Presented by The Friends of the ANU Classics Museum.

Hades, god of the underworld, is an anomaly among Greek gods: the dark ruler of the dead, remaining in his gloomy home, emerging only to abduct Persephone and snatch the occasional hapless mortal. And yet under the name of Plouton he is a rich and generous god of agricultural fertility. This lecture will talk about these two sides of Hades, and the glue than binds them together.

Dr Diana Burton is Senior Lecturer in the Classics Programme at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She completed her undergraduate and Honours degrees there, and her PhD at University College London (1997). She then returned to take up a lectureship at Victoria. Her research lies primarily in the areas where ancient Greek religion, death, and iconography intersect. She is currently working on a monograph on Hades.

Supper in the Museum will follow, where our new items of merchandise will be on sale, all proceeds of which help us acquire further items for the Museum.