Verity Platt
Contact Information
260 Cochrane-Woods Art Center
5540 South Greenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
773.702.0270
vjplatt@uchicago.edu
Ph.D. University of Oxford (Classics) - Greek and Roman art. Research interests include attitudes to the sacred image in antiquity; ancient theories of representation; the relationship between image and text; Roman wall-painting and funerary art. The author of Facing the Gods: Epiphany and Representation in Graeco-Roman Culture (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press) and articles on Pompeian wall-painting, Graeco-Roman seal-stones and Hellenistic epigrams.
Selected Publications
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Books:
- Facing the Gods. Epiphany and Representation in Graeco-Roman Art, Literature and Religion, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming)
- Epiphany: Envisioning the Divine in the Ancient World, co-edited with G. Petridou, Brill (forthcoming).
- Framing the Visual in Greek and Roman Art, co-edited with M. Squire, under consideration by Cambridge University Press (in progress).
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Articles:
- "Viewing, Desiring, Believing: Confronting the Divine in a Pompeian House", Art History, vol. 25 no. 1 (Feb., 2002), 87-112.
- "Evasive Epiphany in Ekphrastic Epigram", Ramus 31, vol. 1 (2002), 33-50.
- "Shattered Visages: Speaking Statues from the Ancient World", Apollo (July, 2003), 9-14.
- "Making an Impression: Replication and the Ontology of the Graeco-Roman Seal Stone", Art History special edition on 'Replication in Ancient Art", 29.2 (April, 2006), 233-57.
- "Honour Takes Wing: Unstable Images and Anxious Orators in the Greek Tradition", in Z. Newby and R. Leader-Newby (eds.), Art and Inscriptions in the Ancient World, Cambridge University Press (2006), 247-71.
- "Burning Butterflies: Seals, Symbols and the Soul in Antiquity", in L. Gilmour (ed.), Pagans and Christians - from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, British Archaeological Reports series, Archaeopress (2007), 89-99.
- "Virtual Visions: Phantasia and the Perception of the Divine in Philostratus" Life of Apollonius of Tyana", in E. L. Bowie and J. Elsner (eds.), Philostratus, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).
- "Castor and Pollux", for A. Grafton, G. W. Most and S. Settis (eds.), The Classical Tradition: A Guide, Harvard University Press (forthcoming).
- "Viewing the Past: Cinematic Paideia in the Caverns of Macedonia", for F. Greenland (ed.), Responses to Alexander, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).
- "Visae formae deorum: Envisioning the Dioscuri in Greece and Rome," for G. Petridou and V. Platt (eds.), Epiphany: Envisioning The Divine in the Ancient World (forthcoming).
- "Where The Wild Things Are: Locating the Marvellous in Augustan Wall-Painting", for P. Hardie (ed.), Paradox and the Marvellous in Augustan Literature and Culture, Oxford University Press (forthcoming).