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The Three Cities of Dio Chrysostom: Conflict and Utopia in the Roman East
106 McCormick Hall 106 McCormick Hall, PrincetonAmong 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 […]
Petroglyphs, Figurines, and Pot Burials: The Mediterranean Connections of the Early Bronze Age Site at Vathy, Astypalaia
103 Scheide Caldwell House PrincetonThe 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 […]
The Curious Case of Coronado’s Shields: Towards a Pueblo Iconology on the Eve of Spanish Colonialism
010 East Pyne 010 East Pyne, PrincetonIn 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 […]
