Prof. John Pollini working with the Augustan Ara Pacis

John Pollini in my opinion is the number 1 authority on Julio Claudian Portrait study. I have had much correspondence with Prof. Pollini and he is passionate about Roman Art. Here is his curriculum Vitae:

Education
B.A. Classics, University of Washington, 1/1968
M.A. Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, UC Berkeley, 1/1973
Ph.D. Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, UC Berkeley, 1/1978

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History
Professor, Department of Art History (Adjunct Professor for Department of Classics and Department of History), University of Southern California, 1991-
Dean of the School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, 1993-1996
Chairman of the Department of Art History, University of Southern California, 1990-1993
Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Department of Classics (adjunct appointment), University of Southern California, 1987-1991
Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Johns Hopkins University, 1980-1987
Curator, Johns Hopkins University Archaeological Museum, 1980-1987
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Johns Hopkins University, 1979-1980
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Classics, Case Western Reserve University, 1978-1979

Description of Research
Summary Statement of Research Interests
Professor Pollini's research is concerned with methodologies of classical art and archaeology, ancient history, classical philology, epigraphy and numismatics. His other scholarly research interests include ancient religion, mythology, narratology, rhetoric and propaganda. Over the years Professor Pollini has excavated at the Greco-Roman site of Aphrodisias, Turkey, and the Etruscan site of Ghiaccio Forte, Italy, and participated in the underwater survey of the port of Tarquinia (Gravisca), Italy. Trained in the methodologies of classical art & archaeology, ancient history, classical philology, epigraphy, and numismatics, Professor Pollini is committed to interdisciplinary teaching and research. Professor Pollini has lectured widely both in the United States and abroad. He has published numerous articles and authored several books.

Research Specialties
Classical Art and Archaeology

Honors and Awards
Elected Life Member, German Archaeological Association, 2000-
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, awarded for second time, 2006-2007
Guggenheim Fellowship, deferred until 2007-2008, 2006-2007
Whitehead Professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Honorific Appointment), 9/1/2006-6/1/2007
Departmental Nominee for University Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching 2002, 2002-2005
Mellon Foundation Award for Excellence in Mentoring, 2004-2005
Departmental Nominee for University Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching 1998, 1998-2001
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, awarded for second time, 1995-1996
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1987-1988
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1983-1984
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1978-1979
Fulbright Award, Fellowship to Italy, 1975-1976

CURRICULUM VITAE

JOHN POLLINI

Department of Art History
Von Kleinsmid Center 351 University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0047

Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, Department of Art History
Joint Professor, Department of History
Adjunct Professor, Department of Classics

President, Classical Archaeological Association of Southern California (CAASC)

DEGREES

Ph. D. Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, University of California at
Berkeley (1978) (interdisciplinary program involving the Departments of Art History,
Classics, and History; major field: Etruscan and Roman Art and Archaeology; minor
fields: Greek Art and Archaeology and Roman History; Ph.D. equivalency exams in
ancient Greek and Latin) [Diss.: Studies in Augustan “Historical” Reliefs]

M.A. Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, University of California at
Berkeley (l973) [MA Thesis: Two Marble Portrait Statues of Pugilists from Carian
Aphrodisias: Iconography and Third Century A.D. Sculptural Traditions in the Roman
East]

B.A. magna cum laude, Classics, University of Washington (1968)

POSTDOCTORAL ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Dean of the School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, with administrative,
budgetary, and fund-raising responsibilities (1993-1996)

Chairman of the Department of Art History, University of Southern California
(1990-1993)

Full Professor, University of Southern California, Department of Art History
(1991-present), with joint appointment in the Department of History and adjunct
appointment in the Department of Classics

Associate Professor, University of Southern California, Department of Art History, with
adjunct appointment in the Department of Classics (1987-1991)

Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Classics (1980-1987) and

Curator of the Johns Hopkins University Archaeological Museum (1980-1987)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Classics
(1979-1980)

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Case Western Reserve University, Department of Classics
(1978-1979)

INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS,
AWARDS, HONORS

William E. Metcalf Lectureship (2008)

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2006-2007, deferred to
2007-2008)

Whitehead Professor of Archaeology, American School of Classical Studies at
Athens (2006-2007)

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (2006-2007)

Kress Foundation Travel Grant (Summer 2006)

Mellon Foundation Award for Excellence in Mentoring (2005)

Taggart Foundation Grant: Campus Martius Virtual Reality Project (2005)

Distinguished Lecturer, Biblical Archaeological Society and Center for Classical
Archaeology, University of Oklahoma, Norman (2005): Series of three lectures on
Roman and Christian Religion, Art, and Ideology

Kress Foundation Travel Grant (2003)

Senior Humboldt Research Prize (nominated) to Berlin, Germany, for 2000-2001

Elected Member (for life) of the German Archaeological Institute (Berlin) (2000)

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Independent Study and
Research (1995-1996)

Kress Foundation Travel Grant (Summer 1988)

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1987-1988)

Kress Foundation Travel Grant (1987)

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Independent Study and
Research (1983-1984)

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Case Western Reserve University (1978-1979)

Mabelle McLeod Lewis Memorial Fund Fellowship to Italy (1975-1976)

Fulbright Fellowship, Università di Roma, Rome, Italy (1975-1976)

UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS

Departmental Nominee for University Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching
(2002-2005)

College Faculty Research Development Award (consecutive years: 2000-2007)

University of Southern California Grant for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching
(with Lynn Swartz Dodd and Nicholas Cipolla) for a virtual reality project “Imaging
Antiquity: Creating Context through Virtual Reconstructions, Digital Resources, and
Traditional Media” (2003-2004)

Grant for the “College Initiative for the Study of Political Violence” (2002)

University of Southern California Grant for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching
(with Bruce Zuckermann and Lynn Swartz Dodd) to develop a new interdisciplinary and
interdepartmental course entitled “Accessing Antiquity: Actual Objects in Virtual Space”
(2000-2001)

University of Southern California Senior Nominee for National Endowment for the
Humanities Summer Stipend for Faculty Research (1998-1999)

Departmental Nominee for University Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching
(1998-2001)

College Awards and Grants for Research Excellence (consecutive years: 1997-2000)

Hewlett Foundation Award and Grant for General Education Course Development
(1997-1998)

Faculty Research and Innovation Fund Grant, University of Southern California (1988)

University of California Traveling Fellowship (1976-1977)

Dean’s Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley (1973-1975)

Phi Beta Kappa (1968), University of Washington

ADDITIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION

Field trips sponsored by the American Academy in Rome, German Archaeological
Institute, and Comune di Roma (1975-1978)

Research in Rome, Italy for dissertation (1975-1978), as well as further study of Greek
and Roman art and architecture in Italy and elsewhere in Europe during this period

Supervised study of Greek and Roman sculpture at the J. Paul Getty Museum, with
J. Frel (1973-1975)

Course in Greek art and archaeology at the Universität München, Munich, Germany
with E. Homann-Wedeking (1971)

Study of the German language at the Goethe Institute, Grafing (Munich), Germany (1971)

Course work in Roman, Etruscan, and Italic art and architecture, Università di Roma,
with G. Becatti, M. Pallottino, F. Castagnoli, and M. Squarciapino (1970-1971)

ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD WORK

Underwater survey of port of Tarquinia (Gravisca), Italy (1977): Consultant

Excavation of Etruscan site of Ghiaccio Forte, Italy (1973)

Excavation of Greco-Roman site of Aphrodisias, Turkey (1970-1972)

Excavation of Spanish/Indian Mission, Guavave, Arizona (1965-1966)

LANGUAGES

Ancient: Latin and Greek
Modern: German, Italian, French, modern Greek, some Turkish

BOOKS

PUBLISHED:

I) The Portraiture of Gaius and Lucius Caesar (Fordham University Press, New York
1987) (with a book subvention from the National Endowment for the Humanities).

II) Roman Portraiture: Images of Character and Virtue, with graduate student
participation (Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles 1990).

III) Gallo-Roman Bronzes and the Process of Romanization:The Cobannus Hoard
(Monumenta Graeca et Romana IX) (Brill, Leiden 2002).

IV) The de Nion Head: A Masterpiece of Archaic Greek Sculpture (Philipp von
Zabern, Mainz 2003).

V) Terra Marique: Studies in Art History and Marine Archaeology in Honor of Anna
Marguerite McCann on the Receipt of the Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute
of America (editor, designer, and contributor of introduction, publication list, and
one of 19 essays) (Oxbow Publications, Oxford 2005).

SUBMITTED:

VI) From Republic to Empire: Rhetoric, Religion, and Power in the Visual Culture of
Ancient Rome (University of Oklahoma Press), comprising eight chapters:
CHAPTER I: The Leader and the Divine: Diverse Modes of Representation in Roman Numismatics
CHAPTER II: The Cult Image of Julius Caesar: Conflicts in Religious Theology and Ideology in
Augustus’ Representational Program
CHAPTER III: From Warrior to Statesman in Augustan Art and Ideology: Augustus and the Image of
Alexander
CHAPTER IV: The Ideology of “Peace through Victory” and the Ara Pacis: Visual Rhetoric and the
Creation of a Dynastic Narrative [revised and updated essay originally published in
German]
CHAPTER V: The Acanthus of the Ara Pacis as an Apolline and Dionysiac Symbol of
Anamorphosis, Anakyklosis and Numen Mixtum [revised and updated publication].
CHAPTER VI: Divine Providence in Early Imperial Ideology: The Smaller Cancelleria Relief and
the Ara Providentiae Augustae
CHAPTER VII: The “Insanity” of Caligula or the “Insanity” of the Jews? Differences in Perception
and Religious Beliefs
CHAPTER VIII: “Star Power” in Imperial Rome: Astral Theology, Castorian Imagery, and the Dual
Heirs in the Transmission of the Leadership of the State

IN PROGRESS:

VII) Christian Destruction and Desecration of Images of Classical Antiquity: A Study
in Religious Intolerance in the Ancient World

VIII) Dynastic Narratives in Augustan Art and Thought: The Rhetoric and Poetry of
Visual Imagery [with DVD Virtual Reality Program of the Monuments]

IX) The Image of Augustus: Art, Ideology, and the Rhetoric of Leadership

X) Social, Sexual, and Religious Intercourse: Sacrificial Ministrants and Sex-Slaves
in Roman Art -- 3rd Century B.C. - 4th Century A.D.

ARTICLES

PUBLISHED:

1) “A Flavian Relief Portrait in the J. Paul Getty Museum,” in Getty Museum Journal
5 (1977) 63-66.

2) “Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and the Ravenna Relief,” in Römische Mitteilungen
88 (1981) 117-40.

3) “A Pre-Principate Portrait of Gaius (Caligula)?” in Journal of the Walters Art
Gallery 40 (1982) 1-12.

4) “Damnatio Memoriae in Stone: Two Portraits of Nero Recut to Vespasian in
American Museums,” in American Journal of Archaeology 88 (1984) 547-55.

5) “The Meaning and Date of the Reverse Type of Gaius Caesar on Horseback,” in
American Numismatic Society Museum Notes 30 (1985) 113-17.

6) “Response to E. Judge’s ‘On Judging the Merits of Augustus,’” in Center for
Hermeneutical Studies: Colloquy 49 (1985) 44-46.

7) “Ahenobarbi, Appuleii and Some Others on the Ara Pacis,” in American Journal of
Archaeology 90 (1986) 453-60.

8) “The Findspot of the Statue of Augustus from Prima Porta,” in Bullettino della
Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma 92 (1987/88) 103-108.

9) “Two Acrolithic or Pseudo-Acrolithic Sculptures of the Mature Classical Period in
the Archaeological Museum of the Johns Hopkins University,” in Classical Marble:
Geochemistry,Technology, Trade (NATO ASI Series E vol. 153), edd. N. Herz and
M. Waelkens (Dordrecht 1988) 207-17.

10) “Man or God: Divine Assimilation and Imitation in the Late Republic and Early
Principate,” in Between Republic and Empire: Interpretations of Augustus and His
Principate, edd. K.A. Raaflaub and M. Toher (Berkeley 1990) 333-63.

11) “The Marble Type of the Augustus from Prima Porta: An Isotopic Analysis,” in
Journal of Roman Archaeology 5 (1992) 203-208.

12) “The Tazza Farnese: Principe Augusto ‘Redeunt Saturnia Regna’!” in American
Journal of Archaeology 96 (1992) 249-55, 283-300.

13) “The Cartoceto Bronzes: Portraits of a Roman Aristocratic Family of the Late First
Century B.C.,” in American Journal of Archaeology 97 (1993) 423-46.

14) “The Gemma Augustea: Ideology, Rhetorical Imagery, and the Construction of a
Dynastic Narrative,” in Narrative and Event in Ancient Art, ed. P. Holliday
(Cambridge 1993) 258-98.

15) “The Acanthus of the Ara Pacis as an Apolline and Dionysiac Symbol of
Anamorphosis, Anakyklosis and Numen Mixtum,” in Von der Bauforschung zur
Denkmalpflege, Festschrift für Alois Machatschek (Vienna 1993) 181-217.

16) “The ‘Trojan Column’ at USC: Reality or Myth?” in Trojan Family (May, 1994)
30-31.

17) “The Augustus from Prima Porta and the Transformation of the Polykleitan Heroic
Ideal,” in Polykleitos, the Doryphoros, and Tradition, ed. W. Moon (Madison 1995)
262-82.

18) “The ‘Dart Aphrodite’: A New Replica of the ‘Arles Aphrodite Type,’ the Cult Image
of Venus Victrix in Pompey’s Theater at Rome, and Venusian Ideology and Politics
in the Late Republic - Early Principate,” in Latomus 55 (1997) 757-85.

19) “Parian Lychnites and the Prima Porta Statue: New Scientific Tests and the Symbolic
Value of the Marble” (with N. Herz, K. Polikreti, and Y. Maniatis), in Journal of
Roman Archaeology 11 (1998) 275-84.

20) “The Warren Cup: Homoerotic Love and Symposial Rhetoric in Silver,” in The Art
Bulletin 81 (1999) 21-52.

21) “Ein mit Inschriften versehener Legionärshelm von der pannonisch-dakischen Grenze
des römischen Reiches: Besitzverhältnisse an Waffen in der römischen Armee,” in
M. Junkelmann, Römische Helme VIII Sammlung Axel Guttmann, ed. H. Born
(Mainz 2000) 169-88.

22) “The Marble Type of the Statue of Augustus from Prima Porta: Facts and Fallacies,
Lithic Power and Ideology, and Color Symbolism in Roman Art,” in Paria Lithos:
Parian Quarries, Marble and Workshops of Sculpture (Proceedings of the First
International Conference on the Archaeology of Paros and the Cyclades, Paros, 2-5
October 1997), edd. D.U. Schilardi and D. Katsonopoulou (Athens 2000) 237-52.

23) “The Riace Bronzes: New Observations,” in Acten des 14. Internationalen
Kongresses für Antike Bronzen, Kölner Jahrbuch 33 (2000) 37-56.

24) “Two Bronze Portrait Busts of Slave-Boys from a Shrine of Cobannus in Roman
Gaul,” in Studia Varia II: Occasional Papers on Antiquities of The J. Paul Getty
Museum 10 (2001) 115-52.

25) “A New Portrait of Octavian/Augustus Caesar,” in Roman Sculpture in the
Art Museum, Princeton University (Princeton 2001) 6-11.

26) “Two Gallo-Roman Bronze Portraits of Sacrificial Ministrants in the J. Paul Getty
Museum,” in From the Parts to the Whole 2: Acta of the 13th International Bronze
Congress, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 28 - June 1, 1996, edd. C.C.
Mattusch, A. Brauer, and S.E. Knudsen (Portsmouth, Rhode Island 2002) 89-91.

27) “‘Frieden-durch-Sieg’ Ideologie und die Ara Pacis Augustae: Bildrhetorik und
die Schöpfung einer dynastischen Erzählweise,” in Krieg und Sieg: Narrative
Wanddarstellungen von Altägypten bis ins Mittelalter (Internationales
Kolloquium 23. - 30. Juli 1997 im Schloss Heindorf, Langenlois; Österreichischen
Akademie der Wissenschaften XXIV), edd. M. Bietak und M. Schwarz (Vienna
2002) 137-59.

28) “A New Portrait of Octavia and the Iconography of Octavia Minor and Julia Maior,”
Römische Mitteilungen 109 (2002) 11-42.

29) “Slave-Boys for Sexual and Religious Service: Images of Pleasure and Devotion,” in
Flavian Rome: Culture, Image, Text, edd. A.J. Boyle and W.J. Dominik (Leiden
2003) 149-66.

30) “The Caelian Hill Sacrificial Minister: A Marble Head of an Imperial Slave-Boy from
the Antiquarium Comunale on the Caelian Hill in Rome,” in Römische Mitteilungen
111 (2004) 1-28.

31) “A New Head of Augustus from Herculaneum: A Marble Survivor of a Pyroclastic
Surge,” in Römische Mitteilungen 111 (2004) 283-98.

32) “The Armstrong and Nuffler Heads and the Portraiture of Julius Caesar, Livia, and
Antonia Minor in Terra Marique: Studies in Honor of Anna Marguerite McCann
on the Receipt of the Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America, ed.
J. Pollini (Oxbow Publications, Oxford 2005) 89-122.

33) “A New Marble Portrait of Tiberius: Portrait Typology and Ideology,” in Antike Kunst
48 (2005) 57-72.

34) “A North African Portrait of Caracalla from the Mellerio Collection and the
Iconography of Caracalla and Geta,” in Revue Archéologique (2005) 55-77.

35) “A Bronze Gorgon Handle Ornament of the Ripe Archaic Greek Period,” in Annuario
della Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene e delle Missioni Italiani in Oriente 83
(2005) 235-47.

36) “Ritualizing Death in Republican Rome: Memory, Religion, Class Struggle, and the
Wax Ancestral Mask Tradition’s Origin and Influence on Veristic Portraiture” in
Performing Death: Social Analyses of Funerary Ritual in the Ancient Near East
and Mediterranean (Oriental Institute Seminars 3, University of
Chicago), ed. N. Laneri (Chicago 2007) 237-85.

37) “A New Bronze Portrait Bust of Augustus,” in Latomus 66 (2007) 270-73.

FORTHCOMING:

38) “Gods and Emperors in the East: Images of Power and the Power of Intolerance,”
in the proceedings of an international conference on “‘Sculptural Environment’ of the
Roman Near East: Reflections on Culture, Ideology, and Power” (University of
Michigan), in Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion,
edd. E.A. Friedland, S.C. Herbert, and Y.Z. Eliav (Peeters Publ.: Leuven).

39) “A New Portrait Bust of Tiberius in the Collection of Michael Bianco,” in Bulletin
Antieke Beschaving 83 (2008) 133-38.

40) “The Desecration and Mutilation of the Parthenon Frieze by Christians and Others,” in
Athenische Mitteilungen 122 (2007).

41) “Problematics of Making Ambiguity Explicit in Virtual Reconstructions:
A Case Study of the Mausoleum of Augustus,” for the proceedings of an international
conference, “Computer Technology and the Arts: Theory and Practice,” sponsored by
the British Academy and the University of London.

42) “A Winged Goat Table Leg Support from the House of Numerius Popidius Priscus at
Pompeii,” in Pompei, Regio VII, Insula 2, pars occidentalis. Indagini, Studi,
Materiali (la Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei), ed. L. Pedroni.

43) “Augustus: Portraits of Augustus,” in Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and
Rome (2008).

44) “A New Bronze Lar and the Role of the Lares in the Domestic and Civic Religion of the Romans,” in Latomus (2008).

IN PROGRESS:

45) “The ‘Colville Athena’ Head and Its Typology.”

46) “Idealplastik and Idealtheorie: Paradeigmatic Systems, Homosexual Desire, and the
Rhetoric of Identity in Polykleitos’ Doryphoros and Diadoumenos.”

REVIEW ARTICLES

PUBLISHED:

D. Boschung, Die Bildnisse des Augustus (Das römische Herrscherbild I.2) (Berlin 1993),
in Art Bulletin 81 (1999) 723-35.

E. Varner, Mutilation and Transformation: Damnatio Memoriae and Roman Imperial
Portraiture (Monumenta Graeca et Romana 10) (Leiden 2004), in Art Bulletin 88
(2006) 591-98.

BOOK REVIEWS

PUBLISHED:

M. Torelli, Typology and Structure of Roman Historical Reliefs, in American Journal of
Archaeology 87 (1983) 572-73.

J. Ganzert, Das Kenotaph für Gaius Caesar in Limyra, in American Journal of
Archaeology 90 (1986) 134-36.

R. Brilliant, Visual Narratives. Storytelling in Etruscan and Roman Art in American
Journal of Philology 107 (1986) 523-27.

PUBLISHED IN CHOICE:

E. Bartman, Portraits of Livia: Imaging the Imperial Woman in Augustan Rome, in
vol. 37 (1999) 126.

B.S. Ridgway, Prayers in Stone: Greek Architectural Sculpture (Ca. 600 - 100 B.C.),
in vol. 37 (2000) 1095.

W.E. Mierse, Temples and Towns in Roman Iberia: The Social and Architectural
Dynamics of Sanctuary Designs from the Third Century B.C. to the Third Century A.D.
in vol. 37 (2000) 1458.

V. Karageorgis, Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan
Museum of Art (New York 2000)in vol. 38 (2000) 1953.

Z. Hawass, Valley of the Golden Mummies (New York 2000) in vol. 38 (2001)
4036.

M.W. Jones, Principles of Roman Architecture (New Haven 2000) in vol. 38 (2001)
5409.

F. Salmon, Building on Ruins: The Rediscovery of Rome and English Architecture
(Ashgate 2000) in vol. 39 (2001) 106.

J. Boardman, The History of Greek Vases: Potters, Painters and Pictures (New York
2001) in vol. 39 (2002) 3755.

Roman Sculpture in the Art Museum, Princeton University, ed. J. M. Padgett (Princeton
2001) in vol. 39 (2002) 6218.

G. Hedreen, Capturing Troy: The Narrative Function of Landscape in Archaic and Early
Classical Greek Art (Ann Arbor, 2001) in vol. 40 (2002) 73.

A. J. Clark, M. Elston, and M.L. Hart, Understanding Greek Vases: A Guide to Terms,
Styles, and Techniques (Los Angeles 2002) in vol. 40 (2003) 3185.

S. Woodford, Images of Myths in Classical Antiquity (Cambridge 2003) in vol. 41
(2003) 89.

J. Aruz with R. Wallenfels (edd.), Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from
the Mediterranean to the Indus (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) (New
Haven 2003) in vol. 41 (2004) 2584.

G. Curtis, Disarmed: The Story of the Venus de Milo (New York 2003) in vol. 41 (2004)
5083.

Games for the Gods: The Greek Athlete and the Olympic Spirit, edd. J.J. Herrmann and C.
Kondoleon (Boston Museum of Fine Arts) in vol. 42 (2004) 646.

E.W. Leach, The Social Life of Painting in Ancient Rome and on the Bay of Naples
(Cambridge 2004) in vol. 42 (2004) 1215-16.

D. Mazzoleni, Domus: Wall Painting in the Roman House (Los Angeles 2004) in vol. 42
(2005) 1809.

S. Fine, Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New Jewish Archaeology
(Cambridge 2005) in vol. 43 (2006) 1586-87.

C.H. Hallett, The Roman Nude: Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 B.C. -- A.D. 300 (Oxford
2005) in vol. 44 (2006).

Constantine the Great: York’s Roman Emperor, edd. E. Hartley, J. Hawkes, M. Henig, and
F. Mee (York 2006) in vol. 44 (2006).

M.D. Stansbury-O’Donnell, Vase Painting, Gender, and Social Identity in Archaic Athens
(Cambridge 2006) in vol. 44 (2006).

PRINCIPAL INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS (Hard Copy and Online):

Greek Art and Archaeology: Course Manual (113 pages, 23 plates) and online version of
this Course Manual with digitized images

Roman Art and Archaeology: Course Manual (158 pages, 58 plates) and online version
of this Course Manual with digitized images

Digging into the Past: Material Culture and the Civilizations of the Ancient
Mediterranean: Course Manual (43 pages)

Proseminar Guide to General and Specific Works on Greek and Roman Art and
Archaeology and Related Disciplines (50 pages) and online version

Website for AHIS 425, “Introduction to Interdisciplinary Research and Methodology
in Classical Art and Archaeology and Related Disciplines” with links to other important
websites in the fields of Art, Archaeology, Classics, and Ancient History

Website for AHIS 201g: “Digging into the Past: Material Culture and the
Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean” (with digitized images)

PAPERS GIVEN AT INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL
CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA

On Judging the Merits of Augustus: Center for Hermeneutical Studies: Colloquy,
Berkeley (April, 1985)

Investigating Hellenistic Sculpture: Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts,
National Gallery of Art (October, 1986)

Augustus: Monuments, Arts, and Religion: Brown University (March, 1987)

Aspects of Ancient Religion: University of California at Berkeley (April, 1987)

Marble and Ancient Greece and Rome: International conference sponsored by
NATO at Il Ciocco (Tuscany), Italy (May, 1988)

Polykleitos, the Doryphoros and Its Influence: University of Wisconsin, Madison
(October, 1989)

UCLA-USC Seminar in Roman Studies: UCLA, Los Angeles (December, 1992)

XIIIth International Bronze Congress: Harvard University (May 28 - June 1, 1996)

UCLA-USC Seminar in Roman Studies: Roman Representations: Subjectivity, Power
and Space: USC, Los Angeles (March, 1997)

International Symposium at Cuma (Naples): Flavian Poets, Artists, Architects and
Engineers in the Campi Flegrei (July, 1997)

International Symposium at the University of Vienna: Interdisziplinäres Kolloquium
Historische Architekturreliefs vom Alten Ägypten bis zum Mittelalter (July, 1997)

First International Conference on the Archaeology of Paros and the Cyclades: Paros,
Greece (October, 1997)

Getty Research Institute Colloquium: Work in Progress (November, 1997)

Annual Meetings of the Art Historians of Southern California at California State
University, Northridge, California (November, 1998)

XIV. Internationaler Kongress für Antike Bronzen: Werkstattkreise, Figuren und Geräte
(Sponsored by Das Römisch-Germanisches Museum der Stadt Köln und das
Archäologisches Institut der Universität zu Köln [September 1999]): Besides giving paper,
chaired the session “Bronzestatuen und -statuetten: Fundkomplexen, Fundgruppen,
Einzelstücke, und Typen”

First International Symposium on Roman Imperial Ideology: Politics, Art, and
Numismatics at the Villa Vergiliana, Cuma (Naples) -- keynote speaker and chaired
session on “Ideology, Historiography, and the Imperial Family” (May, 2000)

International Symposium at Emory University, Atlanta: Tyranny and Transformation
(October, 2000)

Annual Meeting of the Art Historians of Southern California at the Getty Center,
Los Angeles, California (November, 2000)
Getty Research Institute Colloquium: Work in Progress (December, 2000)

Second International Symposium on Roman Imperial Ideology: Politics, Art, and
Numismatics at the Villa Vergiliana, Cuma (Naples) -- chaired session on “The Image of
the Princeps and the Ruler Cult” (May, 2001)

UCLA-USC Seminar in Roman Studies: UCLA, Los Angeles (April, 2002)

Third International Symposium on Roman Imperial Ideology: Politics, Art, and
Numismatics at the Villa Vergiliana, Cuma (Naples) -- chaired session on “Roman History
and Ideology” (May, 2002)

Symposium on the Age of Augustus at UCLA -- (Feb., 2003)

Fourth International Symposium on Roman Imperial Ideology: Politics, Art, and
Numismatics at the Villa Vergiliana, Cuma (Naples) -- keynote speaker and
chaired session (May, 2003)

International Archaeological Congress, Harvard University (Aug. 2003): Besides giving a
paper, chaired session on “Ancient Society”

VIIth International ASMOSIA Conference, Thasos, Greece (Sept. 2003)

International Conference in the Arts and the Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii (Jan. 2004)

Symposium on Roman Sculpture, Minneapolis Museum of Art (organized by Richard
Brilliant) (April, 2004)

International Symposium on Interaction of Indigenous and Foreign Cults in Italy at Cuma
(Naples) (May, 2004): Besides giving a paper, chaired session

International Conference at University of Michigan: “‘Sculptural Environment’ of the
Roman Near East: Reflections on Culture, Ideology, and Power (November 2004)

International Conference at Stanford University: “Seeing the Past” (February 2005)

International Conference at the University of London: “Computer Technology and the Arts:
Theory and Practice” (November 2005)

International Conference at the University of Chicago: “Performing Death: Social Analyses
of Funerary Ritual in the Mediterranean” (February 2006)

VIIIth International ASMOSIA Conference, Aix-en-Provence, France (June 2006)

Symposium “Art of Warfare”: Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University (January
2007)

PAPERS PRESENTED AT ANNUAL CONVENTIONS OF THE
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE
COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION

Boston (AIA, December, 1979)

New Orleans (AIA, December, 1980)

San Francisco (AIA, December, 1981)

Philadelphia (AIA, December, 1982)

Cincinnati (AIA, December, 1983)

Toronto (AIA, December, 1984)

Washington, D.C. (AIA, December, 1985) -- invited paper, “The Promulgation of the
Image of the Leader in Roman Art,” in a special AIA plenary session on Politics and
Art

San Antonio (AIA, December, 1986) -- invited paper, “Time, Narrativity, and Dynastic
Constructs in Augustan Art and Thought,” at a joint AIA-APA session on topics
illustrating connections between Roman art and philology

Houston (CAA, February, 1988) -- invited paper, “The Gemma Augustea and the
Construction of a Dynastic Narrative,” for a CAA session on Narrative and Event in
Greek and Roman Art

Atlanta (AIA, December, 1994) -- discussant for a joint AIA-APA session on “Rethinking
Nero’s Legacy: New Perspectives on Neronian Art, Literature, and History”

New York (AIA, December, 1996) -- special poster session: “The Marble Type of the
Statue of Augustus from Prima Porta: New Scientific Tests” (prepared in collaboration
with Norman Herz, Director of Programs, Center for Archaeological Sciences, University
of Georgia)

Chicago (AIA, December, 1997)

Washington, D.C. (AIA, December, 1998) -- invited paper, “A Portrait of a Sex-Slave
‘Stud’ (?) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,” for a special colloquium in
honor of Anna Marguerite McCann on the receipt of the “Gold Medal” of the
Archaeological Institute of America

San Francisco (AIA, January, 2004) -- joint paper with N.Cipolla and L. Swartz Dodd

OTHER ACADEMIC AND PUBLIC LECTURES/TALKS

American Academy, Rome, Italy (March, 1976)

Cleveland Society AIA, Cleveland, Ohio (April, 1979)

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. (September, 1980)

Institute of Fine Arts, New York, N.Y. (October, 1980)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y. (January, 1983)

New York Society AIA, New York, N.Y. (January, 1983)

Baltimore Society AIA, Baltimore, Md. (February, 1983)

University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (March, 1987)

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Ca. (March, 1987)

Columbia University, New York, N.Y. (April, 1987)

Classical Archaeological Society of Southern California, UCLA, Ca. (November 1989)

Tulane University, New Orleans, La. (February, 1990)

Classical Archaeological Society of Southern California, USC, Ca. (February 1990)

Los Angeles Society AIA, Los Angeles, Ca. (March, 1990)

Fisher Gallery and School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles,
Ca. (March, 1990)

Institute of Fine Arts, New York, N.Y. (April, 1990)

American Academy, Rome, Italy (May, 1990)

University of Vienna and Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria (June, 1990)

San Diego Society AIA, San Diego, Ca. (September, 1990)

Classical Archaeological Society of Southern California, Getty Museum, Malibu, Ca.
(November, 1990).

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. (December, 1990)

Classical Archaeological Society of Southern California, Gamble House, Pasadena, Ca.
(March 1991)

Henry T. Rowell Lecturer: Baltimore Society AIA, Baltimore, Md. (November, 1991)

Villanova University, Villanova, Pa. (November, 1991)

Royal-Athena Galleries, Los Angeles, Ca. (October, 1992)

Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery of Art,
Washington D.C. (November, 1992)

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. (November, 1992)

Duke University, Durham, N.C. (November, 1992)

University of California, Los Angeles: UCLA/USC Seminar in Roman Studies, Los
Angeles, Ca. (December, 1992)

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Ca. (January, 1993)

J. Paul Getty Museum and Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Malibu,
Ca. (February, 1993)

Classical Archaeological Society of Southern California, UCLA, Ca. (March 1993)

California State University, Long Beach, Ca. (March, 1993)

Stanford University, Palo Alto, Ca. (April, 1993)

University of California, Berkeley, Ca. (April, 1993)

California State University, Northridge, Ca. (April, 1993)

University of Arizona, Tucson, Az. (April, 1993)

American Academy, Rome, Italy (June, 1994)

Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities (Director’s Series) (Dec., 1994)

University of California, Irvine (May, 1997)

American Academy, Rome, Italy (July, 1997)

American School of Classical Studies, Athens (October, 1997)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (March, 1998)

British School at Rome (June, 1998)

University of California, Berkeley (November, 1998)

Classical Archaeological Society of Southern California, University of California,
Santa Barbara (March, 1999)

Work in Progress: Getty Research Institute, Brentwood, California (December, 2000)

Classical Archaeological Society of Southern California, Getty Research Institute,
Brentwood, Ca. (April, 2001)

American Academy, Rome, Italy (May, 2001)

Loyola Marymount, Los Angeles (March, 2002)

Southern California Institute of Architecture (February, 2003)

Columbia University, New York (April, 2003)

University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands (May, 2003)

University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands (May, 2003)

American School of Classical Studies, Athens (September, 2003)

University of Oklahoma, Norman (March, 2005)

Cambridge University, Cambridge, England (November, 2005)

American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece (March, 2007)

University of Athens, Greece (May, 2007)

Los Angeles Society of the AIA, Los Angeles (December, 2007)

College of William and Mary (January, 2008)

Duke University, Durham (February, 2008)

Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA (March, 2008)

University of Nebraska, Lincoln (April, 2008)

AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS as Whitehead Professor of Archaeology (2006-2007)

Participated in all Fall trips of the School to various parts of Greece, giving
presentations on each of the trips.

Participated in the School’s Spring trip to Central Anatolia, giving several presentations.

Offered a seminar in the Winter Quarter: “Christian Destruction and Desecration of
Images and Shrines of Classical Antiquity.”

MISCELLANEOUS TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS

Lectures and talks on site regarding the architecture and topography of Rome, Ostia,
and Hadrian’s Villa for members of the Technische Universität für Architektur und
Denkmalpflege, Vienna, Austria; the Summer School of the American Academy in
Rome; St. Olaf College’s Junior Year Abroad Program; and M.A. students of
architecture in a joint summer program of the University of Southern California and the
University of Illinois; and the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome.

Talks on various aspects of Classical art and archaeology at meetings of the
Archaeological Society of the Mid-Atlantic States (1980-1987)

Gallery talks on the ancient collections of the Archaeological Museum of the Johns
Hopkins University (in capacity as curator) and of the Walters Art Gallery (1979-1987)

Gallery talks on the ancient collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art (1987-present)

Talk for USC graduate students in the Dept. of Classics at the Ara Pacis and Mausoleum of
Augustus in Rome (May 26, 2006), organized by Prof. Claudia Moatti, Dept. of Classics

SPECIAL TALKS AND LECTURES AT USC

Seminar for Professor Claudia Moatti, Department of Classics: “Problems in Ancient Art”
(March, 2005)

Seminar for Dr. Daniela Bleichmar, Department of Art History: Rediscovering the
Classical Past: The Relationship of Art History, Archaeology, and Visual Culture (March,
2005)

University of Southern California’s 125th Celebration: For Symposium on “Trojan
Legends” presented paper: “USC's Trojan Column: An Ancient and Modern Myth”
(October, 2005)

MEDIA INTERVIEWS AND CONSULTATION

New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, The
History Channel, Arts and Entertainment Channel, KPCC Radio Los Angeles, NBC, Fox

Featured piece on my innovative work on the marble type of the statue of Augustus from
Prima Porta: A. Elders, “Tracing the Stones of Classical Brilliance,” in Hermes -- Greece
Today 35 (1999) 20-24.

ORGANIZER AND LEADER OF TOURS OF MUSEUMS AND SITES

Turkey (for Board of Councilors and donors of the School of Fine Arts, USC, 1995; for
university students and the general public, 1998)

Greece (Attica and the Peloponnese) (for university students and the general public, 1999)

Central Italy (for university students and the general public, 2000, 2002, 2003)

PARTICIPATION IN OTHER COLLOQUIA AND SYMPOSIA

Roman Sculpture and Architecture: German Archaeological Institute, Rome
(January, 1978)

Roman Architecture: Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery
of Art (January, 1981)

The Age of Augustus. The Rise of Imperial Ideology: Brown University (April, 1982)

Pictorial Narratives in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: The Johns Hopkins University and
the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art (March, 1984)

Villa Gardens of the Roman Empire: Dumbarton Oaks (May, 1984)

Retaining the Original -- Multiple Originals, Copies, and Reproductions: Center for
Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art (March, 1985)

Investigating Hellenistic Sculpture: Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts,
National Gallery of Art (October, 1986)

Marble -- Art Historical and Sculptural Perspectives on Ancient Sculpture: J. Paul Getty
Museum (April, 1988)

International Conference on Roman Archaeology and Latin Epigraphy: University of
Rome and the French School of Rome (May, 1988)

Roman Portraits in Context: Emory University (January, 1989)

Small Bronze Sculpture from the Ancient World: J. Paul Getty Museum (March, 1989)

Alexandria and Alexandrianism: J. Paul Getty Museum (April, 1993)

International Symposium: “Rome Reborn” Visual Reality Program at UCLA (December,
1996)

History of Restoration of Ancient Stone Sculptures, J. Paul Getty Museum (October, 2001)

Re-Restoring Ancient Stone Sculpture, J. Paul Getty Museum (March, 2003)

Marble Conference on Thasos, Liman, Thasos (Sept. 2003)

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Editorial Assistant (1968-1969) and Associate Editor (1969-1970), AGON: Journal of
Classical Studies

Editorial Board, American Journal of Philology (January, 1982-January, 1987)

Delegate from Baltimore Society AIA to National Convention (1984-1986)

Vice-President, Baltimore Society of the AIA (1985-1987)

Co-Director, Exhibition on Roman Portraiture, Fisher Gallery (1989)

Co-Founder (with Dr. Diana Buitron) of the Classical Archaeological Society of the Mid-
Atlantic States (1978-87)

Founder and President of the Classical Archaeological Society of Southern California
(1987-present)

Member of the Ancient Art Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1987-
present)

Oversaw the publication and helped edit the newsletter “ARTFACTS” of the
School of Fine Arts (1993-1996) during my tenure as Dean of the School of Fine Arts

USC Representative to Advisory Council of the American Academy in Rome
(1993-present)

Comitato di Collaborazione Culturale to the Consul General of Italy at Los Angeles
(1995-1998)

Advisory Committee for the Virtual Reality Project for Ancient Rome (“Rome Reborn”)
(1996-1998)

Delegate from Los Angeles Society AIA to National Convention (Chicago, Dec., 1997)

Reviewer for the Getty Grant Program (1999)

Reviewer for the MacArthur Foundation Grant (2000, 2003)

Planning Committee for a Four-Year International Conference on “Roman Imperial
Ideology” at the Villa Vergiliana at Cuma (Naples), organized by J. Rufus Fears (2000-
2003)

Consultant for the Forum of Augustus Project: Sovrintendenza Archeologica Comunale,
Direzione al Foro di Augusto (2004-present)

Editor of the newsletter “Musings” for the Department of Art History, USC (2005)

Planning Committee for the Internation Bronze Congress in Athens, Greece (2006-2007)

Chaired two sessions -- “Roman Sculpture” and “Augustan Art” -- at the Annual Meeting
of the Archaeological Institute of America (San Diego 2007)

UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES AND OTHER SERVICE

Faculty Senate (1988-1991)

Advisory Committee to the Dean of the School of Fine Arts (1990-1991, 1992-1993)

Chairman, Personnel Committee of the School of Fine Arts (1988-1990)

Library Liaison Officer for Art and Architecture Library (1987-present)

Search Committee for Reference Librarian of the Art and Architecture Library
(1989-1990 and 2000)
University Library Committee (1989-1990, 1998-2001)

Recruitment Committee for the School of Fine Arts (1989-1995)

Space Allocation Committee, School of Fine Arts (1989-1990)

University Research Committee (1990-1991)

Promotion Committee, School of Fine Arts (1990-1995)

University Ad Hoc Committee on Revenue Center Management (1990-1995)

Committee for University Development, School of Fine Arts (1993-1995)

Development Task Force, the School of Fine Arts (1993-1995)

Consultative Committee to the Provost (Spring 1993-1995)

University Galleries Advisory Committee (1993-1995)

University Committee on Transnational and Multicultural Affairs (1993-1995)

Provost’s Council at USC (formerly Council of Deans) (1993-1995)

USC Representative to the Advisory Council of the American Academy in Rome
(1993-present)

Founder and Member of the Board of Councilors for the School of Fine Arts (1994-1995)

Consortium Council of Deans for Development at USC (1995)

Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of Art History (1995-to present)

Recruitment Committee for Department of Art History in the College of
Letters, Arts, and Sciences (1996-2005)

Program Proposer for the Establishment of an Interdepartmental and Interdisciplinary
Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program (1997-1999)

Chinese Search Committee, Department of Art History (1998-1999)

Japanese Search Committee, Department of Art History (1998-1999)

Professor-In-Charge, USC-Getty Lecture Series, Seminar, and Faculty Dinner (honoring
Salvatore Settis) (1998-1999)

Curriculum Committee (Co-Chair) (1998-1999)

Chair, Committee for Selection of Departmental Chair (1999-2000)

Chair, Merit Review Committee (1999-2000)

Committee for the Establishment of an Undergraduate Major in Archaeology
(2002-present)

Greek Art Search Committee, Department of Art History and Classics (2001-2004)

Faculty Search Committee, Department of Art History: Senior Hiring Initiative (2003-
present)

Junior Faculty Review Committee, Department of Art History (2003)

USC’s Arts and Humanities Committee (2003-2004)

Chair of Oversight Committee for the Interdisciplinary Archaeology Major (Spring 2006)

MEMBERSHIPS IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

NATIONAL:

Archaeological Institute of America

College Art Association

American Philological Association

Association of Ancient Historians

Vergilian Society

INTERNATIONAL:

Deutsches Archäologisches Institut

Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica

Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity (AMOSIA)

Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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