Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - May 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…
Kate Howell (ANU): ‘Buddhist Relic Practice in Gandhāra: A Spatial and Temporal Network’
Seminar
Relic practice has long been identified as the most significant element of Buddhist religious culture in ancient Gandhāra. While scholars have noted the relic cult’s special vitality, its significance has not been subject to critical investigation. Why this lacuna? Earlier Western scholars…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - April 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…
Artefacts Exhibition | October 2024 - March 2025
Exhibition
Artefacts Exhibition October 2024 - March 2025 Tours Please contact ANU Classics Museum at classics.museum@anu.edu.au to organise a tour. The ARTefacts Project Co-Curators Dr Georgia Pike-Rowney and Julian Laffan The ARTefacts Project engages contemporary artists and scholars…
Dr Edward Armstrong (ANU) 'Ritual and Friendship in the Atheno-Peloponnesian Wars'
Seminar
This paper investigates the rhetoric and practice of ritualised friendship in the creation of treaties and alliances during the Atheno-Peloponnesian Wars (431-404 BCE). While modern commentators have shown separate interest in the personal/polis nature of treaties and alliances in Thucydides (e.g.…
The Brow of Brow Network: Taste-making in Contemporary US Art and Literature
Seminar
While twentieth-century brow categories—highbrow, lowbrow, and middlebrow—may no longer explicitly structure taste-making, the “judgmental sting” that Beth Driscoll (2014) associates with levels of distinction continues to shape artistic and literary taste in networked cultures. The words highbrow…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - March 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…