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In this talk, I present a comparison of the auction sales of the two greatest eighteenth-century ... more In this talk, I present a comparison of the auction sales of the two greatest eighteenth-century collectors of drawings: Pierre Crozat's in 1741 and Pierre-Jean Mariette in 1775. The transformation is dramatic; notwithstanding inflation (and market bubbles), the value of Old Master Drawings rose exponentially. I argue that Pierre Crozat was pivotal to this transformation, making Old Master Drawings a critical and central aspect of magnificence.
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In this paper, I examine the semantic range of trauma as a phenomenon, focused upon late Archaic ... more In this paper, I examine the semantic range of trauma as a phenomenon, focused upon late Archaic and Classical Greece. I set understandings of trauma in the context of material culture studies and attempt to read the significance of armor in constructing narratives of battle.
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In this talk I look at battle as an interstitial space, where the structures of everyday life can... more In this talk I look at battle as an interstitial space, where the structures of everyday life cannot frame (and therefore control) experience. I argue that love, as both emotion and practice, cannot but function differently in battle than it does in everyday life. I focus in particular upon the reception of Achilles and Patroclus in Classical Athens.
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This team-taught course will serve as an introduction to some of the most enduring works of liter... more This team-taught course will serve as an introduction to some of the most enduring works of literature in the Western canon: the epic poem. We will organize our engagement through a focus upon the hero and the poet, interrogating the relationship by which both come to create the epic poem. What makes a hero? What is different, special, about this figure’s engagement to the world? How is this engagement narrated by the poet? How does it construct a correspondence between deed and word, mortality and immortality? The epics will be drawn largely from the Classical and Medieval worlds, although important epics from other traditions will also comprise an important part of our reading.
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