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Name Naoise Mac Sweeney
Position Professor
Institutional Affiliation The University of Leicester
Latitude 52.622565
Longitude -1.124861
Research Interests

Ancient History, Ancient Greece, Near East, Turkey, cultural history, identities, archaeology, heritage, antiquity and politics, Iron Age to Classical periods in the ancient Greek world and Anatolia, politics of reception and heritage

Websites https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/people/academics/mac_sweeney
Publications

Books:
2018. Troy: Myth, City, Icon. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

2018 (with Jan Haywood) Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War: Dialogues with Tradition. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

2015 (ed.) Foundation Myths in Ancient Societies: Dialogues and Discourses. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

2013. Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2011. Community Identity and Archaeology: Dynamic communities at Aphrodisias and Beycesultan. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Articles and book chapters
in press: 'Failed nostoi and foundations: Kalchas at Kolophon', in G. Biffis and S. Hornblower eds. Nostoi: Traditions about Mediterranean Settlement. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

in press: 'Herodotus and the 1919-1922 Greco-Turkish War', in J. Skinner and T. Harrison (ads) Herodotus in the Long Nineteenth Century.

with P.S. Wells, in press: 'Edges and Interactions Beyond Europe.' in C. Haselgrove, P.S. Wells and K. Rebay-Salisbury (eds) The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2017: 'Separating Fact from Fiction in the Ionian Migration', Hesperia 38: 379-421.

2017: 'Section 9: Artefacts from Kilise Tepe, 2007-2011', in J.N. Postgate (ed.) Excavations at Kilise Tepe 2007-2012: The Late Bronze and Iron Ages. Cambridge: MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. Digital publication.

2017: with T.E. Şerifoğlu: 'Never the Same River Twice: The Göksu Valley Through the Ages', in Y. Heffron, A. Stone and M. Worthington (eds) At the Dawn of History. Near Eastern Studies in Honour of J.N. Postgate. 335-354. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

2017: with T.E. Şerifoğlu and C. Colantoni: 'Lower Göksu Archaeological Salvage Survey: The Fourth Season', Anatolica 43: 1-13.

2016: with T.E. Şerifoğlu, A. Collar, C. Colantoni and S. Eve: 'Lower Göksu Archaeological Salvage Survey Project: The Third Season', Anatolica 42: 1-17

2016: ‘Anatolian-Aegean connectivity in the Early Iron Age’, in B. Molloy (ed.) Scales and Modes of Interaction Between Prehistoric Aegean Societies and their Neighbours. Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology, 411-434. Oxford: Oxbow.

2016: 'Connectivity and Globalization in the Bronze Age of Anatolia', in T. Hodos (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Globalization and Archaeology, 855-870. London and New York: Routledge.

2015: with T.E. Şerifoğlu and C. Colantoni: 'Lower Göksu Archaeological Salvage Survey Project: The Second Season', Anatolica 41: 177-189.

2015: ‘Violence and the Ionian Migration: Representation and Reality’, in Ç. Maner, K. Kopanias and N. Stampolidis (eds) Nostoi: Indigenous Culture, Migration and Integration in the Aegean Islands and Western Anatolia during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, 217-237. Istanbul: Koç University Press.

2014: with T.E. Şerifoğlu and C. Colantoni: 'The Lower Göksu Archaeological Salvage Survey', Anatolica 40: 71-92.

2013: 'Autour des mythes de fondation de Chios et de Samos', in O. Mariaud (ed.) Communautés nouvelles dans l'Antiquité grecque. Mouvements, intégrations et représentations, 155-175. Bordeaux: Ausonius.

2012: ‘A Land without Autochthons: Anatolian archaeology in the early twentieth century’. In M. Seymour, C. Glatz, A. Fletcher, R. Matthews, S. Simpson and J. Tubb (eds) Seventh International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 12th-16th April 2010,63-72. Oxford: Oxbow Press.

2011: ‘Strange and Estranged: Perceiving cultural contacts in Late Bronze Age – Early Iron Age Anatolia’, in K. Duisterrnaat and I. Regulski (eds) Intercultural Contacts in the Ancient Mediterranean. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 202, 67-77. Leuven: Peeters.

2010: ‘Hittites and Arzawans: A view from western Anatolia’, Anatolian Studies 60: 7-24

2009: ‘Beyond Ethnicity: The Overlooked Diversity of Group Identities’. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 22.1: 101-126

2008: ‘The Meaning of “Mycenaean”’, in Menozzi, O., Di Marzio, M.L., and Fossataro, D. (eds) SOMA 2005. Proceedings of the IX Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, Chieti (Italy). Oxford: BAR Archaeopress.

2004: ‘Social Complexity and Population: A Study in the Early Bronze Age Aegean', Papers of the Institute of Archaeology 15: 53-66.

Some other things
2010: 'Rhetoric and Reality: the clash of civilisations from Classical Greece to today', OpenDemocracy, 'Lest We Forget' series 01/10/10.

2009: Building Better Working Relationships: Private sector engagement in post-conflict Nepal. Washington DC: Center for Global Development.

2008: Private-Sector Development in Post-Conflict Countries. Turin: International Labour Organisation.

2014: Book Review: Bronze Age Carian Iasos, by N. Momigliano. Journal of Hellenic Studies.

2014: Book Review: Materiality and Consumption in the Bronze Age Mediterranean, by L. Steel. Cambridge Archaeological Journal.

with T.E. Şerifoğlu and C. Colantoni, 2013: 'The Lower Göksu Archaeological Salvage Survey', Heritage Turkey 3: 31.

2013: Ethnicity and identity in the ancient Mediterranean world. Springer Encyclopaedia of Global Archaeology.

2013: Book Review: The New Chronology of Iron Age Gordion, edited by C.B. Rose and G. Darbyshire. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 01:51.

2012: Book Review: The Maeander Valley: A Historical Geography from Antiquity to Byzantium, by P. Thonemann. The Medieval Review.

2012: Book Review: Cultural Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean, ed. E. S. Gruen. Journal of Hellenic Studies.

2012: Book Review: The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia, ads S.R. Steadman and G. MaMahon. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 04:38.

2011: Book Review: Kinship Diplomacy in Ancient Greece, by L.E. Patterson. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 08:26.

2011: Book Review: The Prehistory of Asia Minor: From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies, by B.S. Düring. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 21:3.

2011: Book Review: Art and Identity in Dark Age Greece, 1100-700 BCE, by S. Langdon. Ancient History Bulletin 23: 91-93.

2010: 'Rhetoric and Reality: the clash of civilisations from Classical Greece to today', OpenDemocracy, 'Lest We Forget' series 01/10/10.

2010: Book Review: The New Turkish Republic: Turkey as a pivotal state in the Muslim world, by G.E. Fuller. Middle Easter Studies 44:3.

2010: Book Review: The Origins of Racism in the West, ads M. Eliav-Feldon, B. Isaac and J. Ziegler. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 01.39.

2010: Book Review: Ethnicity and Foreigners in Ancient Greece and China, by H.J. Kim. Scholia 19.7.

2010: Book Review: Anatolian Interfaces: Hittites, Greeks and their Neighbours: Proceedings of an international conference on cross-cultural interaction, September 17-19, 2004. Scholia 19.8.

2009: Book Review: Love for Lydia. A Sardis anniversary volume presented to Crawford H. Greenewalt Jr., ed. N. Cahill Bryn Mawr Classical Review 09.35.

2009: Book Review: Gräber und Grabtyphen im Bergland von Yavu (Zentrallykien), by O. Hülden. Classical Review 59.2

2009: Book Review: Celebrations: Sanctuaries and the vestiges of cult activity. Selected papers and discussions from the tenth anniversary symposium of the Norwegian Institute at Athens, 1999. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 03.42.

2009: Building Better Working Relationships: Private sector engagement in post-conflict Nepal. Washington: Center for Global Development.

2008: Private-Sector Development in Post-Conflict Countries. Turin: International Labour Organisation.

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