Eric Mentges graduated from The Ohio State University in 2010 with a BA (Honors) in Classics and a BA in Psychology (Honors). In the summer of 2009 as an AIA Waldbaum Fellow he participated in the excavations at Isthmia, Greece. In the spring of 2010 he lead a walking tour of Ostia Antica and lectured on various monuments and works of ancient art in Rome. While striving to embrace an interdisciplinary approach and use the philological record appropriately, his research interests primarily concern the material world of the Ancient Mediterranean. His thesis work, which he hopes to continue in the future, concerned the employment of the cuirassed statue in the propagation of imperial knowledge and the possible effects of the exportation of Roman triumphal imagery and rhetoric throughout the empire.