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Before the Railway: Trade and the Syrian Hajj

Lecturer: Marcus Milwright, Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology in the Department of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Victoria Abstract: Prior to the advent of mass air travel Muslims performing the pilgrimage (hajj) to the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina were faced with long, expensive, and often physically arduous journeys […]

My 40 Year Search for the Battle of Actium

Nashville Parthenon 2500 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN, United States

Joukowsky Lecture For log-in information for this webinar, please contact Mireille Lee at mireille.lee@Vanderbilt.Edu

My 40 Year Search for the Battle of Actium

Free registration on Zoom required. In 31 BC, Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra in a naval battle off Cape Actium in Western Greece. A few years later, the victor constructed on the site of his personal camp a grand Victory Monument to commemorate the event. I first visited this site in 1978, and since then, […]

Dicing with Death: Games, Contests, and the World of Play on Roman Sarcophagi

This lecture will be presented virtually on Zoom. All are welcome. To join the Zoom meeting, use the button below. The public face of Roman art is painfully sober. In the privacy of their tombs however, free to cast off their stern public personae, Romans surrounded themselves with art of a different nature. Here, on […]