Dr Michael Squire
Lecturer in Classical Greek Art
Tel +44 (0)20 7848 2212
E-mail michael.squire@kcl.ac.uk
Address Room C8
Department of Classics
King's College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
Research interests
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Graeco-Roman visual culture
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The representation of the body in Greek and Roman art
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Relations between text and image
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History of aesthetics (especially in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Germany)
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Greek and Latin Epigram
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Ecphrasis
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Early Christian art and theology
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The Classical tradition
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The cultural history of ornament
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The visual culture of the Reformation
Biography
Michael’s BA degree was in Classics, and his MPhil in Classical Archaeology (both at Trinity College, Cambridge). After a year as Frank Knox Memorial Fellow at Harvard, specializing in comparative literature, he returned to Cambridge and completed a PhD on the intellectual history of theorizing words and images in Graeco-Roman antiquity (2006). Before joining the Department of Classics at King’s in September 2011, Michael was a research fellow at Christ’s College Cambridge, and concurrently held an Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and the Winckelmann-Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Humboldt-Universtität zu Berlin. He was elected to the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2012.
Selected Publications
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Panorama of the Classical World (with Nigel Spivey; Thames and Hudson, 2nd ed. 2008)
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Image and Text in Graeco-Roman Antiquity (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
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The Art of Art History in Graeco-Roman Antiquity (edited with Verity Platt; 2010 = Arethusa 43.2)
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The Art of the Body: Antiquity and its Legacy(Oxford University Press / I. B. Tauris, 2011)
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The Iliad in a Nutshell: Visualizing Epic on the Tabulae Iliacae (Oxford University Press, 2011)