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H. Alan Shapiro
Department of Classics
The Johns Hopkins University 350 East 82nd Street
3400 North Charles St. Apt. 10E
Baltimore, MD 21218 New York, NY 10028
Tel. 410-516-8221 Tel. 212-960-8003
Fax 410-516-4848
e-mail born August 3, 1949
New York City
Education
B.A. (Greek) Swarthmore College, 1971, with Distinction; Phi Beta Kappa
M.A. (Greek) University of California at Berkeley, 1972
PhD (Classical Archaeology) Princeton University, 1977
1974-75 John Williams White Fellow, American School of
Classical Studies at Athens
Employment
1976-77 Research Associate, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae
Classicae, Rutgers University
1977-78 Assistant Professor of Art History and Archaeology,
Columbia University
1978-81 Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (1978-80) and
Assistant Professor of Art and Classical Languages,
Tulane University
1981-92 Assistant Professor (1981-88) and Associate Professor
of Humanities, Stevens Institute of Technology
1994-96 Professor of Classics, University of Canterbury, NZ
1997 - Professor of Classics, The Johns Hopkins University
W. H. Collins Vickers Professor of Archaeology
Chair, Department of Classics, 1999-2004; 2007-2008
Visiting Professorships
1991 Princeton University, Dept. of Classics
1992 University of Cape Town, Dept. of Classics
1992-93 American School of Classical Studies, ElizabethWhitehead Professor
1993-94; 1997 Universität München, Institut für KlassischeArchäologie
2003-04 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
2004 École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
2006 Langford Eminent Scholar, Florida State University
2009 Department of History, Fudan University, Shanghai
2010 Eleni Hatzivassiliou International Chair, Université Libre de Bruxelles
2012-13 American School of Classical Studies, Elizabeth Whitehead Professor
Grants and Fellowships
1980 NEH Summer Stipend
1983 NEH Summer Institute, Hunter College: Women in Classical
Antiquity
1983-84 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Universität Würzburg
1986-87; 1990 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Universität München
1989 NEH Summer Seminar, CUNY: The Family in Classical and
Hellenistic Greece
1990 Parker Visiting Scholar, Center for Old World Archaeology
and Art, Brown University
1992 Visiting Scholar, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut,
Berlin
1992-93 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow
1997 Resident, American Academy in Rome
2000 – Corresponding Member, German Archaeological Institute
2004 Viting Scholar, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
2004 Margo Tytus Visiting Fellow, Department of Classics,
University of Cincinnati
2007 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Universität Freiburg
2009-10 Fellow, Internationales Kolleg Morphomata, Universität zu Köln
2011 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Universität Freiburg
Books
Art, Myth and Culture: Greek Vases from Southern Collections.
Exhibition Catalogue, New Orleans Museum of Art and Tulane
University, 1981.
Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens. Mainz: Philipp von
Zabern, 1989. Supplement published 1995.
Personifications in Greek Art: the Representation of Abstract
Concepts, 600-400 B.C. Kilchberg: Akanthus, 1993.
Myth into Art. Poet and Painter in Classical Greece. London:
Routledge, 1994.
Re-fashioning Anakreon in Classical Athens. Morphomata Lectures
Cologne 2. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2012.
Co-author (with Elaine Fantham, Helene P. Foley, Natalie B.
Kampen and Sarah B. Pomeroy), Women in the Classical World.
New York: Oxford, 1994.
Editor (with William D. E. Coulson, Frank J. Frost, Olga
Palagia, and T. L. Shear, Jr.), The Archaeology of Athens
and Attica under the Democracy. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1994.
Editor (with Beth Cohen), Mother City and Colony. Classical
Athenian and South Italian Vases in New Zealand and
Australia. Exhibition Catalogue, Robert MacDougall Art
Gallery, Christchurch, 1995.
Editor (with Carlos A. Picón and Gerry D. Scott, III), Greek
Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1996.
Editor, The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece
Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Editor (with Nikos Kaltsas), Worshiping Women: Ritual and
Reality in Classical Athens. Exh. Cat. Onassis Cultural
Center, New York, 2008. Greek edition published Athens
2009.
Series Editor, Cambridge Studies in Classical Art and
Iconography, 1992 – 2002.
Translator, The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus, by
Paul Zanker. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1988.
Translator, The Mask of Socrates, by Paul Zanker. Berkeley:
University of California, 1995.
Current Projects
Editor, The Gods of the Greeks, an English translation of
Erika Simon, Die Götter der Griechen (4th ed. 1998).
Co-Editor (with Mario Iozzo), New Perspectives on the François
Vase. Proceedings of a colloquium held in Florence, 2003.
Theseus: Hero Cult and Visual Image in Classical Athens.
Greek Self-Fashioning in the Classical Period: The Invention of Personal Style
Articles
"Odyssey 2.42-78: Telemachus as Rhetorician," Classical
Bulletin 1972, 58-59.
"A Note on Pericles' Last Speech," Phoenix 29 (1975) 84-86.
"Hippokrates Son of Anaxileos," Hesperia 49 (1980) 289-93.
"Jason's Cloak," Transactions of the American Philological
Association 110 (1980) 263-86.
"Courtship Scenes in Attic Vase-Painting," American Journal of
Archaeology 85 (1981) 133-43; reprinted in Homosexuality in
the Ancient World, ed. W. R. Dynes and S. Donaldson (New
York and London 1992) 401-416.
"Exekias, Ajax and Salamis: a Further Note," AJA 85 (1981)
173-73.
"The Judgment of Arms on an Amphora in Kansas City," Bulletin
Antieke Beschaving 56 (1981) 149-50.
"Greek Vases from Southern Collections," Arts Quarterly 3
(1981) 1-5.
"Theseus, Athens and Troizen," Archäologischer Anzeiger 1982,
291-97.
"Kallias Kratiou Alopekethen," Hesperia 51 (1982) 69-73.
"Heros Theos: the Death and Apotheosis of Herakles," Classical
World 77 (1983) 7-18.
"Epilykos Kalos," Hesperia 52 (1983) 305-311.
"Amazons, Thracians and Scythians," Greek Roman and Byzantine
Studies 24 (1983) 105-114.
"Painting, Politics and Genealogy: Peisistratos and the
Neleids," in Ancient Greek Art and Iconography, ed. W. G.
Moon (Madison 1983) 87-96.
"Aponia," in Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae
vol. II (1984) 465.
"Notes on Greek Dwarfs," AJA 88 (1984) 391-92.
"Ponos and Aponia," GRBS 25 (1984) 107-110.
"Herakles and Kyknos," AJA 88 (1984) 523-29.
"Attisch rot-figurige Kelchkrater," AA 1985, 260-64.
"Herakles, Kyknos and Delphi," in Ancient Greek and Related
Pottery, ed. H. A. G. Brijder (Amsterdam 1985) 271-74.
"Greek 'Bobbins': a New Interpretation," The Ancient World
11 (1985) 115-120.
"Dike," in LIMC vol. III (1986) 388-91.
"The Origins of Allegory in Greek Art," Boreas 9 (1986) 4-23;
reprinted, with expanded illustrations, as "Le origini dell'
allegoria nell' arte greca," in L'esperimento della perfez-
ione, ed. E. LaRocca (Milan 1988) 318-50.
Greek vase entries for Herakles: Passages of a Hero through
1000 Years of Classical Art, ed. J. P. Uhlenbrock. Exh. cat.
Bard College (Annandale 1986) 101-107.
"Kalos-Inscriptions with Patronymic," Zeitschrift für Papyrol-
logie und Epigraphik 68 (1987) 107-118.
"Artemis oder Omphale?," AA 1987, 623-28.
"Local Personifications in Greek Painting," Procedings, XII
International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Athens
1983, vol. II (1988) 205-208.
"The Marathonian Bull on the Athenian Akropolis," AJA 92
(1988) 373-82.
"Eudaimonia," "Eutychia," "Geras," in LIMC vol. IV (1988)
46-47; 126; 180-82.
"Two Black-Figure Neck-Amphorae in the J. Paul Getty Museum:
Problems of Workshop and Iconography," in Greek Vases in the
J. Paul Getty Museum 4 (1989) 11-32.
"Poseidon and the Tuna," L'Antiquité Classique 58 (1989) 32-
42.
"Oracle-Mongers in Peisistratid Athens," Kernos 3 (1990) 335-
45.
"Old and New Heroes: Narrative, Composition and Subject in
Attic Black-Figure," Classical Antiquity 9 (1990) 114-48.
"The Iconography of Erysichthon: Kallimachos and his Sources,"
in Procedings of the XIII International Congress of Clas-
sical Archaeology, Berlin 1988 (1990) 529-30.
"Homonoia," in LIMC vol. V (1990) 476-79.
"The Eye of the Beholder: Würzburg 309 Again," Antike Kunst
33 (1990) 83-92.
"Comings and Goings: the Iconography of Departure and Arrival
on Athenian Vases," Métis 5 (1990) 113-23.
"Theseus: Aspects of the Hero in Archaic Greece," in New
Perspectives in Early Greek Art, ed. D. Buitron-Oliver
(Washington 1991) 123-39.
"The Iconography of Mourning in Athenian Art," AJA 95 (1991)
629-56.
"Eros in Love," in Pornography and Representation in Greece
and Rome, ed. A. Richlin (New York 1992) 53-72.
"Narrative Strategies in Euphronios," in Acta, Euphronios
Colloquium, Arezzo 1990 (1992) 37-43.
"Theseus in Kimonian Athens: the Iconography of Empire,"
Mediterranean Historical Review 7 (1992) 29-49.
"Mousikoi Agones: Music and Poetry at the Panathenaia," in
J. Neils, Goddess and Polis. The Panatheniac Festival in
Ancient Athens (Princeton 1992) 53-75.
"The Marriage of Theseus and Helen," in Kotinos. Festschrift
für Erika Simon (Mainz 1992) 232-36.
"From Athena's Owl to the Owl of Athens," in Nomodeiktes:
Greek Studies in Honor of Martin Ostwald (Ann Arbor 1993)
213-224.
"Hipparchos and the Rhapsodes," in Cultural Poetics in Archaic
Greece, ed. C. Dougherty and L. Kurke (Cambridge 1993) 92-
107.
"Pottery, Private Life and Politics in Democratic Athens,"
in The Birth of Democracy, ed. C. Hedrick and J. Ober (Washington 1993) 21-27.
"Réponse à B. Mezzadri," Métis 8 (1993) 295-96.
"Religion and Politics in Democratic Athens," in The
Archaeology of Athens and Attica under the Democracy, ed. W.D.E. Coulson et al. (Oxford 1994) 123-29.
"Iliad 24 and the Greek Art of Narrative," Numismatica e
Antichità Classica 23 (1994) 23-48.
"Ploutodotas," LIMC vol. VII (1994) 415.
"Coming of Age in Phaeacia: the Meeting of Odysseus and
Nausikaa," in The Distaff Side. Representing the Female in
Homer's Odyssey, ed. B. Cohen (Oxford 1995) 155-64.
"Les rhapsodes aux Panathénées et la céramique à Athènes à
l'époque archaique," in Culture et cité. L'avènement
d'Athènes à l'époque archaique, ed. A. Verbanck-Piérard and
D. Viviers (Brussels 1995) 127-37.
"The Cult of Heroines: Kekrops' Daughters," in Pandora, ed.
E. Reeder (Baltimore 1995) 39-48.
"Attic Comedy and the 'Comic Angels' Krater in New York,"
Journal of Hellenic Studies 115 (1995) 173-75.
"Literacy and Social Status of Archaic Attic Vase-Painters,"
Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia 5 (1995) 211-
222.
"Athena, Apollo, and the Religious Propaganda of the Athenian
Empire," in Religion and Power in the Ancient Greek World,
ed. P. Hellstrom and B. Alroth (Uppsala 1996) 101-113.
"Tradizione regionali, botteghe e stili d'arte," in I Greci
vol. II.1, ed. S. Settis (Turin 1996) 1181-1207.
"The Greek Archaic Period," in The Oxford Companion to
Archaeology, ed. B. Fagan (Oxford 1996) 256-58.
Democracy and Empire: The Panathenaia in Periklean Athens,"
in Worshipping Athena, ed. J. Neils (Madison 1996) 215-25.
"Correlating Shape and Subject: the Case of the Archaic
Pelike," in Athenian Potters and Painters, ed.
J. H. Oakley, W. D. E. Coulson, and O. Palagia (Oxford 1997) 63-70.
"The Dioskouroi Between Athens and Sparta," in Greek Hero
Cults, ed. R. Hägg (Göteborg 1999) 99-107.
"Autochthony and the Visual Arts in Classical Athens," in
Democracy, Imperialism and the Arts in Fifth-Century
Athens, ed. D. Boedeker and K. Raaflaub (Cambridge, MA
1999) 127-151.
"Helen our of Doors," in Periplous. Papers on Classical Art
and Archaeology Presented to Sir John Boardman, ed. G. R. Tsetskhladze, A. J. N. W. Prag, and A. M. Snodgrass (London 2000) 271-75.
"Modest Athletes and Liberated Women: Etruscans on Attic
Black-figure Vases," in Not the Classical Ideal. Athens and the Construction of the Other in Greek Art, ed. B. Cohen (Leiden 2000) 315-337.
"Leagros and Euphronios: Painting Pederasty in Athens," in
Greek Love Reconsidered, ed. T. K. Hubbard (New York 2000) 12-32.
"Red-figure Panathenaic Amphoras: Some Iconographical
Problems," in Panathenaika, ed. M. Bentz and N. Eschbach (Mainz 2000) 119-24.
"Personifikation III: Bildende Kunst," in Der Neue Pauly, ed. H. Cancik and
H. Schneider 9 (Stuttgart 2000) 643-47.
"Zum Wandel der attischen Gesellschaft nach den Perserkriegen
im Spiegel der Akropolis-Weihungen," in Gab es das griechische Wunder?, ed. D. Papenfuss and V. M. Strocka (Mainz 2001) 91-100.
“Atene prima e dopo le Guerre Persiane: le sculture
le sculture dell’ Acropoli e il loro contesto sociale,”
Archeologia Classica 52 (2001) 1-14.
"The Use and Abuse of Athenian Vases," (with B. Cohen), in
Essays in Honor of Dietrich von Bothmer, ed. A. J. Clark and J. Gaunt (Amsterdam 2002) 83-90.
"Demeter and Persephone in Western Greece: Migrations of Myth
and Cult," in Magna Graecia: Greek Art from South Italy and Sicily, ed. M. Bennett and A. Paul (exh. cat. Cleveland/ Tampa 2002, 82-97.
“Fathers and Sons, Men and Boys,” in Coming of Age in Ancient
Greece, ed. J. Neils and J. H. Oakley (exh. Cat. Dartmouth
College, 2003) 85-111.
“Brief Encounters: Women and Men at the Fountain House,” in
Griechische Keramik im kulturellen Kontext, ed. B. Schmaltz
And M. Söldner (Kiel 2003) 96-98.
“Theseus and Ariadne on Crete: the Dinos Painter’s Krater from
Gela,” in Ta Attika. Veder Greco a Gela. Ceramiche attiche
figurate dall’ antica colonia, ed. R. Panvini and F.
Giudice(Rome 2004) 229-38.
"Constructing Gender Ideology in Athens: the Visual Evidence,"
in Feminism and Classics. Framing the Research Agenda, ed.
J. Hallett and J. Martin, in press.
“Erigone,” in Festschrift in Honour of J. Richard Green, ed.
L. Beaumont et al. Mediterranean Archaeology 17 (2004)
87-91.
“Dance,” in Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum I (Los
Angeles 2004) 299-343.
“The Judgment of Helen in Athenian Art,” in Periklean Athens
and its Legacy, ed. J. M. Barringer and J. M. Hurwit
(Austin 2005) 47-62.
“The Wrath of Creon: Withholding Burial in Homer and
Sophocles,” Antigone’s Answer: Essays on Death and
Burial,Family and State in Classical Athens, ed. C. B.
Patterson, Helios 33S (2006 Supplement) 119-34.
“The Invention of Persia in Classical Athens,” in The
Origins of Racism in the West, ed. M. Eliav-Feldon, B.
Isaac, and J. Ziegler (Cambridge 2009) 57-87.
“Alcibiades: the Politics of Personal Style,” in Art in
Athens during the Peloponnesian War, ed. O. Palagia
(Cambridge 2009) 236-63.
“Topographies of Cult and Athenian Civic Identity on Two
Masterpieces of Attic Red-Figure,” in Athenian Potters and
Painters II, ed. J. H. Oakley and O. Palagia (Oxford 2009)
261-69.
“Looking at Vases and Sculpture Together: the Banqueting
Hero,” in Bildkonzepte in der Hermeneutik griechischer
Vasenmalerei, ed. S. Schmidt and J. H. Oakley (Munich 2009)
177-86.
“Apollo and Ion on Classical Athenian Vases,” in Apolline
Politics and Poetics, ed. L. Athanassaki, R. Martin, and J.
Miller (Delphi 2009) 264-84.
“Geras lygron? Die Darstellung alter Männer in der
griechischen Vasenmalerei,” in Alter in der Antike, ed. H.
Hoyer von Prittwitz, exh. Cat. Landesmuseum Bonn (2009) 91-
102.
“Homer in the City of Erasmus”: review article on the exhibition and catalogue Homer: Der
Mythos von Troja in Dichtung und Kunst, in American Journal of Archaeology on-line
113 (2009) 1-8.
“Helen: Heroine of Cult, Heroine in Art,” in S. Albersmeier,
Heroes. Exh. cat. Walters Art Museum (Baltimore 2009) 49-
56.
“A Black-Figure Pelike in Tasmania,” in Shapes and images : studies on Attic black
figure and related topics in honour of Herman A. G. Brijder
ed. E. M. Moormann and V. V. Stissi (Leuven 2009) 173-77.
“Aponia,” in LIMC Supplementum I (2009) 83; “Ion,” ibid. 295-96.
“Orestes in Athens,” in Koine. Mediterranean Studies in Honor of R. Ross Holloway,
ed. D. Counts and A. Tuck (Oxford 2009) 23-29.
“Mother and Son: Theseus’s Farewell to Aithra,” in Folia in
memoriam Ruth Lindner collecta, ed. C. Weiss and E. Simon
(Dettelbach 2010) 89-94.
“Middle Comedy Figurines of Actors,” in The Art of Ancient Greek Theater, ed. M. L.
Hart (J. Paul Getty Museum 2010) 122-23.
“Narrative, Artistic,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. M.
Gagarin (Oxford 2010) vol. 5, 51-53.
“A Non-Greek Rider on the Athenian Acropolis and Repre-
sentations of Scythians in Attic Vase- Painting,” in
An Archaeology of Representations: Ancient Greek Vase-
Paintings and Contemporary Methodologies, ed.D.
Yatromanolakis (Athens 2010) 325-40.
“Eniautos. Time, Seasons, and the Cycle of Life in the Ancient Greek World,” in
Morphomata. Kulturelle Figurationen: Genese, Dynamik und Medialität, ed. G.
Blamberger and D. Boschung (Munich 2011) 199-222.
“No Longer Banned in Boston.” Museum review of “Aphrodite and the Gods of Love,”
AJA 116 (2012) 369-75.
“Attic Heroes and the Construction of the Athenian Past in the Fifth Century,” in Greek
Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras, ed. J. Marincola, L. Llewellyn-
Jones, and C. Maciver (Edinburgh 2012) 160-82.
“Anonymous Heroes: Reinterpreting a Group of Late Classical
Attic Votive Reliefs,” in Kunst vun Unten? Stil und Gesellschaft in der antiken Welt
von der ‘Arte Plebea’ bis Heute, ed. F. de Angelis et al. (Rome 2012) 111-120.
“Olympian Gods at Home and Abroad,” in A Companion to Greek Art, ed. T. J. Smith
and D. Plantzos (Chichester 2012) 399-413.
Reviews
E. C. Keuls, The Reign of the Phallus, in AJA 90 (1986)
361-63.
J. Burow, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Tübingen 5, in Gnomon
60 (1988) 182-84.
A. Lioutas, Attisch schwarzfigurige Lekanai und Lekanides,
in Gnomon 61 (1989) 374-76.
K. W. Arafat, Classical Zeus, in AJA 95 (1991) 747-48.
M. W. Taylor, The Tyrant Slayers: the Heroic Image in Fifth
Century B.C. Athenian Art and Politics, in JHS 113 (1993)
211-213.
H. Knell, Mythos und Polis. Bildprogramme griechischer Bau-
skulptur, in Gnomon 65 (1993) 644-46.
K. Schefold, Gods and Heroes in Late Archaic Greek Art, trans.
A. Griffiths, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 4 (1993) 390-91.
R. Hägg, ed. The Iconography of Greek Cult in the Archaic and
Classical Periods, in Opuscula Atheniensia 20 (1994) 271-72.
M. Robertson, The Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens,
in Art Bulletin 76 (1994) 163-65.
T. Hayashi, Bedeutung und Wandel des Triptolemosbildes vom
6.-4. JH. v. Chr., in Gnomon 67 (1995) 88-89.
C. Aellen, A la recherche de l'ordre cosmique. Forme et Fonc-
tion des personnifications dans la céramique italiote, in
AJA 100 (1996) 626-27.
S. Angiolillo, Arte e cultura nell’ Atene di Pisistrato e dei
Pisistratidi, in Gnomon 72 (2000) 466-67.
D. Tsiafakis, He Thrake sten attike eikonographia tou 5. aiona
p. X., in AJA 104 (2000) 138.
E. Stafford, Worshipping Virtues: Personification and the
Divine in Ancient Greece, in Prudentia 34.2 (2002) 276-78.
G. Ferrari, Figures of Speech. Men and Maidens in Ancient
Greece, in New England Classical Journal (2004).
S. Schmidt, Rhetorische Bilder auf attischen Vasen, in Bonner
Jahrbücher 2007 410-413.
C. Marconi, Temple Decoration and Cultural Identity in the
Archaic Greek World, in Ancient History Bulletin 22.3-4
(2008) 117-119.
S. Schmidt and A. Stähli, eds. Vasenbilder im Kulturtransfer: Zirkulation und
Rezeption griechischer Keramik im Mittelmeerraum, in AJA 117.2 (2013)
online review.