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AIA Lecture: Feasts Fit for Pharaohs: Food and Drink in Ancient Egypt

Oct. 30, 2024

Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 7PM - Visual Arts Complex, Room 1B20

Hellenistic theater

Lecture: Divine Witnessing and Dramatic Performance in Ancient Greece

Oct. 14, 2024

Thursday, November 7, 2024 at 5PM - Eaton Humanities 250

Ninnion Pinax

AIA Lecture: Experiencing Epiphany in the Ancient Greek Sanctuary

Oct. 7, 2024

Wednesday, November 6, 2024 at 7PM - Eaton Humanities 250

Caesar's portrait

AIA Lecture: Caesar’s Cervisia

Oct. 7, 2024

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at 7PM - Eaton Humanities 150

A marble statuette of Euripides

2024 Fountain Symposium

Ninth Annual Celia M. Fountain Symposium: "Greek Myths from Egyptian Sands: Discovering the New Euripides"

Imagery from Ancient Greece

Re-considering the Roman “Arts and Sciences” (artes): Scope, Premises, Problems

Aug. 1, 2024

The Classics department and Center for Humanities & the Arts present a talk with Professor James L. Zainaldin from Vanderbilt University: Re-considering the Roman “Arts and Sciences” (artes): Scope, Premises, Problems

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Searching for the Goddess of Countless Names

March 26, 2024

Searching for the Goddess of Countless Names: Isis, Gender, and Ethnic Identity in Vergil and Ovid Lily Panoussi Thursday, April 18, 2024 5pm - Eaton Humanities (HUMN) 250 ABSTRACT This presentation will focus on the depiction of the goddess Isis in Vergil's Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses. The two authors seem...

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Labor Unions and the "Fall" of Rome

March 7, 2024

Labor Unions and the "Fall" of Rome Sarah E. Bond Wednesday, March 13, 2024 5pm - Eaton Humanities (HUMN) 250 ABSTRACT Arresting a charioteer in the late Roman world was a perilous act. A large portion of the Roman populace felt great affinity for members of one of the four...

Tholos tomb near Palace at Pylos

AIA Lecture - Power of the Ancestors at Pylos, Greece

Feb. 1, 2024

Power of the Ancestors at Pylos, Greece Wednesday, February 21st at 7:15pm Eaton Humanities #250 Free and open to the public Abstract Tholos tomb near Palace at Pylos Over the past few decades, archaeologists have assigned ancestors significant roles in the supernatural orders of most ancient societies. They argue that...

The head of Roma on the front and the two Dioscuri riding horses on the back. Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

McClanahan Essay Prize: Rome’s Other Twins: Ovid’s Gemini in Fasti V.

Jan. 23, 2024

Rome’s Other Twins: Ovid’s Gemini in Fasti V. Rachel Dzugan The head of Roma on the front and the two Dioscuri riding horses on the back. Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The legendary she-wolf suckles Romulus and Remus. Musei Capitolini. Thursday, February 1, 5:15pm Eaton Humanities #250 Free and open...

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