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2023/2024 Lecture Series Event: Epic Racecraft and the Race of Heroes
Sep. 26, 2023—The Department of Classical and Mediterranean Studies welcomes Professor Jackie Murray to present the lecture, Epic Racecraft and the Race of Heroes, as part of the Classical and Mediterrranean Studies 2023/2024 Lecture Series. Jackie Murray is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at University of Buffalo. This lecture will be presented on Thursday,...
Department Hosts 2022-2023 Lecture Series
Feb. 20, 2023—This academic year, the Department of Classical and Mediterranean Studies is honored to host an esteemed group of lecturers for its 2022/2023 lecture series: October 6, 2022: Professor of Religion at Colgate University, Georgia Frank, presented Unfinished Christians – Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity. November 10, 2022: Associate Professor of Architectural History and...
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....