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In this conversation, Mary Beard and Hugo Shakeshaft explore the place of beauty in ancient Greece. They turn to poetry, art, and philosophical texts as well as the built environment and landscape to demonstrate how beauty shaped ancient Greek relations with the divine. Their conversation will bring alive the enduring place of beauty within art’s histories, from Plato’s aesthetic theories to beauty’s status in contemporary discourse.
Mary Beard (Cambridge University, emerita) is the Kress-Beinecke Professor and Hugo Shakeshaft is the A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.
This event takes place on occasion of the publication of Shakeshaft’s Beauty and the Gods: A History from Homer to Plato (2025, Princeton University Press). Copies will be available for sale after the conversation.
