very lucky he is to be doing what he loves and
knows many people have helped him along the way.
Patrick has followed several of his life-long dreams – archaeologist, writer, composer, poet, art historian – while teaching the last dozen or so years at Stanford University.
Some of the courses he has taught at Stanford
accommodate his breadth of interests in the Humanities, the Arts, Ancient
History and Ancient Technology as well as Archaeological Science. He has
lived in London, Athens and Jerusalem as well as annual time spent in
Switzerland, France, Italy every year since 1994, among many other
countries, and has also conducted archaeological research in Peru on Inca
sites and on Olmec, Maya and Aztec cultures in Central America.
As a musician and composer, among many classical music works, he has written
piano, choral and chamber music and is a Full Writer member of ASCAP since
1980 when some of his choral songs were published along with a movie score
he composed. In 1999, a Duke University musical group performed his SONGS
OF EXILE: By the Rivers of Babylon in Washington, DC, Raleigh and at Duke.
Three arias from his opera in progress, BYRON IN GREECE, were recently
performed in London in March, 2005 and William Blake poems set to choral
music were performed at Stanford in February, 2005.
Patrick illustrated Richard Martin’s MYTHS OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS (New
American Library-Penguin, 2003) and has illustrated his newest book of
poems, HOUSE OF THE MUSE: Poems from the British Museum, newly published in
the summer of 2005. His many poetry publications include poems in YOUNG
AMERICAN POETS (1978), POET LORE (1978) and CLASSICAL OUTLOOK (1991). He is
also translating Greek poets like Sappho and encyclopedists like
Theophrastus.
Patrick has directed Stanford’s Alpine Archaeology Project since 1994, conducting high altitude research in the Great St. Bernard pass between Switzerland and Italy. In 1996 he found the 9000 ft. high quarry for the Temple of Jupiter in the Fenetre de Ferret pass adjacent to the Great St. Bernard Pass and has directed a team that found a Roman silver coin hoard in the Swiss Alps in 2003. Another of his research interests has been to track Hannibal who crossed the Alps in 218 BCE with an army accompanied by elephants. He has led annual teams across at least ten Alpine passes in search of topographic clues matching the texts of Polybius and Livy who wrote about Hannibal nearly two millennia ago, including multiple Stanford teams between 1996 and 2006.
Patrick has been published on such diverse topics as monuments like the
Pantheon, ancient notables such as Gyges and Herodotus, linguistics,
biblical studies, the origin of Byzantine Silk, studies in Hebrew poetry
and literary wordplay, Roman monuments in operas, calendrical megaliths,
Olmec and Maya sculpture, iconography on Greek vases and myth palindromes,
nautical exploration, art history, Egyptian stone working and Phoenician
lore and geoarchaeology among many other topics. His academic publications
include many journal and encyclopedia entries in peer-reviewed articles
such as WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY (1989), BULLETIN OF THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL
STUDIES (1988), PAPERS OF THE INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY, LONDON (1990),
STUDIA PHOENICIA (1991), BEITRAGE FUR ERFORSCHUNG DES ALTEN TESTAMENTS (1992 & 1996), JOURNAL OF ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY (1998), VOLCANOES, EARTHQUAKES
AND ARCHAEOLOGY published by the Royal Geological Society (2000), ACTA of
the XIIIth International Bronze Congress at Harvard University (2003),
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE ANCIENT WORLD (2003) and GREAT EVENTS IN WORLD HISTORY (2004). He has been a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society since 1989,
named in WHO'S WHO IN BIBLICAL STUDIES AND ARCHAEOLOGY (1993) and he has
also served as President of the Archaeological Institute of America’s
Stanford Society since 1995. Patrick's primary archaeology books of 2007 are titled
TEN DISCOVERIES THAT REWROTE HISTORY and ALPINE ARCHAEOLOGY.
Along with monographs, novellas, and other writing, Patrick recently wrote
CARAVAGGIO, an art historical biography and critical book on the Baroque
genius painter, published in London in 2004. It has been highly acclaimed
in reviews including the ART NEWSPAPER International in London (December
2004) where it was described as “first-class” and “a rattling good yarn.”
He was invited to the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference in August, 2005,
where he presented the genre of new myth fable. His art history book on REMBRANDT was out in second edition in 2007. |
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