This lecture reviews the startling new archaeological discoveries that have been made in Turkey during the last 25 years, including the Roman Sebasteion at Aphrodisias, the early Neolithic cult circles at… Read More
"Conference on Divination in the Ancient World" - a three-day event beginning on Thursday night, running all day Friday & most of Saturday, with lunch to be served in the Nevil Room of the Penn Museum.… Read More
On Wednesday November 2nd 2016 Jeremy McInerney will present "Centaurs, Sirens and Chimera: The Greeks and Their Monsters." This talk is part of the Penn Museum's Great Beasts of Legend Lecture Series.… Read More
The Classics Undergraduate Advisory Board (UAB) will host a Faculty Tea with Professor Ralph Rosen. Come for the snacks and stay to ask Dr. Rosen about his life, career, and prolific scholarship on satire.
Recent years have seen a wealth of new scholarship, much of it explicitly revisionist, on Quintus Ennius, and in particular on his masterpiece, the historical epic poem Annales. At the same time, a… Read More
Edward Cohen, author of the new Oxford monograph Athenian Prostitution: The Business of Sex, will discuss male and female prostitution at Athens, and explore why the sale of sex –– lawful and pervasive in the… Read More
The question of agricultural labor is fundamental to our understanding of the economy and society of the Roman world. For this reason it has been the subject of debate for centuries. Through the late twentieth… Read More
