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
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/pages/search?search_type=full_search&search=varian+studies
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
