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Andrew Stewart
Professor
Greek Art
412 Doe Library
510-642-4524
astewart@berkeley.edu

Mailing Address:
416 Doe Library #6020
Berkeley, Ca 94720

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BIOGRAPHY

Andrew Stewart is a graduate of St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and a former student of the British Schools of Archaeology at Athens and Rome. He has taught at Cambridge, at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, and at Columbia University in addition to Berkeley, where he joined the faculty in 1979. At Berkeley, he is Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology in the Departments of History of Art and Classics, Nicholas C. Petris Professor of Greek Studies, and Curator of Mediterranean Archaeology at the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology. He has received major fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim and Getty Foundations, and from the American Council of Learned Societies, and is a member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. In 2009 he received U.C. Berkeley’s Distinguished Teaching Award.

Professor Stewart specializes in Greek art, particularly in Greek sculpture. His interests include the body in Greek art and thought, the development of portraiture and personhood in ancient Greece, and Greek and Roman attitudes to and writing on Greek art. His replacement for J. J. Pollitt’s Art and Experience in Classical Greece was published in 2008. He is currently working on the publication of the Hellenistic sculpture from the Athenian Agora. His other interests include the Greeks in the Levant before and after Alexander, and the Renaissance and later reception of ancient sculpture. He has excavated at the Minoan palace of Knossos in Crete, at Long Beach Maori settlement in Otago Province, New Zealand, and from 1986-2006 at the Phoenician, Israelite, Persian, Greek, and Roman harbor town of Dor in Israel. He spends what little free time he has sailing on San Francisco Bay, singing baritone with the Pacific Mozart Ensemble, and ministering to his partner’s menagerie of cats.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Attalos, Athens, and the Akropolis: The Pergamene ‘Little Barbarians’ and their Roman and Renaissance Legacy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Art, Desire, and the Body in Ancient Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Faces of Power: Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993.

Greek Sculpture: An Exploration. 2 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.

Attikà: Studies in Athenian Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age. London: Hellenic Society, 1979.

Skopas of Paros. Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes Press, 1977.

Co-Edited Books and Collections of Papers

Images and Ideologies: Self-Definition in the Hellenistic World. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993. (Hellenistic Culture and Society vol. 12.)

Invited Contributions to Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Histories

All entries on Greek sculpture in the 4th edition of The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, in press.

“Alexander the Great.” In The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. 24-25.

"Hellenistic Art and Architecture: Two Dozen Innovations." In The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World, ed. Glenn Bugh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2006. Pp. 158-85.

“The Ancient World.” In A Basic History of Western Art, ed. Anthony F. Janson. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2006. Pp. 16-133.

“The Portraiture of Alexander.” In Brill's Companion to Alexander the Great, ed. Joseph Roisman. Leiden: Brill, 2003. Pp. 31-66.

“Hellenistic Art, AD 1500-2000.” In A Companion to the Hellenistic World, ed. Andrew Erskine. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. Pp. 494-514.

"Archittetura." In Enciclopedia delle scienze. 1. La Scienza antica. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, 2001. Pp. 955-62.

"Greek Sculpture." In The Oxford Illustrated History of Western Art, ed. Martin Kemp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. 12-23.

"Hellenistic Art," "Damophon," "Polykles," "Hagesandros," "Lysistratos," "Skopas," "Isigonos, Stratonikos, Antigonos, Epigonos, Phyromachos," "Greek Sculpture: Materials," "Alexander the Great", and "Seleukids." In The Dictionary of Art. London: Macmillan, 1996.

Recent Essays, Journal Articles, etc.

“The Persian and Carthaginian Invasions of 480 B.C.E. and the Beginning of the Classical Style: Part 1, The Stratigraphy, Chronology, and Significance of the Acropolis Deposits; Part 2, The Finds from Other Sites in Athens, Attica, Elsewhere in Greece, and Sicily; Part 3, The Severe Style: Motivations and Meaning.” American Journal of Archaeology 112 (2008): 377-412; 581-615.

“Alexander, Philitas, and the Skeletos: Poseidippos and Truth in Early Hellenistic Portraiture.” New Directions in Early Hellenistic Portraiture, ed. Ralf von den Hoff and Peter Schulz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. 123-138.

"Baroque Classics: The Tragic Muse and the Exemplum." In Classical Pasts: The Classical Traditions of Greco-Roman Antiquity, ed. James I. Porter. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. 127-70.

“Poseidippos and the Truth in Sculpture.” In The New Poseidippos, ed. Kathryn Gutzwiller. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 183-205.

"Attic Imported Pottery at Tel Dor, Israel: An Overview." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 337 (2005): 79-93. Co-authored with Susan Rebecca Martin.

"Alkamenes' Two Herms Again." Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 145 (2003): 107-08.

“Alkamenes at Ephesos and in Athens.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 143 (2003): 101-103.

“Hellenistic Discoveries at Tel Dor (Israel).” Hesperia 72 (2003): 123-45. Co-authored with Susan Rebecca Martin.

"The Khazneh." In Petra Rediscovered, ed. Glenn Markoe. Cincinnati and New York: Cincinnati Museum of Art and Harry Abrams, 2003. Pp. 193-98.

"The Portraiture of Alexander." In Brill's Companion to Alexander the Great, ed. Joseph Roisman. Leiden: Brill, 2003. Pp. 31-66.

“Jacques Louis David’s Oath of the Horatii and the Tyrannicides.” The Burlington Magazine 143 (2001): 212-19.

"On the Date, Reconstruction, and Functions of the Great Altar of Pergamon." In Pergamon and Sperlonga, ed. Brunilde S. Ridgway and Nancy de Grummond. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. 32-57

“Confronting the Other: Childbirth, Old Age, and Death on an Attic Tombstone at Harvard.” In Not the Classical Ideal: Athens and the Construction of the Other in Greek Art, ed. Beth Cohen. Leiden: Brill, 2000. Pp. 248-74. Co-authored with Celina Grey.

“The Equestrian Portrait of Alexander the Great on a New Tetradrachm of Seleucus I.” Swiss Numismatic Review 78 (1999): 27-35. Co-authored with Arthur Houghton.

"Goddess or Queen? A Colossal Female Head in the Athenian Agora." In Regional Styles in Hellenistic Sculpture, ed. Olga Palagia and William D. E. Coulson. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1998. Pp. 83-91.

"Nuggets: Mining the Texts Again." American Journal of Archaeology 102 (1998): 271-82.

"A Hero's Quest: Narrative and the Telephos Frieze" and "Telephos/Telepinu and Dionysos: Distant Light on an Ancient Myth." In Pergamon: The Telephos Frieze from the Great Altar, Vols. 1 and 2, ed. Renée Dreyfus and Ellen Schraudolph. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1996-97. Pp. 39-52; 109-20.

"The Alexandrian Style: A Mirage?" In Alexandria and Alexandrianism: Papers Delivered at a Symposium Organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, April 22-25, 1993, ed. Kenneth Hamma. Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1996. Pp. 231-46.

"Rape?" In Pandora: Women in Classical Greece, ed. Ellen Reeder. Baltimore: The Walters Art Gallery, and Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. 65-79.