Publications

Books

• Newby, Zahra ed. (2023) The Material Dynamics of Festivals in the Graeco-Roman EastLink opens in a new window. Oxford University Press.
• Newby, Zahra and Toulson, Ruth, E. eds. (2018) The Materiality of Mourning. Cross-disciplinary PerspectivesLink opens in a new window. Routledge.
• Newby, Zahra (2016) Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture: Imagery, values and identity in Italy, 50 BC - AD 150Link opens in a new window. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Newby, Zahra and Leader-Newby, Ruth E., (2007) eds., Art and Inscriptions in the Ancient World. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521868518.
• Newby, Zahra (2006) Athletics in the Ancient World Classical world series. Bristol: Bristol Classical Press. ISBN 9781853996887
• Newby, Zahra (2005) Greek Athletics in the Roman World. Victory and Virtue (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Articles and Book Chapters

• Newby, Zahra (2025) ‘Battle narratives for the Roman dead: perspectives on death and grief from the Trojan War’, in A. König and N. Wiater eds., Visualising War across the Ancient Mediterranean. Interplay between conflict narratives in different media and genres. (Routledge). 197-216.
• Newby, Zahra (2024) 'Athletes in the city: the dynamics of inscribed victory statues in Roman Asia Minor', Nikephoros. Zeitschrift fur Sport und Kultur im Altertum 30: 91-124.
• Newby, Zahra and Calomino, D. (2022) 'The Materiality of Greek Festivals in the Roman East: the view from Perge', Asia Minor. An International Journal of Archaeology in Turkey 2: 41-54.
• Newby, Zahra (2022) 'Retelling Greek Myths on Roman Sarcophagi'. In: Smith, R. S. and Trzaskoma, S. M. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography. (Oxford University Press). 508-525.
• Newby, Zahra (2021) 'Depicted lives : the role of the visual arts in sophistic self-representation'. In: de Temmerman, K., (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Ancient Biography. (Oxford University Press)
• Newby, Zahra (2021) ‘Greek festivals in the Hellenistic era’ and ‘Greek Festivals and Events in the Roman Era’ in T. Scanlon & A. Futrell eds., Oxford Handbook of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World. (Oxford University Press).
• Newby, Zahra (2017) 'Performing the Past: Salamis, Naval Contests and the Athenian Ephebeia', In: T. M. Dijkstra et al eds., Strategies of Remembering in Greece under Rome (Sidestone Press, Leiden, 2017)Link opens in a new window 83-95.
• Newby, Zahra. (2015) 'Roman art and Spectacle’ in B. Borg ed., Blackwell Companion to Roman Art Link opens in a new window(Wiley-Blackwell). 552-568
• Newby, Zahra (2014) Poems in stone : reading mythological sarcophagi through Statius’ consolationsLink opens in a new window. In: Elsner, J. and Meyer, M., (eds.) Art and rhetoric in Roman culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Newby, Zahra. (2012) The aesthetics of violence : myth and danger in Roman domestic landscapesLink opens in a new window. Classical Antiquity, Volume 31 (Number 2). pp. 349-389. ISSN 0278-6656
• Newby, Zahra (2011) Displaying myth for Roman eyesLink opens in a new window. In: Dowden, Ken, 1950- and Livingstone, Niall, (eds.) A companion to Greek mythology. Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture . Malden, Mass. ; Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell,, pp. 265-281. ISBN 9781405111782
• Newby, Zahra (2011) In the guise of gods and heroes : portrait heads on Roman mythological sarcophagiLink opens in a new window. In: Elsner, Jaś and Huskinson, Janet, (eds.) Life, death and representation : some new work on Roman sarcophagi. Millennium-Studien (No.29). Berlin ; New York: De Gruyter, pp. 189-227. ISBN 9783110202137
• Newby, Zahra (2011) Myth and death : Roman mythological sarcophagLink opens in a new windowi. In: Dowden, Ken, 1950- and Livingstone, Niall, (eds.) A companion to Greek mythology. Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture . Malden, Mass. ; Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell,, pp. 301-318. ISBN 9781405111782
• Newby, Zahra (2009) Absorption and erudition in Philostratus' ImaginesLink opens in a new window. In: Bowie, Ewen and Elsner, Jaś, (eds.) Philostratus. Greek culture in the Roman world. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521827201
• Newby, Zahra (2008) A Review of: Roman Eyes. Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text by Elsner, JLink opens in a new window. Classical Review, Vol.58 (No.2). pp. 420-422. ISSN 0009-840X
• Newby, Zahra (2003) Art and Identity in Asia MinorLink opens in a new window. In: Scott, Sarah and Webster, Jane, (eds.) Roman imperialism and provincial art. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521805926
• Newby, Zahra. (2002) Greek athletics as Roman spectacle: the mosaics from Ostia and RomeLink opens in a new window. British School at Rome. Papers, Vol. 70 . pp. 177-203. ISSN 2045-239X
• Newby, Zahra (2002) Reading Programs in Graeco-Roman Art: reflections on the Spada reliefsLink opens in a new window. In: Fredrick, David, (ed.) The Roman gaze : vision, power, and the body. Arethusa books . Baltimore ; London: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801869617

Forthcoming

• Newby, Z. ‘Representations in the Arts: Re-imagining Myth in the Visual Arts’, in C. Lopez-Ruiz ed., A Cultural History of Western Myth in Antiquity (Bloomsbury) In Press.

• Newby, Z. ‘Reading allegories on Roman Sarcophagi: Centaurs as emblems of family values’, in J. Grethlein and B. Kruchio eds., Reading between divides: imperial allegory, its cultural contexts and intermedial entanglement.
• Newby, Z. ‘Celebrating Pythia: Hellenic culture and civic identity in festivals at Hierapolis, Side and Perge’, in E. Bowie and C. Maciver eds., The Fabric of Hellenism (Edinburgh University Press).
• Newby, Z. ‘Experiencing Festivals through Visual Art: The Patras Mosaic and its Festival’, in X. Buxton, E. Csapo and Z. Newby eds., Experiencing Festivals in Ancient Greece.

Public Engagement Articles

Z. Newby, (2026) 'Gladiators in the Roman East', Omnibus 91.

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