Dr. Ayelet Peer

Publications

Books

Peer, A. 2015. Julius Caesar's Bellum Civile and the Composition of a New Reality. Routledge (former Ashgate)

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

• Peer, A. 2008. “Cicero's Last Caesarian Speech: The Pro Rege Deiotaro as a Final warning before the Ides of March,” in C. Deroux (ed.). Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, Vol. XIV, Collection Latomus:189-208.
• Peer, A. 2017. "Hear No Evil? The Manipulation of Sounds and Rumours in Julius Caesar's Commentaries." Thersites: Journal for Transcultural Presences and Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, 43-76.
• Peer, A. 2018. “Thermae Romae Manga: Plunging into the Unique Bond between Ancient Rome and Modern Japan.” New Voices in Classical Reception Studies 12: 57-67.
• Peer, A. and Greenberg, R. 2020. “The Japanese Trojan War: Tezuka Osamu’s envisioning of the Greek epos.’ Greece & Rome 67: 151-176. 
• Peer, A. 2020. “Julius Caesar and the Romans stasis.” Hermathena 199: 71-91.

Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Edited Volumes

• Peer, A. 2019. “Dio, Cicero and the Complexity of Civil War”. In Cassius Dio: the Impact of Violence, War, and Civil War, edited by Carsten Hjort Lange and Andrew Scott. Brill, 19-240.
• Peer, A. 2020. “The Labours of Hercules-Sama”. In The Modern Hercules: Images of the Hero from the Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century, volume IV, edited by Alastair Blanshard and Emma Stafford. Brill, 527-544.
• Peer, A. and Højlund Roesgaard, M. “The Emperor, the Sun and the Olympus: Mythology in the Modern Japanese Education System”. In Mythology in Education, edited by Lisa Maurice (part of OMC, ERC-funded project). Forthcoming in 2021
• Peer, A. “Growing Up Manga” for edited volume Our Mythical Hope in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture, part of OMC, ERC-funded project.
• Peer, A. “Julius Caesar Superstar” for edited volume Our Mythical History in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture, part of OMC, ERC-funded project.
• Peer, A. “Adam the Alien, Eve the Robot: The Reinterpretation of Adam, Eve, Prometheus and Pandora in Japanese Manga and Anime”. In: Gender, Creation Myths and their Reception in Western Civilization. Prometheus, Pandora, Adam and Eve. Edited by Lisa Maurice and Tovi Bibring. Bloomsbury, Forthcoming in 2022.