Guy
Hedreen, Professor of Art, offers undergraduate and graduate courses on the
art of ancient Greece. His courses are interdisciplinary in orientation, touching
on literature, religion, mythology, and society as well as the art of antiquity.
He also teaches an undergraduate course on the history and methodology of art
history that is required of art-history majors. He has published two books on
Greek art, Silens in Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painting: Myth and Performance
(1992), and Capturing Troy: The Narrative Functions of Landscape in Archaic
and Early Classical Greek Art (2001). He has also
published several articles on Dionysiac mythology, ritual, and drama; the Trojan
War in Greek art and literature; and the nature of visual narration. He received
his B. A. from Pomona College and Ph. D. from Bryn Mawr College. He has spent
four years living and working in Greece, and one year in Italy.
Guy Hedreen
