Ada Cohen

Selected Publications

• "What's in a Name: From Ashurbanipal to Sardanapalus," in Panagiotis Roilos and Burkhard Fehr, eds., Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual: Studies Presented to Demetrios Yatromanolakis (Leiden and Boston: Brill 2024): 82-133

• "Turning Heads: Alexander and the Animals," Illinois Classical Studies 43:1 (2018): 88-136

• "The Artist as Art Historian: Some Modern Works on Alexander," in K.R. Moore, ed., Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018), 754-74

• "What Is Art History?" in Daniel Rockmore, ed., What Are the Arts and Sciences? [A Guide for the Curious]  (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2017), 27-45

• Inside an Ancient Assyrian Palace: Looking at Austen Henry Layard's Reconstruction (University Press of New England and Hood Museum of Art, 2017) with Steven Kangas

• "Picturing Greek Families," in B. Rawson, ed., A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds (Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), 465-87

• Art in the Era of Alexander the Great: Paradigms of Manhood and Their Cultural Traditions (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010; Paperback 2014)

• Assyrian Reliefs from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II: A Cultural Biography  (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2010), ed. with S. E. Kangas

• "'Mistress' Bronzes from the Classical World," in A. Brauer, ed., Teaching with Objects: The Curatorial Legacy of David Gordon Mitten (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 2010), 76-91

• "The Self as Other: Performing Humor in Ancient Greek Art," in Cultural Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean, E. S. Gruen (ed.), (2011) 465-90.

• "Mythic Landscapes of Greece," in R. Woodard, ed., Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 305-30

• "Gendering the Age Gap: Boys, Girls, and Abduction in Ancient Greek Art," in A. Cohen and J. B. Rutter eds., Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy (Hesperia Supplement 41, Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2007), 257-78

• Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy (Hesperia Supplement 41, Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2007), ed. with J. B. Rutter

• "Introduction: Childhood between Past and Present," in A. Cohen and J. B. Rutter eds., Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy (Hesperia Supplement 41, Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2007), 1-22

• "Landscape and Figure in Ancient Greek Art" (in Greek) in P. Doukellis, ed., The Greek Landscape (Athens: HESTIA, 2005), 105-129

• "Art, Myth, and Travel in the Hellenistic World," in S. E. Alcock, J. Cherry, and J. Elsner, eds., Pausanias: Travel and Memory in Roman Greece (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 93-126

• The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory and Defeat (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997; Paperback 2000)