D: CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Seminars will take place on Tuesdays in 1.04 in the Faculty of Classics and begin at 16:30. All are warmly invited to join us – and for drinks and conversation afterwards, too.
MICHAELMAS TERM
October 10 Abigail Baker (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
Displaying and debating Schliemann’s Troy
October 17 Mary Danisi (American Academy, Rome)
Phantoms of attachment: Impermanent offerings in ancient Greek funerary rites
October 24 Veli Köse (Ankara)
Aspendos and its aqueducts
October 31 Nikolaus Dietrich (Heidelberg)
A wool basket in clay
November 7 Verity Platt (Cornell/Cambridge)
From typos to archetypon: Visual and verbal recursion in late Hellenistic epigram
November 14 Andrew Shapland (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
How chthonic were the Knossos Snake Goddesses?
November 21 Emily Egan (Maryland)
The field of (papyrus-)reeds: Painting the afterlife in Late Bronze Age Greece
November 28* Jessica Plant (Cambridge)
Roman plasticity: The semantics and mechanics of a craft ecology
[*Seminar followed by end-of-term D Caucus reception in the Museum of Classical Archaeology]