Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - November 2024
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 Project: Artists’ Talks and Reception
Exhibition
Please join the Friends of the ANU Classics Museum for talks by the artists participating in the current ARTefacts Project exhibition, on display October 2024 – March 2025. The ARTefacts Project engages contemporary artists and ANU postgraduates in the creation of new works that respond to the…
Liquid Antiquities, Liquid Mobilities
Symposium
What would happen … if antiquity, no longer carved stone, turned liquid? This provocation issued by Brooke Holmes almost a decade ago is an invitation to defamiliarize our vision(s) of the past, to imagine it not as a fragmentary solid object patiently awaiting reassembly, but as a mobile liquid…
Dr Daniel Hanigan (Trinity College, Cambridge)- ‘Counter-Mapping Empire: Dionysius of Byzantium in the Thracian Bosporus’
Seminar
The rhetoric of global territorial conquest was central to the propaganda of the early Roman Empire. Augustus and his successors frequently presented themselves in Virgilian terms as masters of an “empire without end” (imperium sine fine) bounded only by the impassable waters of Ocean. This was,…
Jemima McPhee (Australian National University)- ‘Fire, earth and astrologia: writing science under Augustan stars’
Seminar
What makes Roman science ‘Roman’? How did the Romans investigate natural phenomena? And how did changing institutions influence scientific discourse? Contemporary ancient science scholarship focuses on positioning science in the wider ancient world and investigating how social, cultural, and…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - October 2024
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…
Dr Anthony Hooper (University of Wollongong) - ‘Epic kleos as a Model for Immortality in Plato’s Symposium’
Seminar
Epic kleos as a Model for Immortality in Plato’s Symposium The presentation of immortality in the Symposium persists as one of the most fraught topics in Plato studies, as scholars continue to struggle even to discern what model of immortality is at play. I seek to lend clarity to this issue by…