Raoul Bertrand Lecture in Classics: H. Alan Shapiro
Monday, October 29, 2018, 7:30 pm
H. Alan Shapiro, the W.H. Collins Vickers Professor of Archaeology Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University, presents the 14th annual Raoul Bertrand Lecture in Classics. His lecture is titled The Classical Greek Symposium: Wine, Boys and Song. Free.
Location:
Humanities Building, Room 587
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Sponsor:
Classics Department
Contact:
Classics Department
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Phone:
415-338-2068
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H. Alan Shapiro is a classical archaeologist with a particular interest in Greek art, myth and religion in the Archaic and Classical periods. He has written numerous studies of Greek vase iconography, including “Personifications in Greek Art” (1993) and “Myth into Art: Poet and Painter in Classical Greece” (1994). His interest in the interrelationship among art, religion, and politics is best represented in his book Art and Cult Under the Tyrants in Athens (1989; Supplement, 1995). He is working on a study of Theseus in fifth-century Athens.