Last update: 13 December 2011; inaugural date: 1 December 2004
For information about Paul Rehak, please email John Younger: Email: jyounger@ku.edu
This site is under construction; when completed, it will contain a list
of all of Paul Rehak's published and unpublished work.
Books
| 1995 | ed., The Role of the Ruler in the Prehistoric Aegean (Aegaeum 11, Liege 1995). |
| 2006 | Imperium and Cosmos: Augustus and the Northern Campus Martius, edited by John G. Younger (Wisconsin Studies in Classics), University of Wisconsin Press: Madison 2006. Available in hardcopy, paperback, and e-book. |
Book Chapters
Articles (see below for articles co-authored)
Abstracts
| 1982 | "New Observations on the Mycenaean 'Armed Goddess'," American Journal of Archaeology 86 (1982) 282. |
| 1983 | "A Claudian Family Portrait Gem in Vienna: A New Interpretation," American Journal of Archaeology 87 (1983) 252-253. |
| 1984 | "From Aristeia to Eros: The Re-working of a Homeric Star Simile in the Argonautika of Apollonios Rhodios," Abstracts of the American Philological Association |
| 1987 | "A Reconstruction of the Ara Pietatis Augustae /Ara Gentis Iuliae ," American Journal of Archaeology 91 (1987) 304. |
| 1990 | "The Statues of Alexander in the Forum of Augustus and the Regia," American Journal of Archaeology 94 (1990) 312. |
| 1993 | "Enthroned Figures in Aegean Art and the Function of the Mycenaean Megaron," American Journal of Archaeology 97 (1993) 332. |
| 1999 | "Fragmentation in Minoan Neo-Palatial Art: Stone Relief Rhyta, Bull's Head Rhyta, and Triton Shells," Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 44 (2000) 215. |
| 2000 | "Augustus and the Obelisks of Egypt," College Art Association, Annual Meeting, February 2000; talk at Kansas University, 5 Feb. 2001. |
| 2000 | "Aegean 'Priests'," Journal of Prehistoric Religion 14 (2000) 44-45. |
| 2001 | "Saffron Crocus and Yellow Garments in Aegean Wall-Painting," Colours in Antiquity. Colour and Hue from Egypt to Byzantium. Abstracts and Programme, Department of Classics, University of Edinburgh, 10-13th September 2001 2-3. |
| 2003 | "The Hairstyle of the 'Thallophoroi' on the Parthenon North Frieze" Archaeological Institute of America 104th Annual Meeting, Abstracts 26 (2003) 6-7. |
| 2004 | "Greek Votive Relifs and the Processional Friezes of the Ara Pacis Augustae," Archaeological Institute of America 104th Annual Meeting, Abstracts 27 (2004) 104-5 |
| 2005 | "Immortal and Ageless: Artemis in a Bronze Age Fresco from Akrotiri, Thera," Archaeological Institute of America 104th Annual Meeting, Abstracts 28 (2005) 159-60 |
Book Reviews
| 1991 | R. Castleden, Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete (New York, 1991) in The Classical World 85 (1991) 133-134. |
| 1992 | E. Gazda, ed., Roman Art in the Private Sphere (University of Michigan Press, 1991) in The Classical World 86 (1992) 148-149. |
| 1994 | N. Marinatos, Minoan Religion. Ritual, Image, and Symbol (University of South Carolina Press, 1993) in The Classical World 88.2 (1994) 133-134. |
| 1994 | W. Myers, E. Myers, and G. Cadogan, eds., The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete (University of California Press, 1992) in The Classical Bulletin 70 (1994) 19-20. |
| 1994 | D. E. E. Kleiner, Roman Sculpture (Yale University Press, 1992) in The Ancient World (1994). |
| 1996 | I. Tournavitou, The 'Ivory Houses' at Mycenae (BSA Suppl. 24, London 1995) in American Journal of Archaeology 100 (1996) 615-616. |
| 1997 | "Interconnections between the Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium B.C.," Review Article of E. Cline, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: International Trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean (Oxford 1994); W. V. Davies and Louise Schofield, eds., Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant. Interconnections in the Second Millennium B.C. (London 1995); M. Bietak, Avaris, the Capital of the Hyksos. Recent Excavations at Tell el-Dab'a (London 1996), in American Journal of Archaeology 101 (1997) 399-402. |
| 1998 | J.L. Fitton, The Discovery of the Greek Bronze Age (Harvard University Press 1996) in The Ancient World (1998). |
| 2003 | Rodney Castleden, Atlantis Destroyed, (London: Routledge, 2001); in Journal of Anthropological Research, 58 (2002) 428-429. |
| 2002 | Deborah Tarn Steiner, Images in Mind. Statues in Archaic and Classical Literature and Thought (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001); in American Journal of Philology, 123.3 (2002) 513-516. |
| 2004 | M. Cultraro, L'Anello di Minosse. Archeologia della Regalità nell'Egeo Minoico (Biblioteca di Archeologia, 31) (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001); in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.01.15 (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2004/2004-01-15.html). |
| 1997 | "Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?
Medicine,
Myth and Matriarchy in the Thera Frescoes" |
Book Chapters
Abstracts
| 1996 | "Architectural and Administrative Change in Neopalatial Crete," American Journal of Archaeology 100 (1996) 355. |
| 1994 | "Technical Considerations in the Planning of Minoan Stone Relief Vessels: The Zakros Rhyton," American Journal of Archaeology 98 (1994) 306-307. |
| 1994 | "Technical Observations as Evidence for Reconstructing the Sculptures of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia -- The East Pediment," American Journal of Archaeology 98 (1994) 333-334. |
| 1995 | "The Earliest Mycenaean Administration on the Mainland?" American Journal of Archaeology 99 (1995) 342. |
| 1995 | "Technical Observations as Evidence for Reconstructing the Sculptures of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia -- The West Pediment," American Journal of Archaeology 99 (1995) 309. |
| 1996 | "Architectural and Administrative Change in Neopalatial Crete," American Journal of Archaeology 100 (1996) 355. |
| 1996 | "Technical Observations on the Sculptures of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, III: The Metopes," American Journal of Archaeology 100 (1996) 367-368. |
| 1980s | "Bronze Age Aegean Tattoos?" | facial markings on Mycenaean figurines |
| 1980s | "The Rejected First Plan for the Ara Pacis Augustae | the simple altar voted by the Senate on Augustus's return from the west in 13 BC, and rejected by him |
| 1980s, early | "A Redating of a Minoan Seal from the Idaean Cave" | CMS II3 no. 7, redating it to LM I |
| 1980 | "Pastas House and Palace in the Argonautica of Apollonios Rhodios" | their similarities to a Mycenaean palace |
| 1983 | "Priestess or Goddess? Iconographic Problems in a Late Bronze Age Fresco from the 'Cult Center' at Mycenae" | the lower female in the fresco from the House of the Fresco may be the goddess "Sito Potnia" mentioned in MY Oi 701. |
| 1985 | "The Date and Meaning of the Ara Gentis Iuliae" | altar dates to the early Tiberian period instead of the Claudian |
| 1988 | "Capitoline Museum 2390: A Relief Fragment from the Interior Frieze of a Julio-Claudian Monumental Altar in Rome" | a fragment with patera belongs to two fragments usually identified as the "Ara Pietatis" but probably is the "Ara Gentis Iuliae" |
| 1988/1989 | "Livia and Tiberius: Conflict over the Institution of the Imperial Cult of 'divus Augustus'" | "The dedication of shrines and monuments of the imperial cult seems to have been one of the major areas where the two acted together. An implied crisis in the relationship of the two (reached in 22 when Livia dedicated an important image of divus Augustus near the theater of Marcellus and put her name before that of Tiberius) is contradicted by numismatic evidence." |
| 1988? | "The 'Deification of Germanicus' Cameo in the Cabinet des Medailles" | reinterprets this cameo as the deification of Claudius |
| 1989 | "The 'thrinkos kuanoio' on the Palace of Alkinoos: A Bronze-Age Survival in the Odyssey?" | stone friezes inlaid with blue glass (as at Tiryns) and other architectural features may lie at the basis of Homer's description of Alkinoos' palace |
| 1989? | "Pastas House and Megaron in the Argonautica of Apollonius" | Hellenistic architectural features contrast with Homeric features in the Argonautica |
| 1989? | "The Achaia Alabaster Pyxis" | the decoration of Patras 1052 (published: AJA 64 pl. 5 fig. 34; SIMA 55.2, 277 figs. 301, 333) indicates that it was made in LM I-II and was therefore an heirloom by the time of its deposition in a LH IIIB tomb |
| 1990s, early | "A Minoan Sealstone in the Metropolitan Museum" | CMS XII 288, and the stands for supporting jugs |
| 1990s, early | "The Louvre Fragment of the Ara Pacis Augustae: Problems of Identification and Interpretation" | much of this is incorporated in Paul's book Imperium & Cosmos, forthcoming from University of Wisconsin Press |
| 1990s, early | "The Swans of the Ara Pacis Augustae | much of this is incorporated in Paul's book Imperium & Cosmos, forthcoming from University of Wisconsin Press |
| 1990 | "Jason's Spear as Erotic and Anti-Heroic Metaphor" | since the Argonaut Jason's aristeia is his sexual allure, not the military excellence exemplified by Achilles, then the description of his spear is a reminder of the ekphrasis of the cloak given him by Athena |
| 1990 | "The Portraiture of Livia" | a partial catalogue with notes |
| 1990 | "The Statues of Alexander the Great in the 'Forum Augustum' and the Regia" | long version of the abstract published in AJA 94, 1990, 312 |
| 1990 | "Claudius, Livia, and the Rededication of the Temple of Nemesis at Rhamnous" | paper delivered at CAMWS, 7 April 1990, Columbia MO |
| 1990? | "Minoan Peak Cult and the Mycenaean Mainland" | peak sanctuaries on the Mainland reflect an early, experimental stage in the development of Mycenaean religion |
| 1990? | "The 'lactans' Gesture in Minoan and Mycenaean Art" | a short list of LBA pieces (ivory seal from Archanes, 4 faience plaques from Knossos, 2 glass plaques from the House with the Idols at Mycenae, 2 terracotta figures from the Mycenae Cult Center (68.1584 & 68.1577) |
| 1991 | "Greek Religion in the Shaft Graves: The Minoan Palatial Connection" | the ShGr period may have been one of experimentation, during which the Mycenaeans were importing Minoan cult equipment as part of their negotiation with their evolving identity |
| 1991 | "The Aegean Sacral Knot, Sacral Robe, and Bull-Netting" | some representations of the Sacral Robe "may instead depict a net used in the capture of the sacrificial bull" |
| 1991 | "The Earliest Figure-Eight Shield Friezes in the Aegean and their Meaning" | LM I vases depict friezes of figure-8 shields, implying that fresco versions may have existed as Evans predicted.. |
| 1991 | "The Minoan Netted Bull" | "netting indicates [that] the animal was first hunted (or captured from the herd), played in bull sports, and finally sacrificed" |
| 1991 | "Two Girls in Yellow: Thera and Mycenae" | Xeste 3's Veiled Girl & the girl held in the hand of the large seated woman from the Cult Center at Mycenae share the same gesture and both wear the 'krotopeplos' |
| 1991? | "Four Stages in the Development of Mycenaean Religion" | a sketch of the periods MH, LH I, LH II, and LH III, in terms of the development of religious iconography and sanctuaries |
| 1991? | "The Date of CMS I.179" | sketched arguments for a LM I=-II date |
| 1993 | "Rethinking the Function of the Mycenaean Megaron" | originally for publication in W. Cherf, ed., Alpha to Omega: Studies in Honor of John George Szemler. Chicago: Ares 1993 |
| 1992 | "A Painterly Origin for the Composition on a Gold Ring from the Tiryns Treasure (CMS I.179)" | an original painting not only inspired the ring but also the robe of the "Warrior Goddess" in the fresco from the Mycenae House of the Fresco and the large seated woman from the SW Building at Mycenae |
| 1992 | "Black Africans in Late Bronze Age Greece: The Fresco Evidence" | Blacks were in the Aegean as mercenaries and others |
| 1992 | "The Warrior Carving from Kea" | intended to be co-authored with John G. Younger. The incised plaque from Kea showing a helmeted warrior (LB I?) may have been part of a slab flanking or surmounting the main gate at Ayia Irini. |
| 1992 | a partial attempt to reconstruct the fresco from Thebes, Tomb of Oidipous | |
| 1992, Fall | "The Pylos Megaron Fresco" or "Baby Griffins" | The colors and spiral decorating the bird flying away from the lyre-player in the Throne Room fresco at Pylos match more the conventional colors and decorations for griffins; baby griffins may be common (the Pylos "bird," the "bird" above the griffins on the side panel of the Ayia Triada Sarcophagus). On the IIIC pyxis from Lefkandi, "adult griffins feed their babies, who are shown in a small nest. One wonders, incidentally, what animal the Mycenaeans thought hatched out of the ostrich eggs which they imported into Greece." |
| 1992? | "Aegean Hairpins and Linear A" | hairpins are connected to women's pubesence |
| 1992-1993 | "The Findspots of the Zakros Rhyton: New Light on the Destruction of a Minoan Palace" | intended to be co-authored with Mark Vandermolen. The rhyton was found in 4 different areas of the west wing of the Zakro palace, apparently deliberately smashed and scattered |
| 1993-4? | "A Male Crocus-Gatherer on a Relief Rhyton Fragment from Knossos?" | fragment with male at a peak sanctuary with a "kanoun" |
| 1993-4? | "The Men of Xeste 3 | the relationship of the males (as attendants) with the females |
| 1993 | "Aegean Hairband-Tassels?" | on the shaved sideburns, previously thought to be depictions of silver plaques |
| 1993 | "A Miniature Marble Wine-Pressing Vat from Akrotiri, Thera" | Delta 16 may have been a cult storage room, a "Treasury," not only for the storage of foods and beverages but also for "a concentration of imports of the type found in palatial treasuries on Crete." |
| 1993 | "Minoan-Mycenaean Relationships ca. 1500-1450 B.C." | Minoans and Mycenaeans had very different agendas |
| 1993 | "The Bracelet of the Goddess from Akrotiri, Thera" | the lunate bead has associations with Syrian art |
| 1993? | "Phaidra, Hippolytus, and a Theran Rite of Passage" | Pausanias 1.22.2, 2.32.3 describes a hair-cutting ritual in honor of Hippolytus and Phaidra's slashing of myrtle leaves with her hairpin; this may relate to the Bronze Age use of hairpins and to maturation rituals |
| 1994 | "The Knossos 'Jewel Fresco' Reconsidered" | Since there is no concrete evidence for the woman's neck, it is possible that this fresco showed a male "necklace swinger" |
| 1994 | "The Mycenae Ivory Triad Reconsidered" | after a general description of the piece (including a remark on its being in the round instead of in relief like other Mycenaean ivories), an identification of the child as girl: "Nudity is a characterisc of males of various ages but there seem to be no depictions of young boys who are clothed." |
| 1994 | drawings and notes on the gypsum blocks from Pyrgos, Crete | many of these are pavers from the upper floor, burnt where they rested on wood slats |
| 1994? | "The Robing Scene in the House of the Ladies at Akrotiri -- A New Reconstruction" | Turning the surviving gragment of the "seated" woman a quarter-turn counterclockwise and placing it slightly higher allows that second woman to stand (meeting the upturned gaze of the first woman) -- the two therefore are participants in some action involving women. |
| 1995? | "A Mycenaean Ivory Pyxis Fragment from Dendra" | fragment with lion paw & hoof, reconstructed as a Taweret offering a branch to a goat |
| 1995 | "Goddess of the Golden Sword and Glorious Fruit: Demeter in Bronze Age Greece" | linking the depictions of women in the fresco from the Mycenae House with the Fresco to Demeter |
| 1995 | "Male Rites of Passage in Minoan Crete? Re-thinking the Chieftain Cup from Ayia Triadha" | the unfinished state of the carving and its unique place in Minoan iconography argue against a complete acceptance of the cup as referring to a wide-spread male rite of passage |
| 1995 | "Nothing to Do with Myth?" | a talk for the APA, 1995: gender is an area in Aegean art that needs further work, especially in the areas of color conventions, the morphology of the body, hairstyles, costumes, jewelry, gesture and structure of the human figure in groups and individually. Since the "commanding gesture" is used by both men and women, it cannot be used to distinguish the Mycenaean wanax. "Is it possible that the Mycenaeans never developed a manner for depicting gods, even though they borrowed Minoan conventions for representing goddesses? Problems like suggest that we should be investigating the differences between Minoan and Mycenaean art, before we even begin to tackle the question of possible survivals into the historical age." |
| 1995? | "Bronze Age Architectural Relief" | a catalogue |
| 1996 | "Gender and Sexuality in Aegean Art and Classical Myth" | a talk given at the Berkshire Conference in Chapel Hill NC, later expanded into "Gender and Sexuality in the Frescoes from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri, Thera" |
| 1996-7 | "Gender and Skin Color in Bronze Age Aegean Wall Paintings" | "The simplest explanation continues to be the one originally proposed by Evans" red skin represents male figures, and white skin represents female figures. We might do well to ask ourselves why we 'need' to have only men as bull-leapers, and why we are unwilling to accept that Minoan and Mycenaean constructions of roles for men and women may have differed considerably from our own. Ultimately the modern debate over the meaning and interpretation of skin colors in Aegean paintings may reveal more about our own attitudes toward gender and sexuality than it does about the nature of Minoan and Mycenaean art and society." |
| 1997 | "Monkey Puzzle: Egypt, Byblos, and the Aegean" | 2 pithemorphic vessels come from Crete and the Argolid; they probably come from Byblos |
| 1997/8 | "Matriarchy, Medicine and Myth in Prehistoric Aegean Art" | a summary of a lecture given for the AIA lecture series, a general summary of gender studies and more specifically about saffron |
| 1997/8 | "Mycenae Invents Itself: Power and Propaganda in the Aegean Bronze Age" | a summary of a lecture given for the AIA lecture series, the development of Mycenae's identity through a re-invention of tomb type and spolia |
| 1998, 31 March | "The Female Landscape: Rereading Aegean Wall-Painting in the Late Bronze Age" | a summary of Rehak's thinking about women's rites of passage, including depictions in Xeste 3, Akrotiri, and at Ayia Triada, Knossos. Through the use of the Homeric Hymns Paul works out the identification of the Xeste 3 goddess as Artemis (see his paper "Immortal and Ageless," 2004 & 2005). |
| 1998, 18 May | "Aegean Women and Saffron Crocus: The Frescoes from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri, Thera" | a summary of Rehak's thinking at the time, including a full assessment of the value of the vitamin A in saffron |
| 1998 | "An Aegean Sealstone in the British Museum" | re: CMS VII 158, a figure wearing a figure-8 shield and holding a pair of swords flanked by "Sacred Robes" (a combination of motifs known elsewhere) (another version of this study suggests the flanking objects are squills) |
| 1998 | "Minoan Stone Relief Vessels with Pictorial Scenes" | catalogue with commentary and illustrations of all fragments at the same scale (cf. the abstract, BICS 44, 2000, 215), to develop into a monograph co-authored with John G. Younger |
| 1998 | "Porphyry" | a short catalogue of porphyry sculpture |
| 1998 | "Visual Similes in Bronze Age Aegean Art" | citing similes on the MY ShGr Lion Hunt dagger, a stele from ShGr V, cylinder seal V 2.585; these suggest epic in the LH I period. |
| 2000 | "Aegean 'Priests': Re-thinking a Glyptic Image" | abstract for the POTNIA conference, 12-15 April 2000: a catalogue of "figures in banded robes", "probably palatial administrators rather than priests" |
| 2001 | "The Aegean BA Garment Range" | a list, amounting to 36 different types of costumes and their pieces |
| 2002 | "Saffron Crocus and Yellow Garments in Aegean Wall-Painting" | a talk for the conference "Colours in Antiquity," held in Edinburgh, 8-11 September 2001; a finished paper was prepared, but he decided not to have published; the conference has been published: Colour in the Ancient Mediterranean World edited by Liza Cleland and Karen Stears, with Glenys Davies (BAR S1267; available through the David Brown Book Co.). |
| 2003 | "The Aegean Griffin and Its Eastern Cousins: Origins, Transmission, Adaptation" | title for a proposed talk for the EMPORION conference, 14-17 April 2004 |
| 2003 | "Two 'Priestesses' in the Frescoes from Akrotiri, Thera" | a commentary on the West House priestess and Xeste 3's Veiled Girl |
| 2004 | "Immortal and Ageless: Artemis in a Bronze Age Fresco from Akrotiri, Thera" | a paper that Paul meant for publication in the Art Bulletin; Paul submitted an abstract for a talk for the 2005 AIA meetings, I gave that talk (6 January 2005) and Paul's abstract was published (see his Abstract publications for 2005) |
| 2004 | "Women and Children on the Ara Pacis Augustae." A paper given at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, St Louis MO, 16 April 2004. |
For information about Paul Rehak, please email John Younger: Email: jyounger@ku.edu