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SUMMARY:From Science to Narrative: Pottery Production and Social Dynamics in Archaic Rome
DESCRIPTION:What do simple clay vessels reveal about the rise of one of history’s greatest cities? This talk explores the social and economic changes that transformed Rome and Latium between the 8th and 6th centuries BCE\, focusing on the people behind the pottery. From everyday cooking pots to refined tableware\, these ceramics hold clues about the lives of ancient communities—how they worked\, traded\, and organized their world.  Using advanced scientific methods like Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) alongside traditional archaeological techniques\, I analyze hundreds of pottery fragments from Rome (including Sant’Omobono and the Forum of Caesar)\, Gabii\, and other key sites. These sherds illuminate surprising patterns of resource use\, technological innovation\, and growing craft specialization\, painting a vivid picture of how early Roman society evolved.  This research invites us to rethink the history of early Rome\, not through the lens of its elites\, but through the creativity and labor of its artisans. By bringing together science and storytelling\, I uncover how these potters shaped not only their wares but also the foundation of a complex and interconnected society. \nAbout our speaker: \nMattia D’Acri received his doctorate in Classical Archaeology at the University of Missouri\, Columbia\, with a dissertation titled “Pottery production and social complexity in Archaic Rome and Latium.” Previously\, he earned advanced degrees in archaeology from the University of Basilicata and the University of Calabria\, Italy.   His research primarily focuses on the archaeology of pre-Roman Italy\, with a particular interest in pottery analysis and production. He has been involved in several archaeological projects\, including the Torre Mordillo Archaeological Project (TMAP)\, where he serves as Co-director\, and the Caesar’s Forum Project\, the Gabii Project\, the Quirinal Project\, and the Venus Pompeiana Project. Mattia has received numerous awards and fellowships\, such as the Donald K. Anderson Award for Outstanding Research Assistant and the Etruscan Foundation Research Fellowship. He has authored and co-authored several publications\, including peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters in edited volumes\, with recent works focusing on pottery production in Archaic Rome and Latium\, and the analysis of archaeological ceramics from various Italian sites. He has also presented his research at numerous national and international conferences. \nRSVP HERE
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/lunch-talk-title-to-be-announced/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell
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SUMMARY:Living in a city. Population resilience and adaptation in pre-industrial urban settings (300 BC - AD 1500)
DESCRIPTION:Art 401 guest lecture ∙ Open to the public:  Sponsored by: Program in the Ancient World \n\nCityLife explores\, from a bioarchaeological perspective\, how historical populations adapted to an urban environment and developed resilience to the disadvantages of urban life. By exploiting the information contained in human skeletal remains\, the project will clarify the roles of biological factors in the durability and sustainability of pre-industrial urban societies. Newly developed osteological\, chemical isotope\, and genomic methods will be used in this project\, together with cutting-edge tools for statistical evaluation. CityLife will evaluate the living conditions\, economy\, population structure\, pathogen load\, and immune defenses in a sample of more than 4\,500 skeletons from Thessaloniki\, a hotspot of European urban culture. The city offers a unique constellation to study urban life diachronically from 300 BC to AD 1\,500 and investigate urbanization in a single place continuously over 1\,800 years. The main objectives of the project are to a) infer urban living standards by studying secular changes in anthropometric indexes\, infant diet\, childhood stress\, and trauma in a combined manner; b) investigate the resilience and sustainability of urban food systems by reconstructing individual diets and local supply networks; d) investigate social structures\, religious cohabitation\, and migration by genetically reconstructing the degree of kin and non-kin relationships; and e) explore the effects of pathogen exposure on human evolution and health by studying genes associated with increased immunological response and the oral microbiome. CityLife will examine empirically tangible aspects of biocultural development to answer the simple question of how humans became urban species.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/living-in-a-city-population-resilience-and-adaptation-in-pre-industrial-urban-settings-300-bc-ad-1500/
LOCATION:A71 Louis A. Simpson Int’l Building
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SUMMARY:Ancient Egypt within its North-East African context
DESCRIPTION:Egypt’s most direct connections were and are within the Africa where it is sited. Ancient Egypt is often seen as a civilization on the edge of the ancient Near East rather than through the more immediate lens of the regions closest to it. Recent scholarship has enhanced understanding of the African context\, and it uses a more holistic perspective\, with particular gains in approaches to early periods. This lecture reflects on these developments and their implications for interpreting the ancient society\, for Egypt itself\, for its relations with other parts of Africa\, and for connections beyond\, into Europe.\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker: \n\n\n\n\nJohn Baines is Professor of Egyptology emeritus at the University of Oxford. He has held visiting appointments in a number of places\, including an Old Dominion Fellowship at Princeton in 2014. He has interests in Egyptian archaeology\, art\, writing\, religion\, and social forms\, often approaching questions from a comparative perspective. His most recent larger publication is the co-edited Historical consciousness and the use of the past in the ancient world (2019).\n\n\n\n\nRSVP
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/ancient-egypt-within-its-north-east-african-context/
LOCATION:A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz\, washington road\, Princeton
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241206T120000
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SUMMARY:Qualis artifex pereo!  Nero the Great Contriver
DESCRIPTION:In 2009\, a team of French archaeologists found and excavated what remains of Nero’s revolving dining room. In this lecture\, I draw on recent work in kinetic architecture to investigate how guests might have experienced this extraordinary space and what the emperor wished to communicate with it. My presentation is part of larger book project that explores the political significance of Julio-Claudian emperors’ professions of interest and investments in science and technology. \nAbout the Speaker: \nSerena Connolly is Professor of Classics at Rutgers – New Brunswick. Her first book\, Lives Behind the Laws: The World of the Codex Hermogenianus\, considered late Roman emperors’ responses to the legal problems of their ordinary subjects through the lens of social history. In her second book\, Wisdom from Rome: Reading Roman Society and European Education in the Distichs of Cato\, her interests shifted to the most influential text you have probably never heard of\, though you should: for about one thousand years\, the Distichs were the first Latin text of every student across Europe and latterly the Americas. She is currently wrapping up work on a new book\, in which she’ll argue that science and technology as subjects of sustained and purposeful cultivation were a source of power to Julio-Claudian emperors. \nRSVP HERE
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/qualis-artifex-pereo-nero-the-great-contriver/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell
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SUMMARY:Recent Research at Mt. Lykaion and the Creation of the Parrhasian Heritage Park of the Peloponnesos
DESCRIPTION:Please see event details and registration here! \nCo-Sponsored by: Program in the Ancient World & Art and Archaeology \nRecent research at Mt. Lykaion\, both at the southern summit of the mountain at the Sanctuary of Zeus and in the lower mountain meadow at the Sanctuary of Pan \, is leading to new understandings about cult practices at this ancient site.  Work towards the creation of the Parrhasian Heritage Park of the Peloponnesos\, Greece’s first large scale national heritage park\, continues in order to unify and protect aspects of western Arcadia\, northern Messenia and western Elis\, around the Neda River valley. \nDavid Gilman Romano\, Ph.D.\, is Nicholas and Athena Karabots Professor of Greek Archaeology in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona where he directs the Archaeological Mapping Lab.  His interests include Greek and Roman cities and sanctuaries\, Greek and Roman athletics\, Roman centuriation and land planning and computer applications in archaeology. Dr. Romano has been a pioneer in computerized mapping\, digital cartography\, remote sensing and GIS in the study of ancient Greek and Romano cities and sanctuaries.  Since 2004 he has been Co-Director and Field Director of the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project in Arcadia\, Greece\, and the Director of the Initiative for the creation of the Parrhasian Heritage Park of the Peloponnesos\, Greece’s first large scale national heritage park. He is also the Director of Digital Augustan Rome. His publications include Athletics and Mathematics in Archaic Corinth: The Origins of the Greek Stadion (1993)\, The Catalogue of the Classical Collection of the Glencairn Museum\, Bryn Athyn (1998) with Irene Bald Romano\, Mapping Augustan Rome (2002) in collaboration with Lothar Haselberger\, as well as a series of publications on the city and landscape planning of the Roman colony of Corinth and\, with Mary Voyatzis\, on the results of the excavations at the Sanctuary of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion.  Dr. Romano is the Co-Editor of the projected four-volume series on the results of the excavations at the Sanctuary of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion to be published through the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/recent-research-at-mt-lykaion-and-the-creation-of-the-parrhasian-heritage-park-of-the-peloponnesos/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell House\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:'A sad view of how pagans felt about their neighbors’:  New evidence for magical practices in Carthage
DESCRIPTION:Defixiones\, also known as curse tablets\, were an ancient magico-religious technology that allowed individuals to confront a slew of personal problems and crises\, such as unrequited love\, pending legal prosecutions\, or even sabotaging opposing sports teams in the chariot races. I begin by defining this type of text\, before giving a brief history of the important and idiosyncratic collection of curse tablets from Roman Carthage. The bulk of the talk consists in sharing a selection of recently re-examined tablets. While some of these texts were previously published and I offer corrections and improvements on the work of previous scholars\, others remain unpublished. I also pay special attention to the archaeological contexts of these inscriptions (when information is available) and also discuss the role of the practitioners who manufactured these defixiones. \nAbout the Speaker:   \nDr. Celia Sánchez Natalías is a Ramón y Cajal postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). Currently\, she is also a William D. Loughlin Member at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advance Study. Trained as an ancient historian and epigrapher\, she researches ancient Mediterranean magical practices with a focus on curse tablets from the Roman West. She is the author of Sylloge of Defixiones from the Roman West (Oxford\, BAR 2022) and the editor of Litterae magicae. Studies in Honour of Roger S. O. Tomlin (Zaragoza\, 2019)\, as well as several other forthcoming edited volumes. Additionally\, she has written numerous articles and book chapters on ancient magic. Currently\, she is primarily focused on preparing a new edition of the North African curse tablets. \nRSVP HERE
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/celia-sanchez-natalias/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T090000
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SUMMARY:Ordinary People\, Everyday Lives ∙ Exploring the Mundane in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World. \nOur perception of the pre-modern world is often shaped by the creative expressions of its contemporaries\, such as literary works\, decorative art\, and imposing architecture designed to captivate attention. The practices and processes of everyday life\, which have left less noticeable traces\, can be harder to access\, even though it is these ordinary and mundane acts that can profoundly increase our understanding of life before modernity. Building on Bourdieu’s thesis that habitus informs practical action and Wittgenstein’s emphasis on the need to ground human experience in everyday language\, this graduate conference asks how our understanding of pre-modern societies and cultures changes if we remain faithful to what sources tell us of practices “on the ground.” As such\, this conference focuses on the lived lives of ordinary people—among others\, laborers\, artisans\, and lower clergy. We’ll explore themes of liminality and intersectionality\, practicality and processes\, customs and traditions\, and more as they relate to the quotidian in the late antique and medieval world. How did the individual perceive and navigate the world around them? What is the nitty-gritty of everyday pre-modern life\, and how do we know? 
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/ordinary-people-everyday-lives-%e2%88%99-exploring-the-mundane-in-late-antiquity-and-the-middle-ages/
LOCATION:A71 Louis A. Simpson Int’l Building
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241001T120000
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SUMMARY:Refounding Sikyon: the creation of a monumental landscape
DESCRIPTION:The refoundation of Sikyon in 303 BCE by the Macedonian general and future king of Macedon Demetrios Poliorketes at a new location may have been primarily dictated by geopolitical concerns\, but it also gave its founder the opportunity to materialize his ambitious urbanistic and architectural plans. The results of the past and current excavations at the site by the Archaeological Society of Athens and of the intensive urban survey conducted in the 2000s revealed clear traces of landscaping and remains of impressive monuments that betray the dynastic aspirations of Demetrios\, and his desire to put a Macedonian stamp on the new city. \nPlease RSVP Here. Lunch will be provided. \n\nYannis Lolos is Associate professor in Classical Archaeology at the University of Thessaly. Professor Lolos studied History of Art and Archaeology at the University of Paris (Paris IV-Sorbonne) where he obtained a B.A. (Maîtrise) in 1990 and a Master’s degree (D.E.A.) in 1992.  Lolos enrolled in doctoral studies at the Graduate Group of Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of California at Berkeley. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1998 with a dissertation on the topography of the territory of ancient Sikyon. During 1995-1996\, he was a regular member at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens\, and in 1998-1999\, he served as visiting assistant professor in Classical archaeology at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). In 2002\, Lolos joined the teaching staff of the department of History\, Archaeology and Social Anthropology of the University of Thessaly. He has participated in a number of archaeological field projects in Attica\, Crete\, Corinth\, Nemea\, Stymphalos as well in the Etruscan town of Musarna in central Italy. Since 2004\, Lolos has directed the Sikyon archaeological project\, and from 2018 onwards he has co-directed the Greek-Dutch excavations at Magoula Plataniotiki in the plain of Almyros (Thessaly). \nYannis Lolos is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards. In 2011-2012\, he was nominated as Samuel H. Kress Lecturer in Ancient Art for the Archaeological Institute of America. He is a corresponding member of the Archaeological Institute of America (since 2014) and of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens (since 2021). Lolos’ research interests include landscape archaeology\, ancient Sikyon\, Greek and Roman architecture\, and the archaeology of the Hellenistic and Roman cities. He has published two monographs\, one on the Land of Sikyon (Hesperia supplement 39\, Princeton 2011) and another on the Via Egnatia – one of the most important Roman highways east of the Adriatic Sea (Olkos publisher\, Athens 2008). In addition\, he has edited and co-authored the two-volume publication of the results of Sikyon’s urban survey (Sikyon I: The Urban Survey\, Meletemata 82\, Greek National Research Foundation 2021) as well as numerous articles on accredited journals\, collective volumes and proceedings of conferences. He has also built and regularly updates the bilingual website for the Sikyon Project: https://extras.ha.uth.gr/sikyon \n 
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/refounding-sikyon-the-creation-of-a-monumental-landscape/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240710T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240710T163000
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SUMMARY:Greek Colonization and Indigenous Communities: Rethinking Encounters in the Ancient World\, July 10 - 11\, 2024
DESCRIPTION:The Program in the Ancient World is a major contributor to this first of its kind\, three-day conference organized by Marc Domingo Gygax (Princeton) and Manuel Fernández-Götz (Edinburgh). The conference will be held at the Princeton Athens Center\, July 10-11\, 2024\, and is by invitation only.  Twenty-one scholars from around the world will participate. \nThe impact of Greek colonization on indigenous societies across the Mediterranean and the Black Sea has been debated since at least the 19th century. Traditionally\, many interpretations saw the Greek presence as a key push factor for developments taking place within local communities (e.g. emergence of urban centers and increased social hierarchization)\, portraying the influences coming from the supposedly ‘higher’ Greek culture as a rather unidirectional process. These views have been challenged in recent decades by new approaches that emphasize the importance of endogenous processes and the bidirectional nature of cultural encounters. This conference aims to bring together a wide range of contributions that will reassess the interactions between Greek colonies and indigenous communities\, taking into account novel theoretical perspectives\, new archaeological discoveries\, and a multi-scalar approach. The conference will encompass both communities located in the immediate hinterlands of the coastal settlements and other groups located further inland. The chronological framework will be the period between ca. 800-400 BCE\, with a geographical scope extending from Iberia to the Black Sea.  \nPlease see the program for details.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/greek-colonization-and-indigenous-communities-rethinking-encounters-in-the-ancient-world-july-10-11-2024/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240419T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240419T133000
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SUMMARY:What is slave agency and how did it affect the history of ancient societies?
DESCRIPTION:Kostas Vlassopoulos studied in Athens and Rethymnon and obtained his PhD in 2005 from the University of Cambridge. From 2005 to 2015 he taught ancient Greek history at the University of Nottingham. Since 2015 he has been teaching ancient history at the Department of History-Archaeology of the University of Crete\, where he is an associate professor. In 2019 he became a collaborating faculty member at the Institute of Mediterranean Studies (IMS)\, while from 2022 he is the Director of the Department of the Ancient and Byzantine World at the IMS. He directs an international research program (2023-2028) funded by the ERC on the role of slaves in the historical development of ancient societies between 1000 BC. and 300 AD \nHis research interests include a variety of topics\, such as the history of ancient slavery\, the history of globalization and intercultural relations in antiquity\, comparative history and the history of ancient political thought and its contemporary reception. He is the author of seven monographs and dozens of articles. His books include: Greeks and Barbarians (2013)\, Communities and Networks in the Ancient Greek World (2015)\, My Life: Everyday Stories of Slaves from Antiquity (2020)\, Historicising Ancient Slavery (2021)\, Greek and Roman Slaveries (2022)\, and Enslaved Persons and their Multiple Identities in Ancient Societies (2022).
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/what-is-slave-agency-and-how-did-it-affect-the-history-of-ancient-societies/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240418T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240418T180000
DTSTAMP:20260417T232053
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SUMMARY:Rewriting the history of Greek slave systems
DESCRIPTION:The history of Greek slavery has been usually approached in a static and myopic way. After the supposed emergence of slave societies in archaic Greece\, it is usually assumed that nothing significant changed until late antiquity. At the same time\,  Greek slavery is usually tantamount to slavery in classical Athens; as a result\, the slave systems of the Eastern Mediterranean in the Hellenistic and Imperial periods remain little studied and generally unknown. This lecture aims to present a new framework for the study of Greek slave systems that incorporates both spatial diversity across the Greek-speaking Eastern Mediterranean and temporal change from the archaic to the Roman Imperial period. \nKostas Vlassopoulos studied in Athens and Rethymnon and obtained his PhD in 2005 from the University of Cambridge. From 2005 to 2015 he taught ancient Greek history at the University of Nottingham. Since 2015 he has been teaching ancient history at the Department of History-Archaeology of the University of Crete\, where he is an associate professor. In 2019 he became a collaborating faculty member at the Institute of Mediterranean Studies (IMS)\, while from 2022 he is the Director of the Department of the Ancient and Byzantine World at the IMS. He directs an international research program (2023-2028) funded by the ERC on the role of slaves in the historical development of ancient societies between 1000 BC. and 300 AD \nHis research interests include a variety of topics\, such as the history of ancient slavery\, the history of globalization and intercultural relations in antiquity\, comparative history and the history of ancient political thought and its contemporary reception. He is the author of seven monographs and dozens of articles. His books include: Greeks and Barbarians (2013)\, Communities and Networks in the Ancient Greek World (2015)\, My Life: Everyday Stories of Slaves from Antiquity (2020)\, Historicising Ancient Slavery (2021)\, Greek and Roman Slaveries (2022)\, and Enslaved Persons and their Multiple Identities in Ancient Societies (2022).
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/rewriting-the-history-of-greek-slave-systems/
LOCATION:A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz\, washington road\, Princeton
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SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar with Kostas Vlassopoulos
DESCRIPTION:Informal seminar with small group of PAW graduate students to conversation with Kostas Vlassopoulos about his academic trajectory and research.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/lunch-seminar-with-kostas-vlasopoulos/
LOCATION:161 East Pyne\, 161 East Pyne
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T143000
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SUMMARY:Who’s your tent-buddy? The social worlds of Athenian women
DESCRIPTION:Despite significant scholarly advances\, current thinking about classical Athens still too often views Athenian women through the lens of the marital relationship and the obligation to produce citizens. In reality\, women could shape for themselves diverse and expansive roles and relationships—as friends\, neighbours\, employees\, employers—that were not determined by their roles and relationships as wives or polis-members. Through these relationships\, they developed networks which cross-cut the legal and household boundaries that supposedly determined Athenian social structure. This talk examines two means by which women articulated the boundaries of their social worlds: commemoration and religious practice. Whom did women put up gravestones for\, and how did they describe them? Whom did they invite to their parties and picnics? When they camped out\, who shared whose tent? \nKatherine Backler is the Career Development Fellow in Ancient History at Trinity College\, Oxford. She primarily works on ancient Greek social history but teaches across Graeco-Roman history and literature. After an undergraduate degree in Classics at Corpus Christi College\, Oxford\, she was awarded a Prize Fellowship at All Souls College\, where she did her doctorate. She is working with translator Martin Hammond on a new Oxford World’s Classics edition of Lysias’ speeches\, and her first book\, Athena’s Sisters: Reclaiming the Women of Classical Athens\, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. Her current research project explores women’s authorship of Greek inscriptions. \nPlease register here if you plan to attend.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/whos-your-tent-buddy-the-social-worlds-of-athenian-women/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240329T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240329T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T232053
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SUMMARY:Clay\, Sand\, Water\, Hand\, Body\, Mind\, Form\, God: Crafting Belief in Ancient Italy
DESCRIPTION:It is well known that Roman life was steeped in religious practice. Historians also generally understand that the predation of an imperializing\, centrally administered government in Rome began to deploy religion as a syncretizing\, assimilationist and appropriative measure in Italic and Mediterranean occupation from the third century BCE\, at least. This is probably true\, and the violent and insidious epistemicide that followed is increasingly well documented. Still\, the idea of Roman religion as a kind of imperial weapon imagines in some ways a world where\, before and during conquest\, there had been such a thing as Roman religion and that those who organized its institutions and oversaw its influences were elite sociopolitical figures. In this talk\, Prof. John Hopkins will contend with both suppositions by considering the creative intelligence of itinerant\, often non-Roman maker communities\, the constitutive ecologies of sacred materials\, and the effective roles of sacro-material creation in ritual encounters and religious institutions before and during the early years of Roman expansion. They will present the urgent need to re-examine these worlds as well as a new initiative\, the Antefixa Project\, which is harnessing scientific and computational imaging methodologies to recover the contributions of communities that have been silenced but were essential to sacred life in ancient Italy. \nJohn Hopkins is Associate Professor of the art and archaeology of ancient Mediterranean peoples in the Department of Art History and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. They are author of The Genesis of Roman Architecture (2016\, Yale UP\, winner of the Spiro Kostof Award from the Society of Architectural Historians)\, Unbound from Rome: Art and Craft in a Fluid Landscape (2024\, Yale UP)\, and co-editor of Object Biographies: Collaborative Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Art (2020 the Menil Collection and Yale UP) and Forgery Beyond Deceit: Fabrication\, Value and the Desire for Ancient Rome (2023\, Oxford UP).  They are also co-director\, of the Quirinal Project and director of the Antefixa Project. \nPlease register here \n 
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/clay-sand-water-hand-body-mind-form-god-crafting-belief-in-ancient-italy/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240223T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240223T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T232053
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SUMMARY:Seeing and Hearing Divine Music in Ancient Greek Art
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines Athenian vase-paintings and reliefs that depict the gods most frequently shown as musicians. Drawing on recent work in sensory studies\, Carolyn argues that images could visually suggest the sounds of the gods’ music. This representational strategy\, whereby sight and sound are blurred\, conveys the “unhearable” nature of their music: because it cannot be physically heard\, it falls to the human imagination to provide its sounds and awaken viewers’ multisensory engagement with the images. \n  \nCarolyn M. Laferrière is the Assistant Curator of Ancient Mediterranean Art at the Princeton University Art Museum. She is the author of Divine Music in Archaic and Classical Greek Art: Seeing the Songs of the Gods\, and is the Associate Editor for Greek and Roman Musical Studies. \nPlease RSVP here if you plan to attend. \n 
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/seeing-and-hearing-divine-music-in-ancient-greek-art/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House\, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T193000
DTSTAMP:20260417T232053
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SUMMARY:Theorizing Women in the Ancient World Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This project puts feminist and gender theory in dialogue with primary sources from the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa. A multi-departmental and cross-disciplinary group\, we look together at primary sources from various religious\, geographical\, and linguistic traditions spanning roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE. During the 2020–2021 academic year\, we will discuss the female prophetic role through the eyes of the Sibylline Oracle as reimagined in Judaic and early Christian literature; feminine language for the divine in Syriac Christianity; sexualization of violence in early martyr acts; scribal practices that obscure women’s voices in ancient Egyptian letters; issues surrounding female performance of masculinity; gendered power dynamics in early Jewish and Christian ascetic communities; and issues of body\, cleanliness\, and purity in society. This reading group is also supported by the Program in the Ancient World.\nAll are welcome to attend.\n\nTo receive the month’s readings or to be added to the group mailing list\, contact Rebekah Haigh (rhaigh@princeton.edu) or Emily Chesley (echesley@princeton.edu). \n  \nSchedule: Third Thursdays of the month\, 6–7:30 pm\, on Zoom (https://princeton.zoom.us/j/99334620093)\n\nSeptember 17: The Female Prophetic Role\nOctober 15: Sexualization of Violence\nNovember 19: Women Performing Masculinity\nJanuary 21: Feminine Language for the Divine\nFebruary 18: Gendered Power Dynamics in Ascetic Communities\nMarch 18:  Conceptions of Masculinity\nApril 15: Cleanliness\, Ritual\, and Gender
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/theorizing-women-in-the-ancient-world-reading-group-2021-02-18/2024-02-15/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240118T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240118T193000
DTSTAMP:20260417T232053
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SUMMARY:Theorizing Women in the Ancient World Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This project puts feminist and gender theory in dialogue with primary sources from the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa. A multi-departmental and cross-disciplinary group\, we look together at primary sources from various religious\, geographical\, and linguistic traditions spanning roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE. During the 2020–2021 academic year\, we will discuss the female prophetic role through the eyes of the Sibylline Oracle as reimagined in Judaic and early Christian literature; feminine language for the divine in Syriac Christianity; sexualization of violence in early martyr acts; scribal practices that obscure women’s voices in ancient Egyptian letters; issues surrounding female performance of masculinity; gendered power dynamics in early Jewish and Christian ascetic communities; and issues of body\, cleanliness\, and purity in society. This reading group is also supported by the Program in the Ancient World.\nAll are welcome to attend.\n\nTo receive the month’s readings or to be added to the group mailing list\, contact Rebekah Haigh (rhaigh@princeton.edu) or Emily Chesley (echesley@princeton.edu). \n  \nSchedule: Third Thursdays of the month\, 6–7:30 pm\, on Zoom (https://princeton.zoom.us/j/99334620093)\n\nSeptember 17: The Female Prophetic Role\nOctober 15: Sexualization of Violence\nNovember 19: Women Performing Masculinity\nJanuary 21: Feminine Language for the Divine\nFebruary 18: Gendered Power Dynamics in Ascetic Communities\nMarch 18:  Conceptions of Masculinity\nApril 15: Cleanliness\, Ritual\, and Gender
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/theorizing-women-in-the-ancient-world-reading-group-2021-02-18/2024-01-18/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231221T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231221T193000
DTSTAMP:20260417T232053
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SUMMARY:Theorizing Women in the Ancient World Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This project puts feminist and gender theory in dialogue with primary sources from the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa. A multi-departmental and cross-disciplinary group\, we look together at primary sources from various religious\, geographical\, and linguistic traditions spanning roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE. During the 2020–2021 academic year\, we will discuss the female prophetic role through the eyes of the Sibylline Oracle as reimagined in Judaic and early Christian literature; feminine language for the divine in Syriac Christianity; sexualization of violence in early martyr acts; scribal practices that obscure women’s voices in ancient Egyptian letters; issues surrounding female performance of masculinity; gendered power dynamics in early Jewish and Christian ascetic communities; and issues of body\, cleanliness\, and purity in society. This reading group is also supported by the Program in the Ancient World.\nAll are welcome to attend.\n\nTo receive the month’s readings or to be added to the group mailing list\, contact Rebekah Haigh (rhaigh@princeton.edu) or Emily Chesley (echesley@princeton.edu). \n  \nSchedule: Third Thursdays of the month\, 6–7:30 pm\, on Zoom (https://princeton.zoom.us/j/99334620093)\n\nSeptember 17: The Female Prophetic Role\nOctober 15: Sexualization of Violence\nNovember 19: Women Performing Masculinity\nJanuary 21: Feminine Language for the Divine\nFebruary 18: Gendered Power Dynamics in Ascetic Communities\nMarch 18:  Conceptions of Masculinity\nApril 15: Cleanliness\, Ritual\, and Gender
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/theorizing-women-in-the-ancient-world-reading-group-2021-02-18/2023-12-21/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T193000
DTSTAMP:20260417T232053
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SUMMARY:Theorizing Women in the Ancient World Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This project puts feminist and gender theory in dialogue with primary sources from the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa. A multi-departmental and cross-disciplinary group\, we look together at primary sources from various religious\, geographical\, and linguistic traditions spanning roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE. During the 2020–2021 academic year\, we will discuss the female prophetic role through the eyes of the Sibylline Oracle as reimagined in Judaic and early Christian literature; feminine language for the divine in Syriac Christianity; sexualization of violence in early martyr acts; scribal practices that obscure women’s voices in ancient Egyptian letters; issues surrounding female performance of masculinity; gendered power dynamics in early Jewish and Christian ascetic communities; and issues of body\, cleanliness\, and purity in society. This reading group is also supported by the Program in the Ancient World.\nAll are welcome to attend.\n\nTo receive the month’s readings or to be added to the group mailing list\, contact Rebekah Haigh (rhaigh@princeton.edu) or Emily Chesley (echesley@princeton.edu). \n  \nSchedule: Third Thursdays of the month\, 6–7:30 pm\, on Zoom (https://princeton.zoom.us/j/99334620093)\n\nSeptember 17: The Female Prophetic Role\nOctober 15: Sexualization of Violence\nNovember 19: Women Performing Masculinity\nJanuary 21: Feminine Language for the Divine\nFebruary 18: Gendered Power Dynamics in Ascetic Communities\nMarch 18:  Conceptions of Masculinity\nApril 15: Cleanliness\, Ritual\, and Gender
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/theorizing-women-in-the-ancient-world-reading-group-2021-02-18/2023-11-16/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231109T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231109T132000
DTSTAMP:20260417T232053
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SUMMARY:The End of Popular Participation? City Politics in Post-Imperial Hispania
DESCRIPTION:By the sixth century\, political\, social\, and demographic changes brought traditional popular urban participation in late antique Hispania to an end. This crisis\, however\, did not result in a complete abandonment of non-elite participation. While sources tend to downplay the intervention of non-elite actors and favor the view of a “universal” consensus\, the written evidence occasionally betrays the political action of popular or middling groups. This talk offers different criteria to conceptualize non-elite actors in the textual and material evidence and advances some ideas on how to approach non-elite participation in post-imperial cities. \n  \nDamián Fernández is Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. He has published on the social\, institutional\, and economic history of the Iberian Peninsula in late antiquity\, including a monograph titled Aristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia\, 300-600 CE. He is currently co-authoring a translation and commentary of the seventh-century law code known as Liber Iudiciorum. \nPlease register here if you plan to attend.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/the-end-of-popular-participation-city-politics-in-post-imperial-hispania/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House\, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231025T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231025T180000
DTSTAMP:20260417T232053
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SUMMARY:Were the Ancient Greeks Responsible for Antisemitism?
DESCRIPTION:This talk addresses a widespread notion that the roots of antisemitism lay in the Hellenistic period\, as Greek rulers and populace found the Jews to be divisive\, seclusive\, misanthropic\, and alien. It examines closely the principal episodes regularly cited as exhibiting deep Greek hostility to the Jews\, such as the persecutions of Antiochus IV\, the slanders and libels spread by Greek intellectuals\, and the “pogrom” in Alexandria. The talk attempts to reassess these actions and attitudes in the circumstances of the ancient world rather than through the lens of modern experience.” \nErich S. Gruen is Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics\, Emeritus at the University of California\, Berkeley. He owns degrees from Columbia\, Oxford\, and Harvard. He is the author\, among other works\, of The Last Generation of the Roman Republic\, The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome\, Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition\, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity\, and Ethnicity in the Ancient World – – Did It Matter?
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/were-the-ancient-greeks-responsible-for-antisemitism/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231019T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231019T193000
DTSTAMP:20260417T232053
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SUMMARY:Theorizing Women in the Ancient World Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This project puts feminist and gender theory in dialogue with primary sources from the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa. A multi-departmental and cross-disciplinary group\, we look together at primary sources from various religious\, geographical\, and linguistic traditions spanning roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE. During the 2020–2021 academic year\, we will discuss the female prophetic role through the eyes of the Sibylline Oracle as reimagined in Judaic and early Christian literature; feminine language for the divine in Syriac Christianity; sexualization of violence in early martyr acts; scribal practices that obscure women’s voices in ancient Egyptian letters; issues surrounding female performance of masculinity; gendered power dynamics in early Jewish and Christian ascetic communities; and issues of body\, cleanliness\, and purity in society. This reading group is also supported by the Program in the Ancient World.\nAll are welcome to attend.\n\nTo receive the month’s readings or to be added to the group mailing list\, contact Rebekah Haigh (rhaigh@princeton.edu) or Emily Chesley (echesley@princeton.edu). \n  \nSchedule: Third Thursdays of the month\, 6–7:30 pm\, on Zoom (https://princeton.zoom.us/j/99334620093)\n\nSeptember 17: The Female Prophetic Role\nOctober 15: Sexualization of Violence\nNovember 19: Women Performing Masculinity\nJanuary 21: Feminine Language for the Divine\nFebruary 18: Gendered Power Dynamics in Ascetic Communities\nMarch 18:  Conceptions of Masculinity\nApril 15: Cleanliness\, Ritual\, and Gender
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/theorizing-women-in-the-ancient-world-reading-group-2021-02-18/2023-10-19/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T193000
DTSTAMP:20260417T232053
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SUMMARY:Theorizing Women in the Ancient World Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This project puts feminist and gender theory in dialogue with primary sources from the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa. A multi-departmental and cross-disciplinary group\, we look together at primary sources from various religious\, geographical\, and linguistic traditions spanning roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE. During the 2020–2021 academic year\, we will discuss the female prophetic role through the eyes of the Sibylline Oracle as reimagined in Judaic and early Christian literature; feminine language for the divine in Syriac Christianity; sexualization of violence in early martyr acts; scribal practices that obscure women’s voices in ancient Egyptian letters; issues surrounding female performance of masculinity; gendered power dynamics in early Jewish and Christian ascetic communities; and issues of body\, cleanliness\, and purity in society. This reading group is also supported by the Program in the Ancient World.\nAll are welcome to attend.\n\nTo receive the month’s readings or to be added to the group mailing list\, contact Rebekah Haigh (rhaigh@princeton.edu) or Emily Chesley (echesley@princeton.edu). \n  \nSchedule: Third Thursdays of the month\, 6–7:30 pm\, on Zoom (https://princeton.zoom.us/j/99334620093)\n\nSeptember 17: The Female Prophetic Role\nOctober 15: Sexualization of Violence\nNovember 19: Women Performing Masculinity\nJanuary 21: Feminine Language for the Divine\nFebruary 18: Gendered Power Dynamics in Ascetic Communities\nMarch 18:  Conceptions of Masculinity\nApril 15: Cleanliness\, Ritual\, and Gender
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/theorizing-women-in-the-ancient-world-reading-group-2021-02-18/2023-09-21/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230817T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230817T193000
DTSTAMP:20260417T232053
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SUMMARY:Theorizing Women in the Ancient World Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This project puts feminist and gender theory in dialogue with primary sources from the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa. A multi-departmental and cross-disciplinary group\, we look together at primary sources from various religious\, geographical\, and linguistic traditions spanning roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE. During the 2020–2021 academic year\, we will discuss the female prophetic role through the eyes of the Sibylline Oracle as reimagined in Judaic and early Christian literature; feminine language for the divine in Syriac Christianity; sexualization of violence in early martyr acts; scribal practices that obscure women’s voices in ancient Egyptian letters; issues surrounding female performance of masculinity; gendered power dynamics in early Jewish and Christian ascetic communities; and issues of body\, cleanliness\, and purity in society. This reading group is also supported by the Program in the Ancient World.\nAll are welcome to attend.\n\nTo receive the month’s readings or to be added to the group mailing list\, contact Rebekah Haigh (rhaigh@princeton.edu) or Emily Chesley (echesley@princeton.edu). \n  \nSchedule: Third Thursdays of the month\, 6–7:30 pm\, on Zoom (https://princeton.zoom.us/j/99334620093)\n\nSeptember 17: The Female Prophetic Role\nOctober 15: Sexualization of Violence\nNovember 19: Women Performing Masculinity\nJanuary 21: Feminine Language for the Divine\nFebruary 18: Gendered Power Dynamics in Ascetic Communities\nMarch 18:  Conceptions of Masculinity\nApril 15: Cleanliness\, Ritual\, and Gender
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/theorizing-women-in-the-ancient-world-reading-group-2021-02-18/2023-08-17/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230720T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230720T193000
DTSTAMP:20260417T232053
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SUMMARY:Theorizing Women in the Ancient World Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This project puts feminist and gender theory in dialogue with primary sources from the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa. A multi-departmental and cross-disciplinary group\, we look together at primary sources from various religious\, geographical\, and linguistic traditions spanning roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE. During the 2020–2021 academic year\, we will discuss the female prophetic role through the eyes of the Sibylline Oracle as reimagined in Judaic and early Christian literature; feminine language for the divine in Syriac Christianity; sexualization of violence in early martyr acts; scribal practices that obscure women’s voices in ancient Egyptian letters; issues surrounding female performance of masculinity; gendered power dynamics in early Jewish and Christian ascetic communities; and issues of body\, cleanliness\, and purity in society. This reading group is also supported by the Program in the Ancient World.\nAll are welcome to attend.\n\nTo receive the month’s readings or to be added to the group mailing list\, contact Rebekah Haigh (rhaigh@princeton.edu) or Emily Chesley (echesley@princeton.edu). \n  \nSchedule: Third Thursdays of the month\, 6–7:30 pm\, on Zoom (https://princeton.zoom.us/j/99334620093)\n\nSeptember 17: The Female Prophetic Role\nOctober 15: Sexualization of Violence\nNovember 19: Women Performing Masculinity\nJanuary 21: Feminine Language for the Divine\nFebruary 18: Gendered Power Dynamics in Ascetic Communities\nMarch 18:  Conceptions of Masculinity\nApril 15: Cleanliness\, Ritual\, and Gender
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/theorizing-women-in-the-ancient-world-reading-group-2021-02-18/2023-07-20/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230615T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230615T193000
DTSTAMP:20260417T232053
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SUMMARY:Theorizing Women in the Ancient World Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This project puts feminist and gender theory in dialogue with primary sources from the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa. A multi-departmental and cross-disciplinary group\, we look together at primary sources from various religious\, geographical\, and linguistic traditions spanning roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE. During the 2020–2021 academic year\, we will discuss the female prophetic role through the eyes of the Sibylline Oracle as reimagined in Judaic and early Christian literature; feminine language for the divine in Syriac Christianity; sexualization of violence in early martyr acts; scribal practices that obscure women’s voices in ancient Egyptian letters; issues surrounding female performance of masculinity; gendered power dynamics in early Jewish and Christian ascetic communities; and issues of body\, cleanliness\, and purity in society. This reading group is also supported by the Program in the Ancient World.\nAll are welcome to attend.\n\nTo receive the month’s readings or to be added to the group mailing list\, contact Rebekah Haigh (rhaigh@princeton.edu) or Emily Chesley (echesley@princeton.edu). \n  \nSchedule: Third Thursdays of the month\, 6–7:30 pm\, on Zoom (https://princeton.zoom.us/j/99334620093)\n\nSeptember 17: The Female Prophetic Role\nOctober 15: Sexualization of Violence\nNovember 19: Women Performing Masculinity\nJanuary 21: Feminine Language for the Divine\nFebruary 18: Gendered Power Dynamics in Ascetic Communities\nMarch 18:  Conceptions of Masculinity\nApril 15: Cleanliness\, Ritual\, and Gender
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/theorizing-women-in-the-ancient-world-reading-group-2021-02-18/2023-06-15/
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SUMMARY:Theorizing Women in the Ancient World Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This project puts feminist and gender theory in dialogue with primary sources from the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa. A multi-departmental and cross-disciplinary group\, we look together at primary sources from various religious\, geographical\, and linguistic traditions spanning roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE. During the 2020–2021 academic year\, we will discuss the female prophetic role through the eyes of the Sibylline Oracle as reimagined in Judaic and early Christian literature; feminine language for the divine in Syriac Christianity; sexualization of violence in early martyr acts; scribal practices that obscure women’s voices in ancient Egyptian letters; issues surrounding female performance of masculinity; gendered power dynamics in early Jewish and Christian ascetic communities; and issues of body\, cleanliness\, and purity in society. This reading group is also supported by the Program in the Ancient World.\nAll are welcome to attend.\n\nTo receive the month’s readings or to be added to the group mailing list\, contact Rebekah Haigh (rhaigh@princeton.edu) or Emily Chesley (echesley@princeton.edu). \n  \nSchedule: Third Thursdays of the month\, 6–7:30 pm\, on Zoom (https://princeton.zoom.us/j/99334620093)\n\nSeptember 17: The Female Prophetic Role\nOctober 15: Sexualization of Violence\nNovember 19: Women Performing Masculinity\nJanuary 21: Feminine Language for the Divine\nFebruary 18: Gendered Power Dynamics in Ascetic Communities\nMarch 18:  Conceptions of Masculinity\nApril 15: Cleanliness\, Ritual\, and Gender
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/theorizing-women-in-the-ancient-world-reading-group-2021-02-18/2023-05-18/
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SUMMARY:Citizenship as the City’s Revealing Mirror: Comparative Considerations on the Content and Historical Context of Citizenship in ancient Athens and Rome
DESCRIPTION:Lunch talk with PAW Magie Lecturer\, Kostas Buraselis. \nTo precisely define a certain citizenship in both the ancient and the modern world is not at all a simple effort. For this human condition combines both theoretical-legal and practical aspects and tends to exceed the clear contours of specific rights and tasks. Citizenship includes above all a sense of belonging to a human civic society\, big or small\, and of somehow complying with its set of principles and rules. Thus\, the concept and practice of being a citizen of a certain city/country necessarily contain or reflect at least some crucial marks of the self-understanding and the intellectual and ideological foundations of that city and/or state. It will be here attempted to apply these thoughts to the data of Greek (esp. Athenian) and Roman citizenship in classical antiquity and thus try to gain a comparative view of how exactly these data correspond to the other features and structures of the corresponding cities and societies. \nPlease RSVP to Barb Leavey (blleavey@princeton.edu) if you plan to attend.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/citizenship-as-the-citys-revealing-mirror-comparative-considerations-on-the-content-and-historical-context-of-citizenship-in-ancient-athens-and-rome/
LOCATION:127 East Pyne\, Princeton University\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230420T180000
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SUMMARY:Theorizing Women in the Ancient World Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:This project puts feminist and gender theory in dialogue with primary sources from the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa. A multi-departmental and cross-disciplinary group\, we look together at primary sources from various religious\, geographical\, and linguistic traditions spanning roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE. During the 2020–2021 academic year\, we will discuss the female prophetic role through the eyes of the Sibylline Oracle as reimagined in Judaic and early Christian literature; feminine language for the divine in Syriac Christianity; sexualization of violence in early martyr acts; scribal practices that obscure women’s voices in ancient Egyptian letters; issues surrounding female performance of masculinity; gendered power dynamics in early Jewish and Christian ascetic communities; and issues of body\, cleanliness\, and purity in society. This reading group is also supported by the Program in the Ancient World.\nAll are welcome to attend.\n\nTo receive the month’s readings or to be added to the group mailing list\, contact Rebekah Haigh (rhaigh@princeton.edu) or Emily Chesley (echesley@princeton.edu). \n  \nSchedule: Third Thursdays of the month\, 6–7:30 pm\, on Zoom (https://princeton.zoom.us/j/99334620093)\n\nSeptember 17: The Female Prophetic Role\nOctober 15: Sexualization of Violence\nNovember 19: Women Performing Masculinity\nJanuary 21: Feminine Language for the Divine\nFebruary 18: Gendered Power Dynamics in Ascetic Communities\nMarch 18:  Conceptions of Masculinity\nApril 15: Cleanliness\, Ritual\, and Gender
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/theorizing-women-in-the-ancient-world-reading-group-2021-02-18/2023-04-20/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230418T163000
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SUMMARY:Roman Citizenship and its Value in the Roman Empire until and after the Constitutio Antoniniana
DESCRIPTION:Civitas Romana (Roman citizenship) was a key instrument of Roman imperial policy of expansion in the Mediterranean area and beyond it. From Augustus to the age of the Severans (roughly 1st-beginning 3rd cent. AD) it has been acquired by many provincial non-Romans (peregrini)\, who have been thus gradually integrated into the mechanism of Roman rule until the final act of the universal grant of Roman citizenship by Caracalla in 212 AD. The conditions and the precise content of this long development and that concluding step will be addressed as historical problems\, against the relevant bibliography\, in this lecture. \n  \nKostas Buraselis will give the 2023 PAW Magie Lecture\, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History\, Former Vice-Rector and Advisor of the Rectorate on Academic Affairs and International Relations at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. \nHe has served as head of the Committee of International Relations/ NKUA; head of the  Department of History and Archaeology of NKUA; Vice-Rector of NKUΑ on Academic Affairs and International Relations; and currently Advisor of the Rectorate on Academic Affairs and International Relations (September 2018-)\, Vice-President of the Committee for Evaluation and Certification at the National Hellenic Authority for Higher Education (2020-) and  corresponding member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut and member of various scholarly societies. \nHe was appointed visiting lecturer on various occasions at universities and scholarly institutions in Europe\, America and China. \nMember of the editorial/advisory board of the periodicals Archaiognosia\, Classica et Mediaevalia\, Mediterraneo Antico\, Pharos\, Tekmeria\, and of the scholarly series HABES (Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien). \nΜain interests/areas of scholarly activity: political and institutional history of the Hellenistic world and the Roman imperial period in the Greek East\, ancient ruler cult\, modern historiography on the ancient world. \nAuthor of four scholarly books (in Greek\, German and English) and editor/co-editor of thirteen national/international collective volumes and a longer encyclopedia chapter (in ThesCRA II) on subjects of his field (Ancient History). \n  \n 
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/roman-citizenship-and-its-value-in-the-roman-empire-until-and-after-the-constitutio-antoniniana/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne
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