A professor of history at the University of Houston, Frank Holt (“Alexander in the East”) is a leading authority on Alexander the Great. In his books Thundering Zeus (University of California, 1999) and Alexander the Great and Bactria (Brill, 1993), Holt pursues his fascination with Alexander’s eastern campaigns.
Rekha Morris (“Imagining Buddha”), a master gardener who just happens to have a Ph.D. in early Indian art, lives in South Carolina. She assisted Stanislaw Czuma, curator of South Asian art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, with the publication of Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India (Cleveland Museum of Art and Indiana University, 1985). She is presently preparing a catalogue of sculptures housed in the Gwalior Museum in Madhya Pradesh, India.
A Buddhaphile, John C. Huntington (“The Buddhas of Bamiyan”) is a professor of Asian art at Ohio State University. In collaboration with his wife, Susan Huntington, he has published The Art of Ancient India: Buddhist, Hindu and Jain (John Weatherhill, 1985). He is currently working on a catalogue of Buddhist meditational art for an exhibition to be held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2003.
Arthur Segal (“Leptis Magna: Jewel of the Maghreb”) is a professor at the University of Haifa, Israel, and director of the Zinman Institute of Archaeology. He is the author of From Function to Monument: Urban Landscapes of Roman Palestine, Syria and Provincia Arabia (Oxbow Books, 1997), and the article on ancient Baalbek, “Colossal Enigmas,”AO 03:05.
A professor of history at the University of Houston, Frank Holt (“Alexander in the East”) is a leading authority on Alexander the Great. In his books Thundering Zeus (University of California, 1999) and Alexander the Great and Bactria (Brill, 1993), Holt pursues his fascination with Alexander’s eastern campaigns. Rekha Morris (“Imagining Buddha”), a master gardener who just happens to have a Ph.D. in early Indian art, lives in South Carolina. She assisted Stanislaw Czuma, curator of South Asian art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, with the publication of Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India (Cleveland Museum of Art […]
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