Mont Allen
  • Home
  • C.V.
    • C.V.
    • Conference Sessions Organized
    • Conference Papers
    • Education
    • Fellowships
    • Invited Lectures
    • Publications
  • Teaching
  • Sarcophagus Memes
    • Sarcophagus Memes (highlights)
    • Sarcophagus Memes (all)
  • Roman Sarcophagus News (blog)
  • Classics & Art History at SIU
    • Classics at SIU
    • Art History at SIU
Publications
BOOKS
  • Allen, Mont.  The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi: Allegory and Visual Narrative in Late Antiquity.
    In production with Cambridge University Press.  Bound book expected to appear in July 2021.
 

ARTICLES​​
  • Allen, Mont.  "Cows, Sheep, and Sages: Bucolic Sarcophagi and the Question of 'Elite Retreat'."
    Römische Mitteilungen 124 (2018): 241-267.
 
​
CHAPTERS 
  • Allen, Mont.  "Isolating the Deceased in the Picture: Tools and Technique on Mythological Sarcophagi."
    In Flesheaters: An International Symposium on Roman Sarcophagi, edited by Christopher H. Hallett, 97-123.  Sarkophag-Studien, no. 11.  Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2019.  (peer-reviewed)
​
  • Allen, Mont.  "Technique and Message in Roman Art."
    ​
    In A Companion to Roman Art, edited by Barbara E. Borg, 153-171.  Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World.  Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.


REVIEWS & OTHER SHORT PIECES 
  • Allen, Mont.  "A Comprehensive Survey of Strigillated Sarcophagi."
    Review of Roman Strigillated Sarcophagi: Art and Social History, by Janet Huskinson.  Classical Review 67, no. 2 (October 2017): 526-528.
 
  • Allen, Mont.  "Sarcophagus."
    In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Michael Gagarin, 6:214-218.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
 
  • Allen, Mont.  "The Martyrdom of Jerome."
    ​
    Journal of Early Christian Studies 3, no. 2 (summer 1995): 211-213.
home
curriculum vitae

          conference sessions organized
          conference papers
          education
          fellowships
          invited lectures
          publications

teaching
roman sarcophagus news (blog)
Mont Allen
Associate Professor of Classics & Art History
School of Languages & Linguistics
1000 Faner Drive, MC 4521

Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL  62901
+1 (618) 303-6553

email
background:  sarcophagus showing Selene approaching the sleeping Endymion (New York, Metropolitan Museum, inv. 47.100.4a,b)