ACADEMIC:
PUBLICATIONS
Greek Lyric
Poetry and Its Influence
Texts, Iconography, Music and Cinema
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/greek-lyric-poetry-and-its-influence
Varian Studies Volume One: Varius
Varian Studies Volume Two: Elagabal
Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, 2017
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/Classics?pagenumber=4
Investigations into the life and reign, and mythical or legendary afterlife,
of the Roman emperor commonly, but erroneously, known as
Elagabalus or Heliogabalus, properly called Varius.
The Importance of Being Varius, or, Exploding the Varian Misconception:
an Introduction to Studia Variana,
Tsukuba Studies in Language and Literature, (TSLL), 48,
2005:95-138.
Varian Studies: a Definition of the Subject
Opening address to the
Drawing of ‘Eliogabalo’ by Fulvio Caldini
Trinity College, Cambridge, 30-31 July, 2005.
The Emperor Elagabalus: Fact or Fiction?
Cambridge University Press, 420 pages. ((2010, Hardback; 2014, Paperback)
(Book on whose basis Cambridge
University’s PhD was granted)
(CUP website, facilitating online purchase of book; including abstract of book,
table of contents, index, and links to supporting materials.)
Anaglyptica Variana:
Column capitals with sculptural relief,
and associated fragments, related to the cult of Elagabal.
(Dissertation on whose basis Tsukuba University’s PhD was granted)
The Idyll of Elagabal
(Interpretative reconstruction by the author of Capital A)
AV1: Fascicles 1 & 2, Tsukuba Studies in Language and Literature, (TSLL), 43, 2003: 111-187;
AV2: Fascicle 3, Tsukuba Studies in Language and Literature, (TSLL), 45, 2004: 139-22;
AV3: Fascicle 4, Tsukuba Studies in Language and Literature, (TSLL), 46, 2004: 199-258;
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Capitelli con motivi
figurati legati al culto di Elagabalus, Il Giardino dei Cesari Edizioni Quasar, Roma,
2001. |
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Quaestiones Varianae
Bust in Capitoline
Museum, Rome, labelled ‘Eliogabalo’
QV1: Existence, Identity, Nomenclature: a basis for Studia Variana,
Part 1: The Boy on the Coin, Tsukuba Area Studies, (AST), 22, 2004: 57-87.
QV2: Existence, Identity, Nomenclature: a basis for Studia Variana,
Part 2: Nomen Varianum, Tsukuba Area Studies, (AST), 23, 2004:15-47.
QV3: In Varium
Heliogabalum imperium conlatum est (HA/AH 1.4):
the Roman imperial succession of a.u.c. 971= A.D. 218,
Tsukuba Area Studies, (AST), 24, 2005: 15-67.
QV4: Iter Principis: Elagabal's Journey from Emesa to Rome?
Tsukuba Area Studies, (AST), 21, 2003: 59-100.
QV5: In Varium: the Indictment, Tsukuba Area Studies, (AST), 25, 2005: 71-123.
QV6: In Varium: the Verdict, Tsukuba Area Studies, (AST), 26, 2006: 59-120.
QV7: Clades alia Variana: Varius his Fall,
Tsukuba Area Studies, (AST), 27, 2006: 43-99.
Topographica Variana
Coin of Elagabalus
showing the Varian Temple of Elagabal in Rome
Reconstruction of the Varian Temple of Elagabal in Rome
(from Il Giardino dei Cesari)
The Site of the Varian Temple of Elagabal in Rome
Tsukuba Studies in Language and Literature, (TSLL), 47, 2005:89-124.
(In collaboration with Raúl
de la Fuente Marcos)
Personae Varianae:
Pseudo-Eunuchs in the Court of Elagabalus:
The riddle of Gannys, Eutychianus and Comazon
Collected Papers in Honour of the Ninety-Fifth Anniversary of Ueno Gakuen.
UGU95,
1999: 117-141.
(Subsequently re-published online by Cambridge University Press)
(And
also available from this website)
The Place of Ancient History in Modern Life,
Lecture to first-year
undergraduates at Tsukuba University, Japan.
Tsukuba Journal of Comparative Culture, 1, 2005, p. 75-83.
On the last scene
of Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw”
Tsukuba Studies in Language and Literature, (TSLL), 42, Literature, 2002
