Tag Archive for Ancient World

Classics Summer School at University of Melbourne

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The University of Melbourne is running a Classics Summer School in January 2016. The course is open to anyone who wants to learn more about the ancient world over the summer break. This course offers five days of classes covering the social history of ancient Greece, architecture, philosophy and a practical workshop to develop your argumentation skills. Presenter Dr Christopher Gribbin, Honorary Fellow, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne, has taught at the Summer School since 2002. Each course consists of five sessions between 4 and 8 January 2016. For full details download the flyer (Classics Summer School Flyer) or visit the website

Floor talks to showcase the NGV’s new antiquities gallery

Head covering of Padihorpasheraset 1st century AD-2nd century AD, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Felton Bequest, 1995.

The NGV has opened a new space the showcase their collection of antiquities. The new gallery is on Level 2 of NGV International. The collections are displayed across three areas, encompassing Mesoamerica, The Classical World and Egypt and the Near East. The two corridor cases that flank the gallery feature representative tomb groups from West Mexico and ancient Egypt. To showcase these collections the NGV is holding floortalks and a forum featuring expert speakers. The new display of the National Gallery of Victoria’s antiquities collection, The Ancient World, showcases works from ancient Egypt, the Near East, Greece, Italy and Mesoamerica. Celebrating the long awaited new galleries of curator floor talks. See details below. Floor Talk Series: Ancient World Egyptian Collection Speaker Amanda Dunsmore,…

NGV Lecture | Nefertiti – The Real Story Speaker Marc Gabolde, Egyptologist

EGYPT, el-Amarna Head of Queen Nefertiti 1353 BC-1337 BC limestone 34.3 x 21.0 x 20.5 cm, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Presented by N. de Garis Davies, 1907 616-D2

Nefertiti – The Real Story Marc Gabolde, Egyptologist In anticipation of the NGV’s Ancient World gallery opening in October, this lecture will look at one of the most famous queens in ancient Egypt – Nefertiti. Marc Gabolde is one of the world’s leading scholars on Nefertiti and in recent years has been excavating in the Royal Wadi at Amarna, Akhenaten and Nefertiti’s capital city. Based on cutting edge research, this lecture will look at Nefertiti’s life and role as royal consort to Akhenaten. What is her parentage? Did she rule Egypt in her own right? Is she the mother of Tutankhamun and was she buried at Amarna before being moved to the Valley of the Kings? Date: 6pm, 15 Aug 2013Venue: NGV…

Lecture | C. W. Marshal - Books, Dreams and Stories: How Sandman Comics Help Us Understand Ovid

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Books, Dreams and Stories: How Sandman Comics Help Us Understand Ovid C. W. Marshal, Professor of Greek, University of British Columbia This illustrated talk examines the structure of Ovid’s epic poem Metamorphoses (c. 8 CE) and Neil Gaiman’s comic series The Sandman (1989-96 CE). The comparison illuminates both works and demonstrates the reading strategies used by classicists and comics fans when approaching a complex, wide-ranging, allusive masterpiece. It will also consider how stories work, the place of comics in classical reception studies, and the true nature of ravens. C. W. Marshall is Professor of Greek in the Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies, and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Peter Wall Institute at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is…

Talks and tour | Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul | Iain Shearer and Susan Scollay

A collapsible nomadic crown (Tillya Tepe), 100 BC - 100 AD Source: National Museum of Afghanistan Photo © Thierry Ollivier / Musée Guimet

Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul Internationally noted archaeologist Iain Shearer introduces the exhibition. A graduate of University College, London, Iain is a Fellow of The Royal Asiatic Society and recent Sackler Scholar for Afghanistan and Iran at the British Museum. His extensive experience while working and researching in Afghanistan will bring this exhibition to life. An illustrated talk by Susan Scollay will provide a brief overview of some of the outstanding gold jewellery, weapons and other objects excavated from the tomb of an ancient Central Asian nomad warlord and the luxuriously adorned females buried nearby. As well Susan will highlight some of the precious objects that were traded along key branches of the Silk Road that criss-crossed Afghanistan in the 1st…

Lectures | ASA International Scholar Lecture Series - The Ancient Mediterranean

Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete photo by Kristen Hellstrom. Via ASA website.

ASA International Scholar Lecture Series - The Ancient Mediterranean Speakers Dr Don Evely, Curator, British School of Athens at Knossos, Crete Dr Erin Gibson, a Landscape Archaeologist, with interest in past human activity in the Eastern Mediterranean Program 10.00 - 11.00 Lecture 1: A Tale of Two Islands: Cyprus and Crete in the Bronze Age by Dr Don Evely 11.00 - 11.30 Morning Tea 11.30 - 12.30 Lecture 2: A Layered Past: Reading the Landscapes of Cyprus and Turkey by Dr Erin Gibson 12.30 - 1.45 Lunch Break 1.45 - 2.45 Lecture 3: Knossos: Past, Present and Future by Dr Don Evely 2.45 - 3.00 Break 3.00 - 4.00 Lecture 4: Mediterranean Journeys: The Archaeology and Anthropology of Travel by…