Eitner Lectures
The Lorenz Eitner Lectures on Classical Art and Culture publicize classics and classical scholarship to a wider public.
The series has been endowed by Peter and Lindsay Joost, great friends and benefactors of Stanford Classics, in honor of the late Lorenz Eitner, director of Stanford’s art museum, now known as the Cantor Center, in the 1960s-80s. He also chaired what was then the Department of Art and Architecture and was a distinguished expert of French Romantic painting, and the author of a dozen books on art and art history. In naming these annual lectures after him, we honor the memory of a renowned scholar, teacher and writer who oversaw the expansion of our art museum to a leading regional art collection.
Past Events
In this illustrated talk incorporating live demonstrations, Peter Meineck will suggest a new method for approaching ancient drama using research drawn from the cognitive sciences.
What did the Roman emperor look like? Among the thousands of surviving Roman imperial marble heads, how do we put a name to a face, or a face to a name?
Polis: the Greek city-state, as a particular form of social and political organization, lasted around twelve centuries, throughout the whole of the ancient "classical" world.
How does the emphasis on consensus and civic friendship in contemporary political thought relate to a nation drawn to the politics of division? Recent years have seen among political…
Sir Geoffrey Lloyd reviews recent developments in the study of science, medicine and religion in Ancient Greece, China and Mesopotamia.
Traditional accounts of the Renaissance highlight scholars' dramatic, direct contact with Greek and Roman texts.
Jonathan Shay's clinical experience with American combat veterans has led to new insights into the Iliad and Odyssey in his books Achilles in Vietnam (1994) and Odysseus in America (2002…
This was the inaugural lecture for the Lorenz Eitner Lectures on Classical Art and Culture in the Classics Department at Stanford University.