2022/2023 Lecture Series Event – Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity
Oct. 6, 2022—The Department of Classical and Mediterranean Studies at Vanderbilt University welcomes Georgia Frank, Charles A. Dana Professor of Religion, Department of Religion at Colgate University to present Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity. This event will be held in 203 Cohen Memorial Hall on Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 4:10pm with...
Professors and students explore an ancient port-city in Israel
Aug. 8, 2022—Over the past five years, Vanderbilt researchers and students working at the ancient port-city of Caesarea Maritima, on the north coast of modern-day Israel, have unearthed tantalizing clues to life in the city during the Early Islamic period as well as the best-preserved remains yet discovered of Herod the Great’s famous Temple of Rome and...
Dan Solomon lectures on Roman propaganda at regional conference
Aug. 8, 2022—Daniel Solomon delivered a lecture entitled “War and Peace in Augustan Propaganda” at the Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association Annual Conference in November 2021. Professor Solomon is an expert in Roman thought, society, and literature, and he regularly teaches courses on the reign of Augustus and the poetry of the Late Republic to Early Empire....