Special web site: http://courses.temple.edu/dhe
Research Interests: Attic vase painting as materials for economic history of the Mediterranean in the 6th century BCE; Ancient urbanization, Judaism in the Roman Empire, Ancient historiography.
Teaching Interests: Ancient Greece and Rome; Historical Backgrounds of the Bible; Nineteenth Century European Art and Culture. I have taught many course in the Intellectual History program.
Personal Statement: I am a historian who works with cultural artifacts to understand history. In the ancient world this means I specialize in interpreting the archaeological data both as independent material and as a complement to the literary and epigraphical evidence. In modern Europe I tend to look at the production of "high" culture as an indicator of the accomplishments of the society that is producing the enduring monuments of civilization. While my teaching is certainly broader than this outlook, it is reflected in the courses I teach.
Representative Publications:
"Nikosthenes and Chakis" Essays from the 4th International Conference on European History, Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2007.
"Phintias and the Leagros Workshop" Essays from the 1st International Conference on European History, Athens Institute for Education and Reseach, 2006.
"Moses -Through Hellenistic Tinted Eyes" Essays from the 1st In ternational Conference on European History, Athens Institute for Education and Reseach, 2005.
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"Trade Patterns in the Ancient Mediterranean" Antiquity and Modernity: Essays from the 1st In ternational Conference on European History, Athens Institute for Education and Reseach, 2004.
Journal articles in Journal of Hellenic Studies, American Journal of Archaeology, The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, Archaeology and others on Greek vase painting. in particular the Nikosthenic Workshop in Athens in the sixth century. See Macmillan, Dictionary of Art, s.v. Nikosthenes.
"Dio and Josephus" in Latomus
"A Tale of Three Cities: Jerusalem, Athens and Rome" Biblical Archaeologist
Publicatioin of the Red Figured Attic Vases in the Eretz Yisrael Museum, Ramat Aviv (Tel Aviv) Israel in Eretz Israel, vol 12.
Recent Book Review Essays:
Oakley, J.A., Picturing Death, The Evidence from White Lekuthoi, 2005, forthvcoming Summer 2006 in Classical World
Claire L. Lyons, et al, Antiquity and Photography, 2005 see:
BMCR 2006.02.20
Simon Keay, Stephanie Moser (eds.), Greek Art in View, 2004, in BMCR 2005.08.14.
Martin Bentz, Christopher Reusser eds., Attische Vasen in etrusckischem Kontext, 2004. in BMCR 2005.10.49
Leena Pietila-Castreen, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Finland, fasc. 1, 2003 in BMCR 2004.11.07
Editorial
I am editing seledcted papers dealing with antiquity from the Conferences on European History of the Athens Institute for Education and Research 2004-2006.
Conference lecture:
"Worhshop Definition of the Nikosthenic Atelier"
Haifa, Israel, May 2007, Conference on Greek Art
Athens, Greece, Dec. 2007, Athens Institute for Education and Research
M. Eisman at Temple E Selinunte (ancient Selinus) July 2002
B.A. in History, University of Michigan
M.A. in History, University of Michigan
Ph..D. in Classical Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania
Field Staff: Gordion Excavations, University of Pennsylvania
Museum Training: Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Museum assiciation: Eretz Israel Museum, Ramat Aviv (Tel Aviv)
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