Eugene Dwyer was born in Buffalo and attended Frontier Central High School, Harvard College, and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. During the years of his graduate study and afterwards he traveled widely in classical lands, visiting Egypt, Greece, and Italy. After living in Italy for three years, he completed his doctoral dissertation on Pompeii. While he was visiting the Sanctuary of the Great Gods in Samothrace the idea for a work on ancient allegory came to him. He developed this theme in several youthful articles, and in an essay on the Tazza Farnese (in which study he was helped by Franklin Miller). Currently, he is engaged in writing a book on the Pantheon which he hopes will revisit a number of these earlier themes in a synthesis of time, music, and astronomy. He has recently published several studies of the plaster casts made of the victims of the eruption of Vesuvius at Pompeii. (For a fuller account of his scholarly ventures, see Curriculum Vitae .) At Kenyon he teaches courses in the history of art and architecture, Roman art and archaeology, the history of collections, and architectural design.

Areas of Expertise

Classical archaeology, ancient art history, history of archaeology, iconography

Education

B.A. Harvard
M.A., Ph.D. New York University

Selected Publications

Dwyer, Eugene. Pompeii's Living Statues: Ancient Roman Lives Stolen from Death. 2010

Courses Taught

ARHS 110 Survey of Ancient Art
ARHS 113 Survey of Architectural History
ARHS 220 Greek Art
ARHS 221 Roman Art
ARHS 279 Problems in Architectural Design
ARHS 373 Seminar on Pompeii
ARHS 382 Seminar in Iconography
ARHS 480 Senior Seminar: History and Theory of Art and Art History

Affiliations:

College Art Association of America
Archaeological Institute of America
American Numismatic Society