FOCUS 2006

Siena Conference 2006:

Student Participants from OSU:

• Bridget Buchholz: "Misunderstanding the Gods: The Myth of Human Ignorance"
• Norita Dobyns: "Inside the Brazen Gods. Artistic Representations, Popular Belief, and the Rhetoric of Possession in Late Antiquity"
• Adria Haluszka: "Inside-Out; A Study of the Inner Statue"
• Laurie Kilker: "What Does it Mean to Be a Votive? An Exploration of Reclining Figurines from Corinth and Morgantina"
• Katie Rask: "Near Eastern Influences on the Dioskouroi: Meslamtaea, Lugalirra, and Twin Door Gods"

Faculty Participants from OSU:

• Mark Fullerton: "Roma and Augustus on Some Early Imperial Cameos"
• Fritz Graf: "The Oracle and the Image. Once Again on Some Clarian Oracles"
• Sarah Iles Johnston: "Who Put the Soul in the Statue? A Closer Look at the Telestic Art"
• Timothy McNiven: "Interactions with the Sacred Images on Athenian Pottery"
• Michael Swartz: "Ritual Objects as Sacred Images in the Art of the Ancient Synagogue"

Student Participants from Siena (working topics):

• Tommaso Braccini: The Holy Tile
• Gianluca De Sanctis
• Svetlana Hautla: Sacred Images in the Vegetal world
• Ilaria Sforza: Images of Double Gods

Faculty Participants from Siena (working topics):

• Maurizio Bettini: Mythical stories about the Palladium:
• Gioachino Chiarini: The images in the S. Caterina chapel in the Duomo in Siena:
• Giuseppe Pucci: On Nymphs and Graces
• Silvia Ronchey