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The long lives of Roman statues: Public monuments in late antique Aphrodisias

2017
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Sculpture in Roman Asia Proceedings of the International Conference at Selçuk 2013

Aphrodisias

2016
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The Last Statues of Antiquity
Richly illustrated, the volume is the definitive resource for studying the phenomenon of late-antique statues. The collection also incorporates extensive references to the project's database, which is freely accessible online.
Statues

Statue Practice in the late Roman Empire: Numbers, Costumes, and Style

2016
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Chapter
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The Last Statues of Antiquity
Richly illustrated, the volume is the definitive resource for studying the phenomenon of late-antique statues. The collection also incorporates extensive references to the project's database, which is freely accessible online.
Statues

The Last Statues of Antiquity

2016
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Book

Aphrodisias Papers Excavation and research at Aphrodisias, 2006-2012

2016
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Book
25 chapters by different authors on the Tetrapylon Street, "South Agora", North Agora, Hadrianic Baths, Atrium House, Basilica, Quarries, Anastylosis, Statues, Sarcophagi, Inscriptions, Jewelry
Aphrodisias (Extinct city)

The Greek East under Rome

2015
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A Companion to Roman Art
© 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved. This chapter explains the following paradox: much of what was new and different in the visual and monumental culture of the Greek east was due in some way to Rome; at the same time, however, little of it was intended or probably experienced by contemporaries as anything other than, in political-cultural terms, neutral, local, or Hellenic. Throughout the period Greek, Roman, and local elements are present in different combinations, contexts, and media, depending on the subjects and purposes of the monuments concerned. To get at some of these complexities, the chapter considers four major zones where different subjects and functions intersect in distinct building and monument categories: the realm of the emperor; the realm of the gods; the realm of the citizen; and the realm of the dead. These zones were of course closely connected in the fabric of the city, but they are convenient horizontal sections through the material.

Troilos and Achilles: A Monumental Statue Group from Aphrodisias

2015
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Studies
Copyright © The Author(s) 2015. Published by The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies A remarkable blue-grey marble horse with a white marble rider, found in the Basilica at Aphrodisias, has been a focus of recent research. The article describes the archaeology and history of the monument — how it can be reconstructed, with its base and in its precise setting in the Basilica. The group was a daring composition that had already fallen and been restored once in antiquity. What emerges is firstly a new full-size hellenistic-style statue group whose subject can be identified as Troilos and Achilles, and secondly a striking example of the long second lives of classical statues in Late Antiquity. The horse was a great public monument of the early imperial period that was moved to the Basilica probably in the mid-fourth century a.d., where it has a well-documented context. The subject of the group can be identified both from epigraphy and from its iconographic antecedents, and its version of the subject can be related to a particular strand in the rich later literary representations of the story. <sup>1</sup>

Eikōn chalkē: Hellenistic statue honours in bronze

2015
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Power and Pathos Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World
As the first comprehensive volume on large-scale Hellenistic bronze statuary, this book includes groundbreaking archaeological, art-historical, and scientific essays offering new approaches to understanding ancient production and correctly ...
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Citizens and kings in the Tomba Bella at Hierapolis. ILARIA ROMEO, DARIO PANARITI, ROSANGELA UNGARO, LA TOMBA BELLA. UN HEROON GIULIO-CLAUDIO E IL SUO SARCOFAGO (Hierapolis di Frigia VI; Missione Archeologica Italiana a Hi...

2015
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Archaeology

Gods in Colour A Guide to the Exhibition

2015
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Book
Polychromy

The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum Catalogue of Plaster Casts of Greek and Roman Sculpture

2013
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Book
The collection has recently been re-displayed and integrated.
Art

The Marble Reliefs from the Julio-Claudian Sebasteion

2013
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Book
Antiquities

Defacing the Gods at Aphrodisias

2012
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Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World
© Oxford University Press, 2013. The cities of the late antique Mediterranean were full of monumental images of the Olympian gods. This chapter is a case study of the Christian adjustments made to the display of marble reliefs in the Julio-Claudian Sebasteion at Aphrodisias. This was a great repository of the city's collective memory, and the process of negotiation about what in contemporary Christian thinking constituted a provocation or a danger that required action can be followed here in unusual detail. A dozen reliefs were systematically and visibly defaced. They are evidence of a 'hard' response: violent assault that is left meticulously represented in the erased image. But set in the context of the whole monument and seventy other reliefs that were not defaced, the negotiation can be seen to have been more complex, the attitudes more nuanced. As much as possible of a great city monument was left untouched, indeed was carefully maintained.

Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World

2012
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Book
© Oxford University Press, 2013. This book explores how memory intersects with and shapes religious traditions and cultural identities. It discusses how the memory layers that make up ancient history (social, religious, cultural) are represented and refracted in different contexts of the written and material remains of antiquity. Part I looks at religious pasts and the religious present in Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian contexts, as well as the visual expression of specific identities, formed and forged over long periods of time. Part II is about defining religious identity and focuses on the apparently homogenous cultures that engage in a dialogue with their own past. Case studies show how selective commemoration and inventing the past shape particular religious identities. In Part III, which is about commemorating and erasing the past, contested versions of the past are interpreted in the context of particular cases in late antique Asia Minor. One looks at the Christian shaping of social memory in the lengthy epitaph of a bishop. Another looks at a carefully negotiated Christian erasure of selected parts of a community's religious memory represented in the 500-year-old images of its most prominent monument. Public memory in the ancient world was carefully managed.

Introduction

2012
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Book
© Oxford University Press, 2013. Ancient history - social, religious, and cultural - is made up of a dense web of 'memory layers' or 'networks of memories'. This introductory chapter discusses how such layers are represented and refracted in different contexts of the written and material remains of antiquity. The processes of creating memory and of forgetting are continuous. Memory layers began in the distant pasts of ancient communities and continued in richly documented historical periods, in which our most articulate ancient evidence lies. The chapter explores these themes through and around the material presented in the twelve varied studies that follow, in Greek, Roman, Jewish, Christian, and pagan contexts.

Preface

2012
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Book

The use of images: Visual history and ancient history

2012
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Classics in Progress: Essays on Ancient Greece and Rome
© The British Academy 2002. All rights reserved. This chapter explores the visual aspect, a territory shared with archaeology and art history. The Greek and Roman world poured an astonishing amount of its surplus into expensive monuments and elaborate public images, and their study is naturally an important part of classical archaeology. Unlike many other archaeologies, this subject studies a world extremely well documented by abundant and diverse literary and textual evidence, and it is thus part of the wider classics project. The discussion explores some of the great gains made by recent work in this area and some of the remaining deficiencies. Gains have resulted from application of historically based questions, while deficiencies arise from the still largely untheorised nature of this subject's research and discourse.

Gods of Nemrud : the royal sanctuary of Antiochos I & the kingdom of Commagene

2012
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Book
Arsameia ad Nymphaios (Extinct city)

The second lives of classical monuments at Aphrodisias

2012
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Klasikē paradosē kai neōterika stoicheia stēn plastikē tes rōmaikēs Elladas

Love for Lydia: a Sardis Anniversary Volume Presented to Crawford

2011
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Journal article
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JOURNAL OF HELLENIC STUDIES

Marble workshops at Aphrodisias

2011
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Roman sculpture in Asia Minor

A Fayum teacher's manual, Alexandrian pavilion architecture, and Augustan wallpainting

2010
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Samothracian connections : essays in honor of James R. McCredie

Reception and Ancient Portraits

2010
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The classical tradition

Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in Caria, 2002–2005

2008
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Journal article
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American Journal of Archaeology

Aphrodisias papers New research on the city and its monuments

2008
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Book
History

Aphrodisias'tan Roma Portreleri

2008
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Book

Aphrodisias: City and Sculpture in Roman Asia

2008
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Book

Roman portraits and marble production at Aphrodisias

2008
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Aphrodisias'tan Roma portreleri

Sarcophagi and Roman citizenship

2008
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Aphrodisias papers. 4. New research on the city and its monuments

Sculptors' workshops: Inscriptions, images, and archaeology

2008
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Aphrodisias'tan Roma portreleri

Pindar, athletes, and the early Greek statue habit

2007
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Pindar's poetry, patrons, and festivals : from archaic Greece to the Roman Empire

Statue life in the Hadrianic Baths at Aphrodisias, AD 100-600. Local context and historical meaning

2007
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Statuen in der Spätantike

Roman portrait statuary from Aphrodisias

2006
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Book
Art

Archaeological research at Aphrodisias in Caria, 1999-2001

2004
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Journal article
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American Journal of Archaeology
Survey, documentation, and excavation projects carried out at Aphrodisias between 1999 and 2001 focused on the study of the city plan, and on the City Wall, the Stadium, the North Agora, the Bouleuterion, the Bishop's Palace, and the Basilica. Research outside the city consisted of limited excavation in three areas just northeast of the City Wall, and a brief survey of known extramural tombs and other structures. Site conservation projects included the beginning of a long-term program for the conservation of the Bouleuterion and a series of emergency repairs to the walls of the Stadium. Sculpture conservation projects continued with trial restorations of two of the Sebasteion reliefs, and the restoration and installation in the Aphrodisias Museum of two portrait statues of boxers found in the Theater in the 1970s. New finds of sculpture include seven sarcophagi from the southeast necropolis and an important Late Antique portrait head. This head belongs to the chlamydatus statue of the governor Oecumenius (ca. A.D. 400) excavated in 1965 in the north stoa of the North Agora together with its inscribed base.

The Statue Monument of Oecumenius: A New Portrait of a Late Antique Governor from Aphrodisias

2002
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Journal article
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The Journal of Roman Studies

A portrait monument for Julian and Theodosius at Aphrodisias

2001
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Griechenland in der Kaiserzeit: Neue Funde und Forschungen zu Skulptur, Architektur und Topographie ; Kolloquium zum sechszigsten Geburtstag von Prof. Dietrich Willers, Bern, 12-13 Juni 1998

Sculptured for Eternity: Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum

2001
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Book

Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in Caria, 1997 and 1998

2000
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Journal article
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American Journal of Archaeology

Art Theory and Criticism in Antiquity

2000
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The Oxford history of western art

Herakles and Antaios at Aphrodisias in Caria

2000
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Periplous : papers on classical art and archaeology presented to Sir John Boardman

Nero and the Sun-god: divine accessories and political symbols in Roman imperial images. M. BERGMANN, DIE STRAHLEN DER HERRSCHER: THEOMORPHES HERRSCHERBILD UND POLITISCHE SYMBOLIK IM HELLENISMUS UND IN DER RÖMISCHEN KAISE...

2000
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Archaeology

Late Antique Portraits in a Public Context: Honorific Statuary at Aphrodisias in Caria, A.D. 300–600

1999
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Studies

A late Roman portrait and a himation statue from Aphrodisias

1999
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100 Jahre österreichische Forschungen in Ephesos : Akten des Symposions Wien 1995

Cultural Choice and Political Identity in Honorific Portrait Statues in the Greek East in the Second Century A.D.

1998
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Studies

Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in Caria, 1996

1998
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Journal article
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American Journal of Archaeology

Hellenistic Sculpture under the Roman Empire: Fishermen and Satyrs at Aphrodisias

1998
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Chapter
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Regional Schools in Hellenistic Sculpture
Essays describing recent research and new discoveries of Hellenistic sculpture, based on papers presented at an international conference at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in 1996.
Art

Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in Caria, 1995

1997
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Journal article
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American Journal of Archaeology

The Public Image of Licinius I: Portrait Sculpture and Imperial Ideology in the Early Fourth Century

1997
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Journal article
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The Journal of Roman Studies

Aphrodisias Papers, 3 The Setting and Quarries, Mythological and Other Sculptural Decoration, Architectural Development, Portico of Tiberius, and Tetrapylon

1996
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Book

Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in Caria, 1994

1996
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Journal article
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American Journal of Archaeology

Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias, 1989-1992

1996
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Aphrodisias papers. 3, The setting and quarries, mythological and other sculptural decoration, architectural development, Portico of Tiberius, and Tetrapylon : including the papers given at the Fourth International Aphrodi...

Ptolemaic portraits: Alexandrian types, Egyptian versions

1996
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Alexandria and Alexandrianism

Typology and diversity in the portraits of Augustus

1996
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Archaeology

A new shield portrait in Izmir

1995
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Journal article
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Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung.

Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in Caria, 1993

1995
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Journal article
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American Journal of Archaeology

Spear-won land at Boscoreale: on the royal paintings of a Roman villa

1994
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Archaeology

Two inscribed monuments from Aphrodisias

1994
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Journal article
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Archaeologischer Anzeiger

Kings and Philosophers

1993
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Images and ideologies : self-definition in the Hellenistic world

The Monument of C. Julius Zoilos

1993
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Book
Aphrodisias (Extinct city)

The Oxford History of Classical Art

1993
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Book
Provides an overview of Greek and Roman art from the 8th century B.C. to the late Roman Empire, examining the different styles, artists, and patrons for each period
Art

A new portrait of Pythagoras

1991
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Aphrodisias papers. 2, The theatre, a sculptor's workshop, philosophers and coin-types : including the papers given at the Third International Aphrodisias Colloquium held at New York University on 7 and 8 April 1989

Aphrodisias Papers 2 The Theatre, a Sculptor's Workshop, Philosophers, and Coin-types : 3rd International Aphrodisias Colloquium : Papers

1991
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Book

Hellenistic Sculpture A Handbook

1991
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Book
Provides a thematic and regional survey of Hellenistic sculpture, focusing on its main elements and its innovations.
Art

Late Roman Philosophers

1991
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Aphrodisias papers. 2, The theatre, a sculptor's workshop, philosophers and coin-types : including the papers given at the Third International Aphrodisias Colloquium held at New York University on 7 and 8 April 1989

Sculpture from the Theatre

1991
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Aphrodisias papers. 2, The theatre, a sculptor's workshop, philosophers and coin-types : including the papers given at the Third International Aphrodisias Colloquium held at New York University on 7 and 8 April 1989

Late Roman Philosopher Portraits from Aphrodisias

1990
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Studies

Myth and allegory in the Sebasteion

1990
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Aphrodisias papers : recent work on architecture and sculpture, including the papers given at the Second International Aphrodisias Colloquium held at King's College London on 14 November 1987

Le Sébasteion et son décor sculpté

1989
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Journal article
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Archéologia

Simulacra Gentium: the Ethne from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias

1988
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Studies

Hellenistic Royal Portraits

1988
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Book
The visual image of the ruler, particularly in sculpture, played an important role in expressing the character of the new, distinctive style of monarchy brought to Greece and the East by Alexander and the Hellenistic kings.
Social Science

Philorhomaioi: portraits of Roman client rulers

1988
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Ritratto ufficiale e ritratto private: atti dell II conferenza internazionale sul ritratto romano, Roma 26-30 settembre 1984

The Imperial Reliefs from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias

1987
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Studies

Roman Portraits: Honours, Empresses, and Late Emperors

1985
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Studies

The portraits of the Greeks

1984
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Book
Shows and describes coins, statues, mozaics, and murals which offer portraits of prominent citizens of classical Greece
Art

Who was who in the Greek world, 776 BC-30 BC

1984
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Book
Spanning from 776 BC and the first Olympiad to the final Roman conquest in 30 BC, this reference includes more than 750 biographical entries, with bibliographical entries, historical essays, glossary, maps, genealogies, and chronology
Biography & Autobiography

Greeks, Foreigners, and Roman Republican Portraits

1981
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Studies

Troilos and Achilles: A monumental statue group from Aphrodisias

Journal article
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Journal of Roman Studies
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