Verity Platt

About

Verity Platt is a Professor in the Department of Classics at Cornell University, holding a DPhil in Classics from Oxford University and a Masters in Classical Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. She joined Cornell in 2010 after teaching at the University of Chicago and completing a post-doctoral research fellowship at University College, Oxford. Her research specializes in Greek and Roman art history, with a focus on the relationship between ancient literary and visual cultures, particularly during the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Her scholarly interests include ancient theories of the image, media and intermediality, the historiography of ancient art, and classical reception studies. She has a keen interest in the materiality of artifacts, the intersection of art and religion, and the cultural transmission of images and texts. Platt has held fellowships at prestigious institutions such as the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago, Trinity College and the Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies, as well as at Cornell's Society for the Humanities and Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. She is currently the director of Cornell's Humanities Scholars Program for undergraduates, fostering interdisciplinary research in the humanities. Her recent work includes a monograph titled 'Epistemic Impressions: Making and Mediating Classical Art and Text,' which explores how Greek authors…

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Political Science
• Sociology
• Social Science
• Aesthetics
• Literature
• History
• Epistemology
• Pedagogy
• Visual arts

Selected publications

• Orphaned Objects: The Phenomenology of the Incomplete in Pliny's <i>Natural History</i>

  Art History · 2018-06-01 · 41 citations

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• The Embodied Object in Classical Antiquity

  Research Portal (King's College London) · 2018-06-01 · 35 citations

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• Double Vision: Epiphanies of the Dioscuri in Classical Antiquity

  Archiv für Religionsgeschichte · 2018-03-28 · 33 citations

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  Abstract: The Dioscuri – Castor and Pollux – are among the most epiphanic of gods, frequently appearing in battle or to sailors struggling at sea. On Chios, a festival called the Theophania was founded in the third century BC to commemorate an epiphany of the twin gods. Indeed, their appearance at the Sicilian battle of the River Sagra c. 540 BC was so well known in Greek – and Roman – culture that it was invoked as a proverbial example of epiphanic manifestation in Cicero’s De natura deorum (2.…

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• Introduction: From Grecian Urn to Embodied Object

  Art History · 2018-06-01 · 25 citations

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• De l’original perdu à la série : nouvelles approches des multiples gréco-romains

  Perspective · 2019-01-01 · 14 citations

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  Il s’agit d’analyser dans cet essai les approches récentes de la recherche sur la « copie romaine » au sein de l’université et des musées. Tout en retraçant le parcours effectué depuis les pratiques de la Kopienkritik (qui privilégiait l’original grec perdu) jusqu’à la compréhension postmoderniste de la pratique romaine de l’imitation (qui met en évidence la dimension créative de la reproduction), il s’agit de s’intéresser pour finir au xxie siècle. Les dernières découvertes archéologiques (issu…

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Frequent coauthors

• Michael Squire

  27 shared

• Milette Gaifman

  9 shared

• Jennifer Trimble

  6 shared

• Sean V. Leatherbury

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• Courtney Roby

  6 shared

• Nikolaus Dietrich

  6 shared

• Guy Hedreen

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• Clemente Marconi

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Awards & honors

• Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow Award

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