• Director of Hannibal Expedition 2007-2008- sponsored by National Geographic Society
Research InterestsArchaeology, Ancient Technology, Archaeological Science, Art History, Ancient Religion, Mythology PublicationsReview of ANCIENT ROME IN SO MANY WORDS by Christopher Francese. New York: Hippocrene Books (2007). DIGRESSUS, Volume 8 (2008) 14-18."Natale Conti MYTHOLOGIAE Review. tr. John Mulroyan and Steven Brown. RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY 61.1 (Spring, 2008) 152-53."Gustav Klimt" encyclopedia entry in Great Lives in History: The 20th Century, forthcoming 2008"A Review of 'Endymion au carrefour" by Natalia Agapiou" Renaissance Quarterly, vol. LX, number 3, Autumn 2007"Hannibal's Engineers and Livy (XXI.36-7) on Burned Rock - Truth or Legend?" Archaeolog, Stanford (June, 2007)"Hannibal Barca's Theophoric Destiny" Archaeolog, Stanford (January 2007) “Nero” in Notorious Lives, (January 2007)"Hannibal or Hasdrubal?: Some Numismatic and Chronometric Considerations for Alpine Archaeology" Archaeolog, Stanford (November, 2006)"Alpine Archaeology: Hannibal Expedition - Stanford Alpine Archaeology Project 2006 Field Report" Archaeolog, Stanford (November, 2006)"Ekphrasis: Rembrandt and Ovid, 'The Abduction of Europa' (1632), Metamorphoses II.849-59, and the Myth Tradition", Ex Libris, vol. 14, 18-21, (October, 2006)"Mythology” in Magill’s Choice: Ancient Greece, (August, 2006)"Hannibal in the Alps: Stanford Alpine Archaeology Project 1994-2006" Archaeolog, Stanford (April, 2006)"Gallo-Roman Hybrid Material Culture in the Alps", Proceedings of the Cultures in Contact Conference, Stanford (February, 2006)"Tosca's Roman Monuments" San Francisco Opera Magazine, (October 2004), Vol. 82, No. 2, XI-XIII "Origins of Byzantine Silk Production in 563 CE" Great Events in History, (Fall, 2004)"645 bce: Lydia's Rise to Power under the Mermnad Family" The Ancient World: Great Events from History, vol. 1, 331-32 (April, 2004)"Gudea, King of Lagash," The Ancient World: Great Lives from History., vol. 1, 366-69 (April, 2004)"Bronze Tabulae Ansatae at Roman Summus Poeninus in the Roman Alps" Acta: From the Parts to the Whole vol. 2, Proceedings of XIIIth Int'l Bronze Congress, Harvard University Art Museums, JRA Suppl (2002)"Pantheon", Encyclopedia of the Ancient World. (January, 2002)"Gyges", Encyclopedia of the Ancient World. (January, 2002)"Triptolemos and Beyond in the Stanford Kleophon Krater", Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, Stanford Museum Journal, (Winter 2001), 3-8"Olmec stone sculpture: selection criteria for basalt", The Archaeology of Geological Catastrophes, Geological Society of London, No. 171 (2000), 345-353 "Refuge romain et aqueduc - Plan de Barrasson", Chronique des decouvertes archeologiques dans le canton du Valais en 1998 , Vol LIV (1999), 300-308"Summus Poeninus: Romans at the Grand St. Bernard" Journal of Roman Archaeology XI (1998), 265-274"Sensory Images in the Song of Solomon" BEATAJ 28 Proceedings of IOSOT (1996)"Maya and Olmec Stone Contests: Basalt and Limestone Weathering Contrasts" Seventh Round Table, Precolumbian Art Research Institute (1994), 261-67"Mt. Saphon in Myth and Fact" Studia Phoenicia XI (1991) Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 44, 103-15."Hellenic Maritime Museum, Piraeus, Greece". Newsletter of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology 17.1 College Station, Texas (1990), 28-29"Inca Vocanic Stone Sources, Cuzco Province, Peru." Papers of the Institute of Archaeology, 1.1, London (1990), 24-36"Optical Petrology in the Field." Journal of World Archaeology 21.1, Routledge, Kegan and Paul [co-authored with D.R. Griffiths], London (1989)"The International Summer School in Papyrology: A Review." BICS 35 [Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies], London (1988), 159-61"Myths Backward and Forward : Palindromes on Mythology", Word Ways: Journal of Recr. Linguistics, Morristown, NJ (August, 1981)"In the Footsteps of Dr. Semmelweis." The Science Teacher: Journal of the National Science Teachers Association, Washington DC (January 1981)Patrick Hunt's Philolog ArticlesPatrick Hunt's Other Archaeolog Articles