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2007-08 Department Awards and Research
David Boggs’ reconstruction drawing of the first public portrait of Alexander the Great – developed in collaboration with Dr. Peter Schultz – was republished by Ian Worthington (Frederick A. Middlebush Professor of History, University of Missouri-Columbia) in his new book “Philip II of Macedonia: The King behind Alexander the Great” by Yale University Press.
Dr. Peter Schultz presented two invited lectures in Athens, Greece, during the first week of October. The first paper, “The North Frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike,” was given at the American School of Classical Studies. The second paper, “Space and Spectator in the Philippeion at Olympia,” was presented at the Danish Archaeological Institute.
Dr. Peter Schultz published his book “Early Hellenistic Portraiture: Image, Style, Context” with the Cambridge University Press. Co-edited with Ralf von den Hoff (Archaeological Institute of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau), the volume treats the origins and meanings of “portraiture” in the fourth and third centuries B.C. Schultz’s article in the volume, “Leochares’ Argead Portraits in the Philippeion” presents, for the first time, a full reconstruction and interpretation of Alexander the Great’s first documented public portrait. Original reconstruction drawings of the setting for this portrait were created by David Boggs.
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