[3] Squire has research interests in ancient Greek and Roman culture, the legacy of classical art and the history of Western aesthetics (especially in the German Enlightenment).
[2] After graduating with a starred first and completing an M.Phil in classical archaeology, he studied comparative literature as a Knox Fellow at Harvard University.
[6] Squire was appointed as Lecturer in Classical Greek Art at King’s College London in 2011, then Reader (2015) and Professor (2018).
[12] Squire’s research interests are listed as follows: “Greek and Roman material and visual culture; classical literature, culture and thought; ancient attitudes to the body and sensory archaeology; early Christian art and theology; history of aesthetics (especially in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Germany); cultural history of ornament; classical traditions and the legacies of Greek and Roman art; ecphrasis and visual-verbal relations; materialities of text; disciplinary histories of art history, archaeology and anthropology”.
[2] He is editor of a Routledge book series on 'Image, Text and Culture in Classical Antiquity', co-editor of the 'Greek Culture in the Roman World' series for Cambridge University Press, and sits on various journal editorial boards, including Art History.