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Ada Cohen

Associate Professor of Art History

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Departments

  • Art History
  • Women's and Gender Studies

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Contact Information

Email: ada.cohen@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-1332
Office: 6033 Carpenter Hall

Education

B.A. Brandeis University; M.A. Harvard University; Ph.D. Harvard University

Areas of Expertise

Greek art and culture; Alexander the Great and Hellenistic art; Near Eastern art; sexuality and gender

Selected Works

  • Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy, co-edited with J B Rutter and contributor, (2007).
  • "Mythic Landscape of Greece," in Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology, R Woodard (ed.), (2006).
  • "Landscape and Figure in Ancient Greek Art," in The Greek Landscape (in Greek), P Doukellis (ed.), (2005) 105-129 (in Greek).
  • "Art, Myth, and Travel in the Hellenistic World," in Pausanias: Travel and Memory in Roman Greece, S E Alcock, J Cherry, and J Elsner (eds.), (2001) 93-126.
  • The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory and Defeat, (1997, paperback 2000).
  • "Portrayals of Abduction in Greek Art: Rape or Metaphor?" with B Bergmann, et al., in Sexuality in Ancient Art, N B Kampen (ed.), (1996) 117-35.

Current Projects

Paradigms of Manhood: Art and Culture in the Times of Alexander the Great; "He pais kalé": Beauty and Women in Ancient Greek Art; Assyrian Reliefs at Dartmouth