The most beautiful church in Christendom: the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul
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The ANU (Canberra) Friends of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens warmly invite you to this illustrated lecture Hagia Sophia in Istanbul is one of the greatest architectural monuments in the world. Originally built as the Byzantine Cathedral of Constantinople under Emperor Justinian…
Pausanias and the Staged City of Thebes
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Thebes existed in several ways in antiquity. There was a city by that name on the Greek mainland, some hundred miles north-west of Athens. And there was a city by that name whose distinctive walled topography offered to Athenian playwrights a sealed conceptual space in which its ruling dynasty…
Supplying water to an unstable city: Pompeii before the eruption
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Pompeii's extensive lead pipe distribution system brought running water to more than 40 street-side fountains, multiple bathing complexes and nearly 10% of the city’s houses. But Pompeii’s precarious location on Mt Vesuvius presented the planners with many problems, particularly when the ground…
The lost beginning of Suetonius’ Julius Caesar
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Presented as part of the Classics Seminar Series It is generally accepted that the beginning of Suetonius’ Julius Caesar is missing. The recovery of the introduction to the Life (and possibly to the series) would not only fill in gaps about Julius Caesar, but it might also clarify the purpose of…
Friends of ANU Classics Museum Mid-Winter Dinner
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Save the date for the Friends of ANU Classics Museum Mid-Winter Dinner on Thursday 21st August. During our annual winter dinner, Dr Greta Hawes of the ANU Centre for Classical Studies will entertain us with a talk on 'How to feed a centaur'. Cost: $60 pp. For bookings, please phone the…
Launch of Four Books - Centre for Classical Studies
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In 2013 the Centre for Classical Studies (then the Classics & Ancient History Progam) launched five publications by Classicists on the ANU campus in 2012–2013. The Head of ANU’s School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Professor Catherine Travis, is delighted to invite you to the launch…
Friends of the ANU Classics Museum Happy Hour
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Come along and discover “How the Romans nailed it”! Friends and their guests are invited to drinks and finger food in the ANU Classics Museum. The evening will feature presentations on the Museum’s five Roman nails from a hoard discovered at Inchtuthil in Scotland in the 1950s. Derek Abbott, who…