Wet and Wild: Justice and Ecology in Ancient Flood Narratives?
Seminar
CCS Research Seminar 1 The destruction of most of humanity in ancient Flood narratives has understandably led to dominantly anthropocentric approaches in their intertextual analyses. This paper considers the significant yet overlooked role of animals and the environment in these ancient…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - August 2025
Tour
Monthly tours Join us for a free guided tour of the Classics Museum led by one of our knowledgeable volunteer guides. The museum features examples of ancient art and objects of daily life from Greece and the Roman world, including Egypt and the Near East. The museum's areas of strength include…
The Politics of Freeing Slaves: Manumission Laws in Early Imperial Rome and China
Seminar
CCS Research Seminar 2During his principate, Augustus promulgated several perplexing laws that seemingly regulated and restricted manumission: Lex Iunia (~17 BCE), Lex Fufia Caninia (2 BCE), Lex Aelia Sentia (4 CE), and Lex Papia Poppaea (9 CE). Literary sources present an…
What Shapes Our Understanding of the Past? Deconstructing Settlement and Cultic Models in Early Iron Age Attica
Seminar
CCS Research Seminar 3Our understanding of the past is always predicated on previous interpretations of evidence. This talk presents two case studies that demonstrate the importance of evaluating where our interpretations come from. These are the 8th century BC so-called ‘Sacred house’ of the…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - September 2025
Tour
Monthly tours Join us for a free guided tour of the Classics Museum led by one of our knowledgeable volunteer guides. The museum features examples of ancient art and objects of daily life from Greece and the Roman world, including Egypt and the Near East. The museum's areas of strength include…
The Second Sophistic in the Egyptian Hinterland or How Can Papyri Contribute to Our Understanding of Graeco-Roman Intellectual Culture
Seminar
CCS Research Seminar 4We generally associate the cultural movement of the so-called Second Sophistic with names such as Lucian of Samosata, Favorinus of Arelate or Philostratus. In his Lives of the Sophists, the latter draws a picture of wandering orators who travel through the Mediterranean world…
Hidden Voices and Legacies: The Role of Silence in Ion
Seminar
CCS Research Seminar 5This seminar investigates the complex dramaturgy of silence in Euripides’ Ion, a tragedy in which muteness becomes both a mode of violence and a tool of resistance. In contrast to the prevailing aural richness of Greek drama, silence in Ion destabilizes expectations and…