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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 […]

“Myth-Ing Sound: Exploring Markers of Music in Ancient Athenian Vase Paintings” by Danielle Smotherman Bennett

Hartford, CT, United States

Music features as an important component in a variety of ancient Greek mythological tales, including those portrayed on vases. Athenian vase paintings, however, are a silent medium. This talk demonstrates how images regularly incorporate sound through visual clues inviting viewers to imagine these sensory aspects and how vase painters visually express in different ways music, […]

The Looting and Salvage of a Hieroglyphic Staircase in the Palace of La Corona, Guatemala

Lecturer: Maxime Lamoureux-St. Hilaire During excavations in the regal palace at La Corona, Guatemala (2013-2016), Lamoureux-St. Hilaire discovered one of two looted Mayan hieroglyphic staircases, along with seven hieroglyphic monuments. This talk will contextualize this discovery within its glorious architectural and historical settings, discuss the looting, and reflect upon the ethical issues associated with museums— […]