Professor Kevin Dicus (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Classics, University of Oregon) The history of Pompeii is often reduced to a single moment: its destruction and burial in AD 79. Vivid images of the ruins and the casts of Vesuvius’ victims bring a focus onto the “death” of the city while its full life history remains […]

Dr. Mario Ramirez Galan Universidad de Alcalia, Spain/University of Portland The battle of Alcala la Vieja (1118) took place 900 years ago in Alcala de Henares (Madrid) and we decided to carry out an investigation with the purpose of locating the combat area. Throughout our research, we noticed several mistakes in the written sources and […]

2nd Annual E. John and Cleo A. Rumpakis Lecture Eric D. Nelson is Professor of Classics at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. Besides his scholarship on the figure of Hippocrates and the early formation of the Hippocratic Corpus, he is the author of popular books on Greece and Rome, and has appeared in programs […]