“Hercules and Holy Water” (Professor Ann Glennie)
While in the common imagination, Hercules might be most well known for his heroic deeds and feats of strength, across the ancient Mediterranean he was also a deity closely associated […]
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College of the Holy Cross, Smith Labs 154 (Fauci Integrated Science Complex) College Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
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Drunken Women with Spears? Funerary Practices and Female Identity in Pre-Roman Apulia
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Professor Amy Gansell, “The Queens of Nimrud’s Northwest Palace: Beauty, Power, and Presence in the Neo-Assyrian World, c. 865–705 BCE”
Nearly three thousand years ago, at the ancient site of Nimrud (near modern Mosul, Iraq), a succession of ten Neo-Assyrian kings reigned in collaboration with their queens from the magnificence of the Northwest Palace, the seat of the empire and center of their world. Too often overshadowed by the well documented legacy of Neo-Assyrian kings, […]
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Prof. Debby Sneed, Assistant Professor of Classics, California State University, Long Beach, “Disability and the Greek Ideal: A Case Study in Marble”
College of the Holy Cross, Hogan Campus Center, Room 401 (an accessible space) 1 College Street, Worcester, MA, United StatesThe study of Greek art is heavily influenced by the notion of the ideal and idealized human body, which has long been assumed to exclude aspects of bodily difference and disability. In this talk, I consider a collection of 6th century BCE sculptures of maidens (korai) that were found on the Athenian Acropolis. As traditionally […]