Bernard Frischer
Biographic Data
| ID | 222672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernard Frischer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernard |
| FAMILY NAME | Frischer |
| SIGNATURE | FRISCHER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-4024-7579 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Romulus, the Pantheon, and Decastyle Buildings in Imperial Rome
The decastyle temple preserved on two Early Imperial reliefs from Rome can be identified as Agrippa’s Pantheon, and they indicate that the building’s pediment featured three scenes from Romulus’ life: Mars and Rhea Silvia, the Lupercal, and probably the divinized Romulus/Quirinus. Such a program highlighted the central Campus Martius as the site of Romulus’ apotheosis, while also establishing a link between Romulus and Augustus, whose Mausoleum w…
The Sculpted Word
Fear and Loathing in the Hellenistic Agora
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 91, Number 2, April-June 2022
Serious Gaming for Virtual Archaeoastronomy
Many cultures worldwide have left traces of sacred architecture and monuments which often show correlation to astronomical events like solstitial sunrises. Virtual archaeology can be used to explore such orientation patterns using digital reconstructions and positions of celestial objects computed from modern astronomical models. Most 3D editing systems used to build virtual reconstructions of such monuments however fail to provide astronomically…
New Light on the Relationship between the Montecitorio Obelisk and Ara Pacis of Augustus
The article takes as its point of departure recent work (Frischer forthcoming) critiquing the theory of Edmund Buchner about the relationship of the gnomonical instrument known as the Horologium Augusti and the Ara Pacis Augustae. As a result of this critique, the Montecitorio Obelisk could be situated with greater precision on the map of the city. A computer simulation showed that Buchner erred in positing that the shadow of the Montecitorio Obe…
Ancient Rome mapped
When I first began my teaching career in 1976 at the University of California, Los Angeles, the subject of Roman topography was difficult to teach to English-speaking students. Most of the scholarship was written in Italian, and much of the rest was in French and German. Over the past 40 years the situation has changed significantly. We now have two useful introductory surveys in English: Coarelli's Rome and environs (2014) and Claridge's Rome: a…
Archaeoastronomical experiments supported by virtual simulation environments
Art and Science in the Age of Digital Reproduction
This paper places the digital humanities generally and virtual archaeology in particular into the larger context of the evolution of the arts and sciences from antiquity through the Middle Ages and Renaissance to the present, postmodern period.The argument is made that the basis of virtual reality representations of cultural objects is not primarily mimetic but interactive and that in this sense virtual archaeology reflects larger trends in conte…
AI and virtual crowds
Shifting Paradigms
The Sculpted Word
The Sculpted Word
The Sculpted Word
The Sculpted Word
The Sculpted Word
The Sculpted Word
Shifting Paradigms
AI and virtual crowds
Art and Science in the Age of Digital Reproduction
This paper places the digital humanities generally and virtual archaeology in particular into the larger context of the evolution of the arts and sciences from antiquity through the Middle Ages and Renaissance to the present, postmodern period.The argument is made that the basis of virtual reality representations of cultural objects is not primarily mimetic but interactive and that in this sense virtual archaeology reflects larger trends in conte…
Archaeoastronomical experiments supported by virtual simulation environments
New Light on the Relationship between the Montecitorio Obelisk and Ara Pacis of Augustus
The article takes as its point of departure recent work (Frischer forthcoming) critiquing the theory of Edmund Buchner about the relationship of the gnomonical instrument known as the Horologium Augusti and the Ara Pacis Augustae. As a result of this critique, the Montecitorio Obelisk could be situated with greater precision on the map of the city. A computer simulation showed that Buchner erred in positing that the shadow of the Montecitorio Obe…
Ancient Rome mapped
When I first began my teaching career in 1976 at the University of California, Los Angeles, the subject of Roman topography was difficult to teach to English-speaking students. Most of the scholarship was written in Italian, and much of the rest was in French and German. Over the past 40 years the situation has changed significantly. We now have two useful introductory surveys in English: Coarelli's Rome and environs (2014) and Claridge's Rome: a…
Serious Gaming for Virtual Archaeoastronomy
Many cultures worldwide have left traces of sacred architecture and monuments which often show correlation to astronomical events like solstitial sunrises. Virtual archaeology can be used to explore such orientation patterns using digital reconstructions and positions of celestial objects computed from modern astronomical models. Most 3D editing systems used to build virtual reconstructions of such monuments however fail to provide astronomically…
Fear and Loathing in the Hellenistic Agora
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 91, Number 2, April-June 2022
The Sculpted Word
Romulus, the Pantheon, and Decastyle Buildings in Imperial Rome
The decastyle temple preserved on two Early Imperial reliefs from Rome can be identified as Agrippa’s Pantheon, and they indicate that the building’s pediment featured three scenes from Romulus’ life: Mars and Rhea Silvia, the Lupercal, and probably the divinized Romulus/Quirinus. Such a program highlighted the central Campus Martius as the site of Romulus’ apotheosis, while also establishing a link between Romulus and Augustus, whose Mausoleum w…
History (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (3 works)