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Sheila Dillon

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Anne Murnick Cogan Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
sheila.dillon@duke.edu
Box 90766, Smith Warehouse, Bay 10, A261, Durham, NC 27708-0766
114 S Buchanan Blvd, Smith Warehouse, Bay 9, A291, Durham, NC 27708-0766
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Selected Publications

A new catalogue series on the sculptures of Berlin's Staatliche Museen: vol. 1. Portraits - ANDREAS SCHOLL (für die Antikensammlung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin herausgegeben von), bearbeitet von A. Alexandridis, M. Bergmann, J. Beutler, C. Blume, R. Bol, A. Fendt, H. R. Goette, V. Goldbeck, S.-G. Gröschel, R. Grüßinger, K. Hallof, H. Heres, M. R. Hofter, T. Kleinschmidt, R. Krummeich, I. Laube, A. Ludwig, S. Mägele, J. Mätzchker, M. Maisch-berger, U. Papadopoulos. D. Piekarski, G. Platz-Horster, B. Rabe, L. Sack, M. Schmidt, C. Schreiter, T. Schröder, K. Stemmer, M. Tabaczek, R. von den Hoff, L. Winkler-Horaček, KATALOG DER SKULPTUREN IN DER ANTIKENSAMMLUNG DER STAATLICHEN MUSEEN ZU BERLIN. BAND I – GRIECHISCHE UND RÖMISCHE BILDNISSE (Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg2016). S. xii + 435, 943 ills. mostly in colour. ISBN 978-3-7319-0387-1. EUR 79.

Journal Article Journal of Roman Archaeology · 2018 Full text Cite

Women in the Classical World: Critical Concepts in Classical Studies

Book · 2017 The study of women in Graeco-Roman antiquity has a long history but many recent developments―prominent among which are the rise of feminist theory and theoretical and interpretive work in material culture―have transformed approaches to the study of women’s ... Cite

Approaches to the Study of Greek Sculpture

Chapter · 2017 Featured Publication Cite

Honorific Practices and the Politics of Space on Hellenistic Delos: Portrait Statue Monuments Along the Dromos

Journal Article American Journal of Archaeology · April 1, 2013 Featured Publication Open Access Cite

Portrait Statues of Women on the Island of Delos

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A Companion to Women in the Ancient World

Book · February 13, 2012 Featured Publication Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic Title Awarded a 2013 PROSE Honorable Mention as a Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences A Companion to Women in the Ancient World presents an interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collect ... Full text Cite

Female Portraiture in the Hellenistic Period

Chapter · February 13, 2012 Featured Publication Full text Cite

Hellenistic Tanagra Figurines

Chapter · January 2012 Cite

Review of 'Roman Portraits in Context' by J. Fefjer

Book Review CAA on-line reviews · December 13, 2011 Link to item Cite

Review of 'Art in the Era of Alexander the Great' by A. Cohen

Book Review American Journal of Archaeology on-line reviews · October 2011 Link to item Cite

The Past is Present: The Kempner Collection of Classical Antiquities at the Nasher Museum

Book · March 1, 2011 In 2006, the collection of 224 antiquities assembled by Walter Kempner, M.D. was donated to the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University by Barbara Newborg, M.D. Ranging from the 3rd millennium to the 3rd century B.C.E., the collection includes Mediterranea ... Cite

The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World

Book · March 2010 Featured Publication Cite

Review of 'Role Models in Roman Art' by I.S. Hansen and S. Bell

Book Review Journal of Roman Archaeology · 2010 Cite

Portraiture, Greece and Rome

Other The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome · 2009 Cite

Portraits of Women in the early Hellenistic Period

Chapter · October 2007 Featured Publication Cite

Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias

Book · June 2006 Featured Publication Cite

Representations of War in Ancient Rome

Book · 2006 War suffused Roman life to a degree unparalleled in other ancient societies. Although the place of war in ancient Roman culture has been the subject of many studies, this book examines how Romans represented war, in both visual imagery and in literary acco ... Cite

Subject selection and viewer reception of Greek portraits from Herculaneum and Tivoli

Journal Article Journal of Roman Archaeology · October 2000 Featured Publication Open Access Cite

Figured Pilaster Capitals from Aphrodisias in Caria

Journal Article American Journal of Archaeology · October 1997 Featured Publication Link to item Cite

Review of 'The Fire of Hephaistos" by Carol C. Mattusch (Cambridge, MA 1996)

Book Review American Journal of Archaeology · 1997 Cite

The portraits of a civic benefactor of 2nd-c. Ephesos

Journal Article Journal of Roman Archaeology · October 1996 Featured Publication Open Access Cite

Terracotta Figurines

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