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Publications

Books

  • Newby, Zahra ed. (2023) . Oxford University Press.
  • Newby, Zahra and Toulson, Ruth, E. eds. (2018) . Routledge.
  • Newby, Zahra (2016) . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Newby, Zahra and Leader-Newby, Ruth E., (2007) eds., . Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521868518.
  • Newby, Zahra (2006)  Classical world series. Bristol: Bristol Classical Press. ISBN 9781853996887
  • Newby, Zahra (2005) (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Articles and Book Chapters

  • Newby, Z. (2026) ‘Celebrating Pythian Games: Hellenism and local identity in civic festivals of Asia Minor’, in E. Bowie and C. Maciver eds., The Fabric of Hellenism (Edinburgh University Press). 139-165.
  • Newby, Zahra (2025) ‘Battle narratives for the Roman dead: perspectives on death and grief from the Trojan War’, in A. König and N. Wiater eds., Visualising War across the Ancient Mediterranean. Interplay between conflict narratives in different media and genres. (Routledge). 197-216.
  • Newby, Zahra (2024) 'Athletes in the city: the dynamics of inscribed victory statues in Roman Asia Minor', Nikephoros. Zeitschrift fur Sport und Kultur im Altertum 30: 91-124.
  • Newby, Zahra and Calomino, D. (2022) 'The Materiality of Greek Festivals in the Roman East: the view from Perge', Asia Minor. An International Journal of Archaeology in Turkey 2: 41-54.
  • Newby, Zahra (2022) 'Retelling Greek Myths on Roman Sarcophagi'. In: Smith, R. S. and Trzaskoma, S. M. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography. (Oxford University Press). 508-525.
  • Newby, Zahra (2021) 'Depicted lives : the role of the visual arts in sophistic self-representation'. In: de Temmerman, K., (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Ancient Biography. (Oxford University Press)
  • Newby, Zahra (2021) ‘Greek festivals in the Hellenistic era’ and ‘Greek Festivals and Events in the Roman Era’ in T. Scanlon & A. Futrell eds., Oxford Handbook of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World. (Oxford University Press).
  • Newby, Zahra (2017) 'Performing the Past: Salamis, Naval Contests and the Athenian Ephebeia', In: 83-95.
  • Newby, Zahra. (2015) 'Roman art and Spectacle’ in B. Borg ed., (Wiley-Blackwell). 552-568
  • Newby, Zahra (2014) . In: Elsner, J. and Meyer, M., (eds.) Art and rhetoric in Roman culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Newby, Zahra. (2012) . Classical Antiquity, Volume 31 (Number 2). pp. 349-389. ISSN 0278-6656
  • Newby, Zahra (2011) . In: Dowden, Ken, 1950- and Livingstone, Niall, (eds.) A companion to Greek mythology. Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture . Malden, Mass. ; Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell,, pp. 265-281. ISBN 9781405111782
  • Newby, Zahra (2011) . In: Elsner, JaÅ› and Huskinson, Janet, (eds.) Life, death and representation : some new work on Roman sarcophagi. Millennium-Studien (No.29). Berlin ; New York: De Gruyter, pp. 189-227. ISBN 9783110202137
  • Newby, Zahra (2011) i. In: Dowden, Ken, 1950- and Livingstone, Niall, (eds.) A companion to Greek mythology. Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture . Malden, Mass. ; Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell,, pp. 301-318. ISBN 9781405111782
  • Newby, Zahra (2009) . In: Bowie, Ewen and Elsner, JaÅ›, (eds.) Philostratus. Greek culture in the Roman world. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521827201
  • Newby, Zahra (2008) . Classical Review, Vol.58 (No.2). pp. 420-422. ISSN 0009-840X
  • Newby, Zahra (2003) . In: Scott, Sarah and Webster, Jane, (eds.) Roman imperialism and provincial art. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521805926
  • Newby, Zahra. (2002) . British School at Rome. Papers, Vol. 70 . pp. 177-203. ISSN 2045-239X
  • Newby, Zahra (2002) . In: Fredrick, David, (ed.) The Roman gaze : vision, power, and the body. Arethusa books . Baltimore ; London: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801869617

Forthcoming

  • Newby, Z. ‘Representations in the Arts: Re-imagining Myth in the Visual Arts’, in C. Lopez-Ruiz ed., A Cultural History of Western Myth in Antiquity (Bloomsbury) In Press.

  • Newby, Z. 'The Image of the Gymnasiarch in Roman Asia Minor' in N. Kazakidi and G. Mouratidis eds., Education in and beyond the Greek Gymnasium (De Gruyter).
  • Newby, Z. ‘Reading allegories on Roman Sarcophagi: Centaurs as emblems of family values’, in J. Grethlein and B. Kruchio eds., Reading between divides: imperial allegory, its cultural contexts and intermedial entanglement.
  • Newby, Z. ‘Experiencing Festivals through Visual Art: The Patras Mosaic and its Festival’, in X. Buxton, E. Csapo and Z. Newby eds., Experiencing Festivals in Ancient Greece.

Public Engagement Articles

Z. Newby, (2026) 'Gladiators in the Roman East', Omnibus 91.

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