Kathryn Topper (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor of Classics
Adjunct in Art History
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Contact Information

Denny 229
Office Hours
M 11:30–12:20 or by appointment

Biography

Ph.D., Classical Archaeology, Harvard University, 2007
A.B., Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology/ English, Bryn Mawr College, 2000
Curriculum Vitae (196.35 KB)

I am trained as a Classical archaeologist with an emphasis in Greek art, and I am especially interested in the ways in which images intersect with other elements of culture, including literature, ritual, spectacle, and performance. My publications include The Imagery of the Athenian Symposium (Cambridge UP 2012) and articles on a variety of issues in Greek vase painting. My second book, currently in progress, is tentatively titled The Thalamegos of Ptolemy IV Philopator: Power, Spectacle, and the Royal Ship in Hellenistic Alexandria. Smaller projects include chapters about image and inscription on sympotic pottery, as well as an article on the metopes of Temple C at Thermon.

I do not respond to requests to authenticate privately owned antiquities. This practice is in line with the Archaeological Institute of America's Code of Ethics, which urges archaeologists to refrain from activities that support the trade in undocumented antiquities, including "the valuation of such artifacts through authentication, acquisition, publication, or exhibition." 

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