Although popular culture has long revered the gladiators as the manliest of Romans, posturing before howling crowds of plebeians as the rockstars of their day, the sex of gladiators as constructed by Romans is rather more complicated. This talk tackles the sexualized nuances of the arena, touching on the relative masculinity of gladiators as a…Continue Reading Sex and Gender in the Arena
This talk will examine the historic role of the conservation discipline in legitimizing narratives of the past, and the impact this continues to have on the field, its practice, and future. Further, I will unpack the critical roles played by expertise and authority in defining and valuing heritage work, the labour engaged in its production,…Continue Reading Legitimizing the Past: Conservation, Expertise and the Power of Transformation
The results of five seasons of fieldwork conducted since 2017 at the Temple of Athena at Paestum in southern Italy are presented. The research is concerned with the north urban sanctuary whose Doric temple of the late sixth century BCE stands as its centerpiece. The North Urban Paestum Project (NUPP) is being conducted by Colgate…Continue Reading A New Cycle of Fieldwork at the Temple of Athena at Paestum
The Hellenic Cultural Foundation Presents… An ancient city was a city of clay: from the architectural terracottas on roofs of homes and temples, to the clay drainage pipes underground, Greeks potters mastered earth and fire to produce almost everything a household and a city needed from the mundane to the exquisite. In this richly illustrated lecture Professor Hasaki…Continue Reading Earth and Fire: Ancient Greek Potters and Their Masterpieces (A Hellenic Cultural Foundation Lecture)
During the late Republic and early Empire, Rome had a voracious appetite for importing luxury objects from around the Mediterranean: spices from the Arabian Peninsula, sculptures and bronzes from Greece, glassware from Egypt and the Levant, nd textiles from India, to list a few examples. Some of these so-termed luxuries have been preserved in shipwrecks…Continue Reading Shipwrecks and the Transport of Luxury in the Roman Mediterranean
Archaeological research over the past thirty years has highlighted rural gatherings, sacrifice, and feasting as central aspects of Early Iron Age ritual practice in many parts of Greece. But less attention has been paid to similar evidence from later periods or to the practicalities of organisation and provision for events in often remote locations. From…Continue Reading Fête Champêtre: Ritual Consumption in the Greek Countryside
Prof. Rob Schon (Anthropology and Classics) will cast a new and distinctive analytical eye on “The Archaeology of Baseball in the (not so) Wild West”. Using the results of his excavations of Bisbee’s Warren Ballpark (the world’s oldest baseball stadium in continuous use), he will focus on the audience experience of the physical venue, contextualized…Continue Reading The Archaeology of Baseball in the (not so) Wild West
Much has been written about Hitler’s interest in classical antiquity and its appropriation under National Socialism, but the question that has not been asked is: do the rhetoric/propaganda and classical aesthetic match the practice among the Nazi elite of collecting antiquities? It would seem evident that ancient art would have been much desired by Hitler…Continue Reading The Fate of Classical Antiquities in the Nazi Era
