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NameMelissa Dowling
PositionAssociate Professor
AffiliationSouthern Methodist University
Latitude32.8412178
Longitude-96.7867062
Research Interests

Heliodorus; clemency

Websiteshttp://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Academics/Departments/History/People/FacultyStaff/MelissaBD
Publications

"Books and Essays

Articles on Aeternitas, Clementia, Fortuna, Harpocrates, Honos, Isis in Greece and Rome, Navigium Isidis, Sarapis, Sistrum, for the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History, ed. Roger Bagnall, et al., (Wiley-Blackwell), in press.
""Time for Caesar: The Julian Calendar and Roman Politics,"" in Kathleen Wellman, ed., Making History: Essays in Honor of Ruth Sharp Altshuler (Dallas: Southern Methodist University, 2007), pp. 87-115.
""Measuring time in Ancient Egypt,"" NT-ARCE Newsletter 14.4 (2007), p. 6
Clemency and Cruelty in the Roman World, University of Michigan Press, 2006
“A Time to Regender: The Transformation of Roman Time” in Time and Uncertainty, ed. Paul A. Harris, Brill, 2004; reprinted in Kronoscope, 2003
“The Vestal Virgins of Rome” Archaeology Odyssey, 2001
“The Clemency of Sulla: Roman clemency, eternity, and immortality,” Historia, 2000 "
from http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Academics/Departments/History/People/FacultyStaff/MelissaBD on 6-14-17.

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