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ICS/ Herculaneum Society Lecture: 'Invisible Herculaneum'

2020-02-1901:03:44

Michael Scott, whose BBC documentary series 'Invisible Cities' delved beneath Naples, Rome and Athens - amongst other cities - talks about his experiences at Herculaneum and examines what else may yet be uncovered. In 79CE, the seaside town of Hercu...

ICS/British School at Rome Lecture 'January 14, 1506: the discovery of the Laocoon'

2018-02-2048:57

Professor Rita Volpe, Roma Tre University On January 14 1506 the statue group of the Laocoon was discovered in a vineyard on the Esquiline Hill in Rome. It was almost intact and recognized at once as the same work of art which Pliny the Elder consid...

Dorothy Tarrant Lecture: Earthquakes, Etruscan Priests, and Roman Politics in the Age of Cicero

2018-01-2443:21

Speaker: Anthony Corbeill, University of Virginia In 56 BCE Cicero, orator and statesman, was enjoying his first Roman spring since returning from exile. April brought terrestrial rumblings north of Rome. The senate chose to investigate, enlisting E...

ICS/British School at Athens Lecture: Pella. The Great Capital of the Macedonian Kingdom

2017-10-3159:46

Institute of Classical Studies ICS/British School at Athens Lecture: Pella. The Great Capital of the Macedonian Kingdom Dr Elisavet Bettina Tsigarida (Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of the County of Pella) Sixty years of continuous a...

Why do we need Monsters?

2017-10-1701:21:162

Why do we need Monsters? Today we worry about chimaeras - organisms created by combining genes from more than one species - and science fiction writers imagine bizarre aliens on other planets, just as nineteenth-century novelists placed them in the...

Classicist Foremothers and Why They Matter

2017-06-0654:47

Institute of Classical Studies Classist Foremothers and Why They Matter Professor Edith Hall (King's College London) J P Barron Memorial Lecture

Classist Foremothers and Why They Matter

2017-06-0654:47

Institute of Classical Studies Classist Foremothers and Why They Matter Professor Edith Hall (King's College London) J P Barron Memorial Lecture

Tiryns: from the rise of its palace to the post-palatial resurgence

2017-05-1601:27:07

Institute of Classical Studies Tiryns: from the rise of its palace to the post-palatial resurgence Professor Joseph Maran (University of Heidelberg) Michael Ventris Memorial Lecture

Early History and Landscapes of Rome seen from the Palatine

2017-03-2140:17

Institute of Classical Studies Early History and Landscapes of Rome seen from the Palatine Paolo Carafa (La Sapienza, Rome) Since 1985 we have been investigating the northern slopes of the Palatine, aiming to recover its physical lay-out, and...

Humans and Other Beings in Our Classical Past

2017-01-1801:04:44

School of Advanced Study Humans and Other Beings in Our Classical Past Professor Greg Woolf (Director of the Institute of Classical Studies) Professor Greg Woolf's research focuses on the history and archaeology of the ancient world at the ve...

The Archaic necropolis in Faliron Delta

2016-11-25--:--

Institute of Classical Studies The Archaic necropolis in Faliron Delta Dr Stella Chrysoulaki The rescue excavations at Faliron are carried out by the Ephorate of West Attica, Piraeus and the Islands since 2012 at the area, where the Stavros Ni...

ICS J.P. Barron Memorial Lecture: What ever happened to the barbarian?

2016-05-3101:07:07

Institute of Classical Studies ICS J.P. Barron Memorial Lecture What ever happened to the barbarian? Thomas Harrison (University of St Andrews) John Penrose Barron Memorial Lecture

Global Philology, Greco-Roman Studies, and Classics in the 21st Century

2016-05-1601:08:55

Institute of Classical Studies Global Philology, Greco-Roman Studies, and Classics in the 21st Century Professor Gregory Crane (Tufts; Leipzig) ST Lee Fellow in round table discussion with Dr Imre Galambos (Cambridge), Professor Eleanor Robson...

A.D.Trendall Lecture - Italic Dionysos in 4th Century BC Apulia

2016-05-0948:02

Institute of Classical Studies A.D.Trendall Lecture Italic Dionysos in 4th Century BC Apulia Thomas Carpenter (Ohio)

A.D.Trendall Lecture-Italic Dionysos in 4th Century BC Apulia

2016-05-09--:--

Institute of Classical Studies A.D.Trendall Lecture Italic Dionysos in 4th Century BC Apulia Thomas Carpenter (Ohio)

T.B.L Webster Lecture - Two Reliefs and what they tell us about Athenian Comedy

2016-05-0351:021

Institute of Classical Studies T.B.L Webster Lecture Two Reliefs and what they tell us about Athenian Comedy Eric Csapo (Sydney)

Hercules Ovidianus in Augustan Rome: between literature and figurative repertory

2016-03-2050:051

Institute of Classical Studies Hercules Ovidianus in Augustan Rome: between literature and figurative repertory Isabella Colpo (Universit degli Studi di Padova) London Roman Art seminar

Grotte Scalina: a new monumental Etruscan tomb near Viterbo

2016-03-0850:38

Institute of Classical Studies Women Writing the Classics Rome-London Lecture Grotte Scalina: a new monumental Etruscan tomb near Viterbo Vincent Jolivet Rediscovered at the end of the XXth century, and systematically excavated since 2...

Classics in Contemporary Women's Prose

2015-12-0851:45

Institute of Classical Studies Women Writing the Classics Seminar Classics in Contemporary Women's Prose Elizabeth Cook Salley Vickers

Classics in Contemporary Drama

2015-11-2401:17:201

Institute of Classical Studies Women Writing the Classics Classics in Contemporary Drama Chair: Nick Lowe (RHUL) Phyllis Brighouse (Liverpool) By Jove theatre company

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