UCLA Appointments

Steinmetz Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture, Department of Classics

Research Interests

Prehistoric (Bronze Age) through classical archaeology of Greece; relations with Near East; "Homeric" archaeology

Research Summary

Sarah Morris' training and research involve the interaction of Greece with its Eastern neighbors, in art, literature, religion and culture. Her chief book on the subject, Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art (Princeton, 1992) won the James Wiseman Book Award from the Archaeological Institute of America for 1993. She has also edited (with Jane Carter) a volume of essays, The Ages of Homer (Texas, 1995), on the archaeological, literary, and artistic background and responses to Greek epic poetry. A practicing field archaeologist, she has excavated in Israel, Turkey and Greece, and is currently engaged in the Lofkënd Archaeological Project in Albania.

Her teaching and research interests include early Greek literature (Homer, Hesiod and Herodotus), Greek religion, prehistoric and early Greek archaeology, ceramics, Greek architecture and landscape studies, and Near Eastern influence on Greek art and culture.

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