Open Access Journal: Iris: Journal of the Classical Association of Victoria

[First posted in AWOL 30 August 2011. Updated 11 October 2023]

Iris: Journal of the Classical Association of Victoria
ISSN 1448-1421

What is Iris?

Iris is the journal of the Classical Association of Victoria. The New Series of the journal was founded in 1988. The Journal Editor is Dr Rhiannon Evans of La Trobe University. The Honorary Secretary is Dr. K.O. Chong-Gossard, lecturer at the University of Melbourne. Iris is published with the support of the Muriel P. Blackwood Memorial Fund.

What is in Iris?

The most recent issue - Volume 24, 2011 - is now available for download.
Iris is now a refereed publication. This means that articles published in the refereed section undergo a peer review process. This involves assessment of the publication in its entirety (not merely an abstract or extract), before publication, and by appropriately independent, qualified experts. Independent in this context means independent of the author.

How do I contribute to Iris?

Persons interested into submitting articles or letters to the journal should send them to either the Journal Editor (Rhiannon Evans) or the Honorary Secretary (K.O. Chong-Gossard). Contributors should state whether they wish their article to be refereed or not.

The most recent issue is Volume 32-33 (2019-2020).

From the Editor

Andrew Turner

Saul Bastomsky, In memoriam Alan Henry

Carla Hurt, The Internet Brings Spoken Latin Back into Classrooms

Tom Keep, Digitization of Museum Collections and the Hellenic Museum Digitization Project

Emily Hulme, In Their Own Words: Questions Asked by Slaves at the Oracle of Dodona

Karl Zelesco, Trimalchio’s Attitudes to Death in the Cena Trimalchionis

Ehud Mayer, The Political and Diplomatic Goals of the Achaean League in the Period between the Battle of Cynoscephalae (197 BCE) and the Outbreak of the Achaean War in 146

Thomas Frajsman, Ovid the Neoteric: Genre-Bending and Intertextual Allusion in the Metamorphoses

Peter Mountford, The Hexameter in Virgil’s Aeneid

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Open Access Dissertations from Macquarie University Department of Ancient History

 [First posted in AWOL 24 March 2017, updates 26 May 2022]

Open Access Dissertations from Macquarie University Department of Ancient History

Macquarie University ResearchOnline is Macquarie University's open access digital collection.

It is designed to promote globally, preserve locally and provide open access to the research and scholarly output of Macquarie University's staff, students and affiliates.

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  A broader friendship: the Johannine transformation of Philia into a 'fellowship of truth and love'

Authors: Kulikovsky, Mark

Date: 2020

Subject Keyword: Friendship -- Biblical teaching | friendship | Johannine Philia fellowship | truth | love | transformation

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1278825

Description: Theoretical thesis.

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  Christians in Athens in the first two centuries: from Paul to Bishop Quadratus

Authors: Evans, David

Date: 2020

Subject Keyword: Christians -- Greece -- Athens | Church history | Athens | Early Christians | Apologists | Acts 17

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1280971

Description: Theoretical thesis.

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  Clangores, stridores et sibili: animal sounds in ancient Latin literature from 55 BC to AD 180

Authors: Cross, Rodney Martin

Date: 2020

Subject Keyword: Senses and sensation in literature | Animal sounds | Latin literature | perception | lexicography | ancient sound studies | animals

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1283349

Description: Theoretical thesis.

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  "Going Govern-mental for administration": an investigation of the evolution of the structure and function of Egyptian administration in the Pre and Early Dynastic periods

Authors: George, Matthew Warren Bernard

Date: 2019

Subject Keyword: Bureaucracy Egypt History | Egypt History To 332 B.C | Egypt Politics and government To 332 B.C | ancient history | Egyptology | early dynastic | predynastic | administrations

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1284312

Description: Theoretical thesis.

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  'If the world itself is shaken': Roman responses to natural disasters from the late Republic to the great famine under Claudius and Nero (65BC – AD63)

Authors: Graham, Daryn Robert

Date: 2019

Subject Keyword: Natural disasters -- Rome -- History | flood | fire | earthquakes | plagues | famines | Rome | Roman Empire | Pompey | Augustus | Tiberius | Gaius | Caligula | Nero | the Apostle Paul

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1269426

Description: Empirical thesis.

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  A patrimonial model of the united monarchy of Ancient Israel

Authors: Thomas, Zachary

Date: 2019

Subject Keyword: Jews History 1200-953 B.C | Iron Age Israel | Israel | Iron Age | Weber | Solomon

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1279316

Description: Theoretical thesis.

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  Becoming worlds: place, subjectivity and assemblage in literature for young adults

Authors: Zarate, Andrea

Date: 2019

Subject Keyword: Young adult fiction -- History and criticism | Subjectivity in literature | children's literature | Deleuze | subjectivity | assemblage

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1270101

Description: Theoretical thesis.

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  Capite coperto/aperto in context: selected depictions of female head covering on statuary and in relief sculptures in the Large and Small Herculaneum woman types from the Roman world between the 1st century B.C.E. and 4th century C.E.

Authors: Smith, Elizabeth

Date: 2019

Subject Keyword: Statues -- Rome -- History | Headdresses -- Rome -- History | Women -- Rome -- Social life and customs | female | women | veil | head covering | Roman Empire | statuary | sculpture | costume | palla

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1271340

Description: Theoretical thesis.

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  Cultural integration, social change and identities in late Iron Age and Roman Liburnia

Authors: Barnett, Charles

Date: 2019

Subject Keyword: Roman provinces -- Social conditions | Dalmacija (Croatia) -- Antiquities | archaeology | ancient history | Dalmatia

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1269446

Description: Theoretical thesis.

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  Finding the female in ancient Greek landscapes

Authors: Schulz, Lucinda Naomi

Date: 2019

Subject Keyword: Landscapes -- Symbolic aspects -- Greece -- History | Women -- Greece -- History | ancient Greece | women | goddesses | landscape | poetry | nature

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1269775

Description: Theoretical thesis.

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  Foreigners at Karnak: utilising the "other" for the study of Egyptian identity from the Second Intermediate Period until the reign of Thutmose III (c. 1803 - 1425 BC)

Authors: Peirce, Laura

Date: 2019

Subject Keyword: Temple of Amon (Karnak, Egypt) | Visitors, Foreign Egypt | Identity (Psychology) Egypt | Karnak (Egypt) Antiquites | ancient Egypt | Temple of Karnak | foreigners | cultural memory | New Kingdom

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1282998

Description: Theoretical thesis.

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  Gender and death: women on Greek funerary monuments during the Peloponnesian War

Authors: White, Kathryn

Date: 2019

Subject Keyword: Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient -- Greece | Women -- Religious life -- Greece | Tombs -- Greece | women | gravestones | Peloponnesian War | funerary | inscriptions | funerary reliefs

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1274900

Description: Theoretical thesis.

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  Law in Roman Arabia 106-132 CE

Authors: Rowling, Giles

Date: 2019

Subject Keyword: Roman provinces -- Arabia, Roman | Roman law | province | Roman Empire

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1274243

Description: Theoretical thesis.

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  Linguistic and legal continuity in 6th to 8th century Coptic documents: a comparative study of Greek and Coptic legal formulae in Byzantine and Early Islamic Egypt

Authors: Cook, Samuel Peter

Date: 2019

Subject Keyword: Legal documents -- Egypt -- History | Linguistic change -- Egypt -- History | Law -- Egypt -- Manuscripts | Coptic papyrology | Greek papyrology | language contact | Egyptian language | legal documents

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1271371

Description: Theoretical thesis.

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  The war cry in the ancient Mediterranean world

Authors: Gersbach, James Edward

Date: 2019

Subject Keyword: Battle-cries | War songs | Military history, Ancient | war cry | battle | Graeco-Roman | battle expression

Language: eng

Resource Type: Thesis PhD

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1282898

Description: Theoretical thesis.

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Open Access Australasian Society for Classical Studies Proceedings

 [First posted in AWOL 28 July 2010, updated  3 July 20159]

Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS) Conference Proceedings

The Society aims at the advancement of the study of ancient Greece and Rome and related fields.

Following the ASCS tradition to publish a limited number of papers presented at the annual conference on the society’s website, we are pleased to announce that the papers from ASCS 33 (2012) are now available, edited by Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides.

ASCS 33 (2012) are now available, edited by Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides.

ASCS 33 (2012) Online Proceedings

The link below will take you to the abstracts of papers presented at the ASCS 33 conference in Melbourne in 2012:

ASCS 33 (2012) Abstracts of Papers Presented

ASCS 32

These Selected Proceedings consist of 30 papers originally presented at the University of Auckland, 24-27 January 2011, edited by Assoc. Prof. Anne Mackay.

ASCS 32 (2011) Selected Proceedings

ASCS 31

The Proceedings of the Conference, containing 29 of the papers delivered, were edited, after a refereeing process, and produced in electronic format by Dr Neil O'Sullivan. They are available online at

ASCS 31 (2010) Proceedings

Open Access Journal: Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Bulletin

Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Bulletin
ISSN: 1833-296X

We promote Greek studies and foster wider Australian involvement with Greek cultural output. 

Australian universities that have classics, ancient history and Greek studies programmes (12 in total) are institutional members and Ohio State University is a foreign institutional member. We are proud that five high schools have also chosen to become institutional members, thus underlining the importance they place on the humanities.

In addition to our fieldwork projects, we provide a number of services to our members and friends. These include various events throughout the year, including our Visiting Professorship program and a range of fellowships, scholarships and bursaries across Australia. We also publish Mediterranean Archaeology, a journal for archaeology in the Mediterranean world and organise tours to Greece.

We also support a number of publications, including periodicals and e-newsletters and house an extensive archaeological library at our Sydney offices.

• AAIA Bulletin Volume 15, 2019 (pdf, 2MB)
• AAIA Bulletin Volume 14, 2018 (pdf, 1.9MB)
• AAIA Bulletin Volume 13, 2017 (pdf, 1.9MB)
• AAIA Bulletin Volume 12, 2016 (pdf, 1.9MB)

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Open Access Journal: The RAG (Roman Archaeology Group Newsletter/Magazine)

[First posted in AWOL 31 December 2010. Updated 31 May 2017 (new host)]

The RAG (Roman Archaeology Group Newsletter/Magazine)

“The RAG” is the Roman Archaeology Group’s former colour newsletter/magazine featuring news and articles on Roman history and archaeology as well as information on group events. We have made all past issues available freely here.

The RAG Magazine has been replace by a digital newsletter. This is circulated exclusively to members.

We still encourage you to share news, photographs, or short articles on Roman archaeology, heritage and material culture with us. These can be posted on our blog, and/or linked to in our newsletter. Please contact the current Newsletter Editor: rebecca.norman at mac.com.
 Read RAG newsletter past issues:


RAG Volume 13 – 2018
RAG vol 13 issue 2
RAG vol 13 issue 1
RAG Volume 12 – 2017
RAG vol 12 issue 2
RAG vol 12 issue 1
RAG Volume 11 – 2016
RAG vol 11 issue 2
RAG vol 11 issue 1
RAG Volume 10 – 2015
RAG vol 10 issue 2
RAG vol 10 issue 1
RAG Volume 9 – 2014
RAG vol 9 issue 2
RAG vol 9 issue 1

RAG Volume 8 – 2013
RAG vol 8 issue 2
RAG vol 8 issue 1
RAG Volume 7 – 2012
RAG vol 7 issue 1
RAG vol 7 issue 2

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RAG Volume 6 – 2011
RAG vol 6 issue 1
RAG vol 6 issue 2
RAG vol 6 issue 3
RAG vol 6 issue 4
RAG Volume 5 – 2010
RAG vol 5 issue 1
RAG vol 5 issue 2
RAG vol 5 issue 3
RAG vol 5 issue 4
RAG Volume 4 – 2009
RAG vol 4 issue 1
RAG vol 4 issue 2
RAG vol 4 issue 3
RAG vol 4 issue 4
RAG Volume 3 – 2008
RAG vol 3 issue 1
RAG vol 3 issue 2
RAG vol 3 issue 3
RAG vol 3 issue 4
RAG Volume 2 – 2007
RAG vol 2 issue 1
RAG vol 2 issue 2
RAG vol 2 issue 3
RAG vol 2 issue 4
RAG Volume 1 – 2006
RAG vol 1 issue 1
RAG vol 1 issue 2
RAG vol 1 issue 3
RAG vol 1 issue 4

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Open Access Journal: ERAS Journal

[First posted in AWOL 2 November 2009. Updated 3 August 2018 (new URLs]]

ERAS Journal
ISSN: 1445-5218

ERAS is an on-line journal edited and produced by postgraduate students from the School of Philosophical Historical and International Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Papers published by ERAS are accepted from the following disciplines: History, Archaeology and Ancient History, Religion and Theology, Jewish Civilisation, Philosophy and International Studies. Submissions from other disciplines with significant historical content will also be considered (e.g. Politics, Literature, Economics, Anthropology). 

ERAS is a fully refereed journal, with DEST status that provides an international forum for current or recently completed Masters and PhD students to publish original research, comment and reviews in any of the fields listed above. We hope you enjoy reading ERAS and we look forward to your comments and contributions.

This journal is by not focused on antiquity, but it regularly includes articles and reviews on antiquity.

Current Edition
Past Editions

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Open Access Journal: Rundle Foundation for Egyptology Newsletter

 [First posted in AWOL 1 March 2010. Updated 29 August 2016]

Rundle Foundation for Egyptology Newsletter

Beginning in 1981, newsletters have been sent to Rundle Foundation /ACE members. They provide information on social and educational activities, and also brief records of archaeological work.

1981: February, May, July

1982: March, May, August, October

1983: February, May, July, October

1984: March, May, October

1985: February, May, September

1986: February, June, September

1987: February, June, September

1988: March, June, September

1989: January, March, July, October

1990: January, April, July, October

1991: January, April, July, October

1992: February, April, July, October

1993: January, April, July, November

1994: January, April, July, November

1995: January, April, July, November

1996: January, April, July, November

1997: January, April, July, November

1998: January, April, July, November

1999: January, April, July, October

2000: January, April, July, October

2001: January, April, July, October

2002: January, April, July, October

2003: January, April, July, October

2004: January, April, July, October

2005: (No 91) January, (No 92) April, (No 93) July, (No 94) October

2006: (No 95) January,(No 96) May, (No 97) July (No 98) October

2007: (No 99) January, (No 100) April, (No 101) July (No 102) October

2008: (No 103) January (No 104) April (No 105) July (No 106) October

2009: (No 107) January

• January 2010, Issue 111
• May 2010, Issue 112
• July 2010, Issue 113
• January 2011, Issue 114
• April 2011, Issue 115
• August 2011, Issue 116
• January 2012, Issue 117
• April 2012,  Issue 118
• July 2012, Issue 119

SOME NEWSLETTER ITEMS OF INTEREST:

(A full listing of newsletters can be found here.)

Behlmer, Heike: New Research on Shenoute, Newsletter 99

Hope, Colin: General Wen-Djera-en-Djed of Tanis¸ Newsletter 27

Kanawati, Naguib: Niankhre, the Royal Hairdresser, Newsletter 23

Kanawati, Naguib: Nikauisesi – a Reconsideration of the Old Kingdom System of Dating, Newsletter 75

Kanawati, Naguib: The North-West corner of the Teti Cemetery, Newsletter 100

Kitchen, Kenneth: Hori, son of Panehsi, Newsletter 25 (this statue is in the collection of the Brazilian National Museum in Rio de Janiero!)

Ling, Ted: Senenmut, Administrator and Architect, a Biographical Sketch, Newsletter 19

Martin, Geoffrey: Maya, Treasurer of Tutankhamun, Newsletter 24

Ockinga, Boyo: A Statuette of Osiris, the Protector of the Majordomo Padihorresnet, Newsletter 22 (this item is in the Museum collection at Macquarie)

Ockinga, Boyo: Amemophis, son of Hapu, a Biographical Sketch, Newsletter 18

Ockinga, Boyo: Anhurmose, the High Priest of Onuris at Thebes, Newsletter 26

Thompson, Beth: Ahmose, son of Abana, a Biographical Sketch, Newsletter 20

Thompson, Beth: The Old Kingdom Cemetery at Tehna in Upper Egypt, Newsletter 100

Walker, Jim: Imhotep, the Vizier and Architect of Djoser who became Imouthes/Askelepios, the God of Healing, Newsletter 29 and Newsletter 30

Whale, Sheila: Pahery, the Supervisor of Works in the Tomb of Ahmose, son of Ibana¸ Newsletter 28

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The Classics and Archaeology Virtual Museum, University of Melbourne

The Classics and Archaeology Virtual Museum, University of Melbourne

The Classics and Archaeology Virtual Museum documents the Classics and Archaeology Collection of the University of Melbourne, which is located at the Ian Potter Musuem of Art. The Virtual Museum is a collaborative project of the Centre for Classics & Archaeology, the Ian Potter Museum of Art and ArtsIT.

New Exhibition - Mummymania

Ian Potter Museum of Art, 29 Septmber 2015 to 17 April 2015
Mummymania focuses on the figure of the Egyptian mummy and its role within the themes of life, death, resurrection and immortality. Ranging from the mummy’s original role in ancient Egyptian funerary practices to its importance in early scientific investigations into ancient disease and medicine, and its popular reception as a malevolent Hollywood monster-figure, the exhibition looks at the changing perception of the mummy over time.

Mummymania includes a small number of mummified objects that reveal the mummification process in ancient Egypt and its relationship to Egyptian afterlife beliefs. The history of the exploration of Egypt by Europeans and the export of ancient Egyptian antiquities including mummies also features, including the public mummy-unrolling spectacles that were popular in the nineteenth century. The pivotal use of mummies in medicine, and the scientific analysis of tissue including the use of CAT scanning in order to understand ancient disease, is an important aspect of the legacy that is not widely known. This lesser-known history is explored alongside the mummy’s well-known role as a Hollywood horror film star.

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