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SUMMARY:The Inscribed Ancient City: Writing and Reading in First Century Pompeii
DESCRIPTION:What occupied the thoughts and interests of the broader population in the early Roman Empire? Without the catastrophic destruction of Pompeii\, we would have barely a clue. The fragile plaster that covered the city’s walls\, however\, reveals a town full of personal musings and written communication: from prayers to the gods to greetings to friends\, from quotations of literature to shopping lists. This talk looks beyond the monumental public spaces to investigate how writing pervaded also shops\, workshops\, and even private homes. Altogether\, the mass of handwritten texts inscribed in Pompeii evokes an ancient city filled with people in motion\, writing\, reading\, and going about their day. This talk discusses the who\, what\, and where\, and explores how inscribed the ancient city might be. \nRebecca Benefiel is Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics at Washington and Lee University\, where she teaches Latin literature and Roman archaeology. Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of the Roman Empire\, particularly as seen through epigraphy. She has authored numerous articles\, and co-edited the volume Inscriptions in the Private Sphere in the Greco-Roman World (2016\, Brill). Dr. Benefiel has been a national lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America\, a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress\, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Rome\, and she is currently Vice President of the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. She is Director of The Ancient Graffiti Project (ancientgraffiti.org)\, which is editing and making accessible the thousands of handwritten inscriptions from the first century. \nHer work has been featured in National Geographic\, USA Today\, Science News\, Forbes\, and Smithsonian magazines. She has been interviewed on NPR’s Radio IQ\, and on documentary television programs on the History Channel\, PBS\, and the Smithsonian Channel.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/rebecca-benefiel/
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SUMMARY:Paradoxes of Parrhesia
DESCRIPTION:The Greek word parrhesía\, usually translated as “frankness\,” has a long history in Antiquity. Its first known mention is in one of Euripides’ works; he defines parrhesía as a crucial prerogative of the Athenian citizens who are allowed to contribute to debates in the popular assembly. \nDuring Late Antiquity\, the term is still used widely and even becomes a loan word in Syriac and other languages. Obviously\, parrhesía remained an important virtue ascribed to people who were considered to possess the right to be heard in public\, among them philosophers as well as historians and monks. Using entirely different approaches\, modern scholars such as Giuseppe Scarpat or Michel Foucault have convincingly demonstrated the importance and usefulness of this concept. But they paint a more or less linear history of the term\, which will be challenged in book I am writing at the IAS. In my talk\, which is based on this book project\, I will not focus on the parrhesiastés\, as is usually done\, but on the people who are criticized with parrhesía and on the conduct expected from them. Members of Roman and Late Antique elites were supposed to possess enough sophrosýne to bear criticism patiently. Nevertheless\, polite parrhesía seemed to be advisable in many cases\, which\, however\, was often not compatible the fundamental idea that parrhesía should be completely truthful. Based on a small selection of sources\, I will try to explore these tensions in a more detailed manner. \nHartmut Leppin is professor of Ancient History at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main and Principal Investigator of the project “Polyphony of Late Antiquity” funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.  He is editor of the Historische Zeitschrift and the author of Justinian. Das christliche Experiment\, Stuttgart 2011 and Die frühen Christen. Von den Anfängen bis Konstantin\, 2nd ed. München 2019. He research concerns ancient Christianity and the history of political ideas.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/hartmut-leppin/
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SUMMARY:Law\, Agency\, and the Management of Property in the Roman Empire
DESCRIPTION:This talk explores the relationship between law and the economy in the Roman Empire by examining the various types of agents\, often slaves or freedmen\, whom upper-class property owners used to manage the investments on which their incomes depended. As widely recognized\, however\, Roman law never developed the direct forms of agency essential to modern business enterprises\, for example\, when an employee enters into a contract that binds a firm.  \nThis situation created problems not only for the property owners themselves\, but also for any third parties doing business with an agent\, since they would be unlikely to enter into the types of contracts\, such as purchasing the crops produced on an estate\, without assurance that the property owner would make good on any commitment that the agent would make. I will examine the extent to which the response of the Roman legal authorities to these difficulties protected the financial interests of Roman property owners while also creating appropriate incentives for agents to seek out potentially lucrative opportunities. The legal institutions that the Romans developed for agency relationships are likely to have had a significant effect on economic planning by Roman property owners and the organization of commerce in the Roman Empire.  \nDennis Kehoe is Professor of Classical Studies at Tulane University\, where he has taught since 1982\, after receiving his Ph.D. in Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. His research is in Roman social and economic history\, with a focus on the relationship between law and the economy in the Roman Empire. He has published studies of the role of law and administrative policies in the agrarian economy of the Roman Empire\, and he is a contributor to the recently published Codex of Justinian\, edited by Bruce W. Frier (Cambridge\, 2016)  \n  \n 
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/dennis-kehoe/
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SUMMARY:The Temple of Hera at Olympia and Rome
DESCRIPTION:The Archaic temple of Hera at Olympia\, its cult\, and the objects displayed within it were described at some length by Pausanias in the second century CE (Paus. 5.16–20). Modern scholarly inquiry has focused mainly on the possibility that its stone columns were replacements for wooden ones\, and on the marble statue of Hermes and the infant Dionysos attributed by Pausanias to Praxiteles. This talk concerns the cult and games of Hera at Olympia and the large assemblage of divine statues inside the temple. Though it has long been understood that these statues were collected and put on display in the Hera temple at a late date (the first century BCE or the first half of the first century AC)\, it has not been noticed that this collection has much in common with contemporary collections of Greek statues in Rome\, in particular the statues displayed in the Porticus Octaviae. I will argue here that the cult of Hera at Olympia is also late in date: rather than an age-old tradition\, it can be interpreted as an example of the invention of tradition by a Greek community under Roman rule. \nCatherine Keesling is Professor of Classics at Georgetown University. She is the author of The Votive Statues of the Athenian Acropolis and Early Greek Portraiture: Monuments and Histories\, both published by Cambridge University Press. Her research concerns the epigraphical evidence for Greek sculpture and\, most recently\, the afterlives of Greek statues in the Roman period.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/catherine-keesling/
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SUMMARY:The Roman Republic in the Long Fourth Century
DESCRIPTION:A conference organized by Seth Bernard\, Lisa Mignone\, and Dan-El Padilla Peralta \nSee Full Event Details for schedule and to register \nSPONSORED BY\nThe Princeton University Department of Classics\, The Humanities Council\, The Department of Art and Archaeology\, The Program in the Ancient World\, The Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies\, The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies\, The Center for Collaborative History\, The Princeton Environmental Institute\, and the University Center for Human Values
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/the-roman-republic-in-the-long-fourth-century/
LOCATION:111East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Rome\, Byzantium\, and the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo: Imitation\, Reinvention\, or Strategic Adoption?
DESCRIPTION:Please visit the website for the schedule of this two-day workshop: https://csla.princeton.edu/events/workshop-rome-byzantium-and-visigothic-kingdom-toledo-imitation-reinvention-or-strategic \nCosponsored by the Center of Collaborative History\, Program in the Ancient World and Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies: \n 
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/rome-byzantium-and-the-visigothic-kingdom-of-toledo-imitation-reinvention-or-strategic-adoption/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190429T163000
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SUMMARY:The Three Cities of Dio Chrysostom: Conflict and Utopia in the Roman East
DESCRIPTION:Among the manifold literary production of celebrity lecturer and philosopher Cocceianus Dio (later nicknamed “Goldenmouth” for his style)\, a body of speeches stands out: those he gave in his hometown of Prousa (modern Bursa)\, in the late first and early second centuries CE. These speeches\, almost certainly authentic fragments of political oratory delivered before the decision-making institutions of a post-classical polis\, offer a striking picture of utopian aspiration\, and structural\, inescapable conflict (of a type known for other pre-modern urban regimes). Utopia and conflict: the dynamic relations between speaker and polis illuminate the old problems of mass and elite in the polis\, within a world empire.  \n  \n 
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/three-cities-of-dio-chrysostom-conflict-and-utopia-in-the-roman-east/
LOCATION:106 McCormick Hall\, 106 McCormick Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190426T160000
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SUMMARY:Petroglyphs\, Figurines\, and Pot Burials: The Mediterranean Connections of the Early Bronze Age Site at Vathy\, Astypalaia
DESCRIPTION:The site of Vathy on the island of Astypalaia\, Greece\, was strategically located along several maritime routes linking the prehistoric societies of the Aegean Sea. Recent excavations at Vathy have brought to light a site of major importance for our knowledge of Mediterranean cultures in the 4th- and 3rd-millennia BCE across a vast area\, from Anatolia to Iberia. The megalithic walls of the settlement are densely engraved with petroglyphs that point to a Mediterranean artistic “koine\,”a common visual language expressed in rock art. Moreover\, coastal enclosures served to contain carefully arranged infant pot burials that are paralleled by similar ritual depositions in Anatolia. Finally\, marble figurines found at the site connect Late Neolithic and Early Cycladic Aegean statuary with material from Anatolia and the broader Mediterranean world. \nAndreas Vlachopoulos is Associate Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Ioannina where he has taught since 2009. His main research interests are the Mycenaean period in the Cyclades\, the Aegean rock art and the wall-paintings of Thera.  A longtime (1995 – present) collaborator of Professor Christos Doumas in the excavation at Akrotiri\, Thera\, Andreas Vlachopoulos is currently Director of the Vathy\, Astypalaia Archaeological Field Project\, sponsored by the Archaeological Society at Athens.  He is the author of a two-volume monograph on Naxos and the Mycenaean Aegean in the Post-Palatial Period (12th c. BC)\, the editor of two volumes on Aegean Prehistory (Argonautes\, 2003; Paintbrushes\, 2018) and of five volumes on Greek Archaeology (Melissa Publishing House\, Athens). \nCo-Sponsored by the Program in Archaeology and Program in the Ancient World
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/petroglyphs-figurines-and-pot-burials-the-mediterranean-connections-of-the-early-bronze-age-site-at-vathy-astypalaia/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell House\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190422T163000
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SUMMARY:The Curious Case of Coronado’s Shields: Towards a Pueblo Iconology on the Eve of Spanish Colonialism
DESCRIPTION:In 1540\, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado marched north with his troops to conquer\, he hoped\, the gold-bedecked kingdoms that were rumored to exist on the far northern frontier of the Spanish Empire. He encountered instead the Pueblo communities of what is today New Mexico and Arizona. This talk reconsiders one fleeting episode drawn from the Spanish account of Coronado’s violent travels throughout the region: the gift of shields by a Pueblo delegation to their invaders. To understand this gift\, I argue\, we must embark on a complicated cultural inquiry into not just the meanings of Pueblo shields but also the images that adorned them\, the wider role of iconography in Ancestral Pueblo society\, and the very nature of power\, agency\, and subjectivity within the indigenous traditions of the American West. As I hope to demonstrate\, the curious case of Coronado’s shields also presents us with an opportunity to consider what archaeology and anthropology have to offer art history\, and vice versa.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/paw-lecture-by-severin-fowles/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Octagonal Churches and Their Functions in Late Antiquity
DESCRIPTION:The talk is based on material from my recent book\, San Vitale in Ravenna and Octagonal Churches in Late Antiquity. During the third to sixth centuries C.E. large numbers of Christian churches were built throughout the Roman Empire and its heirs. A small number of these buildings were constructed with an octagonal plan\, raising the question of why this plan type was chosen in these cases and how the type related to the particular functions for which they were used. The talk explores the various purposes for which these churches were constructed and how form and functions were combined in the culminating building of the type\, the church of San Vitale in Ravenna. \nMark J. Johnson\, earned his Ph.D. in art history in 1986 at Princeton University. He is the author of The Roman Imperial Mausoleum in Late Antiquity (2009)\, The Byzantine Churches of Sardinia (2013) and San Vitale in Ravenna and Octagonal Churches in Late Antiquity (2018) and one of the co-editors of Approaches to Byzantine Architecture and Its Decoration. Studies in Honor of Slobodan Ćurčić (2012). His other publications have focused on the art and architecture of Late Antiquity and on the Norman period in Southern Italy. He is currently Professor of Ancient and Medieval Art at Brigham Young University in Provo\, Utah\, where he has taught since 1987. \n  \nCo-sponsored by Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity and the Department of Art and Archaeology
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/paw-lecture-by-mark-johnson/
LOCATION:106 McCormick Hall\, 106 McCormick Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fake Letters: Authors and Agendas in the Ancient World
DESCRIPTION:The writing of fake letters was widely practiced in antiquity. But how and why did the pseudepigrapher go about his work? To answer such a question\, this paper focuses on the letters attributed in antiquity to Marcus Brutus\, all of which purport to come from the period 43-42 BC\, when the Liberators were preparing for war against the joint forces of Mark Antony and Octavian. In this connection\, attention will be paid to the Greek letters of Brutus: a collection of seventy short letters\, thirty-five of them allegedly written by the tyrannicide\, as he issued demands for resources in the province of Asia and within Lycia. Although they were admired in antiquity for their brevity and forcefulness\, modern discussions have focused instead on issues of authenticity and authorship. Erasmus first doubted Brutus’ authorship of the Greek letters in 1520 (see Achelis 1917/18); this speculation was further fuelled by the celebrated dissertation of Bentley (1697)\, who illuminated the authorial practice of impersonating great figures from antiquity. Although Bentley was concerned with the letters of Phalaris\, and not Brutus\, the implications of his findings were vast. While some scholars have defended the attribution of the letters to Brutus (Rühl 1915; Goukowsky 2011; Jones 2015)\, historical errors and inconsistencies have led others to dismiss the collection as a forgery\, either in full (Marcks 1883; Rawson 1986; Moles 1997) or in part (Westermann 1851; Smith 1936; Torraco 1959). \nIt is perhaps unfortunate that previous scholarship has focused almost exclusively on the question of Brutus’ real or feigned authorship; that is\, on one half of the collection only. For\, as I discuss in this paper\, an introductory letter written by the compiler of the collection – an otherwise unidentified Mithridates – explains that he personally composed the other thirty-five letters as imaginary responses\, because his nephew had wanted to know how the cities might have replied to Brutus’ repeated demands for money and military support. This explanation of the collection’s didactic function\, I argue\, coupled with a close examination of the contents of the letters does much to reveal their interest in rhetorical argumentation\, and especially the dilemma form. But the cover letter of Mithridates also does something more than that; in reflecting on the art of composing his replies\, the author takes his reader into the world of the fake letter writer\, where he presents his work as both a scholar and a creative artist.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/fake-letters-authors-and-agendas-in-the-ancient-world/
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SUMMARY:What was a grove in the suburbs of Rome during the Empire ?
DESCRIPTION:The Program in the Ancient World Magie Lecture \nAbstract \nThe notion of lucus is difficult to understand\, because we don’t have any precise evidence about groves. The textual approach shows that it is a “clearing” in the middle of a dense multitude of trees\, and struck with a religious obligation. But how should one represent such a place ? Here epigraphy and archaeology can help. One of the suburban groves of Rome is testified by a rich and precise epigraphical evidence  during three centuries\, and\, after some forty years of excavations\, by archaeology. The image we get from the place is different from the traditional representation of a grove\, but corresponds to the Roman representation of sacred spaces (groves\, springs\, caves). It also delivers new information about the structure of a public sanctuary.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/magie-lecture-john-scheid/
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SUMMARY:Position matters – Portrait monuments as evidence for structural change of the public sphere during the Hellenistic period
DESCRIPTION:Honorific statues and their inscriptions evolved into a kind of early mass media thanks to the specific transformation of the ‚geo-political’ landscape during the Hellenistic period. This holds true at least in the Aegean\, the core of the Hellenistic world\, where honorific statues and their inscriptions became the most visible symbol of reputation and social relevance. The ‚right’ placement of the statues was an important issue to justify the privilege of this very personal type of public monument within the world of the ‚good old’ Greek polis\, which was mainly based on democratic values. Analysing the locations of honorific statues\, where they are precisely known\, it can be determined that they normally relate immediately to the venue of accomplishment underlying the distinction. \nIn Late Hellenistic times\, however\, several shifts in the ‚portrait habit’ can be noticed\, which point conjointly to significant structural changes within the public sphere: Varieties of exclusion in the arrangement of honorific statues alter the previous modalities of collective perception. Images in the style of honorific statues intrude into the rather private sphere of dwellings and tombs. The tight topographical link between reason and grant of statuary honours is losing its binding force. \nThe paper aims to find reasonable explanations for these phenomena in the broader context of Late Hellenistic society and thereby to contribute to a new perspective within the general discussion of the ‚decline of the polis’.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/talk-by-jochen-griesbach/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180315T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180315T133000
DTSTAMP:20260617T174351
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SUMMARY:Placing Odysseus - understanding the longue durée history of the Polis Cave sanctuary on Ithaca
DESCRIPTION:Faculty and Grad Workshop with Catherine Morgan\, PAW Long Term Fellow
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/placing-odysseus-understanding-the-longue-duree-history-of-the-polis-cave-sanctuary-on-ithaca/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House\, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180313T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180313T180000
DTSTAMP:20260617T174351
CREATED:20170711T161102Z
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SUMMARY:Nostoi and Material Culture in the Classical and Hellenistic Adriatic
DESCRIPTION:This lecture explores the roles played by images of returning heroes or nostoi in the expression of political identities and relationships between communities around the central Ionian and Adriatic seas in Classical and Hellenistic times.  It draws on insights from three recent trends in research – the date and formation of the surviving epic texts; the ‘materiality turn’ in the study of social\, and especially ritual\, behaviour; and regions (however construed)\, rather than individual communities\, as shared frames of reference\, with consequent questions of connectivity\, mutability\, shifting analytical scale\, and diachronic change.  \n 
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/lecture-catherine-morgan/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180222T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180222T180000
DTSTAMP:20260617T174351
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180207T212510Z
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SUMMARY:Failure as a Criterion for the Assessment of Emperors and Emperorship
DESCRIPTION:All emperors must die. Preferably after a long and successful reign. But every rule has its setbacks. How often and how big can an emperor lose without being seen as a loser – and his reign as a failure? And if an individual emperor’s reign ends in (or is) a catastrophe what can we learn from this about the institution emperorship? I will analyze these questions in my talk\, with examples from the first millennium AD and beyond.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-rene-pfeilschifter/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180209T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180209T133000
DTSTAMP:20260617T174351
CREATED:20180125T214405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180201T214016Z
UID:10000154-1518177600-1518183000@ancientworld.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Recent Research at the Sanctuary of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion\, Arcadia
DESCRIPTION:Since 2004 renewed research and excavation has been underway at the Sanctuary of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion in Arcadia as a synergasia project with the Greek Archaeological Service.  Earlier excavation was undertaken at the site late in the 19th and early in the 20th centuries by representatives from the Archaeological Society of Athens\, principally K. Kourouniotis.  Known in antiquity as one of the sites identified as the “birthplace of Zeus” many ancient authors refer to the site as famous for athletic contests\, human sacrifice and werewolves\, suggesting primitive origins.  Our excavation has discovered a Mycenaean shrine at the altar of Zeus on the southern summit of the mountain with archaeological evidence of much earlier activity (although the nature of the activity is unclear) going back to the  Neolithic period and including Final Neolithic\, Early Helladic and Middle Helladic. In the lower sanctuary we have been excavating the area of the athletic festival site including the hippodrome\, the only example in the Greek world that can be visualized and measured\, stadium\, bath facility\, stoa\, seats or steps\, administrative building\, and several fountain houses. One of the initiatives of the Mt. Lykaion project has been to propose the creation of a large scale (670 square kilometers) cultural heritage park in western Arcadia\, southern Elis and northern Messenia.  Known as the Parrhasian Heritage Park of the Peloponnesos the cultural heritage park aims to unify and protect an area that is rich in cultural\, physical and natural features. \n  \n 
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/david-gilman-romano/
LOCATION:203 Scheide Caldwell House\, 203 Scheide Caldwell House\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171128T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171128T180000
DTSTAMP:20260617T174351
CREATED:20170919T171938Z
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UID:10000152-1511886600-1511892000@ancientworld.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:The Initial Stages of the Phoenician Expansion Overseas: When and Why?
DESCRIPTION:One of the major problem\, which has troubled generations of scholars\, with regard to the initial stages of the Phoenician expansion overseas\, is the conflicting picture presented in the ancient literary sources versus the archaeological record. According to the sources\, the Phoenician expansion overseas was already quite substantial\, including foundations of the Phoenician colonies\, in the 11th-9th centuries BCE\, while available archaeological remains implied a much later date. In this talk\, I shall address this question from a multidisciplinary perspective in light of current discoveries. \n 
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/lecture-by-alexander-fantalkin/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T132000
DTSTAMP:20260617T174351
CREATED:20170710T134911Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171114T195258Z
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SUMMARY:The Neues Museum of the Berlin Museum Island – Highlights and recent discoveries from the Egyptian Papyrus Collection
DESCRIPTION:Today\, several thousand papyri and other manuscripts from Elephantine Island are spread throughout more than 60 institutions and museums in 24 different countries worldwide. Their texts are written in various languages and scripts\, including hieroglyphs\, hieratic\, demotic\, Aramaic\, Greek\, Coptic and Arabic. 80% of these manuscripts are yet to be published and investigated. The important island in terms of military strategy and trade\, Elephantine is located in the Nile on Egypt’s southern border. No other settlement in Egypt has been so well documented over such a long period of time through texts. Its inhabitants comprise a multi-ethnic\, multicultural and multi-religious community\, which has left behind large amounts of written material\, which provides evidence of everyday life from the Old Kingdom right up to the era following the Arab conquest. This  talk will highlight the recent discoveries from the Neues Museum of the Berlin Museum Island. \nPlease view video \n 
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/lecture-with-verena-lepper/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T133000
DTSTAMP:20260617T174351
CREATED:20171110T211003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171114T174858Z
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SUMMARY:Informal Graduate Student Lunch with Verena Lepper
DESCRIPTION:Video: 4000 Years  \nPlease RSVP to Barbara Leavey
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/informal-graduate-student-lunch-with-verena-lepper/
LOCATION:161 East Pyne\, 161 East Pyne
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171114T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171114T180000
DTSTAMP:20260617T174351
CREATED:20170710T144720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171025T174931Z
UID:10000148-1510677000-1510682400@ancientworld.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Ancient World Research and Tools in Synergy
DESCRIPTION:“To use tools well\, we must\, in some real sense\, understand them better than the tool maker. The best kind of tools are therefore the ones that we make ourselves.” Dennis Tenen\, Debates in DH 2016 \nStarting from the example of Trismegistos (www.trismegistos.org)\, this talk will discuss how digital tools are transforming antiquity research. Heuristics used to be the most time-consuming task of the scholar\, but are increasingly a matter of a few mouse-clicks. This implies that scholars of the ancient world will have more time to do what lies at the core of the humanities: asking questions and study ancient society and culture critically. On the other hand some of these new questions can only be answered by developing new tools.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/lecture-with-mark-depauw/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171010T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171010T180000
DTSTAMP:20260617T174351
CREATED:20170710T144746Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170913T172025Z
UID:10000147-1507653000-1507658400@ancientworld.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Past\, Present\, and Future: Old and new perspectives in Dodona and Greek oracles
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe recent publication of about 4200 new lamellae from the oracle of Dodona \, was a revolution only a few people noticed. Yet the existence of 4200 new epigraphical texts focused on a same theme is in itself truly exciting\, especially in the field of oracles\, which has long been exaggeratedly dominated by literary texts.  How is Dodona\, even before 2013\, already a very promising case-study for approaching Greek divination and history\, and why\, after 2013\, scholars who have remained reluctant to change their minds about the foundations of Greek mantic practice will definitely be forced to do so. I would like first to analyze the image of Dodona according to the literary tradition\, then look at the decline of the oracles as it was seen by the Greeks themselves\, to eventually come back to the epigraphical evidence and the necessary shift in paradigm about and to what extent divination played a role in Greek society and history.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/lecture-with-pierre-bonnechere/
LOCATION:106 McCormick Hall\, 106 McCormick Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, United States
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170505T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170505T133000
DTSTAMP:20260617T174351
CREATED:20161222T151926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T145545Z
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SUMMARY:Comparing Greek and Near Eastern slavery in the post-Finley era
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/professor-david-lewis/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House\, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170421T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170421T133000
DTSTAMP:20260617T174351
CREATED:20170223T145758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170223T145758Z
UID:10000145-1492776000-1492781400@ancientworld.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Rome in the History of Universal Empires
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/rome-in-the-history-of-universal-empires/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House\, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170404T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170404T170000
DTSTAMP:20260617T174351
CREATED:20161222T150002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170313T151957Z
UID:10000141-1491323400-1491325200@ancientworld.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Voting for Authoritarianism: Popular Assemblies in Classical Greek Oligarchies
DESCRIPTION:  \n 
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/professor-matt-simonton/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170315T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170315T180000
DTSTAMP:20260617T174351
CREATED:20160922T232041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170310T165019Z
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SUMMARY:Reassessing the Ptolemaic settlement policies: Another look at the “poleis”
DESCRIPTION:For a long time\, the view was that the Ptolemies were not active in founding polis-like settlements\, especially in comparison to the Seleucids\, and the whole interpretative framework was that of rulers with little imperial ambitions. Building on recent studies that challenge such a view\, this talk\, based on a paper\, assesses third-century Ptolemaic settlements in the Eastern Mediterranean and in the Red Sea basin\, with a focus on those called “poleis” in the sources. It then compares them to second-century Upper Egypt and Southern border “poleis”\, examining the strategical and political reasons for their foundation and their location\, the identity of the settlers and founders\, arguing that the latter were mediators between the kings and the population rather than usurpers of the kings’ functions. Finally\, it suggests that the Ptolemaic imperial administration did not reject the idea of founding poleis but “re-invented” the concept in the Egyptian context\, where what could be called the “Greco-Egyptian poleis” developed.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/professor-christelle-fischer-bovet/
LOCATION:Bowl 002 Robertson Hall\, Bowl 002 Robertson Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T133000
DTSTAMP:20260617T174351
CREATED:20170110T205008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T145319Z
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SUMMARY:“Is there Seleucid history?”
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/is-there-seleucid-history/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House\, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170215T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170215T180000
DTSTAMP:20260617T174351
CREATED:20161006T002213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170214T213832Z
UID:10000140-1487176200-1487181600@ancientworld.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:“Imperial Time in the Hellenistic East”
DESCRIPTION:Paul J. Kosmin\, Harvard University  (Program in the Ancient World Fellow) \n 
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/lecture/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170213T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170213T132000
DTSTAMP:20260617T174351
CREATED:20170110T204630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T145341Z
UID:10000143-1486987200-1486992000@ancientworld.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Paul J. Kosmin Graduate Lunch Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Lunch workshop with graduate students \nRSVP requested
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/paul-kosmin-graduate-lunch-workshop/
LOCATION:Prospect House\, Prospect House\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161116T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161116T163000
DTSTAMP:20260617T174351
CREATED:20160922T231731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161024T010241Z
UID:10000136-1479313800-1479313800@ancientworld.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Roman Imperial Change as Conversion Narrative
DESCRIPTION:Professor Emma Dench\, Magie Lecturer\, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics\, Harvard University
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/roman-imperial-change-as-conversion-narrative/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne
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