Research Interests:

• Latin Literature of the Late Republic and Early Empire (especially Love Elegy)
• Roman Reception of Greek Philosophy (especially Epicureanism)
• Literary Representations of the Afterlife

Joshua Paul - CV

Stella Skaltsa trained as a classical archaeologist and ancient historian in Athens (BA) and then in Oxford (MPhil and DPhil). After completing her doctorate on Hellenistic gymnasia, she first moved to Brussels as a post-doctoral fellow and then to Copenhagen. For the past ten years, she was engaged in two international projects: first, the Copenhagen Associations Project (2011-2016); and then the Rhodes Centennial Project (2016-2023), an interdisciplinary archaeological collaboration with the Ephorate of the Dodecanese. As a result of the project in Rhodes, she also has a special interest in the Hellenistic and Roman material culture of the Eastern Mediterranean. She has taught courses in classical archaeology in Oxford and on ancient history and epigraphy at the Open University of Cyprus.

Research interests: Hellenistic and Roman Rhodes, associations in the Eastern Mediterranean, Greek civic institutions and architecture, Hellenistic epigraphy, Greek art and archaeology, amphora studies

Research Interests: Late Antiquity and Middle & Late Byzantine history.

Research interests: Late Antiquity, Syriac, Papyrology, Photogrammetry, and GIS.

George Bevan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning, and holds cross-appointments in the Departments of Classics, Geological Science and Engineering, and Art History/Art Conservation. His undergraduate teaching is focused primarily on the history of Geography in the pre-modern period, and Digital Photogrammetry. A dual UK and Canadian citizen, he completed a BA.Hons in Classics at the University of British Columbia, and his MA and PhD in Classics at the University of Toronto, where he defended a dissertation on the troubled career of Nestorius, bishop of Constantinople from 428 to 431 CE. After teaching Greek, Latin, and Ancient History at the University of Toronto from 2005 to 2007, he moved to Queen’s University where he was first appointed to the Classics Department, before joining Geography and Planning as an Associate Professor in 2016. He has undertaken archaeological fieldwork in Greece, Jordan, Bulgaria and Macedonia, and currently collaborates with Balkan Heritage Fieldschool (http://www.bhfieldschool.org/) to deliver high-quality training in archaeology, heritage documentation and geomatics to Queen’s students.

• Balkan Heritage Field School
• Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching awarded to Dr. George Bevan 
• Investigation of a Lead Sarcophagus
• Reflectance Transformation Imaging in Art Conservation
• " Using Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) to Record Weathered Headstones: The Case of the Cataraqui Cemetery, Kingston, Ontario"
• RTIiCAN: Reflectance Transformation Imaging Blog by Dr. George Bevan and Alexander Gabov

Research Interests: Greek and Roman religions; mystery cults; Roman associations (collegia); Romanization in the Western Provinces; Christian origins.

Research Interests: Magna Graecia, Greek archaeology, ancient bronzes, classical tradition, field archaeology, ancient polychromy, Numismatics, social status of artisans and artists, inter-ethnic relationships and guest-friendship through the medium of art.

Professor, Classics
Joint Appointment with Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Associated with Cultural Studies
 

Cristiana Zaccagnino at Queen's University Researchers of Arts and Science

Selected publications

Books

-  “Ora gli eroi sono fossili arguti”. Riflessioni iconografiche sui miti di Perseo e Bellerofonte, with Marco Giuman (University of Cagliari, Italy), Morlacchi Editore University Press Perugia, 2015, 368 pages. 

- Il Catalogo de' bronzi e degli altri metalli antichi di Luigi Lanzi. Dal collezionismo mediceo al museo pubblico lorenese. Napoli, La stanza delle scritture, 450 pp. +  1 CD: http://www.lastanzadellescritture.it/zaccagno_en.html             http://www.lastanzadellescritture.it/zaccagna.html

- Archeologia delle regioni d'Italia. Umbria, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Roma 2008 (with F. Colivicchi) (pp. 85-132, 146-161, 175-247, 249-271, 273-331 exclusively by C.Z.)

- La Grande Storia dell'Arte. 15. Arte Greca, supplement to the magazine L'Espresso, Novembre 2003, 192 pp.

- Il thymiaterion nel mondo greco, "L'Erma"; di Bretschneider editore (published with a grant from Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Roma 1998, 228 pp.

Contributions to Volumes

Totam hodie Romam circus capit: le corse dei carri e i suoi protagonisti nell’antica Roma, in A cavallo del tempo. L’arte di cavalcare dall’Antichità al Medioevo, Catalogo mostra Firenze, Galleri degli Uffizi, Giardino di Boboli, Limonaia, 26 giugno -14 ottobre 2018, Livorno 2018, pp. 126-137. 

C. Zaccagnino, R. Corchia, Zamarchi P., Recenti contributi al quadro topografico di Arezzo antica, in "Ex adversis fortior resurgo"; Miscellanea in ricordo di Patrizia Sabbatini Tumolesi, a cura di F. Longo, R. Bertini, Pisa, 2008, pp. 365-374.

I ritrovamenti di età etrusca e romana, in Arezzo: il Pionta. Fonti e materiali dall’età classica all’età moderna, Tristano C., Molinari A. (edd.), Arezzo 2005, pp. 123-124. 

Book Reviews

Review of G. Ceserani, Italy’s Lost Greece. Magna Graecia and the Making of Modern Archaeology, in Classical Review 63.2, 2013, pp. 594-596.

Review of M. Spanu, Keramos di Caria. Storia e monumenti, Roma 1997, in Ostraka 1, 2001, pp. 267-268.

Articles

Coins as a Teaching Tool: An Experience of Integration of Numismatics and Conservation,  Journal of the Numismatic Association of Australia 31, 2022, 215-230 with Emy Kim. View article here.

Fetonte, il circo e la morte nell'immaginario funerario romano. Nuova analisi di un sarcofago romano alla Galleria degli Uffizi, with Andrea Rossi, Archeologia Classica 71, 2020, pp. 671-694.

Sodhi R.N.S., Brodersen P.M., Zaccagnino C. 2020, XPS and ToF-SIMS applied to the study of ancient artifacts: Further studies on Alexandrian tetradrachms from the time of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, Surface and Interface Analysis, Ecasia Special Issue Paper,  Surface and Interface Analysis, 2020, 7pp. https://doi.org/10.1002/sia.6830

ToF-SIMS and other surface spectroscopies applied to the study of ancient artifacts: Preliminary investigation of a tetradrachm of Claudius, in Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Materials, Processing, Measurement, and Phenomena 36, 2018 with R. Sodhi, A Anastassiades, and S. Boccia, P. Brodersen, 12 pp.

Niobids in Color: Recent Investigations into the Polychromy of the Uffizi Group, with F. Paolucci, P. Baraldi, A. Rossi, Proceedings of the 7th Round Table on Polychromy in Ancient Sculpture and Architecture, November 4th-6th, 2015 Florence, Livorno 2018, pp. 155-165.

Acqua di mare e sale nei riti purificatori greci. O T I V M, [S.l.], v. 2, n. 1, set. 2017. ISSN 2532-0335. http://www.otium.unipg.it/otium/article/view/17

Una lekanis attica a figure nere dall’area urbana di Caere, in Amore per l’Antico dal Tirreno all’Adriatico, dalla preistoria al medioevo e oltre. Studi di Antichità in onore di Giuliano de Marinis, Roma 2014, 31-41. 

L'ospite greco e il re indigeno.  Riflessioni sul mito di Busiride,in Ostraka,  XX 1-2 2011 (published 2013), pp. 235-252. 

C. Zaccagnino, G. Bevan, A Gabov, The Missorium of Ardaburius Aspar: New Considerations on its Archaeological and Historical Contexts, in Archeologia Classica LXIII 2012, pp. 419-454.

C. Zaccagnino, A. Romualdi, Rinvenimenti inediti del XIX sec.: la stipe di Torrenova, in Studi Etruschi 73, 2009, pp. 53-65.

Cimone e la politica antipersiana. Una nuova lettura di un cratere del Pittore di  Bologna 279 da Spina Valle Trebba, in Il greco, il barbaro e la ceramica attica. Immaginario del diverso, processi di scambio ed autorappresentazione degli indigeni, Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Catania - Caltanissetta - Gela - Vittoria - Siracusa, 14-19 Maggio 2001, quaderni della Scuola di Specializzazione in Archeologia dell'Università di Catania, Roma 2007, pp. 97-106.

Un bronzetto di guerriero da Sala in Casentino, in Archeologia Classica 57, 2006 (published 2007), pp. 299-311.

Una tomba con carro nell'Appennino Tosco-Emiliano. Recupero di un rinvenimento settecentesco, in Melanges de l'École Françoise de Rome, 118, 2006, pp. 215-236.

C. Zaccagnino, R. Corchia, Una villa romana a Cincelli (Arezzo), in Archeologia Classica 56, 2005, pp. 557-579.

Hercules Invictus, l'excubitorium della VII cohors vigilum, il Meleagro Pighini.   Note sulla topografia di Trastevere, in Ostraka, 1, 2004 (2005), pp. 101-124.

La ceramica di periodo orientalizzante, in Lo scavo del Centro di Eccellenza "Tecnologie avanzate per l'Archeologia e la Storia dell'Arte" dell'Università di Perugia a Cerveteri, Vigna Marini-Vitalini, Science and Technology for Cultural Heritage, 12, 1-2, 2003 (2004), pp. 47-63.

L'edificio ellenistico del saggio E: interpretazione preliminare, in Atti del Seminario di Studi Il sito antico de "Li Castelli" presso Manduria (Taranto). Gli scavi, i risultati, le prospettive, Firenze, May 15th-16th 1997, L. Lepore (ed.), Manduria 2000, pp. 155-175.

Acquisizione di elementi allogeni presso gli Enotri: il caso dei thymiateria, in Florentia. Studi Archeologia 1, Rivista della Scuola di Specializzazione in Archeologia dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2001, pp. 145-198.

Una nuova coppa del Pittore di Euaion, in Archeologia Classica 50, 1998 (1999), pp. 379-389.

Research interests: Roman archaeology, Nabataean culture, the Roman Near East, cultural relations between Roman soldiers and indigenous peoples, the religious practices of Roman soldiers, ancient bath houses and bathing technology, ceramic building materials, petroglyphs and graffiti, the history of archaeology, the history of Queen's Classics Department.

Dr. M. Barbara Reeves with Queen's University's Researchers of Arts and Science

Humayma Excavation in Jordan.

Queen's Classics at 175.

Publications by Dr. M. Barbara Reeves.

Research Interests: Historiography of Rome, Roman religion, history of the late Roman republic and early empire, Roman identity, Augustan literature, Greek and Roman mythology.

Research Interests: Ancient science and epistemology; Greek and Roman philosophy; astronomy, astrology, mathematics, and medicine; 'scientization' of race and gender.

Department of Classics
Queen’s University
Curriculum vitæ
 

Selected Publications

Books

• Creatures Born of Mud and Slime: The Wonder and Complexity of Spontaneous Generation (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017)

  Reviews: "A historical tour de force ... the author's brilliant prose [makes] the reader appreciate at one time the strangeness and the persuasive power of outmoded scientific explanations."  (Paolo Savoia, Nuncius 34); "Concise and accessible, Lehoux's clarity and graceful prose make this book ... a pleasure to delve into." (James Strick, HOPOS 8)

• Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science, co-editor with A. D. Morrison and A. Sharrock (Oxford, 2013)

  Reviews: “incisive ... magisterial ... constitutes a distinguished interdisciplinary contribution to contemporary Lucretian scholarship” (Choice, Mar. 2014); “a valuable collection, including several pieces ... that will stand as landmarks in their respective domains” (Journal of Roman Studies 104); “Quite simply, this is an excellent collection” (Phoenix 68)

• What Did the Romans Know? (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2012)

  Reviews: “the most original and provocative contribution to the understanding of ancient science in many years. ... a brilliant and important contribution both to ancient science and the philosophy of science" (Annals of Science, 71.2); “This book is a jewel.” (Isis 104); "superbly clear and accessible ... [an] important, brilliant, and truly admirable book” (Science); “elegant ... a significant contribution to the philosophy of science" (Times Literary Supplement; Times Higher Education); "unprecedented and fascinating ... richly repays study" (British Journal for the History of Science);  "thought-provoking, a virtuoso book” (History Today); "epistemologically sophisticated .. an exciting opportunity for a new beginning" (Expositions Roundtable); "comprehensive and thoughtful ... fresh ... thought-provoking”  (Expositions68)

• Encyclopedia of Ancient History, subject editor, ancient science; R. Bagnall et al., general eds. (Wiley, 2012)

• Astronomy, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World: Parapegmata and Related Texts in Classical and Near-Eastern Societies (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007)
  
  Reviews: “This book will deservedly become the fundamental source for its subject” (Metascience 19.1); “a significant and timely contribution to the field” (Isis 100.4); “an essential one-stop reference” (Aestimatio 5)

Selected Papers

      Ancient Science

• ‘Why Doesn’t My Baby Look Like Me? Likeness and Likelihood in Ancient Theories of Reproduction,’ in V. Wohl, ed., Probabilities, Hypotheticals, and Counterfactuals in Ancient Greek Thought (Cambridge, 2014), p. 208-229
• ‘Reflectance Transformation Imaging of a Byzantine Portable Sundial,’ Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 187 (2013) p. 221-229 [with George Bevan and Richard Talbert]
• ‘Seeing and Unseeing, Seen and Unseen,’ in D. Lehoux, A. D. Morrison, and A. Sharrock, eds., Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (Oxford, 2013) p. 131-152
• ‘Ancient Science in a Digital Age,’ ISIS, 104 (2013) p. 111-118
• ‘A Revolution of its Own,’ (essay review of Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 50th Anniversary ed.), Science, 338 (16 Nov. 2012), p. 885-6 [with Jay Foster]
• ‘Myth and Explanation in Manilius,’ in K. Volk and S. Green, eds., Forgotten Stars: Rediscovering Manilius’ Astronomica, (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011) p. 45-56
• ‘Natural Knowledge in Classical Antiquity,’ in P. Harrison, R. Numbers, and M. Shank, eds., Wrestling with Nature: From Omens to Science (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2011) p. 37-58
• 'Observers, Objects, and the Embedded Eye.' Isis ,98 (2007) p. 447-467. (Winner of the History of Science Society's 2008 Price/Webster prize)
• 'Laws of Nature and Natural Laws.' Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 37 (2006) p. 527-549
• 'Tomorrow's News Today: Astrology, Fate, and the Ways Out.' Representations, 95 (2006) p. 105-122
• 'Tropes, Facts, and Empiricism.' Perspectives on Science, 11 (2003) p. 326-345
• 'Observation and Prediction in Ancient Astrology.' Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 35 (2004) p. 227-246
• 'The Historicity Question in Mesopotamian Divination.' In J.M. Steele and A. Imhausen, eds., Under One Sky: Astronomy and Mathematics in the Ancient Near East, Alter Orient und Altes Testament, 297 (Münster, Ugarit-Verlag, 2002) p. 209-222
• 'All Voids Large and Small, Being a Discussion of Place and Void in Strato of Lampsacus's Matter Theory.' Apeiron ,32 (1999) p. 1-36

      Delphic Oracle

• 'Drugs and the Delphic Oracle.' Classical World,101 (2007) p. 29-44
• 'The Ethylene-Intoxication Hypothesis and the Delphic Oracle.' Clinical Toxicology,45.1 (2007) p. 85-89 [with Jay Foster]
• 'A Mighty Wind?' Clinical Toxicology, 46.10 (2008) p. 1098-1099 [with Jay Foster]

       Parapegmata

• 'Rethinking Parapegmata: The Puteoli Fragment.' Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik,157 (2006) p. 95-104
• 'The Miletus Parapegma Fragments.' Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 152 (2005) p. 125-140
• 'Image, Text, and Pattern: Reconstructing Parapegmata.' In A. Jones, ed., Reconstructing Ancient Texts,Toronto, University of Toronto Press, forthcoming (preprint: page numbers not final)
• 'Impersonal and Intransitive episemainei.'  Classical Philology, 99 (2004) p. 78-85

Links

• Jill Bryant’s fabulous website
• XKCD
• New Scientist
• The Onion
• Online Horoscope Generator

Research Interests: Roman history, Early Imperial Senators, Roman Gaul, Latin Epigraphy.