Patrick Hunt

PATRICK HUNT is in the Classics Department at Stanford University, where he has been teaching archaeology, mythology, and art history since 1994. He has been featured on the History Channel and in Archaeology magazine for his Hannibal alpine research and directs Stanford's Alpine Archaeology project in France, Italy, and Switzerland. Additionally, he is a published poet, classical music composer, and illustrator; he contributed the illustrations to Richard Martin's Myth of the AncientGreeks (Penguin). Hunt's wide-ranging professional and personal scholarship allows him to interpret Caravaggio's complicated religious and classical imagery while anchoring his art in his life.