Hijmans, Steven
Drs. Steven Hijmans
(Associate Professor)
Doctoraal, University of Groningen (1989)
Kandidaats, University of Groningen (1985)
2-8 Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB T6G 2H4
Tel. (780) 492-2561
| Expertise & Research Interests |
Roman art and archaeology. Roman religion.
My research is concerned with the study of Roman religion through the analytical reading of Roman religious iconography. Having completed a study of the iconography of the Roman sun god Sol Invictus, I am now concentrating on the construction of identity in religious iconography in the upper Danube provinces of the
| Teaching |
LATIN 101 Beginners Latin I
LATIN 102 Beginners Latin II
CLASS 102 Greek and Roman Mythology
CLASS 302 Classical Myth and Religion
CLASS 353 Roman Art
CLASS 459
CLASS 478 Topics in Roman Art
CLASS 479 Topics in Roman Archaeology and Social History
| Academic History |
2000 - present, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Classics,
1999, Sessional lecturer, Beaver College Studies Abroad Program,
1996-1998, Acting Director, Netherlands Institute at Athens, various periods.
1994-1998, Academic researcher, Dutch Academy (NWO), based in Athens, Greece.
1990-1991, Visiting professor, Department of Classical Archaeology, Aegean University, Izmir, Turkey.
| Publications |
Refereed Articles (selection):
Forthcoming, "Sol Invictus, the Winter Solstice, and the Origins of Christmas", in Mouseion.
Forthcoming, "Metaphor, Symbol, and Reality. The Polysemy of the Imperial Radiate Crown", in: Acta of the XVIth International Congress of Classical Archaeology,
2004, "Sol and Luna in the Carmen Saeculare: An Iconographic Perspective", in: M. Zimmerman and R. van der Paardt (eds.), Metamorphic Reflections: Essays presented to Ben Hijmans at his 75th Birthday,
2003, (with Y. Burnier), "The Loomweights", in: H.R. Reinders and W. Prummel (eds.), Housing in New Halos, a Hellenistic Town in Thessaly, Greece, Lisse, Balkema, 118-123.
2003, "The Metal Finds", in: H.R. Reinders and W. Prummel (eds.), Housing in New Halos, a Hellenistic Town in Thessaly, Greece, Lisse, Balkema, 123-138, 303-319.
2001, "'Like Picking One's Way in a Minefield': een essay over nieuw onderzoek in een klassieke discipline", in: Vries,
2000, “Language, Metaphor, and the Semiotics of Roman Art: Some Thoughts on Reading the Mosaics of Mausoleum M in the
2000, "? ?????st?? ?a? ? ???s? ep??? t?? ??µ??", Archaiologia kai Technes 74, 44-52.
1997, "Christus of Sol. Aanzet tot een herinterpretatie van het mozaïek in het mausoleum van de Julii onder de St. Pieter", Lampas 30 (1997), 372-385.
1996, "The sun which did not rise in the East; the cult of Sol Invictus in the light of non-literary evidence", BABesch 71, 115-150.
1996, "Contextualizing Sol Invictus. An Essay on the role of Post-Processual Archaeology in the Study of the Roman Sun-God", in: C.M. Gilliver, W. Ernst, F. Scriba eds., Archaeology, Ideology, Method. Inter-Academy Seminar on Current Archaeological Research 1993, Rome, 77-96.
1996, "Dionysus, Helios, and Rhodian Coinage in the first Century BC", Pharos 4, 43-61.
1995, "Castor, Caracalla, and the so-called Statue of Sol in the North Carolina Museum of Art", BABesch 69, 165-174.
1995, "Sol or Hesperus? A Note on two fragments of the "Sternenstreit" in the Archaeological Museum in Naples", Mededelingen van het Nederlands Instituut te Rome, Antiquity, 54, 52-60.
1994, "New Halos and the Hellenistic Fortifications of the Othrys Mountains, Thessaly, Greece", Arkeoloji Dergisi II, Presented to M. (Usman) Anabolu (Publications of the Faculty of Arts of the Aegean University, Izmir), 67-85.
1993-1994 [1996], with B.J. Haagsma and E.M. Moormann, "Un gruppo di satiri riscoperto", Rivista di Studi Pompeiani VI, 53-56
Book reviews and review articles
Forthcoming, "New views on the ancient sun", BABesch. Review article of M. Wallraff, Christus Verus Sol, Munster 2001, and P. Matern, Helios und Sol, Istanbul 2002.
2001, review of: Peter S. Wells, The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe,
1994, review of M. Tardieu, Les paysages reliques - Routes et haltes syriennes d'Isidore a Simplicius,
Other Publications:
1995, D. Koster, in collaboration with S.E. Hijmans & A.M. Stathi-Schoorel, To Hellen's Noble Land... Dutch Accounts of Travellers, Geographers and Historians on Greece (1488-1854), Groningen/Athens. (Exhibition catalogue, xiv, 286 p.).