Dr. Peter Schultz

Title: Olin J. Storvick Chair of Classical Studies | Chair, Art Department
Department: Art
Phone: (218) 299-3130
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Degrees and Education:

  • PhD 2003. The University of Athens. Classical Art and Archaeology (with Excellence). Dissertation - The Sculptural Program of the Temple of Athena Nike, Athens. Olga Palagia, Chair.
  • MA 1997. Vanderbilt University. Art History. Thesis - Herakles’ Lion Skin in Archaic Poetry and Art, 700-480 B.C.E. Barbara Tsakirgis, Chair.
  • BA 1994. Concordia College. Art History, Philosophy (with Honors), Classics (minor). summa cum laude Eta Sigma Phi, Omicron Delta Kappa Honors Thesis - Structures of Chance in Euripidean Drama. Gregg Muilenburg, Chair.

Scholarly Activities:

Select Professional Presentations
 
“Leochares’ Argead portraits in the Philippeion and the origins of Hellenistic royal portraiture.”

The J. Paul Getty Trust Fall Lecture Series
Los Angeles, CA. (December 2010 – Invited.)

“Sculptors, agencies and the economies of style in late classical Greece.”

Minnesota Society of the Archaeological Institute of America 2010-2011.
Macalester College. Minneapolis, MN (November 2010 – Invited.)

“Myth, Athletics and the Iconography of the Parthenon’s West Pediment.”

2010 Julius Fund Lecture in Ancient Art. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. (February 2010 – Invited.)
                      

“Communicating with the Gods in Ancient Greece: The Thymele at Epidauros.”

The 6th Annual Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society.
Free University, Berlin. (January 2010 – Refereed).
                      

“Polyeuktos, Demochares and the Portrait of Demosthenes.”

Archaeological Institute of America, 111th Annual Meeting.
Colloquium: “Facture Speaks: Material, Technique and Meaning in Ancient Art.”
Anaheim, CA (January 2010 - Invited).
 

Recent Publications

  • 2009a. Structure, Image, Ornament. Architectural Sculpture in the Greek World. Edited with R. von den Hoff. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2009. ISBN 978-1842173442.
  • 2009b. Aspects of Ancient Greek Cult: Ritual, Context, Iconography. Edited with G. Hinge, J. Jensen and B. Wickkiser. Ã…rhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity 8. Ã…rhus: Ã…rhus University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-8779342538.
  • 2007. Early Hellenistic Portraiture. Image, Style, Context. Edited with R. von den Hoff. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0521866590.
  • 2009a. “Accounting for agency at Epidauros: IG IV2 102 AI-BI and the economies of style,” in Structure, Image, Ornament: Architectural Sculpture in the Greek World, eds. P. Schultz and R. von den Hoff. Oxbow Books (2009), pp. 70-78; figs. 1-7.
  • 2009b. “Divine images and royal ideology in the Philippeion at Olympia,” in Aspects of Ancient Greek Cult: Ritual, Context, Iconography, eds. J. Jensen, G. Hinge, P. Schultz and B. Wickkiser. Ã…rhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity 8. Ã…rhus University Press (2009), pp. 123-192; figs. 1-26.