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 in more permanent forms of visual art, such as in victor statues like Polykleitos’ Diadoumenos, memorialized this symbolic capital of adornment with which Greeks distinguished […]
The Central Missouri Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), in co-sponsorship with the University of Missouri, is proud to present the annual Anita Krause Bader Lecture in Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology. Lecturer: Dr. Lindsey A. Mazurek, Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Indiana University Bloomington Abstract: Part of Rome’s main port city of Ostia […]
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
Lecture by Lynne Kvapil (Professor of Classics, Butler University)
Speaker: Odette Boivin (University of Toronto) - focuses on archival, everyday Babylonian documents and historiographic sources. Robert Koldewey and his team excavated in Babylon between 1899 and 1917, carrying out foundational work for our understanding of the city of Babylon and contributing to develop and establish archaeological standards in the early days of the discipline. […]
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Alumni Lecture
Matthew Schmader (University of New Mexico) The huge exploration led by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado was the first contact between Ancestral Rio Grande Pueblos and outsiders. Its intended goals failed […]
A lecture by Diana Patch, Curator in Charge of the Department of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Andy Goldman, Gonzaga University Abstract: Planning on a trip to Rome in the near future? Wondering what you might want to go […]