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Name Jeanne Reames
Position Associate Professor and Director, Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program
Institutional Affiliation Univ. Nebraska, Omaha
Latitude 41.2582497
Longitude -96.0128936
Research Interests

Argead Macedonia & Alexander the Great, Greek and Macedonian social history, Iron-age ANE, Early church

Websites https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-arts-and-sciences/history/about-us/directory/jeanne-reames.php; http://jeannereames.net/cv.html
Publications

Books

-- Macedonian Legacies: Studies on Ancient Macedonian History and Culture in honor of Eugene N. Borza, ed. with Timothy Howe (Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2008) BMCR REVIEW

Other Publications

**Published as Reames:
-- ""Appropriating Narratives of Empire: Alexander and the Destruction of the Branchidae,"" in Alexander the Great and Monarchy: Background, Context and Legacy, W. Lindsay Adams, ed. Ashgate Pub. (in process).
-- ""New Thoughts on an Old Debate: Homosexualiy Today, Homoeroticism Then,"" a letter to mainstream protestant churches regarding homosexuality. (Originally composed in 1998, the most recent revision is 2015.) Free distribution allowed, even encouraged, as long as my name stays attached.
-- ""I Choose to Fall Later,"" Red Ink, no. 16.2-17.1, spring 2013.
-- ""Why Did Alexander the Great's Empire Collapse So Soon after His Death?"" invited essay by ABC-CLIO/Praeger Publishing's ""Idea Exchange"" Database in Academic Solutions Database for World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras, 2013.
-- ""Book Review: Alexander the Great, A New History,"" Waldemar Heckel and Lawrence A. Tritle, eds., Blackwell, 2009, in The Canadian Journal of History 45.1 (2010).
-- ""The Cult of Hephaistion,"" Responses to Oliver Stone's 'Alexander,' Paul Cartledge and Fiona Greenland, eds., (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2010) 183-217.
-- ""Indeterminate Creatures,"" Native American Literatures: Generations, no. 2, summer 2010.
-- ""The Philoas Affair ... Again,"" Macedonian Legacies, Jeanne Reames and Timothy Howe, eds. (Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2009) 165-81.
-- ""Book Review: Empire of Ashes by Nicholas Nicastro,"" Amphora, American Philological Association, 6.1 (2007).
-- ""Alexander as Icon: Some Socio-Political Contexts of Alexander the Great in Twentieth-Century Fiction,"" Alexander's Empire: From Formulation to Decay, Waldemar Heckel and P. V. Wheatley, eds (Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2006) 233-44.
**Published as Reames-Zimmerman:
-- ""A History of Alexander on the Big Screen,"" Amphora, American Philological Association, 3.2 (2004).
-- ""Alexander the Great,"" ""Macedonian Ruler Cult,"" ""Theseus,"" and ""Astrology,"" Holy People of the World: an Encyclopedia, 3 vols., Phyllis Jestice, ed., Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2004.
-- ""The Mourning of Alexander the Great,"" Syllecta Classica 12 (2001) 98-145.
-- ""An Atypical Affair? Alexander the Great, Hephaistion, and the Nature of Their Relationship,"" The Ancient History Bulletin 13.3 (1999) 81-96.
-- (with Eugene N. Borza) ""Some New Thoughts on the Death of Alexander the Great,"" The Ancient World 31.1 (2000) 1-9.
-- Book Review. ""Introducing the Bible. Volume 1: the Old Testament and Intertestamental Literature,"" The Review of Biblical Literature Online for the Society of Biblical Literature
-- ""Was Alexander the Great Gay?"" Greek American Review 52.626 (Nov. 1999) 19-21.

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