History of Art and Architecture

Anne Weis

Associate Professor Emerita

Area of Specialization

Republican Italy and Rome

Biography

Past PhD(s): Cornelie Piok Zanon; See a listing of Past PhDs for details

https://pitt.academia.edu/AnneWeis

Anne Weis is interested in the material culture of the Roman Republic and in the mix of foreign and indigenous components that combined to produce it. Her early publications dealt with the Roman use of Greek subject matter and style (e.g. the Ficoroni cista 1982, The Hanging Marsyas Statue: Roman Innovations in a Hellenistic Sculptural Tradition, 1992, Sperlonga 1998, 2000). Her recent and current interests have to do with Roman business and its impact on the archaeological record (2003, 2005) and with gender in the Greek and early Roman world.

Weis' teaching covered ancient Greece, Rome, and the Near East, emphasizing the impact of materials on the development of architectural traditions, the relationship between commerce, consumption, and art/architectural production, plaster casts and the reception of the ancient world in later western society, and gender mores and culture in the Mediterranean world.

Education Details

PhD, Bryn Mawr College (1976)
Associate Professor Emerita (2021), University of Pittsburgh

Selected Publications

"Odysseus at Sperlonga: Hellenistic Hero or Roman Heroic Foil?" in N.T. de Grummond ed., From Pergamum to Sperlonga: Sculpture in Context (Berkeley, Calif., 2000) 111–65

"Gaius Verres and the Roman Art Market: Consumption and Connoisseurship in Late Republican Rome," in A. Haltenhoff, A. Heil, F.H. Mutschler eds., "O tempora, O mores." Römische Werte und römische Literatur in den letzten Jahrzehnten der Republik (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Munich and Leipzig, 2003) 355–400

Liberalitas and Lucrum in Republican City Planning:  Plautus (Curc. 466–83) and L. Betilienus Vaarus” in A. Haltenhoff, A. Heil, F.H. Mutschler eds., Römische Werte als Gegenstand altertumswissenschaftlicher Forschung (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Munich and Leipzig, 2005) 225-58

Weis, A., Jacobson, J., Darnell, M. (2010) The Virtual Theater District of Pompeii. Computer Applications in Archaeology (CAA), Granada, Spain, April 2010. Online publication (6/15/10):  http://www.publicvr.org/IndexDownloads/WeisCAA2010.pdf

“Gender Symmetry:  Pliny Epist. 6.32, Women’s Processions and Roman Life Choices” in Noctes Sinenses: Festschrift für Fritz-Heiner Mutschler zum 65. Geburtstag, edited by A. Heil, M. Korn, and J. Sauer (Heidelberg, Universitätsverlag Winter, 2011)

“The public face of girlhood at 4th-3rd cen. BCE Lavinium” in Mädchen im Altertum / Girls in Antiquity.  Proceedings of the 2010 Berlin conference, edited by Susanne Moraw and Anna Kieburg. “Frauen – Forschung – Archäologie” 11. (Münster, Waxmann, 2014) 287-307.

Selected Awards

Rome Prize, 1979–80

Recent Lectures

 “The éxodos: elite women and civic space in Greece and Rome.” In Urban Dreams and Realities: an Interdisciplinary Conference on the City in Ancient Cultures, 21-22 Oct. 2011 at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada).

“From Street to Grave:  Women’s Funerary Monuments and Women’s Public Lives.” (Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America, Chicago, January 2014).

“Theopompus on the Tyrrhenians, Polybius on Roman Aemilia: Virtue and Elite Display among the Women.” (The Celtic Conference in Classics, Edinburgh, June 2014).

“Exodoi: Processions of Women in the later Classical and Hellenistic City.” (Annual Meeting of the Eastern International Region of the American Academy of Religion, Pittsburgh, May 2016).

“Solon and the Women of Early Greece.” (Annual Meeting, Archaeological Institute of America, Toronto, January 2017).

“Marking Life Transitions in Middle Republican Latium.” (Presidential Panel, “Constructions of Girlhood in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Trends, Challenges, Critical Approaches, Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South/CAMWS, Albuquerque, April 2018).

“The Language of Bodies and Heads, Dress and Deportment in Roman Art.” (Roman Sculpture in Context workshop, Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego, January 2019)

Current Projects

“The éxodos: elite women and civic space in Greece, Etruria, and Rome” (in process)

Elite display in early Hellenistic Etruria: the Tetnie sarcophagi in Boston (working title, under contract)

“Periander, Melissa, and the women of Corinth: fragments of the distaff side of tyranny.” (working title, in process)