Research intensified after the Met hired Sotheby’s veteran Lucian Simmons last year ... In 2022, Stern gifted his collection of ancient Cycladic art to Greece, and under the terms of a 25 ...

the comic dialogues by Lucian of Samosata, and Plutarch’s Moralia for Greek. He also investigates broader themes, such as the ancient novel, Greco-Roman magic, Platonism, and the manuscript ...