Charles J. Ping Professor of Humanities Professor of Classics and Chair of the Department
210D Ellis Hall
Tel. (740) 597-2106
E-mail: carpentt@ohio.edu
Ohio University faculty member since 1997.
Education
Oxford University, Doctor of Philosophy, 1983.
Harvard University, Master of Theological Studies, 1971.
Johns Hopkins University, Bachelor of Arts, 1966
Specializations
- Greek Archaeology
- Greek religion and iconography
Courses Taught
- CLAS 312 Greek Tragedy
- CLAS 234 Classical Mythology
- CLAS 252 Classical Athens
- CLAS 254 Rome Under the Caesars
- CLAS 255 Pagan to Christian in Late Antiquity
- CLAR 212 Roman Archaeology
Publications
Books:
Dionysian Imagery in Fifth Century Athens (Oxford University Press, Clarendon, 1997) [Link to ALICE record]
Masks of Dionysus, ed. with C. Faraone (Cornell University Press, 1993) [Link to ALICE record]
Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (Thames and Hudson, World of Art Series, 1991) [Link to ALICE record] French edition: Les mythes dans l’art grec 1997 [Link to ALICE record] Spanish edition: Arte y mito en la antigua grecia, 2000 Korean edition: 1998 Turkish edition: 2004 Greek edition: 2006
Beazley Addenda, Additional References to ABV, ARV2 and Paralipomena, 2nd edition (Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1989) [Link to ALICE record]
Dionysian Imagery in Archaic Greek Art (Oxford University Press, Clarendon, 1986, 2nd edition 1990) [Link to ALICE record]
Summary Guide to the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1984) [Link to OhioLINK record]
Mythology, Greek and Roman, with R. Gula (Independent School Press, 1977 - now Longman) [Link to OhioLINK record]
Articles:
“Greek Religion and Art” in D. Ogden ed. Blackwell Companion to Greek Religion (Oxford, 2007) 398-420.
“Introduction and Discussion” in E. Csapo and M. C. Miller eds., The Origins of the Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond: From Ritual to Drama. (Cambridge, 2007) 41-47, 108-117. [Link to ALICE record]
“Images of Satyr Plays in South Italy” in G. Harrison ed., Satyr Drama: Tragedy at Play (Classical Press of Wales, 2005) 219-236. [Link to ALICE record]
“The Native Market for Red-Figure Vases in Apulia” MAAR 48 (2003) 1-24.
“A Note on Greek Painting” in A Garden of Greek Verse (Getty Museum, 2000). [Link to ALICE record]
“Images and Beliefs: Thoughts on the Derveni Krater” in G. Tsetskhladze, A. Snodgrass and A. Prag eds. Periplous, Papers on Classical Art and Archaeology Presented to Sir John Boardman (Thames and Hudson, 2000) 51 - 59. [Link to ALICE record]
“Harmodios and Apollo in Fifth Century Athens. What’s in a Pose?” in J. Oakley ed. Athenian Potters and Painters (American School of Classical Studies, Athens, 1997) 171 - 79. [Link to ALICE record]
“Nymphs, not Maenads” abstract, American Journal of Archaeology 99 (1995) 314. [Link to full text via JSTOR; restricted access]
“A Symposium of Gods” in O. Murray ed. In Vino Veritas (Oxford, 1995) 145 - 63. [Link to ALICE record]
“The Terrible Twins in Sixth Century Attic Art” in J. Solomon ed. Apollo, Origins and Influences (University of Arizona Press, 1994) 61 - 79. [Link to OhioLINK record]
“The Beardless Dionysus” in Carpenter and Faraone eds. Masks of Dionysus (Cornell University Press, 1993) 185 - 206. [Link to ALICE record]
“The Iconography of Phintias” abstract, American Journal of Archaeology 92 (1988) 237. [Link to full text via JSTOR; restricted access]
“The Tyrrhenian Group: Problems of Provenance”, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 3 (1984) 45 � 56.
“The Beazley Archive Computer Project” with J. Boardman and D. Kurtz in Papers, Automatic Processing of Art History Data and Documents (Pisa, 1984) [Link to OhioLINK record]
“On the Dating of the Tyrrhenian Group” Oxford Journal of Archaeology 2 (1983) 279-93.
Reviews:
Review of V. Nøskov, Greek Vases in New Contexts: the Collecting and Trading of Greek Vases in American Journal of Archaeology 108 (2004) 465-466.
Review of D. Castaldo, Il Pantheon Musicale, Iconografia nella ceramica attic tra VI e IV secolo in Imago Musicae: The International Yearbook of Musical Iconography 20 (2003) 154-156. [Link to OhioLINK record]
Review of A. Tempesta, Le raffigurazioni mitologiche sulla ceramica Greco-orientale arcaica in American Journal of Archaeology 106 (2002) 332 � 33.
Review of M Anderson, The Fall of Troy in Early Greek Poetry and Art in American Journal of Philology 120 (1999) 453-55
Review of H.A.Shapiro, Myth into Art in Classical Philology 91 (1996) 384-88. [Link to full text via JSTOR; restricted access]
Review of R. Hamilton, Choes and Anthesteria in Classical Philology 89 (1994) 372 -75. [Link to full text via JSTOR; restricted access]
Feature Review of B. Sparks, Greek Art and Greek Pottery, T. Rasmussen and N. Spivey, Looking at Greek Vases, J. J. Pollitt, The Art of Ancient Greece in Classical Journal 88 (1993) 419 - 25.
Review of F. Frontisi-Ducroux, Le dieu-masque: une figure du Dionysos d’Ath�ne in Journal of Hellenic Studies 113 (1993) 203 - 4 [Link to full text via JSTOR; restricted access]
Review of D. von Bothmer, The Amasis Painter and His World in Journal of Hellenic Studies 108 (1988) 269. [Link to full text via JSTOR; restricted access]
Review of A. J. N. W. Prag, The Oresteia, Iconographic and Narrative Tradition in Journal of Hellenic Studies 107 (1987) 257. [Link to full text via JSTOR; restricted access]
Review of H. Brijder, Siana Cups I in Journal of Hellenic Studies 106 (1986) 251 � 52. [Link to full text via JSTOR; restricted access]
Review of F. Giudici, I pittori della classe di Phanyllis in Classical Review 35 (1985) 419. [Link to full text via JSTOR; restricted access]