Evidence of Mobile Religious Practice from Roman Coins
William E. Metcalf Lectures in Numismatics
William E. Metcalf Lectures in Numismatics
Fillets were long, ritualized textile bands most familiar to Classicists in the form of victory ribbons conferred as prizes in poetic, athletic, and martial contests. Artistic renderings of the bands […]
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
Lecture by Lynne Kvapil (Professor of Classics, Butler University)
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Alumni Lecture
Location TBA
We all know the thrill of tomb raiding adventure novels and Hollywood films—Indiana Jones, Lara Croft, Thomas Crown—hunting for hidden treasures. But the real stories of looted and trafficked cultural […]
Katherine Chiou (University of Alabama/AIA National lecturer) Today, chili peppers are central to cuisines across Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, but all domesticated chili peppers trace their origins to […]
Derek Kennet (University of Chicago)
Too often overshadowed by the legacy of Assyria’s ancient kings, this presentation illuminates the queens who reigned with them in ancient Iraq during the ninth and centuries BCE. We focus […]