Margaret M. MilesProfessor, Art History Professor, Classics Professor, Visual Studies |
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Research Interests |
Greek and Roman Art, Architecture and Archaeology | |
| URL | www.humanities.uci.edu/arthistory/faculty/mmiles.htm | |
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Academic Distinctions | Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome; Mellon Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton | |
| Appointments | Agora Excavations, Athens; Resident, American Academy in Rome; Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classical Studies, American School of Classical Studies at Athens | |
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Research Abstract |
As an archaeologist, I am interested in how religion and ritual shaped architecture in ancient Greece and Italy. I have excavated in Athens and Corinth, and I've done field work on Greek temples in Rhamnous and Sounion in Greece, and in Selinous and Agrigento in Sicily. In my first project, I measured and drew all the remaining parts and foundations of the Temple of Nemesis at Rhamnous and reconstructed it (in drawings). Subsequently I published the American excavations of the sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone near the Agora of Athens that was ritually linked to the Eleusinian Mysteries. I am now working on a book on temples and religion in Sicily and Southern Italy, in which I show how the cosmic views of Presocratic philosophers (especially Pythagoras and Empedocles) helped to shape the design of western Greek temples. I am also very interested in the issues of cultural property, ethics of collecting and the fate of art in wartime, and I have just completed a book on the origins of the modern concept of "cultural property" in the work of Cicero. Currently I am the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classical Studies at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, on leave from UCI 2008-2011. |
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| Publications | ART AS PLUNDER: THE ANCIENT ORIGINS OF DEBATE ABOUT CULTURAL PROPERTY. Cambridge University Press, 2008. | |
| (Editor) CLEOPATRA: A SPHINX REVISITED. University of California Press (forthcoming). | ||
| "Cicero's Prosecution of Gaius Verres: A Roman View of the Ethics of Acquisition of Art." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURAL PROPERTY 2, 2002: 28-49. | ||
| "Interior Staircases in Western Greek Temples." MEMOIRS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME 43/44,1998/1999: 1-26. | ||
| THE ATHENIAN AGORA, RESULTS OF EXCAVATIONS CONDUCTED BY THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES, XXXI: THE CITY ELEUSINION. Princeton, 1998. | ||
| "The Propylon to the Sanctuary of Demeter Malophoros at Selinous." AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY 102, 1998: 35-57. | ||
| "A Reconstruction of the Temple of Nemesis at Rhamnous." HESPERIA 58, 1989: 131-249. | ||
| "The Date of the Temple on the Ilissos River." HESPERIA 49, 1980: 309-325. | ||
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Professional Societies |
Archaeological Institute of America College Art Association American Philological Association Society of Architectural Historians |
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| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2657 | |
| Last updated | 09/11/2009 | |