Research Interests
- Archaic and Classical Greek Religion
- Material Study of Religion
- Archaeology of Religion
- Greek architectural sculpture
Publications
Books
2020: Underworld Gods in Ancient Greek Religion: Death and Reciprocity, Routledge
2020: Heroines of Olympus: The Women of Greek Mythology, Welbeck Publishing
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapter
Revise and Resubmit: ‘(Re)Appraising the Parthenon Frieze: Divinespace and Mortalspace’
Resubmitted following revisions: ‘Embodied Wearing: Clothing for Artemis in Ancient Athenian Religion’
Forthcoming: ‘The Cave of Laughlessness, Sensory Deprivation, and Cognitive Depletion at Eleusis’, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies
2019: ‘Weaving for Athena: The Arrhephoroi, Panathenaia, and Mundane Acts as Religious Devotion’, Journal of Hellenic Religion 12: 61-84
2018: ‘Girls Playing Persephone (in Marriage and Death)’, Mnemosyne 71.2:209-228 (Published as Ellie Mackin)
2013: ‘Doom and Sorrow: Achilleus’s Physical Expression of Mourning in the Iliad’, Rosetta 13:111-121 (Published as Ellie Mackin)
Encyclopaedia Entries
2023: ‘Hades’ Oxford Classical Dictionary (5th edition), Oxford University Press
Digital Resources
2023: ‘Brauron Clothing Catalogue Dataset’ digital open-access dataset, with L Cleland (currently under embargo)
Articles Related to Pedagogy
2017: ‘Classics and Feminist Pedagogy: Practical Tips for Teaching’, Council of University Classics Departments Bulletin 46, with K Cook and R Fallas
2017: ‘Practical Tips for Feminist Pedagogy in Classics’, Council of University Classics Departments Bulletin 46, with K Cook and R Fallas
2017: ‘Dehierarchising the HE Classroom: An Experiment’, British Naval History (online)
2016: ‘Gaining HEA Fellowship Through Teaching Recognition’, Council of University Classics Departments Bulletin 45
Books in Preparation
- Hades, Routledge (series: Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World), (under contract, 2023)
- The Material Culture of Ancient Greek Religion: A Sourcebook (planned 2023)
- Believing, Behaving, Belonging: Personal and Public Religion in Athens and Attica (planned 2025)
Edited Collection in Preparation
- Persephone in Love: Persephone and Hades in Popular Culture, co-edited with Aimee Hinds Scott (planned 2024)
Articles and Chapters in Preparation
- ‘Procession and Representation on the Parthenon Frieze: A Haptic Response’
- ‘Pollution and Disease’, co-authored with J Lennon, A Cultural History of Blood in Antiquity, L Totelin (ed), Bloomsbury Publishing (under contract, 2023)
- ‘Dread Persephone and Lord Hades: Online Worship in Hellenic Pagan Communities, Persephone in Love: Persephone and Hades in Popular Culture, E Mackin Roberts and A Hinds Scott (eds), (planned 2024)
- ‘The Brauron Clothing Catalogue Dataset: Preliminary Analysis’