PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS

BOOKS:

• Bathing in Public in the Roman World. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999.

  Paperback edition, March 2002.

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• (with Paul Murgatroyd), From Augustus to Nero: An Intermediate Latin Reader. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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• ed., Archaeological Fantasies: How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents the Past and Misleads the Public London: Routledge, 2006.

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• The Lure of the Arena: Social Psychology, Spectatorship, and the Roman Games (forthcoming)

   

• Successes, Failures and Mediocrities: Ahenobarbi and Pisones in an Age of Transiton. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (under contract, expected 2005).

PAPERS AND ARTICLES:

Roman Studies

• "Pliny Naturalis Historia 36.121 and the Number of Balnea in Early Augustan Rome." Classical Philology 88 (1993): 333-35.
• "Sergius Orata: Inventor of the Hypocaust?" Phoenix 50 (1996): 56-66 [An earlier version was delivered at the APA/AIA Annual Meeting, December 1992.]
• "The Reliability of Roman Rebuilding Inscriptions." Papers of the British School at Rome 64 (1996): 81-93.
• "Gifts of Gymnasia: A Test Case for Reading Quasi-Technical Jargon in Latin Inscriptions." Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 124 (1999): 263-75
• "Interpreting the Evidence: Did Slaves Bathe at the Baths," in D. E. Johnston and J. DeLaine (edd.), Roman Baths and Bathing (Portsmouth, RI, JRA Supplementary Series 37, 1999), 25-34.
• "Tiberius;" "Gaius (Caligula);" "Claudius;" "Tiberius Gemellus;" "Drusus Caesar;" "Nero Caesar;" "Britannicus;" "Messalina;" "Drusus Claudius Nero;" "Drusus Tiberi f.;" "Germanicus;" "Agrippinae Maior et Minor." Entries out or forthcoming in De imperatoribus Romanis. An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors (Articles at this site are peer-reviewed.)
• "Hygenic Conditions in Roman Public Baths," in G. Jansen, ed., Cura Aquarum in Sicilia (Leiden, 2000), page numbers not yet available
• "The Genesis of the Roman Public Bath: Recent Approaches and Future Directions," American Journal of Archaeology 105 (2001): 403-26.
• "Messalina's Folly," Classical Quarterly 52 (2002): 566-79.
• "Leisure," in D. Potter (ed.) The Blackwell Companion to the Roman Empire (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006): 369-84.
• "Bathing for Health with Celsus and Pliny the Elder," Classical Quarterly 56 (2006): 190-207.
• "The Social Uses of Water in the Ancient Mediterranean: Public Baths," in T. Tvedt and T. Østigård (eds), Water and Civilization, volume one, The Idea of Water. Cambridge Cambridge Univeristy Press, forthcoming.
• "Baths" and "Violence" in M. Peachin (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Social Relations, Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming

Pseudoarchaeology

• "The New Atlantis and the Dangers of Pseudohistory," Skeptic 9.1 (2001): 78-87.
• "The Shield of the Open Mind," Skeptical Inquirer August/September 2001: 67-68
• "Alternative Archaeology," in M. Shermer (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience (Santa Barbara; ABC-CLIO), forthcoming.
• "Far-Out Television," Archaeology (May/June 2003): 46-50. Reprinted in S. Pinker and T. Folger (eds), The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004), 62-8.
• "Diagnosing Pseudoarchaeology," in G. Fagan (ed.) Archaeological Fantasies: How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents the Past and Misleads the Public (London: Routledge, 2006), 24-46.
• "Concluding Observations," n G. Fagan (ed.) Archaeological Fantasies: How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents the Past and Misleads the Public (London: Routledge, 2006), 364-7.
• (with K. Feder), "Crusading Against Staw Men: An Alternative View of Alternative Archaeologies: Response to Holtorf (2005), World Archaeology 38 (2006): 718-29.

  REVIEW ARTICLES:

• "Another Helping of Roman Studies." Discusses C. DEROUX (ed.), Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History VI (Brussels: Collection Latomus 217, 1992), Scholia n.s. 3 (1994): 118-22.
• "Bathing in the Backwaters." Discusses A. FARRINGTON, The Roman Baths of Lycia: An Architectural Study (Ankara, 1995). JRA 10 (1997): 520-23.

REVIEWS:

• Review of I. NIELSEN, Thermae et Balnea. The Architecture and Cultural History of Roman Public Baths (Aarhus, 1990). Hermathena 152 (1992): 100-105.
• Review of Y. HIRSCHFELD, The Roman Baths of Hammat Gader: Final Report (Jerusalem, 1997). Archaeology Odyssey 1.4 (Fall 1998): 62-63.
• Review of C. FREEMAN, Egypt, Greece and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean (Oxford, 1996). Hermathena 166 (1999): 140-44
• Review of O. F. ROBINSON, Ancient Rome: City Planning and Administration (New York and London, 1992). EMC/CV 18 (1999): 314-19.
• Review of F. MILLAR, The Crowd in Rome in the Late Republic (Ann Arbor, 1998). EMC/CV 18 (1999): 437-41
• Review of R.C. BEACHAM, Spectacle Entertainments of Early Imperial Rome (New Haven, 1999). Comparative Drama 35 (2001-2): 465-69
• Review of A. YAKOBSON, Elections and Electioneering in Rome: A Study in the Political System of the Late Republic (Stuttgart, 1999). Phoenix 55 (2001): 187-89
• Review of J.F. HEALY, ed., Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology (Oxford, 1999). Journal of Roman Studies 91 (2001): 248-49
• Review of R.H. RODGERS (ed.), Frontinus: De Aquaeductu Urbis Romae (Cambridge, 2004). New England Classical Jounral 32 (2005): 180-82
• Review of Y. THÉBERT, Thermes romaines d'Afrique du Nord et leur contexte méditerranéen: études d'histoire et d'archéologie (Rome, 2003). Journal of Roman Studies 95 (2005): 318-19.
• Review of J.E. LENDON, Soldiers & Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquitry (New Haven, 2005). Museion: forthcoming.

PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

• Organizer and presenter, AIA Colloquium, "New Perspectives on Ancient Warfare," held at 2007 APA/AIA Annual Meeting, San Diego. Panelists: G.Fagan, M. Trundle, H. van Wees, P. Krentz, D. Potter, and N. Rosenstein.
• "Roman Arenas and Crowd Dynamics," presented at Association of Ancient Historians Annual Meeting, Stanford University, May 3006
• Chair, AIA Colloquium Session, "Amphitheater and Circus," held at 2005 APA/AIA Annual Meeting,. Boston
• Organizer and presenter, AIA Colloquium, "The Origins of Warfare: Archaeology and Ethnography," held at 2004 APA/AIA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Panelists: G.Fagan, S. Beckerman, S. LeBlanc, J. O'Connell.
• Organizer and presenter, AIA Workshop "Combatting Pseudoarchaeology," held at 2002 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia. Panelists: G. Fagan, N. Flemming, K. Feder, C. Hale, D. Redford.
• Organizer and presenter, APA/AIA Joint Session "Interpreting Roman Spectacles," held at 2001 Annual Meeting, San Diego. Panelists: K. Coleman, J. Edmondson, C. Eplett, G. Fagan, A. Futrell, K. Welch.
• "A Roman Bath Built at Sardis," poster presentation at the APA/AIA 1999 Annual Meeting
• "The Wellspring of the Roman Bath," delivered at the APA/AIA 1998 Annual Meeting.
• "Hygienic Conditions in Roman Public Baths," delivered at the Cura Aquarum, 10th International Congress on Ancient Water and Water Management, Syracuse, Sicily, May 1998
• "Visiting the Roman Baths: Splendor and Squalor," delivered at the Ohio Classical Conference, Dayton, OH, October 1997.
• Organizer and presenter, APA/AIA Joint Session "Roman Baths and Bathing Culture," held at 1995 Annual Meeting, San Diego. Panelists: C. Bruun, J. DeLaine, G. Fagan, A. Trevor Hodge, C. Simpson, F. Yegül. For abstracts, see AJA 100 (1996): 391-92.
• "The Stabian Baths at Pompeii," delivered to the Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Midwest and South, April, 1994.
• "The Stabian Baths at Pompeii: From Greek to Roman?," delivered to the Classical Association of Canada, May 1993.

PUBLIC LECTURES:

• Over two dozen appearances since 1990 at such venues as: Trinity College, Dublin; Oxford University; University of Cologne; Universtiy of Dresden; Yale University; Columbia University; University of Pennsylvania; Oberlin College; SUNY Buffalo; Colgate University; University of Minnesota; and the College of the Holy Cross.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

My second book is in the planning stages, and several articles are in preparation.

I am also in the process of setting up a World Wide Web site, Ancient Baths Resource Site.

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