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Masterpieces in Miniature: An Introduction of Ancient Greek & Roman Engraved Gems
Tuttle Lecture Hall, Art Museum (Room 134)Kenneth Lapatin, Curator of Antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum, will be coming to Princeton in the spring as the 2025-2026 Program in the Ancient World Fellow. From the Bronze Age through Late Antiquity, gem engraving (aka glyptic) was a highly prized craft, not only for the skill of its practitioners, but also for […]
Magie Lecture – Divining Scriptures: Homer, the Gospels, and Divination
010 East Pyne 010 East Pyne, PrincetonDivinatory machines are found in stone, papyrus, parchment, and bone in the ancient Mediterranean. Many balanced randomness—a dice throw—with personal messages from the gods, sometimes offered through a line of Homer or the Bible. These devices allowed for an epistemic stretch from and to the divine. By beginning with these devices, rather than with philosophical-theological […]
Reading Roman Manumission Legislations: the Leges Fufia Caninia et Aetia Sentia in Gaius
012 East PyneAll interested graduate students please join us for this semester's edition of Program in the Ancient World Workshop and Papers! One of the greatest challenges of studying Roman law is the state of preservation of source material. The challenge is even greater in the case of Republican and early imperial legislations. For in most cases […]
