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Past Member

Guy Hedreen

Funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

Art, Literature and Culture of Ancient Greece
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Guy Hedreen is working on a book, “Art, Natural History, and Aesthetic Theory: The Fictional Monster and the Origin of Species in Antiquity and Its Early Modern Reception.” The book explores responses to Empedokles' theory of the origin of species in art and aesthetic theory in antiquity and the Renaissance.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies
Fall

Degrees

Bryn Mawr College
Ph.D.
1988

Honors

2013-2014
Guggenheim Fellowship

Appointments

Williams College
1990–2022
Amos Lawrence Professor of Art