Dr Amelia Brown

Senior Lecturer in Greek History and Language and Director R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum

+61 7 336 53321

a.brown9@uq.edu.au

Building (1) Forgan Smith Room E321

Researcher biography

Dr. Amelia R. Brown is Senior Lecturer in Greek History & Language in the Classics & Ancient History discipline of the School of Historical & Philosophical Inquiry, at the University of Queensland, Australia. She currently holds a Discovery Early Career Research Award from the ARC to research the impact of sailors and travellers on the development of ancient Greek religion and identity. Before coming to UQ in 2010, she was Hannah Seeger Davis Fellow in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. In 2008 she received her PhD in Ancient History & Mediterranean Archaeology from the University of California at Berkeley, with a dissertation on the history of Corinth in Late Antiquity. Her current research focuses on Late Antiquity, Greek religion and Mediterranean maritime history, particularly in Roman Corinth, Thessaloniki and Malta. 'She has excavated at Halasarna (Kos), Polis (Cyprus), Ancient Messene and Corinth, and is currently completing books on Corinthian history and Mediterranean Maritime Religion.

Featured projects	Duration
Like frogs around a pond: Maritime Religion and Seafaring Gods of Ancient Greek Culture ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award	2014–2018
ANCH2050 UQ Ancient World Study Tour - January 6-26, 2020	2020
Exhibits in Minutes: Stories from the RD Milns Antiquities Museum	2020
The Real Santa Claus	2020
Corinth in Late Antiquity

Publications

Books (2)

Book Chapters (14)

Journal Articles (12)

Conference Paper (1)

Books

Brown, Amelia R. (2018). Corinth in late antiquity: a Greek, Roman and christian city. London, United Kingdom: I.B. Tauris. doi: 10.5040/9781350985865

McWilliam, Janette, Donaldson, James, Brown, Amelia, Christou, Sandra and Powell, Judith (2015). Cyprus: An Island and a People. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

Book Chapters

Brown, Amelia R. and de Jonge, Nile (2023). Saviour mermaids of the ancient mediterranean: Thetis and the nereids as patrons of ancient Greek mariners. The Staying Power of Thetis: Allusion, Interaction, and Reception from Homer to the 21st Century. (pp. 315-338) Berlin, Germany: Walter de Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110678437-014

Brown, Amelia (2018). Introduction. Byzantine culture in translation . (pp. 1-7) edited by Amelia Robertson Brown and Bronwen Neil. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004349070_002

Brown, Amelia (2016). Corinth. The last statues of antiquity. (pp. 174-189) edited by R. R. R. Smith and Bryan Ward-Perkins. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

Brown, Amelia R. (2016). Messene (city and region). The encyclopedia of ancient history. (pp. 1-2) Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah30155

Brown, Amelia R. (2016). Crosses, Noses, walls, and wells: Christianity and the fate of sculpture in late antique Corinth. The afterlife of Greek and Roman sculpture: late antique responses and practices. (pp. 150-176) edited by Troels Myrup Kristensen and Lea Stirling. Ann Arbor, MI, United States: University of Michigan Press.

Brown, Amelia R. (2013). Remembering Thermopylae and the Persian Wars in Antiquity. Beyond the Gates of Fire: New Perspectives on the Battle of Thermopylae. (pp. 100-116) edited by Christopher A. Matthew and Matthew Trundle. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Pen & Sword Military.

Brown, Amelia R. (2013). Psalmody and Socrates: female literacy in the Byzantine Empire. Questions of Gender in Byzantine Society. (pp. 57-76) edited by Bronwen Neil and Lynda Garland. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing.

Brown, Amelia R. (2012). Malta. The encyclopedia of ancient history. (pp. 1-2) Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah16217

Brown, Amelia R. (2012). Peloponnese. The encyclopedia of ancient history. (pp. 1-1) Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah14249

Brown, Amelia R. (2012). Performance and reception of Greek tragedy in the early medieval Mediterranean. Intercultural transmission in the medieval Mediterranean. (pp. 146-162) edited by Stephanie L. Hathaway and David W. Kim. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic.

Brown, Amelia R. (2012). Patrai. The encyclopedia of ancient history. (pp. 1-2) Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah14248

Robertson Brown, Amelia (2011). Banditry or catastrophe?: History, archaeology, and barbarian raids on Roman Greece. Romans, barbarians, and the transformation of the Roman world : cultural interaction and the creation of identity in late antiquity. (pp. 79-96) edited by Ralph W. Mathisen and Danuta R. Shanzer. Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing. doi: 10.4324/9781315606880-13

Brown, Amelia (2010). Justinian, Procopius, and deception: Literary lies, imperial politics, and the archaeology of sixth-century Greece. Private and public lies: The discourse of despotism and deceit in the Graeco-Roman world. (pp. 355-369) edited by Andrew J. Turner, James H. Kim On Chong-Gossard and Frederik Juliaan Vervaet.. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/ej.9789004187757.i-439.81

Brown, Amelia Robertson (2006). Hellenic Heritage and Christian Challenge: Conflict over Panhellenic Sanctuaries in Late Antiquity. Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions & Practices. (pp. 309-320) edited by H. A. Drake, Emily Albu and Jacob Latham. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

Journal Articles

Deforest, Dallas and Brown, Amelia R. (2023). Corinth in Late Antiquity: A Greek, Roman and Christian City. Church History, 92 (3), 683-685. doi: 10.1017/S000964072300238X

Brown, Amelia R. (2023). Reuse of the Ancient Urban Landscape in Late Antique Athens, Corinth, and Southern Greece. Archaeology of the Mediterranean During Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 70-93.

Brown, Amelia Robertson (2021). Antiquarian knights in Mediterranean island landscapes: the Hospitaller Order of St John and crusading among the ruins of classical antiquity, from medieval Rhodes to early modern Malta. Journal of Medieval History, 47 (3), 413-432. doi: 10.1080/03044181.2021.1930446

Brown, Amelia R. (2019). Review of: Hawes, G. (ed.) Myths on the Map. The Storied Landscapes of Ancient Greece. Pp. xviii + 332, ills, maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Classical Review, 69 (2), 618-621. doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000295

Brown, Amelia R. (2019). Archaeological Evidence for the Missions of St Paul. Lindisfarne: Abbey Museum Friends Magazine (4), 16-18.

Brown, Amelia R. (2017). Review: Epiphanius of Cyprus: A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity, by Andrew S. Jacobs. Studies in Late Antiquity, 1 (3), 315-318. doi: 10.1525/sla.2017.1.3.315

Brown, Amelia Robertson (2016). Review of 'Shipsheds of the Ancient Mediterranean' by Blackman (D.), Rankov (B.). The Classical Review, 66 (1), 169-171. doi: 10.1017/S0009840X15001729

Brown, Amelia Robertson (2012). Medieval pilgrimage to Corinth and Southern Greece. HEROM: Journal on Hellenistic and Roman Material Culture, 1 (1), 197-223. doi: 10.11116/herom.1.8

Brown, Amelia (2012). Bread, wine and crucifiction: crime and punishment in Diocletian's edict on maximum prices. Nova, November, 13-14.

Brown, Amelia (2012). Seafaring saviour goddess of the ancient Mediterranean. Nova, April, 13-16.

Brown, Amelia R. (2012). Last Men Standing: Chlamydatus Portraits and Public Life in Late Antique Corinth. Hesperia, 81 (1), 141-176. doi: 10.2972/hesperia.81.1.0141

Brown, Amelia Robertson (2010). Islands in a sea of change? Continuity and abandonment in Dark Age Corinth and Thessaloniki. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 14 (2), 230-240. doi: 10.1007/s10761-010-0103-0

Conference Paper

Brown, Amelia Robertson (2011). Archbishops, generals and governors between east and west in early Byzantine Greece. Fifteenth Biennial Conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, Sydney, Australia, February 2008. Virginia, Qld., Australia: Australian Association for Byzantine Studies.

Areas of research

Late Antiquity

Social and Cultural History of the Greco-Roman World