I’m afraid this tantalizing title belies a prosaic announcement, namely that this spring I am teaching a course in the NYU Liberal Studies sequence Arts and Cultures across Antiquity, entitled What Is (a) God? (To be fair, I borrowed the title from a book edited by Alan Lloyd.) The course is an exploration of the nature of the divine across the ancient Middle East and Mediterranean, including Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Persian, Greek, Roman and Gandharan art, as well as Atrahasis, the Hebrew Bible, the Avesta, Homer, Euripides, Ovid, Philostratus and the New Testament. I’m still working out the details, but it should be a fascinating course (for the students too, I hope!).
Archaeologist, Art Historian, Sometime Curator, and Ocassional Classicist