Ditte Kvist Johnson

About Ditte Kvist Johnson

I am a PhD student in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History. My project seeks to investigate the changing role of sculpture in shaping culture and society in Hellenistic and Roman Athens by focusing on the interaction between human and material agency. Honorific statues, statues of athletes, gods, and heroes will all be examined. By focusing on subject-object dynamics, that is the relationship between viewers and statues, the project will be the first to examine the intrinsic workings of Athenian statues and in which way these affected – and effected – the people who viewed them and their surrounding urban landscapes as well as it aims to offer new perspectives on the processes that maintained and furthered social order and political culture. My main supervisor is prof. Lena Larsson Lovén (University of Gothenburg) and my co-supervisor is prof. Troels Myrup Kristensen (Aarhus University).

You can find me on Academia.edu.