PATRICK HUNT

PATRICK HUNT (Ph.D. Institute of Archaeology, UCL, University of London, 1991) has been teaching humanities, the arts, and archaeology at Stanford University since 1993. His Hannibal Expedition was sponsored in 2007-2008 by the National Geographic Society. He is Director of the Stanford Alpine Archaeology Project 1994-2010.

Hunt is an archaeologist, art historian, poet, biographer and music composer. Hunt’s published books include: Caravaggio (2004); House of the Muse (2005); Rembrandt (2006); Alpine Archaeology (2007); and Ten Discoveries that Rewrote History (2007). He recreated Greek myths as short stories in Myths For All Time (2007). Renaissance Visions: Myth and Art and Poetry in the Song of Songs were both published in 2008. His recent poetry collection, Cloud Shadows of Olympus was published in 2009. He is often a featured scholar for National Geographic Explorer TV, the History Channel and other documentaries. Hunt is an elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (since 1989), a National Lecturer 2009-2010 for the Archaeological Institute of America as well as a judge for the Saroyan International Writing Prize in 2010.

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