Mistaken Identities: How to Identify a Roman Emperor
What did the Roman emperor look like? Among the thousands of surviving Roman imperial marble heads, how do we put a name to a face, or a face to a name?
Epic Appetites: Images of Food in Ancient Greece and Rome
lthough there exist many accounts describing food, its production, consumption and trade in the ancient Mediterranean world, there is nothing like a painting or sculpture or mosaic to bring these texts to life and flesh out our understanding of the role of food in past societies.
Medusa: From Beast to Beauty in Archaic and Classical Illustrations from Greece and Southern Italy
Representations of an attractive Medusa occur on vases as early as the mid-fifth century B.C in the context of the Perseus myth. Earlier portrayals, however, feature a monster, generally hideously depicted.
The Legacy of the Parthenon
Oddly enough, the Parthenon was not considered one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. To our modern sensibilities and academic curiosity, this seems like a gross oversight.
Color in Ancient Egypt
The Egyptian artist had at his disposal six colors, including black and white. These colors were generated largely from mineral compounds and thus retain their vibrancy over the millennia.
Greeks, Amazons and Archaeology
The legends of the Amazons and their battles with the Greeks were popular subjects of ancient Greek art. Images of lone Amazons, of combat between an Amazon and a Greek hero, of general battle scenes, and occasionally of more amicable meetings appear in vase painting, sculpture, and other forms of art.
Muscularity and the Western Medical Tradition
If muscularity is then a uniquely Western focus, how did this emphasis arise? The prominence of fantastically muscular figures in Western art suggests that muscularity was seen as essential to human identity.
Greek images of monarchy and their influence on Rome from Alexander to Augustus
This inter-disciplinary thesis traces the influence of Greek images of monarchy on Rome, between 323 B.C. and A.D. 14.
Dedications in clay: terracotta figurines in early Iron Age Greece (c. 1100-700 BCE)
This dissertation explores early Greek religion and society through a contextual analysis of the ritual use of terracotta votive figurines in the Early Iron Age, c. 1100-700 BCE.
Painting the wine-dark sea: traveling Aegean fresco artists in the Middle and late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean
By examining the fresco fragments themselves I establish that the motifs represented and the style of manufacture are in fact Aegean. Textual evidence from the Near East and Egyptian tomb paintings suggest that the Aegean was well-known for its artistic accomplishments and that Aegean goods and the artisans that produced them were treated as elite commodities.