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SUMMARY:Magie Lecture - Divining Scriptures: Homer\, the Gospels\, and Divination
DESCRIPTION:Divinatory machines are found in stone\, papyrus\, parchment\, and bone in the ancient Mediterranean. Many balanced randomness—a dice throw—with personal messages from the gods\, sometimes offered through a line of Homer or the Bible. These devices allowed for an epistemic stretch from and to the divine. By beginning with these devices\, rather than with philosophical-theological texts\, we can tell a story of how the less than elite (as well as elite) wrestled with theodicy and epistemology. A focus on these devices broadens our understanding of the production and uses of scriptures\, whether Homeric texts or the Bible\, and shows that sophisticated mechanisms of meaning-making\, including abstraction and allegory\, were materially instantiated and used in ritual practice. These also allow us to pause and to think about how and why to write history. \nLaura Nasrallah is Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale University (jointly appointed in Religious Studies and Divinity). Her research and teaching bring together New Testament and early Christian literature with the archaeological remains of the Mediterranean world\, and often engage issues of colonialism\, gender\, race\, status\, and power. She is author of Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses: Magic\, Aesthetics\, and Justice (Cambridge University Press\, 2024);  Archaeology and the Letters of Paul (Oxford University Press\, 2019); Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture: The Second-Century Church Amid the Spaces of Empire (Cambridge University Press\, 2010); and An Ecstasy of Folly: Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity (Harvard Theological Studies\, 2004). She is co-editor\, with Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza\, of Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race\, Gender\, and Ethnicity in Early Christian Studies (Fortress Press\, 2009); with Charalambos Bakirtzis and Steven J. Friesen\, of From Roman to Early Christian Thessalonikē: Studies in Religion and Archaeology (Harvard University Press\, 2010)\, and\, with AnneMarie Luijendijk and Charalambos Bakirtzis\, of From Roman to Early Christian Cyprus: Studies in Religion and Archaeology (Mohr Siebeck\, 2020). In 2014\, she conducted the online course module Early Christianity: The Letters of Paul\, offered through HarvardX/edX. Longer term projects include a commentary on 1 Corinthians for the Hermeneia series; a short book titled The Letters of Paul: A Love/Hate Story; and projects on divination and scripture\, ritual at Corinth’s Fountain of the Lamps\, and envy and its consequences. \nReception to follow. \nimage: Hellenistic to Roman Imperial Period (ca. 30 BCE–476 CE)\, Turkey\, 2nd century BCE–1st century CE\, Astragalos. Transparent glass\, light green; 1.4 x 0.9 x 0.9 cm. Gift of the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch to Princeton University (2002-13)
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/magie-lecture-laura-nasrallah-yale-university/
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SUMMARY:Concealing/Revealing: Depictions of the Enslaved in Late Antique Interiors
DESCRIPTION:A large furnishing textile from late antique Egypt\, now held at the MFA Boston\, depict nearly life-sized people performing the work of entertaining and welcome\, decorations in what would have once been a richly appointed household run through their enslaved labor. Contextualizing evidence from documentary texts\, material culture\, and architecture\, this lecture situates these individuals and their representations in the late antique household\, tracing the ways labor was revealed\, concealed\, parodied\, and amplified in elite interiors. \nElizabeth Dospěl Williams is Penny Vinik Chair of Fashion\, Textiles and Jewelry at the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, responsible for global collections from ancient to contemporary. She was previously Curator of the Byzantine Collection at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington\, D.C.\, where curated special exhibitions including Rich in Blessings: Women\, Wealth\, and the Late Antique Household (2023) and Woven Interiors: Furnishing Early Medieval Egypt (2019). \nDospěl Williams has authored numerous chapters and exhibition catalogue essays\, with a focus on wearable arts\, interior design\, provenance history\, and comparative art historical approaches. Her research is forthcoming or has appeared in Speculum\, West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts\, Design History\, and Material Culture\, Dumbarton Oaks Papers\, and The Textile Museum Journal. With Eiren Shea and Patricia Blessing\, she recently co-authored Medieval Textiles across Eurasia\, c. 300-1500 for the Cambridge Elements in the Global Middle Ages Series (2023). Dospěl Williams holds a Ph.D. in Byzantine and Islamic art history and archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts\, New York University. \nRead more about Dr. Williams on the MFA website. 
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/concealing-revealing-depictions-of-the-enslaved-in-late-antique-interiors/
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SUMMARY:Magie Lecture:  Entrepreneuring Women: The spaces of textile manufacture in classical Greek cities
DESCRIPTION:Named after David Magie ’97\, the distinguished Princeton Roman historian\, the Magie Lecture represents the most prestigious event hosted by PAW. Ever since the inaugural lecture delivered by Christian Habicht in 1988\, and published under the title Hellenistic Athens and Her Philosophers\, year after year speakers from many different countries have addressed topics spanning the whole remit of PAW\, from archaeology to religion\, from archaic Greece to the Late Antique Mediterranean. \nTextile production was a vital part of classical Greek economies\, predominantly managed and carried out by women. Recent scholarship\, shaped by New Institutional Economics\, suggests a division of labor where men wove luxury textiles in workshops for the market\, while women created basic textiles at home for domestic use. However\, this view\, based largely on literary sources\, marginalizes women’s contributions and overlooks substantial archaeological evidence. The material record shows that most textiles\, including high-quality items\, were produced by women in household settings\, as indicated by the widespread presence of textile tools in residential spaces and the absence of specialized workshops. \nAbout the Speaker: \nLin Foxhall is Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Liverpool. She also serves as Editor of the Journal of Hellenic Studies (Cambridge University Press). Previously she was Dean of the School of Histories\, Languages and Cultures at Liverpool and led the University-wide Heritage Research Theme\, Professor of Greek Archaeology and History at the University of Leicester\, and Head of the School of Archaeology and Ancient History\, where she played a major part in leading the team that discovered the body of King Richard III. She has held posts at St Hilda’s College\, Oxford and University College London\, and Visiting Professorships in Germany\, Denmark and the USA. She studied at Bryn Mawr College\, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Liverpool. \nAn active field archaeologist\, she has led and participated in collaborative research projects in Greece and Southern Italy\, and has written extensively on agriculture\, rural economies\, landscapes\, land use\, material culture and gender in the ancient Mediterranean\, and especially the Greek world\, mostly between the Bronze Age and Classical periods. \n 
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/magie-lecture-entrepreneuring-women-the-spaces-of-textile-manufacture-in-classical-greek-cities/
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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/
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SUMMARY:Communities of piety from Late Antiquity to Byzantium
DESCRIPTION:The rise of the holy man and the development of monasticism are one of the defining features of Late Antiquity that also shaped the subsequent centuries of medieval Byzantium. While theologians and other authors tend to insist on the superiority of monasteries as a space for the practice of virtues\, men and women of lay status also found ways to express their piety in communal settings. There is a wide range of evidence across the centuries that can demonstrate how communities of piety were shaped and organized\, thus calling into question the assumed divide between the holy and the secular life. \nClaudia Rapp has been Professor of Byzantine Studies\, University of Vienna\, where she moved after almost 20 years at UCLA. She is the interim Director of the Institute for Medieval Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences\, Member of several learned academies\, editorial and advisory boards\, and has held numerous fellowships (including at the Institute for Advanced Study) and visiting professorships. \nHer research focuses on social and cultural history\, often from the angle of religious history and manuscript studies. Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition\, published in 2005\, was re-issued in paperback in 2013. Her most recent book\, Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: Monks\, Laymen and Christian Ritual (2016) has led to the formation of the Euchologia Project at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Funding through the Wittgenstein-Award has enabled her to assemble a team of scholars for the joint investigation of Mobility\, Microstructures and Personal Agency. She is the Scholarly Director of the Sinai Palimpsests Project. \n 
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/claudia-rapp-to-present-the-paw-magie-lecture/
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Josiah Ober will present the Magie Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Josiah Ober\,  Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Professor in Honor of Constantine Mitsotakis Professor of Political Science and Classics will present the PAW Magie Lecture.
URL:https://ancientworld.princeton.edu/event/josiah-ober-will-present-the-magie-lecture/
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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 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/
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180222T163000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171128T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171128T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171114T163000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170404T163000
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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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