Reader
M.A. (Oxford), M.A. (London), Ph.D. (London)
Email: z.l.newby@warwick.ac.uk
Room: H229; tel: 02476 523023

Personal Profile:

Teaching:

Undergraduate:

• Domestic Space in the Roman World
• Art and Architecture of Asia Minor
• Roman Culture and Society
• Greek Culture and Society
• Hellenistic World

Postgraduate: 

• Taught MA in Ancient Visual and Material Culture
• Taught MA in the Visual and Material Culture of Ancient Rome

MA and PhD supervision: 

Dr Newby supervises theses on a range of aspects of ancient art, ancient athletics and the culture of the Roman Empire. Recent research topics under her supervision include:

Expressions of Cultural Identity in Roman Funerary Monuments (MA)

Art and Propaganda in the regimes of Augustus and Constantine (MA)

Egyptianising Monuments in Roman Art (MPhil/PhD)

In 2006 she was awarded the Butterworth Memorial Teaching Award by the University.

Research:

Dr Newby works on the visual arts of Roman empire. Her doctoral thesis (2000, Courtauld Institute of Art, London) studied the elite art of the middle Roman empire in its social and cultural contexts, particularly in relation to the flowering of Greek culture known as the Second Sophistic. Her monograph on Greek Athletics in the Roman World looks at the visual representation of athletic subjects in the Roman empire and the roles played by athletic activity in the self-representation of cities and individuals. She is also interested in the links between art and text: she has recently co-edited a volume on Art and Inscriptions in the Ancient World and has written a number of articles on the viewing of visual images in imperial Greek literature. Her current research examines the representation of Greek mythology in Roman art, with a particular focus on domestic and funerary contexts.

She was a member of Council for the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies from 2003 to 2006, and is currently Chair of the JACT Ancient History committee.

Recent Publications:

Books:

• Greek Athletics in the Roman World. Victory and Virtue (Oxford University Press, 2005)

• with R. Leader-Newby (eds.)  Art and Inscriptions in the Ancient World (Cambridge University Press, 2007)

• Athletics in the Ancient World (Duckworth, 2006)

Articles:

• 'Reading Programs in Graeco-Roman Art: reflections on the Spada reliefs' in The Roman Gaze. Vision, Power and the Body, ed. D. Fredrick (Baltimore, 2002), 110-48

• 'Greek athletics as Roman spectacle: the mosaics from Ostia and Rome', Papers of the British School at Rome(2002).

• 'Art and Identity in Asia Minor' in Provincial Art and Roman Imperialism eds S. Scott & J. Webster (Cambridge University Press, 2003), 192-213.

• 'Sculptural Display in the so-called Palaestra of Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli' , Römische Mitteilungen 109 (2002), 59-82.

• ‘Testing the boundaries of ekphrasis: Lucian On the Hall’, Ramus 31 (2002) 126–35  
• ‘Art History and Aesthetics’ in E. Bispham, T. Harrison and A. Snodgrass eds., Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome (Edinburgh, 2006)
• 'Landscape and Identity in the Mosaics of Antioch' in C. Adams & J. Roy eds., Travel, geography and Ancient Greece, Egypt and the Near East  (Oxbow, Oxford 2007)
• 'Art at the Crossroads? Themes and styles in Severan Art' in S. Swain, S. Harrison & J. Elsner eds., Severan Culture (Cambridge, 2007)

• 'Absorption and erudition in Philostratus' Imagines' in E. Bowie & J. Elsner eds., Philostratus (Cambridge, 2009)