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Fragment of a marble Sarcophagus
ca. 230-240 ACE
Duke Museum of Art
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Books

  1. Work in progress: Book Manuscript. The Making of Roman India.  under contract with Cambridge University Press, (forthcoming, February 2005).
  2. Work in Progress: Book Project:. The Afterlife of Obelisks. Case-studies in the Roman appropriation of Egyptian obelisks. .
  3. Work in Progress: Edited Books:. Ancient India and its Wider World, edited with Carla Sinopoli.  edited by reviewed and under consideration with Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan.
  4.  Moments in the Mediterranean: a reader in Mediterranean history.  edited by miriam cooke, prospectus with sections under review with Duke University Press, (projected completion, summer 2005).
  5.  The Agony of Asar: a thesis on slavery by the former slave, Jacobus Eliza Johannes Capitein, 1717-1747..  Markus Wiener Publishers, (2001). (Translated with introduction and commentary)

Papers Published

  1. "Breyten Breytenbach." Routledge Encyclopaedia of African Literature. Edited by Simon Gikandi.    77-79.
  2. "Ex oriente luxuria: Indian commodities and Roman experience." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient  vol. 45.1   40-95.
  3. "Porous connections: the Mediterranean and the Red Sea." Thesis Eleven  vol. 67   59-79.
  4. "Primigenius; priscus; problema." Thesaurus linguae Latinae  vol. X.2  (1995-97).
  5. "Pera; peragitare; percarus; perci(e)re and related words; percoquere; perdocere; perennis and related words." Thesaurus linguae Latinae  vol. X.1 B. G. Teubner (1994-97). (Leipzig)
  6. "Intimations of immortality: a study of perennis." Acta Classica  vol. 36  (1993) 119-127.
  7. "The physical being and circulation of ancient literature: an introduction." Akroterion  vol. 37.3-4  (1992) 114-133.
  8. "Orpheus in the Eighteenth Century: the use of myth in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice." English in South Africa  vol. 35.2  (1992) 25-38.
  9. "Euhoe, parce Liber: Horace on wine and poetic inspiration." South African Journal of Folklore Studies  vol. 2  (1991) 40-50.
  10. "Patronage of letters in the early Roman Empire." Akroterion  vol. 36.4  (1991) 140-152.
  11. "The "divine machinery" of the Aeneid." Akroterion  vol. 32.4  (1989) 181-190.

Papers Accepted

  1. "Narrating monumentality: the Piazza Navona obelisk." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology  vol. 16 no. 2,   193-215.

Papers Submitted

  1. "Topographies of taste: Indian textiles and Mediterranean contexts." Ars Orientalis. Edited by Alka Patel.  vol. 34  (forthcoming). (forthcoming)

Reviews

  1. with co-authors, Susan E. Alcock, Hendrik W. Dey and Grant Parker, review of R.J. Talbert (ed.), The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (Princeton 2000). Journal of Roman Archaeology 14 (2001)   454-461.
  2.  Review of Journal of Roman Studies F. De Romanis and A. Tchernia (eds.), Crossings: early Mediterranean contacts with India (Delhi 1997). Journal of Roman Studies   197.
  3.  ‘The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world of Horden and Purcell:’ review article of Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell, The Corrupting Sea: a study of Mediterranean history (London 2000). Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 13.2  228-232.
  4.  Review of D. P. M. Weerakkody, Taprobane: Ancient Sri Lanka as known to Greeks and Romans (Turnhout 1997). Scholia n.s. 8  115-120.
  5.  Review of Leonard Victor Rutgers, The Jews in Late Ancient Rome: evidence of cultural interaction in the Roman Diaspora (Leiden 1995),. Scholia n.s. 6  118-122.