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IAN RUTHERFORD
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING FORTHCOMING ITEMS
BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES
Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture: Travel, Locality, and Pan-hellenism CUP 2009, collection of
essays edited with R. Hunter
Anatolian Interfaces: Hittites, Greeks and their neighbours : proceedings of an International Conference on
Cross-cultural Interaction, September 17-19, 2004 collection of essays edited with Mary Bachvarova
and Billie-Jean Collins) (Oxford, 2007)
Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religion 6 (2006) (a collection of eight papers on Greek religion and the
Near East; I was guest editor)
Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity. Seeing the Gods, co-edited with Jas Elsner
(Oxford, 2005)
Pindar's Paeans: a Reading of the Fragments with a Survey of the Genre (Oxford, 2001)
Canons of Style in the Antonine Age: the Theory of "ideai" and its Literary Context (Oxford, 1998)
The Census List P.Oxy.984a (= P.Oxy.841 Recto). The Reverse of Pindar's Paeans, with Prof. R. Bagnall
and Prof. B. Frier (Papyrologica Bruxellensia 29) (Leiden, 1998)
FORTHCOMING BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES
Hittite Texts and the Origins of Greek Religion: Gods, Myths and Rituals at the Aegeo-Anatolian Interface
(Contract with OUP)
Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greece, collection of essays edited with S. Hitch (contract with CUP)
Oxford Readings in Pindar and Bacchylides (Contract with OUP)
Oxford Readings in Greek Lyric Poetry (Contract with OUP)
FURTHER PLANNED VOLUMES
Theoria. State-Pilgrimage in Ancient Greece
Aegypto-Graeca. Literary Interactions between Greece and Egypt, 700BC-300AD,
conference held at Reading in 2007
papers from a
Polis Religion: Inside/Outside, with J. Bremmer and M. Gaifman, papers from a conference at Reading 2008.
Luvian Religious Texts, Multi-volume set of texts and commentaries, with Alice Mouton
ARTICLES AND NOTES (NOT INCLUDING ABOUT TWENTY EARLIER ITEMS, MOSTLY FROM BEFORE 1995)
2009
"Black Sails to Achilles. Pilgrimage and Initiation in Philostratus' Heroicus", in E. Bowie and J. Elsner edd.,
Philostratus (Cambridge, 2009)**
"Aristodama and the Aetolians. An Itinerant Poetess and her Agenda", in R. Hunter and I. Rutherford edd.,
Wandering Poets in Ancient Greece Culture (Cambridge, 2009)
2008
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"'When you go to the meadow, do not pull the cord'. The performance of the taptara-women in the Hittite
funerary ritual", A. Suter ed., Lament Studies in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond (NewYork,
2008), 53-69
Review of Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Encountering the Sacred The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late
Antiquity, Material Religion 4 (2008) pp. 106-107(2)
2007
"The Song of the Zintuhis. Chorus and Ritual in Anatolia and Greece", forthcoming in B.-J. Collins, M.
Bachvarova and I. C. Rutherford edd., Anatolian Interfaces (Oxford, 2007), 73-84**
"Network Theory and Theoric Networks", Mediterranean Historical Review 22 (2007), 23-37 (reprinted in I.
Malkin, C. Constantakopoulou, K. Panagopoulou, Greek and Roman Networks in the Mediterranean
(London : 2009)
"Trouble in Snake Town. Interpreting an oracle from Hierapolis-Pamukkale", in S. Swain etc. edd., Severan
Culture (Cambridge, 2007)
"Achilles and the Sallis Wastais Ritual. Performing Death in Greece and Anatolia", in N. Laneri ed.,
Performing Death. Social Analyses of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Near East and
Mediterranean" (Chicago, 2007), 229-242
"Theoria and Theatre at Samothrace. The Dardanos of Dymas", in P. Wilson ed., The Greek Theatre and
Festivals Documentary Studies (Oxford, 2007), 279-293
Review article of J. Latacz Troy and Homer and M. Finkelberg, Greeks and Pre-Greeks, in JHS 127, 2007,
154-5
Also, one
2006
"Religion at the Greco-Anatolian Interface. The Case of Caria", in M. Hutter and S. Hutter-Braunsar edd.,
Pluralismus und Wandel in den Religionen im vorhellenistschen Anatolien (Münster, 2006), 137-144
Review, P. Perlman City and Sanctuary in Ancient Greece. The Theorodokia in the Peloponnese.
(Hypomnemata 121.) Pp. 327. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2000. Paper, €54. ISBN 3-52525218-8, The Classical Review 56 (2006), 408-409
2005
"Down-Stream to the Cat-Goddess: Herodotus on Egyptian Pilgrimage", in J. Elsner and I. Rutherford edd.,
Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity. Seeing the Gods (Oxford, 2005), 131-150
"The Dance of the Wolf-men of Ankuwa. Networks, Amphictionies and Pilgrimage in Hittite Religion",
Acts of the 5th international Congress of Hittitology (Ankara, 2005), 623-640
"Mestra at Athens: Ps.Hesiod fr.43M-W and Poetics of Panhellenism", in R. L. Hunter, The Hesiodic
catalogue of women : constructions and reconstructions (Cambridge, 2005)
"Andros at Delphi. CID1.7 and Insular Theoria”, in The Greek Islands and the Sea: Proceedings of the
International Colloquium held at RHUL, 21-22 September 2001, ed. C. Dendrinos, J. Chryostomidies
and J. Harris (London, 2005 [March 17th]), 59-75
"In a Virtual Wild Space. Pilgrimage and Rite de Passage from Delphi from Sabarimalai”, in Greek
Ritual Poetics, ed. D. Yatromanolakis, P. Roilos edd. (Cambridge, Mass, 2005), 323-338
2004
"The Keian Theoria to Delphi: Neglected Data from the Accounts of the Delphic Naopoioi (CID2.1-28)",
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 147 (2004), 107-114
"Women Singers and the Religious Organisation of Hatti. On the Interpretation of CTH235.1,
CTH235.2 and Other Texts", M. Hutter and S. Hutter-Braunsar edd. Offizielle Religion, lokale
Kulte und individuelle Religiosität : Akten des religionsgeschichtlichen Symposiums "Kleinasien und
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angrenzende Gebiete vom Beginn des 2. bis zur des 1. Jahrtausends v. Chr." (Bonn, 20.-22. Februar
2003 (Münster, 2004), 377-394**
"Theoria and the Olympic Games. A Neglected Aspect of Ancient Athletics", in M. A. Kaila, G. Thill, H.
Theodoropoulou, Y. Xanthacou edd., Hue Kue. Oi Olumpakoi Agones sten Arkhaioteta. The Olympic
Games in antiquity. Bring Forthg Rain and Bear Fruit (Athens 2004), 171-183
"Khoros heis ek tesde tes poleos: State-Pilgrimage and Song-Dance in Athens”, P. Murray, P. Wilson edd.,
Music and the Muses: the Culture of "Mousike" in the Classical Athenian City (Oxford, 2004), 67-90
2003
"Pilgrimage in Greco-Roman Egypt: New Perspectives on Graffiti from the Memnonion at Abydos", in R.
Matthews, C. Roemer edd., Ancient Perspectives on Egypt (London, 2003), 171-189
"The prosodion : approaches to a lyric genre", Studi di filologia e tradizione greca in memoria di Aristide
Colonna, edd. F. Benedetti and S. Grandolini. Naples, 2003. 2 vol. : 713-726.
2002
"Lycian-Greek Bilingualism: Filiation-Formulas and Other Forms of Interference", in Bilingualism in
Ancient Society. Language Contact and the Written Word, ed. J. Adams, M. Janse, M. Swain (Oxford,
2002)", 197-219
"The Captivity of Nanoufesakhme (Pap.Saqqara 1). The Influence of Demotic Fiction on the Greek Novel
(Again!)", International conference on Demotic literature, Ordia Prima 1 (2002), 141-4
2001
"The Song of the Sea (SA A-AB-BA SIR3). Thoughts on KUB 45.63", Akten des IV. International
Kongresses für Hethitologie, Würzburg, 4.-8. Oktober 1999, ed. G. Wilhelm (Wiesbaden, 2001), 598609
"Catalogues of Women: Formulas, Voice and Death in Ehoie-Poetry, the Hesiodic Gunaikon Katalogos and
the Odysseian Nekuia", Matrices of Genre, ed. M. Depew and D. Obbink (Cambridge, MA, 2001), 8196
"Paeans at Ptolemais", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 135 (2001), 41-4
2000
"The Genealogy of the Boukoloi: How Greek Literature Appropriated an Egyptian Narrative Motif”,
Journal of Hellenic Studies 120 (2000), 106-121
"Theoria and Darshan: Pilgrimage as Gaze in Greece and India”, Classical Quarterly 50 (2000), 133-46
“Tourism and the Sacred. Pausanias and the Pilgrimage Culture of the Antonine Age”, in Pausanias. Travel
and Imagination in Roman Greece, ed. S. Alcock and J. Elsner (New York, 2000), 40-52
1999
"To the Land of Zeus. Patterns of Pilgrimage in Aelius Aristides", Aevum Antiquum 12 (1999), 133-148
1998
“The Island at the Edge. Space, Language and Power in the Pilgrimage Traditions of Philai” in Pilgrimage
and Holy-Space in Late Antique Egypt, ed. D. Frankfurter (Leiden, 1998), 229-256
"Theoria as Theatre: The Pilgrimage Theme in Greek Drama", Papers of the Leeds Latin Seminar 10
(1998), 131-156
"The Amphikleidai of Sicilian Naxos : Pilgrimage and Genos in the Temple Inventories of Delos. ZPE 1998
122 : 81-89.
1997
"For the Aeginetans . . . a Prosodion: An Unnoticed Title at Pindar, Paean 6 And Its Significance for the
Poem", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 118 (1997), 1-18
"Theoric Crisis: The Dangers of Pilgrimage in Greek Religion and Society", Studi e Materiali di Storia delle
Religioni, 61 (1995), 276-292 (appeared in 1997)
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"Odes and Ends: Closure in Greek Lyric Poetry", in Classical Closure. Reading the End in Greek and Latin
Literature, edd. D. Roberts, F. Dunn and D. Fowler (Princeton, 1997), 43-61
"Kalasiris and Setne Khamwas : a Greek novel and some Egyptian models", ZPE 1997 117 : 203-209.
1996
"Pindarus Armenicus. Paean IX, 1-10 as Transmitted in Philo, De Providentia 2, 98Aucher", Zeitschrift für
Papyrologie und Epigraphik 112 (1996), 37-46.
"The New Simonides: Towards a Commentary", in The New Simonides, ed. D. Boedeker and D. Sider [=
Arethusa 29] (Baltimore, 1996), 167-192; a second edition of this paper appeared in The New
Simonides. Contexts of Praise and Desire, edd.,. D. Boedeker and D. Sider (New York, 2001), 33-54
1995
"The Nightingale's Refrain. P.Oxy.2625 = SLG 460", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 107
(1995), 39-43; reprinted in G. Nagy ed. Greek Literature (New York, 2002).
SOME FORTHCOMING ARTICLES
"Bilingualism in Roman Egypt? Phrates of Narmouthis and the Origin of Coptic", in T. Evans ed., Buried
Linguistic Treasure (Oxford, 2009)
"Canonizing the Pantheon. The Dodekatheon in Greek Religion and its Origins", forthcoming in J. Bremmer,
A. Erskine edd, The Greek Gods (Edinburgh, 2009)
"The Koan-Delian Ritual Complex. Apollo and Theoria in a Sacred Law from Kos", in L. Athanassaki, R. P.
Martin and J. F. Miller. Apolline Politics and Poetics (Athens, 2009)
"The Thearion of the Pythian One. The Aeginetan Thearoi in Context", in D. Fearn ed., Poetry and Politics
on Aegina (Oxford, probably 2009)
"Hesiod and the Literary Traditions of the Near East", in The Brill Companion to Hesiod (Leiden, 2009)
"The Catalogue of Women within Greek Epic Tradition. Some possible cases of Intertextuality",
forthcoming in a CUP volume on early epic;
"'Songs Full of Affects and Change'. The Dithyramb and Dithyrambic Discourse at Rome", in B. Kowalzig
and P. Wilson, The Dithyramb in Ancient Culture (OUP)
"On the Impossibility of Centaurs: The Reception of Pindar in the Roman Empire", in the proceedings of the
2006 UCL Pindar conference
"Mycenaean Religion" in the Cambridge History of Ancient Religions (10,000 words)
"Zeus Amun and the Ram. Egyptian Epiphanies and Greek Perceptions of Them", in G. Petridou and V.
Platt edd., Epiphanies in Ancient Religion (Leiden)
"Egyptian Chorality and Plato's Comparative Poetics", for a forthcoming volume on Plato's Laws
"Greek Elegiac and Lyric Poetry", annotated bibliography for Oxford Bibliographies Online (16,000 words)