New York University

Hallie Franks is an Assistant Professor of Ancient Studies. Her teaching and research interests are in the art and archaeology of Greece, Rome, and the ancient Near East, and she is particularly interested in the points of cultural overlap and exchange between the Mediterranean and the East. Her research has taken her to Greece, Italy, Egypt, and Bulgaria, and she has cotaught an on-site excursion course for undergraduates in Turkey. After receiving her Ph.D., Professor Franks taught in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University. Currently, she is revising her dissertation, "Hunters, Heroes, Kings," for publication. In this book, a painting preserved on a royal tomb in ancient Macedonia serves as the foundation for an investigation into the ways that the kingdom's court drew from various cultural traditions in the visual expression of its self-identity.