Dr Ruth Westgate
Proceedings of a Conference held at Cardiff University, 17–21 April 2001. British School at Athens Studies 15.
Ruth Westgate, Nick Fisher and James Whitley (eds) (British School at Athens) 2007
This volume explores a range of approaches to the built environment of the ancient Mediterranean world, with two main aims: first, to relate archaeological evidence to the wider cultural and historical context, and second, to bridge the conventional divide between prehistoric and Classical archaeology. It contains 40 papers by an international array of scholars, ranging from the Neolithic to Late Antiquity, and geographically from the Aegean to Italy, North Africa, Egypt and the Black Sea.
Journal articles and chapters in books
‘Space and social complexity in Greece from the Early Iron Age to the Classical period’, Hesperia (forthcoming)
‘Making yourself at home in the Hellenistic world’, in S. Ager and R. Faber (eds.), Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World, Phoenix Supplement (University of Toronto Press, in press)
‘Mosaics, Roman Empire’, in R. Bagnall et al. (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Blackwell, in press)
‘Mosaics’, in T.J. Smith and D. Plantzos (eds.), A Companion to Greek Art (Blackwell, 2012) 186–199
‘Party animals: the imagery of status, power and masculinity in Greek mosaics’, in S.D. Lambert (ed.), Sociable Man. Essays in Greek Social Behaviour in Honour of Nick Fisher (Classical Press of Wales, 2011) 291–322
‘Interior decoration in Hellenistic houses: context, function and meaning’, in S. Ladstätter and V. Scheibelreiter (eds.), Städtisches Wohnen im östlichen Mittelmeerraum, 4. Jh. v. Chr.–1. Jh. n. Chr. Akten des Internationalen Kolloquiums des Instituts für Kulturgeschichte der Antike der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, 24.–27. Oktober 2007, Archäologische Forschungen (Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2010) 497–528
‘Life’s rich pattern: decoration as evidence for room function in Hellenistic houses’, in R. Westgate, N. Fisher and J. Whitley (eds.), Building Communities: House, Settlement and Society in the Aegean and Beyond (2007) 313–321
‘House and society in Classical and Hellenistic Crete: a case study in regional variation’, American Journal of Archaeology 111 (2007) 423–457
‘The Greek house and the ideology of citizenship’, World Archaeology 39.2 (June 2007): The Archaeology of Equality (ed. R. Osborne): 229–245
‘Hellenistic mosaics’, in D. Ogden (ed.), The Hellenistic World: New Perspectives (Duckworth/Classical Press of Wales, 2002) 221–251
‘Pavimenta atque emblemata vermiculata: Regional styles in Hellenistic mosaic and the first mosaics at Pompeii’, American Journal of Archaeology 104 (2000) 255–275
‘Space and decoration in Hellenistic houses’, Annual of the British School at Athens 95 (2000) 391–426
‘Genre and originality in Hellenistic mosaics’, Mosaic 26 (1999) 16–25
‘Greek mosaics in their architectural and social context’, R.F. Docter and E.M. Moormann (eds.), Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Amsterdam 1998, Allard Pierson series vol. 12 (1999) 456–458
‘Greek mosaics in their architectural and social context’, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 42 (1997/98) 93–115
I have also published book reviews in various journals, including the American Journal of Archaeology, Journal of Hellenic Studies, Journal of Roman Studies, Classical Review, Britannia, Bryn Mawr Classical Review and the Times Higher.
In preparation
Greek Mosaics of the Classical and Hellenistic Periods. Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology
bibliography on ancient mosaics, for Oxford Bibliographies Online
‘Slavery and the use of space in Classical Greek houses’
‘Living in the past? Tradition, society and the built environment in Classical and Hellenistic Crete’
‘Classicism in Hellenistic mosaics: a contextual study’