Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - May
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…
Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion
Seminar
This talk will offer an overview of my forthcoming monograph Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion. The book examines the ways that technological, and especially mechanical, strategies were integrated into ancient Greek religion. It aims both to expand the existing vocabulary of…
Information Session: Global Vietnam
Advisory session
Global Vietnam is a two-week in-country intensive course that offers students the opportunity to experience first-hand the imbricated issues of gender, labour and migration in contemporary Vietnam from a broad cultural studies perspective. The course is based in Hanoi and in addition to offering…
Caesar’s Experiments in Crafting a New Model Warrior
Seminar
Towards the end of Rome’s republic, Sallust delivers a familiar litany bemoaning the fallen military ideal: ambitious men now seek personal glory and wealth, rather than fighting for the state. This paper examines the writings of Julius Caesar and his response to the moral panic surrounding Roman…
Academic publishing (Online)
Workshop
Join us for a practical workshop on the essentials of academic publishing for health consumers, medical, and healthcare students or anyone interested in academic publishing in the health field! Explore publication and journal types and understand the concept of impact factors. Discover…
Contemporary Craft for Experimental Archaeology: Understanding Metalsmithing in Bronze Age Crete
Seminar
In the ANU Classics Museum, parked conspicuously in a case of Bronze Age artefacts, is a large copper vase—a modern vessel modelled after a Minoan bronze hydria in the collection of the Chania Archaeological Museum in Crete, hammered into shape with stone and wooden tools. The copper hydria is not…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - April
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…