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Universities attended:
Doctoral dissertation:
Thucydides and Traditional Religion
Teaching Positions:
Recently Taught courses:
Herodotus and his World
Greek Myth and Religion
Thucydides
Near Eastern Myth
Special Fields:
Ancient Greek History ( Herodotus, and
Thucydides). Homer. Minoan and Greek religion and
iconography.
Phi
Beta Kappa
Member of Austrian Archaeological Institute.
Member of the German Achaeological
Institute (Koresp. Mittglied)
Member
of the
Member
of the American Philological Association
Scholarly
papers and lectures delivered
1) in the USA:
Cornell Univ., Ithaca; Princeton Univ. N. J.; Univ. of Colorado, Boulder;
Oriental Institute, Chicago; Art Institute, Chicago; Duke University; Institute
of Fine Arts, New York; Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Temple Univ.,
Pennsylvania; SUNY at Buffalo; Univ. of Cincinnati; the Paul Getty Museum,
Malibu; Univ. of California at Los Angeles; Univ. of California at Santa
Barbara; Pomona College; SIU , Univ. of Florida, etc.
2) in Europe: Cambridge, (England);
Lisbon (Portugal); Bergen, Oslo and Tromso (Norway); Göteborg and Uppsala, (Sweden); Vienna,
Salzburg, (Austria); Marburg, Giessen, Saarbrόcken, Freiburg,
Heidelberg, Hildesheim, Ohlstadt
(W. Germany); Zürich, Basel, (Switzerland)
Collaborateor of the
Austrian Archaeological Institute in
Member of
dissertation committee at the University of
Member of
Dissertation committee of
Member of evaluation committee of promotion and tenure,
Guest Prof. at the
Guest
Professor at the University of
1. Thucydides and Religion, Königstein: Hain Verlag, 1981. (Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie, 129.)
2. Art and Religion in Thera. Reconstructing a
Bronze Age Society,
3. Minoan Sacrificial Ritual: Cult Practice and Symbolism,
4. Minoan Religion: Ritual, Image and Symbol,
5. The Goddes and the Warrior. The Naked Goddess
and Mistress of Animals in Early Greek Religion. Routledge
2000.
6. Taureador Scenes in Tell el Dab'a and
7.
Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess.
1. Sanctuaries and Cults in the Aegean Bronze Age,
2. The Minoan Thalassocracy: Myth and Reality,
3. The Function of the Minoan Palaces,
4. Early Greek Cult Practice,
5. Greek Sanctuaries: New Approaches, ed. together with R. Hägg,
6. Greece and Gender, edited together with Brit Berggren. Published by the Norwegian
Institute in
7.
Danuta Shanzer
ed. With
-- E. S. Ramage,
ed., Atlantis: Fact or Fiction?, Classical Journal
75 (1979-80), pp. 362-364.
--R.J. Lenardon,
The Saga of Themistocles, Classical
Journal 75 (1979-80), pp. 364-366.
-- W.R. Biers, The
Archaeology of
-- H. Foley, Ritual Irony. Poetry
and Sacrifice in Euripides, Classical Journal 82 (1986-87), pp. 154-156.
-- B. Rutkowski, The Cult Places of the Aegean, Classical
Journal 83 (1987-88), pp. 170-172.
-- Le
systeme palatial en Orient, en Grece et a
-- G. Gesell.
-- J. Bremmer,
ed. Interpretations of Greek Mythology, Classical Journal (1989).
-- P. M. Warren, Minoan Religion
as Ritual Action, Journal of Prehistoric Religion, 3-4, 1990.
-- L. Goodison,
Death Women and the Sun, Journal of Hellenic Studies 1990-1991,
216-218.
-- W. Pötscher,
Aspekte und Probleme
der minoischen Religion,
The Classical Review 42, 1992, 85-87.
-- J. Weingarten, The Transformation of the Egyptian Taweret into the Minoan Genius in Journal of
Prehistoric Religion, 55-56.
-- Donald. W. Jones, Peak
Sanctuaries and Sacred Caves in Minoan
-- Ingrid Nielsen, Greek Theatre
and Ritual Drama, Gnomon 2004.
-- Mark Munn, “The Mother of
Gods and the Tyranny of
-- Cromarty, Robert James. Burning Bulls, Broken Bones: Sacrificial Ritual in the Context of Palace Period Minoan Religion (BAR International Series 1792). Pp. 157, figs. 77, maps 2. Archaeopress, Oxford 2008. £32. ISBN 978-1-4073-0208-5 (AJA 2010 )
-- Cathy Gere, Knossos Chicago : The University of Chicago
1. 'Aeneas: False Dream or Messenger
of the Manes? (Aeneid 6.893ff.)', Philologus 120, 1976, pp. 246-250 (with E.C. Kopff).
2. 'Panolethria and Divine
Punishment in Thucydides', Parola del Passato CLXXXII , 1978, pp.
331-337 (with H. Rawlings).
3. 'Nicias
as a Wise Advisor and Tragic Warner', Philologus
124, 1980, pp. 305-310.
4. 'Thucydides and Oracles', Journal
of Hellenic Studies 101, 1981, pp. 138-140.
5. 'Wahl und Schicksal
bei Herodot', Saeculum 33, 1982, pp. 258-264.
6. 'Det graeske Pompeji', Sfinx 5, 1982, pp. 131-138.
7. 'The West House at Akrotiri As a Cult Center', Mitteilungen des Deutschen
Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung 98,
1983, pp. 1-19.
8. 'Anthropomorphic Cult Images in
Minoan Crete?', in: Minoan Society, ed. by O. Krzyszkowska and L. Nixon,
9. 'Minoan Threskeiocracy
on Thera', in: The Minoan Thalassocracy:
Myth and Reality,
10. 'The Date-palm in Minoan
Iconography and Religion', Opuscula Atheniensia 15, 1984, pp. 115-122.
11. 'The Function of the Theran Frescoes', in: L'iconographie
minoenne (Bulletin de Correspondance
Hellenique, Suppl. 11),
12. 'The Miniature Fresco in the Shrine
of the West House at Akrotiri', in: Proceedings of
the 5th International Cretological Congress (1981),
Vol. I, Herakleion 1985, pp. 206-215.
13. 'On the Ceremonial Function of the
Minoan Polythyron', Opuscula
Atheniensia 16, 1986, pp. 57-73 (with R. Hägg).
14. 'Public Festivals in the West
Courts of the Palaces', in: The Function of the
15. 'An Offering of Saffron to the
Minoan Goddess of Nature: The Role of the Monkey and the Importance of
Saffron', in: Gifts to the Gods. Proceedings of the
16. 'Role and Sex Division in Ritual
Scenes of Aegean Art', Journal of Prehistoric Religion 1, 1987, pp.
23-34.
17. 'The Fresco from Room 31 in the
Cult Centre at
18. 'The Monkey in the Shrine: A Fresco
Fragment from Thera', in: Eilapine
(Festschrift to Nikolaos Platon),
Herakleion 1987, pp. 417-421.
19. 'The African in Thera
Reconsidered', Opuscula Atheniensia
17, 1988, pp.137-141.
20. 'The Imagery of Sacrifice: Minoan
and Greek' in
R. Hägg and N.
Marinatos eds., Early Greek Cult Practice,
21. 'The Tree As
a Focal Point of Ritual Action in Minoan Glyptic Art', in: Fragen
und Probleme der bronzezeitlichen Ägäischen Glyptik (Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen
Siegel, Beiheft 3),
22. 'Man and Animal in Creto-Mycenaean Art', in: Philia
epe eis G.E. Mylonan, Vol. 3,
23. 'The Bull as an Adversary. Some
Observations on Bull Hunting and Bull-leaping', Ariadne,
Festschrift S. Alexiou, Rethymnon 1989, pp.
23-32.
24. 'The Giamalakis
Model from Archanes;:
Between the Minoan and the Greek World ', in: La Transizione
, dal Miceneo all'Alto Arcaismo: Dal Palazzo alla Citta Rome1991, pp. 301-308 (with R. Hägg).
25. 'Celebrations of Death and the
Symbolism of the Lion Hunt', in: R. Hägg and G. Nordquist eds., Celebrations of Death and Divinity in
the Bronze Age Argolid,
26. 'The Minoan Harem: The Role of
Eminent Women and the Knossos Frescoes' Dialogues d' histoire ancienne 1989, hommage
a Ettore Lepore, pp.
33-62.
27. 'Minoan- Cycladic Syncretism' in Thera and the Aegean World. D. Hardy et allii eds. (
28. 'The Tree, The
Stone and the Pithos' Aegeum
6 1990, pp. 79-91.
29. 'Some reflections on the Rhetoric
of Aegean and Egyptian Art', in Narrative and Event in Ancient Art, P. Holliday ed., Cambridge 1994, pp. 74-87.
30. 'The Minoan Villa: Some Special
Cases of Urban and Manorial Villas' in R. Hägg ed., The
Function of the Minoan Villa, Stockholm1997, pp. 91-98.
31. 'The Export Significance of Minoan
Bull-Leaping Scenes',
32. 'The Fresco Programme
of the Palace of Knossos' in M. Bietak ed., Haus und Palast im Alten Agypten,
Wien 1996, pp. 149-157.
33. 'Divine Kingship in Minoan Crete'
in The Role of the Ruler in the Prehistoric Aegean, P. Rehak ed., Aegaeum 11,
Liege 1995, pp. 37-47.
34. 'Cult by the Sea-Shore: What Happenned at Amnissos?', in R. Hägg ed., The Role of Religion in
the Early Greek Polis, Swedish Institute in Athens Colloquium 1992, Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae, Series in 8, XIV, Stockholm 1996, pp. 135-139.
35. 'Circe and Liminality:
Ritual Background and Narative Technique in Homer's
Odyssey' in O. Andersen and M. Dickie eds. , Homer's World,
36. '
37. Formalism and Gender Roles: A
Comparison of Minoan and Egyptian art. R. Lafineur
and W.-D. Niemeier eds., Aegaeum
12,
38. 'The Minoan Wall Paintings from Avaris',
39. ‘The Amulet of a Naked Goddess from
the
40. 'The Tell el Dab'a
paintings: A Study in Pictorial Tradition' Egypt and the Levant VIII
1998, pp. 83-100.
41. 'Goddess and Monster: An
Investigation of Artemis' , in F. Graf, ed., Ansichten griechischer Rituale, Festschrift
W. Burkert,
42. 'Nature as Ideology: Landscapes on
the Theran Ships' in S. Sheratt
ed., The Wall Paintings of Thera II, Athens
2000, pp. 907-913.
43. 'The Maze Tableau from Tell el Dab'a' (with Cl. Palyvou and M. Bietak) in S. Sheratt ed., The Wall Paintings of Thera
II, Athens 2000, pp. 77-88.
44. 'Bull Hides as Dadoes and Emblems
of Prestige in Creto-Mycenaean Palaces' in Meletemata, Festschrift M. Wiener, Aegaeum 20, Liege 1999, 481-483. <!-- 'Egyptian
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45.'Medusa on the Temple of Artemis at Corfu' in M. Bietak,
ed., Archaische Griechische
Tempel und Altägypten, Verlag
der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Vienna 2001, pp. 83-88.
46. 'Die minoische
Religion' in Im Labyrinth des Minos, Exhibition Catalogue, Badisches
Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe
2001, pp. 151-160.
47. 'The Adventures of Odysseus and the
48. 'The Palladion
across a Culture Barrier? Mycenaean and Greek' in
49. 'The Arkteia
and the Gradual Transformation of the Maiden into a Woman', in B. Gentili and F. Perusino eds., Le Orse di Brauron, Pisa 2002, pp. 29-42.
50. ‘The Cosmic Journey of Odysseus', Numen 48, 2001, pp. 383-416.
51. ‘The Adventures of Odysseus and the
und Zypern: Religion und Schrift, Ohlstadt 2001, pp. 105-125.
52. 'The Palladion
across a Culture Barrier? Mycenaean and Greek' in
53. and K.-V. von Eickstedt eds., Ithaka,
Festschrift J. Schäfer, Würzburg
2001, pp. 17-114.
54. 'The Arkteia and
the Gradual Transformation of the Maiden into a Woman',
55. in B. Gentili and F. Perusino eds., Le Orse di Brauron,
56. 'Hermes and Aphrodite as Gods of Initiation'
in Ch. Faraone ed., Initiation
in Ancient Greek Rituals and
Narratives: New Critical Perspectives (Routledge
2003).
57. ‘The Life Cycle of the archaic Greek warrior and hero.
The interplay of myth and genre in imagery’ in S. des Bouvrie
ed., Myth and
58. "Women's rituals and women's prototypes: Review article", in Symbolae Osloenses 78, 2003, 129-136.
59. “Minoan and
Mycenaean Civilizations” in S. Iles Johnston ed., Religions
of the Ancient World. A Guide.
60. Review of Ingrid Nielssen, Cultic Theatre and Ritual Drama, Gnomon 72, 2004, 690-693.
62.
“Epiphany, Experience Elusive, Concept ambiguous.” (With Dimitris
Kyrtatas) in Divine
Epiphanies in the Ancient World ,
63.
“Minoan Epiphanies” Minoan
Epiphanies’ in Divine Epiphanies in the
Ancient World. ICS 2005.
64.
“The Ideals of Manhood in Minoan
65.
“The Dog Pursuit Scene from tell el Dab’a and Kea” in
L. Morgan ed., Aegean Wall Painting. BSA Studies 13, 2005, 119-122 (with
Lyvia Morgan)
66.
“Symbolic Forms of Sacrificial Imagery in the Eastern
67. “Aegean Religions” in Encyclopedia of
Religions, Univ. of
68. “The Minoan Mother Goddess
and her Son” in
69. “Proskynesis and Minoan Theocracy”
in F. Lang, C. Reinhold and J. Weilhartner eds., Stephanos Aristeios, Festschrift
Stephan Hiller. Phoibos Verlag. Wien
2007, 179-182.
70. “The King of the Lilies and Sacral Kingship
in Minoan
71. “Minoan Beliefs of the Afterlife” in From the Land of the Labyrinth. Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Onassis Foundation, New York 2008. 143-145.
72. "The So-Called Hell and Sinners in the Odyssey and Homeric Cosmology", Numen 56, 2009, 186-197.
73. “The Indebtedness of Minoan Religion to Egyptian Solar Religion: Was Sir Arthur Evans right?” Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 1 2009, 22-28.
74.
“Meta-Mythology of Baetyl Cult” in Uehli Dill und Christine Walde eds., Antike Mythen , Festschrift
Fritz Graf,
75.
“The Role of the Queen in Minoan Prophecy Rituals” in Marti Nissinen
ed. Prophecy in the Near East” in M. Nissinen and
Charles E. Carter eds., Images and
Prophecy in the Ancient East Mediterranean. Vandehock
and Ruprecht 2010, 87-94.
