Dr Brian Martens
Lecturer in Archaeology & Ancient History
- bam21@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Office
- s5
- Location
- Swallowgate
Biography
I received my MPhil (2012) and DPhil (2018) in Classical Archaeology at Lincoln College, Oxford, with the support of a Clarendon Scholarship. Before coming to St. Andrews, I was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Greek and Roman Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2018-2019) and a Getty-American Council of Learned Societies Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art (2021-2022). I conduct fieldwork in the Athenian Agora (2008-present), where I supervise excavations in the neighborhood behind the Stoa Poikile. My research has been supported by the Archaeological Institute of America, the American Philosophical Society, the Samuel Kress Foundation, and the Onassis Foundation. I am an alumnus and Senior Associate Member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Teaching
My teaching focuses on the archaeology and art of the Mediterranean basin, particularly in the region of the Greek East, from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity. My honours modules include ‘Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Greek World’, 'Greek Sculpture', ‘In the Footsteps of the Greeks’ (study in Greece), and 'The Colours of Ancient Art'.
Selected publications
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Open access
A tripod ‘worth seeing’ in the Olympieion at Athens (Paus. 1.18.8)
Martens, B., 7 Aug 2023, In: Journal of Roman Studies. 113, 33 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Delos and the Late Hellenistic art trade: archaeological directions
Martens, B., 1 Oct 2021, In: American Journal of Archaeology. 125, 4, p. 535-570 35 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Recent Excavations in the Athenian Agora, 2013–2019
Martens, B. & Camp, J., 1 Dec 2020, In: Hesperia. 89, 4, p. 593-657 65 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
A Phrygian sculptor at work in Roman Athens
Martens, B., 1 Jun 2021, In: Hesperia. 90, 2, p. 359-410 52 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Colossal Cult Statue Group from Dobër, Albania: Visual Narratives of East and West in the Countryside of Butrint
Martens, B. & Melfi, M., 1 Oct 2020, In: American Journal of Archaeology. 124, 4, p. 575-606 32 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Review of Gianfranco Adornato, Irene Bald Romano, Gabriella Cirucci, Alessandro Poggio (eds.), Restaging Greek Artworks in Roman Times. Archeologia e arte antica. Milano: Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, 2018.
Martens, B., 29 Sept 2019, In: Bryn Mawr Classical Review.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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The Statuary of Asklepios from the Athenian Agora
Martens, B., 1 Oct 2018, In: Hesperia. 87, 3, p. 545-610 66 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Sarapis as Healer in Roman Athens: Reconsidering the Identity of Agora S 1068
Martens, B., 2015, Autopsy in Athens: Recent Archaeological Research on Athens and Attica. Oxford: Oxbow, p. 51-65 15 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter