Joe Rife specializes in Greek literature, history, and archaeology. He is currently working on funerary ritual and social structure in Greece and Asia Minor and on prose authors of the Second Sophistic. Professor Rife has conducted archaeological research in several regions of the Mediterranean, and he currently directs an interdisciplinary study of a large cemetery at Kenchreai, the major eastern port of Corinth in southern Greece. EDUCATION: A.B., Kenyon College M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Journal Articles
A Greek curse against a thief from the Northern Cemetery at Roman Kenchreai (with C. A. Faraone), Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (2007)
Geological and geophysical investigations at Kenchreai (Korinthia), Greece (with A. Sarris, R. K. Dunn, N. Papadopoulos, E. Kokkinou, and C. Mundigler), Archaeological Prospection (2007)
Life and death at a port in Roman Greece: The Kenchreai Cemetery Project 2002-2006 (with M. Morison, A. Barbet, R. K. Dunn, D. H. Ubelaker, and F. Monier), Hesperia (2007)
Review of "Burial, Society, and Context in the Roman World" by J. Pearce, M. Millett, and M. Struck, American Journal of Acheology (2006)
Contributions to Books
Inhumation and cremation at Early Roman Kenchreai (Corinthia) in local and regional context, Körpergräber des 1.-3. Jh. in der römischen Welt: Internationales Kolloquium Frankfurt am Main 19.–20. November 2004 (2007)
Un Tombeau peint de la nécropole de Cenchrées-Kenchreai, près de Corinthe (with A. Barbet), Circulación de temas y sistemas decorativos en la pintura mural antigua: actas del IX congreso internacional de la Association Internationale pour la Peinture Murale Antique (AIPMA) : Zaragoza - Calatayud, 21 - 25 septiembre 2004 (2007)
Excavations adjacent to the House of the Venus Mosaic (Site 250), Leptiminus (Lamta), Report no. 2 (2001)