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 (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., ‘Battle narratives for the Roman dead: perspectives on death and grief from the Trojan War’, in A. König and N. Wiater eds., Visualising War. Interplay between battle narratives across Antiquity. (Routledge).
• 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.

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