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Professor Margaret Miller
BA BrCol MA Oxf AM PhD Harvard, FAHA
Professor Emerita
Archaeology
Archaeology
Address
A18 - Brennan MacCallum Building
The University of Sydney
Margaret Miller specializes in the archaeology and material culture of the ancient Mediterranean. She publishes widely on cultural relations between first millennium BC Greece, Anatolia and the ancient Near East, especially relations within and with the Persian Empire. She has a long-standing interest in the exploitation of archaeology as a tool of social history, whether Greek drama or domestic life. Her fieldwork project focuses on the Geometric settlement of Zagora on the Cycladic island of Andros.
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- Art and archaeology of Greece, 1000-100 BC
- Greek settlement and household archaeology
- Greek iconography
- Cultural relations between ancient Greece and West Asia
- Anatolia within the Achaemenid Persian Empire
- Iconographic evidence for Persian-Greek relations
Teaching
Greek art and archaeology:
- ARCO1001 Civilisations of the Ancient World (contributions on Greece)
- ARCO2007 Ancient Greece
- ARCO3007 Minoans and Mycenaeans (Bronze Age Greece)
- ARCO3008 At Home in Ancient Greece (settlement archaeology of Greece ca. 1000-200 BC)
- ARCO3010 Greek Bodies (contributions on iconography)
- OLEO/OLET World Cultural Heritage
Supervision
Archaeology and art of Iron Age Greece within its regional context
- Zagora Archaeological Project, co-director
- The Iconographic Orientalization of Greek Myth in Attic Art
- Regional Dress in the Imperial Rhetoric of Achaemenid Persia
2012 - Corresponding Member, German Archaeological Institute (Korrespondierendes Mitglied of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut)
2011 - Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities
Selected publications
The Origins of Theater
(Cambridge University Press, 2007)
(Reprint) Athens and Persia in the fifth century BC: a study in cultural receptivity
(Cambridge University Press, 2004)
Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC: A Study in Cultural Receptivity
(Cambridge University Press, 1997)
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Publications
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Books
- Miller, M. (2004). (Reprint) Athens and Persia in the fifth century BC: a study in cultural receptivity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Miller, M. (1997). Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC: A Study in Cultural Receptivity. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.
Edited Books
- Csapo, E., Miller, M. (2007). The Origins of Theater. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Csapo, E., Miller, M. (2003). Poetry, Theory, Praxis: The Social Life of Myth, Word and Image in Ancient Greece. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Book Chapters
- Miller, M., Paspalas, S. (2021). Perserie. In Jacobs, B. and Rollinger, R (Eds.), A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire, (pp. 1447-1460). New York: Wiley.
- Miller, M. (2020). Of Thrones, Griffins and Seals: The Iconography of the Throne of the Priest of Dionysos Eleuthereus, Athens. In Elspeth R.M Dusinberre, Mark B. Garrison, Wouter Henkelman (Eds.), The Art of Empire in Achaemenid Persia: Studies in Honour of Margaret Cool Root, (pp. 485-513). Leuven: Peeters.
- Miller, M. (2017). Quoting 'Persia' in Athens. In Rolf Strootman, Miguel John Versluys (Eds.), Persianism in Antiquity, (pp. 49-67). Gottingen: Franz Steiner Verlag.
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Journals
- Alagich, R., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Miller, M., Trantalidou, K., Smith, C. (2024). Mediterranean Early Iron Age chronology: assessing radiocarbon dates from a stratified Geometric period deposit at Zagora (Andros), Greece. Antiquity. [More Information]
- Alagich, R., Trantalidou, K., Miller, M., Smith, C. (2021). Reconstructing animal management practices at Greek Early Iron Age Zagora (Andros) using stable isotopes. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 13(1), 9. [More Information]
- Liritzis, I., Miller, M., Alappat, L. (2020). THE VALUE OF OSL IN DISTINGUISHING ANCIENT FROM MORE RECENT STRUCTURES IN AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE. Scientific Culture, 6(2), 23-34. [More Information]
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Report
- Miller, M. (2011). Persians in the Greek Imagination.
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2024
- Alagich, R., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Miller, M., Trantalidou, K., Smith, C. (2024). Mediterranean Early Iron Age chronology: assessing radiocarbon dates from a stratified Geometric period deposit at Zagora (Andros), Greece. Antiquity. [More Information]
2021
- Miller, M., Paspalas, S. (2021). Perserie. In Jacobs, B. and Rollinger, R (Eds.), A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire, (pp. 1447-1460). New York: Wiley.
- Alagich, R., Trantalidou, K., Miller, M., Smith, C. (2021). Reconstructing animal management practices at Greek Early Iron Age Zagora (Andros) using stable isotopes. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 13(1), 9. [More Information]
2020
- Miller, M. (2020). Of Thrones, Griffins and Seals: The Iconography of the Throne of the Priest of Dionysos Eleuthereus, Athens. In Elspeth R.M Dusinberre, Mark B. Garrison, Wouter Henkelman (Eds.), The Art of Empire in Achaemenid Persia: Studies in Honour of Margaret Cool Root, (pp. 485-513). Leuven: Peeters.
- Liritzis, I., Miller, M., Alappat, L. (2020). THE VALUE OF OSL IN DISTINGUISHING ANCIENT FROM MORE RECENT STRUCTURES IN AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE. Scientific Culture, 6(2), 23-34. [More Information]
- Beaumont, L., Donnelly, P., Miller, M., Paspalas, S. (2020). Zagora Archaeological Project: 2019 Season. Bulletin (Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens), 16, 20-21.
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2019
- Miller, M., Paspalas, S., Beaumont, L., McLoughlin, B. (2019). Zagora archaeological project: The 2014 field season. Mediterranean Archaeology, 32-33, 217-226.
2018
- Miller, M. (2018). The Theatre of Dionysos: Throne of the Priest of Dionysos Eleuthereus. Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut. Jahrbuch, 132, 83-105.
2017
- Miller, M. (2017). Quoting 'Persia' in Athens. In Rolf Strootman, Miguel John Versluys (Eds.), Persianism in Antiquity, (pp. 49-67). Gottingen: Franz Steiner Verlag.
- Miller, M. (2017). The Persian Presence in Anatolia - An Athenian Perspective. In K. Iren, C. Karaoz, O. Kasar (Eds.), The Persians: Power and Glory in Anatolia, (pp. 270-280). Istanbul: Yapi Kredi Yayinlari.
- Miller, M. (2017). Why Nikosthenes looked east (Berlin F2324). In Elizabeth Minchi, Heather Jackson (Eds.), Text and the Material World: Essays in Honour of Graeme Clarke, (pp. 27-39). Uppsala: Astrom Editions.
2016
- Beaumont, L., Miller, M., Paspalas, S. (2016). The Zagora Archaeological Project. In Demetrios I. Polemis (Eds.), History of Andros, (pp. 203-204). Andros: Kaireios Library.
- Beaumont, L., McLoughlin, B., Miller, M., Paspalas, S. (2016). Zagora Archaeological Project: the 2013 Field Season. Mediterranean Archaeology, 27(2014), 115-121.
2015
- Beaumont, L., Miller, M., Paspalas, S. (2015). New Investigations at Zagora (Andros): The Zagora Archaeological Project 2012. Mediterranean Archaeology, 25(2012), 43-66.
- Beaumont, L., Miller, M., Paspalas, S. (2015). Zagora Archaeological Project: 2014 Season. Bulletin (Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens), 11, 12-15.
2014
- Paspalas, S., Beaumont, L., Miller, M. (2014). Zagora Archaeological Project: 2013 Season. Bulletin (Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens), 10, 12-14.
2013
- Miller, M. (2013). Clothes and Identity: The Case of Greeks in Ionia c. 400 BC. Antichthon, 47, 18-38. [More Information]
- Miller, M., Beaumont, L., Paspalas, S. (2013). The "Return" to Zagora: the 2012 Field Season. Bulletin (Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens), 9, 13-17.
- Miller, M., Holscher, T. (2013). Wealth and Social Identity, East and West: Between cultural anthropology and political ideology. In N. Zenzen, T. Holscher, K. Trampedach (Eds.), Appropriation and Demarcation. Different Perspectives on the Antithesis between East and West in Greek Antiquity. (Aneignung und Abgrenzung. Wechselnde Perspektiven auf die Antihese von Ost und West in der griechischen Antike), (pp. 367-420). Heidelberg, Germany: Verlag Antike.
2011
- Miller, M. (2011). "Manners Makyth Man": Diacritical Drinking in Achaemenid Anatolia. In Erich S Gruen (Eds.), Cultural Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean, (pp. 97-134). Los Angeles, CA: Getty Publications.
- Miller, M. (2011). Imaging Persians in the Age of Herodotus. In Robert Rollinger, Brigitte Truschnegg, Reinhold Bichler (Eds.), Herodot und das Persische Weltreich [Herodotus and the Persian Empire], (pp. 123-157). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
- Miller, M. (2011). Persians in the Greek Imagination.
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2010
- Miller, M. (2010). I am Eurymedon: tensions and ambiguities in Athenian war imagery. In David M Pritchard (Eds.), War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens, (pp. 304-338). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Miller, M. (2010). Luxury Toreutic in the Western Satrapies: Court-Inspired Gift-Exchange Diffusion. In Bruno Jacobs and Robert Rollinger (Eds.), Der Achamenidenhof/The Achaemenid Court, (pp. 853-897). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
2008
- Miller, M. (2008). Persians in the Greek Imagination. Mediterranean Archaeology, 19/20, 109-123.
2007
- Csapo, E., Miller, M. (2007). General Introduction. In Eric Csapo & Margaret Miller (Eds.), The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond: From Ritual to Drama, (pp. 1-40). New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Csapo, E., Miller, M. (2007). The Origins of Theater. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Miller, M. (2007). The Poetics of Emulation in the Achaemenid World: The Figured Bowls of the 'Lydian Treasure'. Ancient West and East, 6, 43-73.
2006
- Miller, M. (2006). Betwixt and Between: Western Anatolia in the Persian Period. In Amy Brauer, Carol Mattusch and Alice Donohue (Eds.), Common Ground: Archaeology, Art, Science and Humanities: The Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, (pp. 225-227). Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Miller, M. (2006). In Strange Company: Persians in Early Attic Theatre Imagery. Mediterranean Archaeology, 17, 165-172.
- Miller, M. (2006). Orientalism and Ornamentalism: Athenian Reactions to Achaemenid Persia. Arts: the Proceedings of the Sydney University Arts Association, 28, 117-146.
2005
- Miller, M. (2005). Barbarian Lineage in Classical Greek Mythology and Art: Pelops, Danaos and Kadmos. In Erich S. Gruen (Eds.), Cultural Borrowings and Ethnic Appropriations in Antiquity, (pp. 68-89). Stuttgart: Oriens et Occidens.
2004
- Miller, M. (2004). (Reprint) Athens and Persia in the fifth century BC: a study in cultural receptivity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2003
- Miller, M. (2003). Art, Myth, and Reality: Xenophantos' Lekythos Re-Examined. In Eric Csapo and Margaret C Miller (Eds.), Poetry, Theory, Praxis: The Social Life of Myth, Word and Image in Ancient Greece, (pp. 19-47). Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Csapo, E., Miller, M. (2003). Poetry, Theory, Praxis: The Social Life of Myth, Word and Image in Ancient Greece. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
2002
- Miller, M. (2002). Greece II: Greco-Persian Cultural Relations. In Ehsan Yarshater (Eds.), Encyclopedia Iranica Vol XI fascicle 3, (pp. 301-319). Columbia: Columbia University Center for Iranian Studies.
1997
- Miller, M. (1997). Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC: A Study in Cultural Receptivity. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.
Selected Grants
2017
- The Orientalist Fallacy: Greek-Persian Enmity in Ancient Athens, Miller M, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)
2014
- Zagora Conservation Work, Miller M, Beaumont L, Paspalas S, J.M. Kaplan Fund/Research Support
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Other Professional Contributions
2007 - Head of Australian National Committee, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
2006 - Executive committee, Australian Archaeological institute at Athens