Professor H. Alan Shapiro, Collins Vickers Professor of Archaeology, Johns Hopkins University: The Invention of Persia in Classical Athens

Monday, March 16, 5 pm

Eaton Humanities 150

H. Alan Shapiro has 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 in art, religion, and politics is best represented in his book Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (1989; Supplement 1995). He is currently working on a study of hero cults in fifth-century Athens.

The mission of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA) is to disseminate information about Hellenic civilization throughout the United States and Canada. The Foundation is supporting Prof. Shapiro's visit through its University Seminars Program. Prof. Shapiro is also co-curating the Foundation's current art exhibition: "Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens" (at the Onassis Cultural Center in New York City through May 9), and he and co-curator Nikolaos Kaltsas (Director of the National Archaeological Museum of Greece) are co-editors of the exhibition catalogue.

Please join us for a reception following the lecture in Humanities 350.