the Greek sanctuary’ Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 118, 113-127, 1997.
[A*] Dillon, M.P.J. ‘A Homeric pun from Abu-Simbel, Egypt (Meiggs & Lewis 7a)’ Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 118, 128-130, 1997.
[A] 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.
[A*] 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.
[A*] Dillon, M.P.J. ‘Phrynon of Rhamnous and the Macedonian pirates: the political significance of the sacred truces’ Historia (Germany) 44, 250–254, 1995.
[A] Dillon, M.P.J. ‘Payments to the disabled at Athens: social justice or fear of aristocratic patronage?’ Ancient Society (Belgium; not the Australian [C] journal) 26, 27–57, 1995.
[A*] Dillon, M.P.J. ‘The didactic nature of the Epidaurian iamata’ Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 98, 239-260, 1994.
[A*] Dillon, M.P.J. ‘Restoring a manuscript reading at Pausanias 9.3.7’ Classical Quarterly, 43, 327-329, 1993.
[A*] Dillon, M.P.J. ‘“The House of the Thebans” (FD iii.1 357-58) and accommodation for Greek pilgrims’ Zeitschrift ffür Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 83, 64-88, 1990.
Refereed Encyclopedia Articles
Routledge Encyclopedia for Mediterranean Religions (2013)
Adonis
Hermes
Necromancy
Sortes
Thesmophoria
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History (ed. Bagnall R., in press 2012):
Agrionia
Haloa
Hera
Plynteria
ABC-Clio World History Encyclopedia (ed. Andrea, A.J., 2011)
‘Pilgrimages to pan-Hellenic sanctuaries’ (2000 words)
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%
Invited book review articles
Cartledge, P. Spartan Reflections (London 2001) in Ancient History: Resources for Teachers (Macquarie University), 30, 177-186, 2000.
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.
Dillon, 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.
Invited book reviews
Boedeker, D. & Raaflaub, K. (eds) Democracy, Empire, and 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.
Budin, S.L. The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity (Cambridge 2008) in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms. Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (Cambridge, MA), 17:3, 2012.
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.
Fain, G.L. Ancient Greek Epigrams. Major Poets in Verse Translation (Berkeley 2010) in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms. Journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (Cambridge, MA), 17:3, 2012, forthcoming.
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 (Cambridge MA 1999) 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.
Glazebrook, A. & Henry, M. (eds) Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE (Wisconsin Press, 2011) in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, forthcoming.
Goff, B. Citizen Bacchae: Women’s Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece (Berkeley, 2004) in Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review. 179, 204-07, 2005.
Goff, B. & M. Simpson. Thinking the Oympics. The Classical Tradition and the Modern Games (Bristol 2011). Forthcoming Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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.
Hartigan, K.V. Performance and Cure. Drama and Healing in Ancient Greece and Contemporary America (London 2009) in Hermathena. A Trinity College Dublin Review, 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 (Berkeley 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.
Morgan, J. The Classical Greek House (Exeter Press 2010) Ancient History: Resources for Teachers (Macquarie University), forthcoming.
Munn, M. The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyanny of Asia. A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (Berkeley 2006) in Classical Review, forthcoming.
Naiden, F.S. Ancient Supplication (Oxford University Press New York 2006) in Classical Review, forthcoming.
Neils, J. (ed.) Goddess and Polis. The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens (Hanover NH 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 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), HÈros et hÈroÔnes dans les mythes et les cultes grecs, Actes du Colloque organisÈ ‡ l’UniversitÈ de Vallodolid du 26 au 29 mai 1999, Kernos SupplÈment 10, LiËge, Centre International d’…tude de la Religion Grecque Antique, LiËge, 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 w‰hrend 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 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 Skepticism (Oxford NY 2004), 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 piÈtÈ en grËce 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 fr¸hen Pythagoreismus (Berlin 1997) in Classical Review (Oxford University), 49.1, 102-04, 1999.
Zunino, M.L. Hiera Messeniaka. La storia religiosa della Messenia dall’et‡ micenea all’et‡ ellenistica (Udine 1997) in Classical Review (Oxford University), 50, 126–27, 2000.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
International Conference Papers and International Invited Lectures
(conference paper published as journal article* or book chapter**)
Leeds 2013 (June): Hercules: a Hero for All Ages Conference (invited speaker): ‘Hercules “Down Under”. Antipodean Experiences of the Hero’s Machismo’
Exeter 2012 (April): ‘Polykleitos and the bon sauvage: Greek sculpture and terra australis incognita’ 2012 UK Classical Association Conference (360 abstracts received, 187 accepted) (accepted for publication) (360 abstracts received, 187 accepted)
Bates College, Boston 2012 (January): ‘Living the dream. Foretelling the past, present and future. Divination in Classical Greece.’**
Philadelphia 2012 (January): ‘Lizards and eagles: iconographic corrections and new meanings in ancient Greek divination’ Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions panel of the American Philological Association **
Manchester 2011 (August):‘Educating Sappho’s Daughters. The Pedagogy of a Girl’s Childhood in classical Greece’ Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World – An International Colloquium*
Granada 2011 (June): ‘Prophesying the past in ancient Greece: knowledge of all things that were, and that were to be, and that had been before’ Ninth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities. Universidad de Granada, Campus la Cartuja, Granada (Spain) **
Durham UK 2011 (April): ‘“Orpheus’ head, dwelling in Lesbos, lived in a cleft in the rock and gave prophecies in the hollow earth”: prophetic limitation in ancient Greek divinatory beliefs.’ 2011 UK Classical Association Conference (481 abstracts received, 83 accepted) **
Athens 2010 (December): ‘Solon as prophet and diviner: was the Athenian archon and mediator of 594 BC inspired by mania?’ History: from Ancient to Modern. Eighth International Conference (Greek history panel). Atiner (Athens Institute for Education and Research), Athens [in association with Sam Houston University, USA]. *
Honolulu 2009: ‘Why didn’t anyone believe Kassandra?’ Seventh International Conference on the Arts and Humanities (Honolulu, Hawaii) *
Auckland 2008: ‘Kassandra: manic, mantic or maenadic?’ Society of Biblical Literature Annual Conference (US body) *
London 2006: ‘Psellos, “Concerning omoplatoskopia and oionoskopia”. Byzantine perceptions of ancient Greek divination’ (translation: Concerning divination from shoulder blades and bird divination) 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies (London Institute, London)
Lampeter, Wales 2006: ‘“Xenophon sacrificed on account of an expedition” (Xenophon Anabasis 6.5.2): ancient Greek divination from sacrifice, with special reference to military contexts’ Le sacrifice: nouvelles perspectives panel, Crescam: Celtic Conference in the Classics *
Honolulu 2005, ‘The construction of women’s gender identity through religious activity in classical Greece’ Third International Conference on the Arts and Humanities *
Virginia, Charlottesville, 1998: ‘Priestesses, prostitutes and other pious women of ancient Greece’ (University of Virginia) **
Athens 1992: ‘Pilgrims and pilgrimage in ancient Greece’ (Australian Archaeological Institute, Athens, 1992) **
International & National Conference papers: Australia
(Plus various UNE School staff seminars)
Southern Cross University 2011, ‘Predicting the past: divination as “priorknowledge” of the mythical past’ Australian Association for the Study of Religion Conference
Griffith University Brisbane 2010, ‘Griffins, three headed humans, and the sphinx. Deconstructing the bestial world to define humanity and the human ethos in ancient Greece’ Australian Association for the Study of Religion Conference
University of New England AU 2010: ‘Psellos and Byzantine divination: classical links and new formulations’ Australian Association for Byzantine Studies Conference
Newcastle AU 2009, ‘Griffins, centaurs, sirens: constructing the “Other” and defining culture and civilisation in classical Greece’ International Animals Conference
University of New England AU 2001, ‘Women sorcerers of classical Greece: fact or fiction?’ Magic in the Ancient World International Conference **
University of Quensland 1998, ‘Pious and impious prostitutes of ancient Greece’ Conference of the Australian Society for Classical Studies **
University of New England AU 1996, ‘The religious role of women in the Greek polis’ Narrating Antiquity: Epic and History in the Graeco-Roman World. An International Conference **
University of New England AU 1993, ‘SIG3 1167 (LSAM 30): divination by the birds in ancient Greece’ Religion in the Ancient World: An International Conference *
Australian National University 1992, ‘The ecology of the Greek sanctuary: Worshippers and Environmentally Unfriendly Activities at Sacred Sites’ XIXth Conference of the Australian Society for Classical Studies *
University of Western Australia 1991, ‘Greek pilgrims at healing sanctuaries’ XVIIIth Conference of the Australian Society for Classical Studies *
University of Queensland 1991, ‘What was ancient Greek Pilgrimage?’ (Department of Classics and Ancient History conference, Life in the Ancient World **
University of New England AU 1989, ‘The House of the Thebans’ International Seminar on Greek and Latin Epigraphy *
University of New England AU 1988, ‘Official delegations to Greek festivals’ Greek History Postgraduate Students Conference **