Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - March
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…
Episcopal petitions to the emperor: norm, practice and representation
Seminar
Join us for the first ANU Classics Centre Research Seminar for the year, presented by Dr Fabian Schulz. This presentation runs for one hour in the AD Hope Conference Room (Room #128). A reception will follow in the Classics Museum. All welcome! Abstract Thirty years after the…
Painted Walls and Tiled Floors from Pompeii, Herculaneum and Beyond
Lecture
Friends of the ANU Classics Museum invite you to the Annual General Meeting and talk, Painted walls and tiled floors from Pompeii, Herculaneum and beyond. Presented by Dr Estelle Lazer, Honorary Research Associate in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney. Held in the RSSS…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - February
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…
Classics: Considering the Critique
Lecture
Friends of the ANU Classics Museum invite you to an end of year happy hour and talk Classics: Considering the Critique Presented by Dr Gwendolyn Gray Jamieson Followed by a special announcement and celebration to honour a generous gift to the Museum by Emeritus Professor Graeme Clarke This talk…
Sicily: The Levant’s foothold in Italy
Seminar
While the eastern part of Sicily was thickly settled by Greeks in the 8th century BCE, the west was in Phoenician hands, with cities at Mozia, Palermo and Solunto. People from the Levant had already been visiting the island in the Bronze Age, when their principal destination seems to have been the…
The Shellal Mosaic: Archaeological, Textual and Visual Traditions
Lecture
The Shellal Mosaic is the largest ancient mosaic pavement in Australia. It was uncovered by Australian and New Zealand Service Personnel at Shellal, near Gaza, in 1917, and subsequently removed by Chaplain William Maitland Woods. The largest part of the mosaic is held by the Australian War Memorial…