Lynn Roller

 

Appointed 1977, Classics Program
Appointed 1999, Program in Art History

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1977
M.A., Bryn Mawr College, 1973
A.B., Bryn Mawr College, 1969

 

Recent Courses

AHI 1A: Ancient Mediterranean Art

AHI 172A: Early Greek Art and Architecture

AHI 172B: Later Greek Art and Archtecture

AHI 173: Roman Art

AHI 175: Architecture and Urbanism in Mediterranean Antiquity

AHI 190A: Undergraduate Seminar: Narration in Ancient Mediterranean Art

AHI 290: Graduate Seminar: Narration in Ancient Mediterranean Art

 

Recent Publications

Books

In Search of God the Mother: the Cult of Anatolian Cybele (University of California Press, 1999).

Gordion Special Studies 1. The Non verbal Graffiti, Dipinti, and Stamps (University Museum Monograph, University of Pennsylvania, 1987).

 

Articles

"Towards the Formation of a Phrygian Iconography in the Iron Age," Ancient Near East Studies, Supplement 20 (Leuven 2007), pp. 207-223.

"Midas and Phrygian Cult Practice," in Manfred Hutter and Sylvia Hutter-Braunsar, eds., Pluralismus und Wandel in den Religionen im vorhellenistischen Anatolien. Alter Orient und Altes Testament, 337 (2006), pp. 123-135.

"A Phrygian Sculptural Identity? Evidence from Early Phrygian Drawings in Iron Age Gordion," Proceedings of the Fifth Anatolian Iron Ages Symposium (British Institute of Archaeology, Ankara, 2005) 125-130 .

"The Mother Goddess between Thrace and Phrygia," Thracia 15 (Sofia 2003) 161-167.

"A Latin Epitaph from Gordion," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 141 (2002) 215-220; co-authored with Andrew Goldman.

"The Anatolian Cult of Sabazios," Ancient Journeys: A Festschrift in Honor of Eugene Numa Lane, (c. 2002) http://www.stoa.org/lane/.

"The Phrygian Mother Goddess and her Thracian Connections," Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Thracology, ed. A. Fol (Sofia 2002) 683-694.

"The Origin of Non-Greek Letters in the Phrygian Alphabet: the Evidence from Gordion," The Asia Minor Connexion, ed. Yoël Arbeitman. Orbis Supplementa 10 (2000): 195-204.

"Early Phrygian Drawings from Gordion and the Elements of Phrygian Artistic Style," Anatolian Studies 49 (1999) 1-10.

 

Abstracts

"Early Phrygian Drawings at Gordion and the Creation of a Phrygian Visual Identity," American Journal of Archaeology 106 (2002) 275.

 

Book Reviews

Review of M. G. Lancelotti, Attis between Myth and History: King, Priest, and God (Brill 2001), in Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews 8.5 (2003).

Review of Anatolian Votive Steles, by T. Drew-Bear, C. Thomas, and M. Yildizturan (Ankara 1999), in American Journal of Archaeology 105 (April 2001), 368-369.

Review of The Eye Expanded: Life and the Arts in Greco-Roman Antiquity, ed. F. Titchener and R. Moorton (University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles 1999), in Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews 9.5 (1998) 472-476

 

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