Lecture
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Death comes to the Theban Sacred Band: Skeletons from the Battle of Chaironeia (338 BC)
Matson Lecture Register in advance here: https://uiowa.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUod-mtrjIvGNDmi2RwRVqAkMlF9UrJotr0
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Dreams, Drugs, and Fumigations: Doctoring in Ancient Athens
Broneer Lecture
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The Archaeology of a Viking Age Chieftain’s Power Center in Mosfell Valley, Iceland
Burpee Museum of Natural History 737 North Main St., Rockford, IL, United StatesForsyth Lecture
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“Dreams, Drugs, and Fumigations: Doctoring in Ancient Athens”
In ancient Athens, as today, people got sick. Suffering from anything from epidemic disease and accidents to chronic illness and passing indisposition, they required treatment. Much of what we know about that treatment comes from texts, particularly the body of medical lore known as the Hippocratic Corpus, which began to be written down in the […]
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Rockford Society Lecture
Burpee Museum of Natural History 737 North Main St., Rockford, IL, United StatesThe Archaeology of a Viking Age Chieftain's Power Center in Mosfell Valley, Iceland Forsyth Lecture
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Ritual at the Crossroads: A Sacred Stone in Ancient Athens
Susan Rotroff, Jarvis Thurston & Mona Van Duyn Professor Emerita, Washington University, St. Louis (srotroff@wustl.edu) A large, irregular boulder fenced off by a parapet of stone slabs lies at a crossroads on the north side of the Agora (the public square) of ancient Athens. When excavated, in the 1970s, I, t was covered with hundreds […]
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