UCSB Arts & Lectures has announced the creation of the Roman Baratiak Endowed Lecture Fund in support of an annual mainstage lecture honoring the legacy of Roman Baratiak. Baratiak’s 44 years of ...

AMMAN — Following the intervention of Roman general Pompey the Great (106 BC-48 BC) in the Levant, Gerasa (Jerash) and Philadelphia (Amman) were integrated into a new province in the autumn of 63 BC, ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Presented by the Bobby and Judy Shackouls Honors College, Mississippi State’s annual Classical Week returns Tuesday [Sept. 24] with the first performance of the famous Roman comedy ...

DR Paul Roberts, Sackler Keeper of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum, is to give a talk about the Romans next month. In the annual Piper Lecture on Saturday, January 7, from 11am to 12 noon Dr ...

Τhe “Studies in Hellenic Culture” programme of the Open University of Cyprus (OUC) is organising the Fifth Cycle of the Lecture Series in Late Antiquity, titled: “When our world became Christian”. The ...

The Faculty of Humanities is set to host its second event as a British Academy lecture hub. On Tuesday, 2 May 2023 the University will welcome Colin Adams, Professor of ancient history at the ...

The second lecture of the Zube lecture series featured Dr. Lara Roman, a research ecologist working with the United States Forest Service, who delivered a lecture titled “Dynamic landscapes: Tree ...

Stealing from a sanctuary was one of the worst crimes a Roman could commit. A temple robber was a creature of insatiable greed who risked angering the gods to satisfy his desires. Our image of what ...

Vedius Pollio liked feeding people to lampreys. According to an urban legend that circulated in Imperial Rome, the emperor Augustus saved one of Pollio’s slaves from this grisly fate and punished ...

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