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SUMMARY:Italy's Urban Boom in the Late Roman Republic
DESCRIPTION:Drew Davis\, Crake Doctoral Fellow in Classics\, Mount Allison University \n \nA significant urbanization phenomenon swept through the Italian peninsula in the second and first centuries BCE. Communities across Italy invested considerable amounts of labour and financial capital into monumentalizing their urban spaces\, a process which coincided with one of the most transformative periods in the region’s history. This lecture will explore how this commitment to public construction in turn (re)created and constructed communities and forged local identities. \nDrew Davis is Crake Doctoral Fellow in Classics at Mount Allison University for 2022-2023.  He is completing his doctoral dissertation at the University of Toronto.  It focuses on the larger socio-economic history of the public building phenomenon which swept through Italy in the last two centuries of the Roman Republic. It assesses how communities afforded such projects\, and how this construction fit into the wider political shifts of the period. \nZoom link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/86581981946 \nCo-sponsored by the University of Toronto Department of Italian Studies and the University of Toronto Department of Classics. \n     
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/italys-urban-boom-in-the-late-roman-republic/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221127T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221127T150000
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SUMMARY:Scratching the Surface: Reflections on a First Campaign to Digitally Record Graffiti at Philae
DESCRIPTION:Nicholas Hedley\, Department of Geography\, Simon Fraser University \nIn this talk\, I share my experiences working at the Temple of Isis at Philae\, in Southern Egypt. During the Fall 2021 campaign\, I began evaluating the capability and suitability of spatial digital recording methods to capture graffiti\, and the morphological context of the structures they were found in at Philae. This resulted in a new collection of digital recordings\, across multiple scales\, from which an initial set of new wall plans were produced. I will present and discuss the challenges to record the complex surfaces of the Mammisi at Philae\, and opportunities to advance the way we build wall plans informed by an emerging ideology of spatial reality capture. \nCo-sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America. \nIn person at the University of Ottawa: Desmarais Hall (DMS1120)\, 55 Laurier Avenue East.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/on-egypt/
LOCATION:University of Ottawa\, Ottawa
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221120T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221120T150000
DTSTAMP:20221106T004856Z
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SUMMARY:Entangled Histories of Architecture\, Environment\, and Inhabitants in Ottoman Istanbul
DESCRIPTION:Gül Kale\, School of Art History\, Carleton University \nIn person at Carleton University (Paterson Hall\, Room 303) and online with Zoom: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/92751544273. \nGül Kale\, Assistant Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at Carleton University\, is an architectural historian and trained as an architect.  Her areas of focus are the early modern Ottoman empire\, cross-cultural and global histories and theories of design\, and the built environment in the wider Mediterranean world and the Middle East.  Her published and forthcoming work ranges from the relationship between architectural practice\, mathematical knowledge\, and social affairs in imperial Istanbul to the link between architecture and music in early modern societies.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/entangled-histories/
LOCATION:In person at Carleton University and online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221016T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221016T150000
DTSTAMP:20221005T132829Z
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SUMMARY:Soldiers and Civilians in Roman Arabia: The Evolution of Roman and Nabataean Relations at Humayma (Jordan)
DESCRIPTION:Barbara Reeves\, Department of Classics\, Queen’s University \nIn the early second century CE the Roman Empire annexed the Nabataean Kingdom and transformed it into their new Province of Arabia. Immediately thereafter the Romans built a major fort on the desert trade routes next to the Nabataean town of Hawara (modern Humamya). This lecture will present archaeological evidence for the nature of the evolving relations between soldiers and civilians at this site over the next four centuries.  \nBarbara Reeves is an Associate Professor in Classics and Cultural Studies at Queen’s University. Her research focuses on the Roman and Nabataean Near East and particularly on the relations between soldiers and civilians. She has been excavating in Jordan since 1995 and has directed archaeological projects at Humayma and Wadi Ramm. \nIn person at Carleton University (Paterson 303) and online with Zoom. \nZoom link: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/95800258329
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/soldiers-and-civilians-in-roman-arabia/
LOCATION:In person at Carleton University and online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220925T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220925T150000
DTSTAMP:20220907T145024Z
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SUMMARY:Ancient Bronzes at the Uffizi in Florence: From the Collection of the Grand Dukes to the First Public Museum
DESCRIPTION:Cristiana Zaccagnino\, Department of Classics\, Queen’s University \nProfessor Zaccagnino is jointly appointed with the Department of Languages\, Literatures\, and Cultures and associated with Cultural Studies. She is the sole author of three books on topics of Greek archaeology and on the collections of ancient bronzes of the Medici and Lorena in Florence\, and the co-author of two books\, as well as numerous articles on Greek\, Etruscan and Roman civilisations. She has been teaching Italian language acquisition courses and courses on Italian literature since 2007. She is interested in the reception and use of Classical tradition in Italian culture (literature\, art and the politics) from the Middle Ages to our current days. \nIn person at Dominion-Chalmers Cultural Center\, Carleton University\, and online with Zoom. \nZoom link:  https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/94420917039
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/ancient-bronzes-at-the-uffizi/
LOCATION:In person at Dominion-Chalmers Cultural Centre and online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220915T190000
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SUMMARY:Hunting the Little Poor Man of Assisi: Or\, Why after 100 Years of Research I Still Had to Write Yet Another Life of St. Francis of Assisi
DESCRIPTION:Augustine Thompson\, O.P.\, Praeses\, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies\n\n \n  \nSince the 1890s\, Franciscan and non-Franciscan scholars have been searching for new sources for the life of St. Francis and subjecting them to intensive study and analysis. We now know more about the evidence for this beloved saint than ever before\, but there was\, until this biography\, virtually no attempt to use all this information to reconstruct the “Historical Francis.” This lecture will explain the difficulties of interpreting this evidence and why those most involved in its study have avoided using it to create a new biography. It will then explain the speaker’s own approach and how it produced a very different picture of St. Francis from that popularly received. \n\n\nIn February 2022 Father Augustine Thompson was appointed Praeses (President / Director) of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto.  He is currently on leave from the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley\, California.  He is the author of Francis of Assisi: A New Biography (Cornell University Press\, 2012).  He joined the Order of Preachers (the Dominicans) in 1977\, and was ordained a priest in 1985. \nZoom link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/89906353712 \nCo-sponsored by: the Dominican Institute of Toronto\, the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies\, the University of Toronto Department of Italian Studies\, and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Toronto).
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/hunting-the-little-poor-man-of-assisi/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220424T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220424T150000
DTSTAMP:20220419T231129Z
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SUMMARY:Getting Blood from a Stone: Excavations at a Paleolithic Oasis in Azraq\, Northwest Jordan
DESCRIPTION:April Nowell\, Associate Professor\, University of Victoria \n \nOver the millenia\, Azraq\, NW Jordan\, has borne witness to multiple migrations of early human ancestors including Homo erectus and Neandertals\, many of whom left behind clues about their ways of life in an often challenging environment. One particularly rich archaeological locale is the 250\,000 year-old Shishan Marsh site in southern Azraq. Based on studies of the inhabitants’ stone tools (some with blood residue still on them!) and the diverse strategies they used to hunt and scavenge their prey\, it was discovered that these early humans were surprisingly sophisticated technologically\, socially and cognitively. \nDr. April Nowell is a Paleolithic archaeologist and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Victoria. She directs an international team of scientists in the study of Lower and Middle Paleolithic sites in Jordan She directs an international team of researcher in the study of Lower and Middle Paleolithic sites in Jordon and is known for her publications on cognitive archaeology\, Paleolithic art\, the Archaeology of children\, and the relationship between science\, pop culture and the media. She is the author of Growing up in the Ice Age (2021) \nZoom link: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/98290723721 \nPresented under the patronage of the Embassy of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan\, and in collaboration with the College of the Humanities of Carleton University.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/getting-blood-from-a-stone/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220407T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220407T200000
DTSTAMP:20220717T013826Z
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SUMMARY:Behind the Tophet: Theologies of Infanticide
DESCRIPTION:Baruch Halpern\, Covenant Foundation Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion\, University of Georgia\n\n \nData that elucidates the practice of child sacrifice in the ancient Mediterranean world include the literary relation of legendary instances\, myth\, foreigners’ descriptions and occasional references to the living practice from Late Bronze Hatti forward. Extensive archaeological manifestation\, with an accompanying trove of physical evidence and formulaic inscriptions\, has made the practice\, if anything\, even more inscrutable. Against that background\, I take this occasion to explore both some scholarly explanations of the practice and what seem the most fruitful approaches to it for the future. \n\n\nBaruch Halpern received his doctorate from Harvard University.  He has taught at York University\, Penn State University and the University of Georgia.  He was co-director of the Megiddo Expedition and Survey of the Jezreel Valley\, as well as of an archaeological survey in southeastern Cilicia\, Turkey.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/behind-the-tophet/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220310T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220310T200000
DTSTAMP:20220717T013552Z
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SUMMARY:The Origins of the God of Israel
DESCRIPTION:Aleksander Krogevoll\, Instructor\, University of St. Michael’s College\n\n \nIt is difficult to conduct any study on the origin of Yahwism\, as the evidence for YHWH’s origins remain limited. However\, the absence of YHWH in the West-Semitic group of gods has led scholars to look for the deity’s origins south of Israel. This presentation will offer an overview of the Midianite-Kenite hypothesis and explore why it has become the leading hypothesis for YHWH’s origins.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/the-origins-of-the-god-of-israel/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220220T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220220T150000
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SUMMARY:The Kingdom of Kadmos: Research at Ancient Eleon in Central Greece
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Brendan Burke\, Andrew W. Mellon Professor\, American School of Classical Studies at Athens; Professor Greek and Roman Studies\, University of Victoria \n \nThe talk will present the results of the excavations by the Canadian Institute in Greece in collaboration with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Boeotia from 2012–2018. The site of Eleon had never been explored archaeologically before this work. We have discovered a cemetery of the Early Mycenaean period (ca. 1600 BCE)\, a late Helladic settlement (1200–1100 BCE) and evidence for an Archaic–Classical period sanctuary. \nBrendan Burke is a former interim Academic Director of the Canadian Institute in Greece\, he continues to serve on the Board of Directors and chairs the Survey and Excavation Committee and the Vision and Mission Committee. While completing his PhD at UCLA he spent three years in Greece\, excavating at Corinth\, on Methana\, and working at the Phrygian capital of Gordion in central Turkey\, focussing on the economics of cloth production in the Minoan\, Mycenaean\, Phrygian worlds\, spanning the Bronze Age through the Iron Age. Since 2007\, he has been co–directing the EasternBoeotia Archaeological Project in central Greece\, leading the excavation at ancient Eleon which spans the early Mycenaean period through the Medieval age. This talk will present the most recent results from excavation and survey between 2017–2021. \nZoom link: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/95404311966
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/the-kingdom-of-kadmos-research-at-ancient-eleon-in-central-greece/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220210T200000
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SUMMARY:Jews in the Roman Army: Cultures in Conflict
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Zeichmann\, Emmanuel College\, University of Toronto\n\nThe relationship between the Jewish people and the Roman Empire was not a happy one – marked by three famous Jewish revolts. Due in part to this tension\, as well as conflicts with sabbath observance\, dietary restrictions\, and other issues\, there is a common wisdom that Jews never served in the Roman army or\, if they did\, that they were apostates. Contrary to such beliefs\, this paper will argue that there were many Jewish men who served in the Roman army\, finding ways to navigate their religious scruples within the structures of the military. How did these men understand their own Judaism and Jewishness? \n\n\nDr. Christopher B. Zeichmann (he/they) completed his Ph.D. at the Toronto School of Theology. His books include The Roman Army and the New Testament (2018) and Essential Essays for the Study of the Military in First Century Palestine (2019). He presently teaches at Ryerson University and Emmanuel College at the University of Toronto and serves as project manager of Brown University’s Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine project.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/jews-inthe-roman-army/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220207T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220207T170000
DTSTAMP:20220208T035140Z
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SUMMARY:Tombstones\, Times of Death\, and Horoscopes in the Roman Empire
DESCRIPTION:Simeon D. Ehrlich\, Stanford University
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/tombstones-times-of-death-and-horoscopes-in-the-roman-empire/
CATEGORIES:Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220203T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220203T200000
DTSTAMP:20220208T035155Z
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SUMMARY:Understanding Jerusalem: The Holy City and Why it Matters
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Darby’s presentation will draw upon historical and cultural context to explain the impact of archaeology in Jerusalem on various people groups and religious traditions\, helping to elucidate why archaeological exploration continues to be intertwined with international politics\, nationalism\, and cultural identity. \nErin Darby is an Associate Professor of Early Judaism and Faculty Director of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships at the University of Tennessee. She has worked as an archaeologist in Israel since 2003 and in Jordan since 2008\, and her research has taken her to Egypt\, Syria\, and Turkey as well. In addition to her other scholarly work\, Dr. Darby has an interest in the way archaeological sites–like Jerusalem– feature in modern political decision-making and soft diplomacy and how archaeology intersects with nationalism\, tourism\, and local economies. \nOrganised by The Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies and the College of the Humanities of Carleton University. \nOnline Zoom lecture; pre-registration required. \nTo register: https://carleton.ca/jewishstudies/registration-understanding-jerusalem-the-holy-city-and-why-it-matters/
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/understanding-jerusalem-the-holy-city-and-why-it-matters/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220116T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220116T150000
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SUMMARY:Incense and the Nativity Cycle on the Sion Treasure Censer
DESCRIPTION:Dr. John Osborne\, Distinguished Research Professor and Dean emeritus\, Carleton University \nWhat is incense? Where does it come from? What was its role in early Christianity and why was this considered controversial by contemporary theologians? Why and when did incense burners become important liturgical instruments\, often made from precious metals such as gold and silver? And how does their decoration reflect their function? These and other related questions will be addressed in a talk that takes as its starting point a remarkable gilded silver incense burner discovered at Kumluca in south-western Turkey\, part of the so-called Sion treasure\, datable by its control stamps to approximately the year 565 CE\, and now in the Antalya Museum. The censer is decorated with scenes related to the account of the birth of Jesus contained in a second-century apocryphal text known as the Protoevangelium of James. \nJohn Osborne is Distinguished Research Professor and Dean Emeritus at Carleton University\, and an Associate Fellow and Member of the Academic Council of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto. He is currently also a Research Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art\, University of London\, where he received his doctorate in 1979. His recent publications include Rome in the Eighth Century: a history in art (Cambridge University Press 2020)\, and a co-edited volume Santa Maria Antiqua: The Sistine Chapel of the Early Middle Ages (Brepols/Harvey Miller Press 2021). \nZoom link: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/99256715293
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/incense-and-the-nativity-cycle-on-the-sion-treasure-censer/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220113T200000
DTSTAMP:20220717T013911Z
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SUMMARY:From the Mary of History to the Theotokos of Faith
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Brian Butcher\, Adjunct Professor\, McGill University\n\n \nThe Mediterranean has played host to the blossoming and cross-pollination of several distinct Orthodox Christian traditions\, including the Byzantine\, Coptic\, West Syriac and Armenian. Each of these recapitulate the scriptural figure of Mary the mother of Jesus\, through the media of iconography and hymnography\, especially as these converge within the liturgical context. There the threads of the New Testament (and apocryphal) accounts of her\, as well as the Old Testament symbols or “types” discerned to foreshadow her\, are interwoven into a rich tapestry. By showcasing cardinal representations of the “God-bearer” this presentation invites reflection on the unity and diversity of the Christian East\, and the complex dynamics operative in the historical development of doctrine and devotion. \n\n\nDr. Brian A. Butcher received a Ph.D. in Theology (Eastern Christian Studies) from St. Paul University in Ottawa in 2010\, an M.A. from St. Paul University in 2003\, and a B.A. from McGill University in 1998. He is currently an adjunct professor at McGill University. For nine years he was Lecturer and Research Fellow in Eastern Christian Studies at the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptysky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies both at the University of St. Michael’s College and previously at Saint Paul University in Ottawa. Prior to that he taught for several years at Simon Fraser University and Redeemer Pacific College/Trinity Western University.  His first book\, Liturgical Theology After Schmemann: An Orthodox Reading of Paul Ricoeur\, was published in 2018 by Fordham University Press. Other recent publications include a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Sacramental Theology (2015). He is a subdeacon in the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/from-the-mary-of-history-to-the-theotokos-of-faith/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211209T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211209T200000
DTSTAMP:20220717T013203Z
CREATED:20211002T211911Z
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SUMMARY:Judging the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael O’Connor\, Associate Professor\, St. Michael’s College\, University of Toronto\n\n \nIn the 1530s Michelangelo added the Last Judgment to the previous work he and others had painted in the Sistine Chapel. In doing so\, he completed but also disrupted the artistic program of the Chapel begun half a century earlier under the patronage of Pope Sixtus IV. \nIs the result a success? This talk will consider different answers to that question. \n\n\nMichael O’Connor is Associate Professor\, Teaching Stream\, in the Christianity and Culture program and Book and Media Studies program at St. Michael’s College\, University of Toronto. \nHis research interests include music and liturgy\, early modern intellectual history (especially Renaissance Rome)\, Christianity and the arts\, and history of biblical exegesis. Recent courses have included “Ritual and Worship” and the First Year Foundations Seminar “The Sistine Chapel: History\, Image\, Use.” \nProfessor O’Connor is the director of the St. Michael’s Schola Cantorum and the college Singing Club. A board member of the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music and the Royal School of Music\, Canada\, he is also active as composer\, arranger\, and music editor. \nHe arrived at the University of St. Michael’s College in 2005. He formerly served as Warden of the Royal School of Music\, UK and Lecturer in Theology\, Ushaw College\, UK. Professor O’Connor holds degrees from Pontifical Gregorian University\, Rome (STB\, STL)\, and Oxford\, Oriel College (DPhil).
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/judging-the-last-judgement-in-the-sistine-chapel/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211107T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211107T150000
DTSTAMP:20220207T223017Z
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SUMMARY:Heroes on the Move: Greek Heroes in the Hellenistic World
DESCRIPTION:Amanda Herring\, Department of Art and Art History\, Loyola Marymount University \nHeroes were a key part of the cultural imperialism of Alexander and his successors\, who brought the cults and myths of Greek heroes to the territories they conquered\, actively connecting them with local gods and founding sites for their worship. Following their conquests\, heroes\, their cults\, and images were well established across the Hellenistic east. Yet\, the Hellenistic heroes differed from those of earlier periods\, with new methods of depiction and characterization\, and many of the most widely worshipped and depicted heroes of the Hellenistic period were not the same as in earlier periods and in the Greek cities of the mainland. Herakles did maintain his position as the most popular hero. Inscriptions honoring Herakles have been found in Ai Khanoum in Bactria\, and images of the hero have been at a number of sites in central Asia. A relief of Herakles decorated the tumulus at Nemrud Dağ\, and his exploits were popular subjects on architectural sculpture produced elsewhere in Anatolia. It does not appear\, however\, that Herakles was popular because he was the ultimate Greek hero\, but rather because of his status as a wandering hero. His travels and exploits could be connected to various locations\, allowing for the establishment of specifically local cults and myths. Many of the other popular heroes in the period also fit the mould of the wandering hero. For instance\, reliefs commemorating the cult of Bellerophon have been found at Aphrodisias\, and his images have been found in Bactria. Jason\, Medea\, and Ariadne also enjoyed widespread popularity. This lecture will examine how these heroes were depicted in art and the evidence for where and how they were worshipped. It will consider how heroes were transformed from tools of conquest to loci of local identity and cult\, focusing on the changed role of heroes in the Hellenistic period\, and how modifications to the character and stories of the heroes served the local populations of the Hellenistic east. \nAmanda Herring received her BA in Art History and Classical Archaeology from Dartmouth College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from UCLA.  At Loyola Marymount she teaches courses on the art and architecture of the ancient world. With a specialization in Hellenistic Greece\, her research explores how architecture and sculpture were used as expression of cultural and ideological identities in a period of rapid social and political change.  In particular\, she has examined the Temple of Hekate at Lagina\, the Temple of Artemis at Magnesia on the Meander\, and the statue of the Barberini Faun.  Her research also examines the reception of the classical past in the modern world\, and recent publications have focused on the history of archaeology in 19th century Ottoman Empire.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/heroes-on-the-move/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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SUMMARY:The Life and Death of Tombs: The Excavation of the Mycenaean Cemetery at Ayia Sotira in the Nemea Valley\, Greece
DESCRIPTION:Dr. R. Angus K. Smith\, Brock University\n\nFrom 2006 to 2008 an international team conducted archaeological excavations at the threatened late Bronze Age site of Ayia Sotira near Nemea\, Greece.  These excavations saved a cemetery of Mycenaean tombs from looting and revealed new information about the complex mortuary rituals that surrounded the use and reuse of communal tombs during the 14th and 13th centuries BCE. This talk will describe the excavations and what these tombs revealed\, and put them in the larger context of death in Mycenaean Greece. \n\n\nDr. R Angus K. Smith is Associate Professor of Greek Archeology with the Classics Department of Brock University; he holds his degrees from Dartmouth College\, Cambridge University (M.Phil) and Bryn Mawr College (MA\, PhD). His research interests are Greek archaeology\, Aegean prehistory\, ceramic analysis and mortuary analysis.  He is currently Associate Director of excavations at the Minoan town of Gournia on Crete\, and he was Co-Director of the recently completed Ayia Sotira excavation project at Nemea.  Professor Smith is the 2018 recipient of the Brock University Faculty of Humanities Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity.  He was President of the Canadian Institute in Greece and is President of the Niagara Peninsula Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. \nPresented jointly by the Ottawa and Toronto Chapters.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/life-and-death-of-tombs/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter,Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211024T140000
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DTSTAMP:20220208T004326Z
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UID:212-1635084000-1635087600@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:Unpicking Dido's Weaving: Aeneas' Carthaginian Cloak
DESCRIPTION:Aven McMaster\, Professor Emerita of Thorneloe University and Instructor at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax\n\nThe purple cloak worn by Aeneas\, woven by Dido\, in lines 4.261-4 of the Aeneid\, has connections to Homeric and Hellenistic epic\, Greek tragedy\, Roman lyric and elegiac poetry\, and Horace’s Epodes. This lecture will explore the rich resonances of this passage in the Aeneid\, and show that these connections combine to imply that Dido has woven this cloak as an attempt to play the role of a good Roman wife\, but that her attempt is undercut by mistakes in her choices of literary and mythical models. This both emphasizes her perception of the relationship with Aeneas as a marriage and undermines its legitimacy in the eyes of a Roman reader\, supporting Aeneas’ choice to leave her. \n\n\nDr. Aven McMaster received her B.A.\, M.A.\, and Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Toronto. She was an Associate Professor in the Ancient Studies Department at Thorneloe University\, federated with Laurentian University\, until the university was forced to close this spring because of Laurentian’s financial difficulties. She is currently teaching courses at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. Her specialization is Latin poetry\, especially of the late Republic and Augustan periods\, and its connections to the patron-client system of Rome and related concerns over gratitude\, obligation\, and status. She has also published on ancient sexuality and modern reception of the classical world. She is an active public scholar: she is the co-host of a podcast on language and history (The Endless Knot Podcast) and helps produce videos for a related YouTube channel on etymology. Most recently\, she has been considering issues around Indigenization and Classics. \nPDF poster
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/unpicking-dido/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211007T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20211007T200000
DTSTAMP:20220717T012941Z
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UID:258-1633633200-1633636800@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:King Sized Controversy: Evaluating the Extent of David’s Kingdom
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Urowitz\, Lecturer\, University of Toronto \n \nThe extent of the kingdom of Judah has been in the limelight since the discovery of Khirbet Qeiyafa in the Elah Valley in Israel in 2007. Archaeologists at this site have proclaimed that it is directly linked to David’s kingdom and that it proves the strength and size of Judah in the Iron Age. This lecture will examine the archaeological record of the Kingdom of Judah in the 10th century BCE and introduce theories that challenge the strength and size of David’s kingdom in this period.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/king-sized-controversy/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210914T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210914T200000
DTSTAMP:20220717T012904Z
CREATED:20210918T234921Z
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UID:208-1631646000-1631649600@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:Dante and Theology in Vico’s Philosophy of History
DESCRIPTION:Domenico Pietropaolo\, Professor Emeritus\, University of Toronto \n \nIn Vico’s theory of the Ideal Eternal History of civilization\, Dante appears as the Homer of the late Middle-Ages\, which Vico regarded as a typological return of the heroic age of the ancient Mediterranean in Christian Europe. A central principle of Vico’s philosophy of history is that\, in the creative imagination of every age\, poetry and metaphysics\, including theology\, are inversely related. Vico knew that this principle was at odds with Dante’s Commedia\, in which one could not easily separate poetry from theology or metaphysics without dissolving away the text itself. He struggled with the problem for a long time\, periodically revisiting details of it as he elaborated both his philosophy of history and his theory of the creative imagination. In this lecture we shall examine salient aspects of his ongoing reflection on the Commedia and his chief arguments for a general hermeneutic grounded in the idea of a Christian ricorso of the poetic age of the ancient Mediterranean. \nProfessor Domenico Pietropaolo was President of CIMS for several years.  He is professor of Italian literature and theatrical studies at the University of Toronto\,  where he was also director of the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama and the Department of Italian Studies as well as Dean of St. Michael’s College. His main interests are the dramaturgy of staging and the study of theatrical processes\, medieval Italian literature\, modern theatre and Futurism.  His main publications include the volumes Semiotics of the Christian Imagination\, Semiotics and Pragmatic of Stage Improvisations and Dante studies in the Age of Vico and numerous essays on literary and theatrical history.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/dante-and-theology/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter,Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210429T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210429T200000
DTSTAMP:20220717T012832Z
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UID:49-1619722800-1619726400@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:Who Created Florence? Making a Renaissance City
DESCRIPTION:Nicholas Terpstra\, University of Toronto \n \nFlorence stands out for many as embodying the peak of Italian Renaissance creativity.  But what made it the artistic centre that we see today? Many Renaissance cities had artists\, architects\, authors\, and musicians\, but few have the reputation that Florence continues to enjoy as the place to go in order to immerse yourself in the culture of the Renaissance.  To understand why\, we have to go beyond the artists themselves and look at those who later collected\, conserved\, and (re)created the art and architecture we see today.  This lecture will move form a fifteenth century creator\, to a sixteenth century collector\, an eighteenth century conservor\, and a group of nineteenth century expatriates in order to answer the question of “who created Florence” as the modern Renaissance capital that we see today. \nGenerously funded by Joe Di Geso. Presented jointly by CIMS Ottawa and CIMS Toronto.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/who-created-florence-making-a-renaissance-city/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter,Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210418T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210418T140000
DTSTAMP:20220208T035235Z
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UID:17-1618750800-1618754400@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:Digging Homer: The Mycenaean Palace at Iklaina and the Birth of Greek Epic Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Michael B. Cosmopoulos\, Hellenic Government-Karakas Family Foundation Professor of Archaeology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology\, University of Missouri-St. Louis \nFor thousands of years Homer’s Iliad has remained the classic tale of love\, honor\, and war. Exciting archaeological discoveries in the past 150 years have unearthed the great palaces of the Homeric heroes and revived the fascinating society of the Mycenaeans. In antiquity itself\, and in our memory of antiquity\, the great palaces at Mycenae\, Tiryns\, Pylos\, and Troy stand at the crossroads between myths and historical reality. The world of the Mycenaeans still holds\, however\, many surprises. Recent excavations at the site of Iklaina have brought to light one of the capitals of the Mycenaean state of Pylos. Massive Cyclopean structures\, monumental buildings decorated with beautiful wall paintings\, advanced urban infrastructure\, and the earliest known records of state bureaucracy challenge current knowledge about the origins and operation of Mycenaean states and allow us a glimpse into previously unknown aspects of the Homeric epics. In this illustrated lecture Professor Cosmopoulos will present the exciting archaeological discoveries at Iklaina and discuss their significance for the historical foundation of Homer’s epics. \nDr. Michael B. Cosmopoulos is the Hellenic Government-Karakas Family Foundation Professor of Archaeology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology\, at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Before coming to UMSL\, he was Professor of Classics at the University of Manitoba. His research interests are the culture\, religion\, and political organization of ancient Greece\, about which he was published 16 books and over 100 scholarly articles and papers. He has excavated at several ancient sites in Greece and Ukraine and is currently directing the Iklaina Archaeological Project. For his teaching he has been awarded several teaching awards\, including the Archaeological Institute of America Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada\, of the Academy of Science St. Louis\, of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts\, a Corresponding Member of the Athens Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and a National Geographic Society Explorer. For more information please visit www.michaelcosmopoulos.org
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/digging-homer-the-mycenaean-palace-at-iklaina-and-the-birth-of-greek-epic-poetry/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210321T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210321T150000
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UID:136-1616335200-1616338800@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:Anatomy as Religion: The Body in Ancient Italian Votive Practice
DESCRIPTION:Professor Rebecca Flemming\, Jesus College\, Cambridge University. \n \nTens of thousands of votive objects\, mostly in terracotta\, survive from religious sanctuaries across Republican central Italy (from the fourth to the first centuries BC). Many are in the shape of body parts\, external and internal\, single and multiple\, even displayed within a whole human torso or figure\, and they are usually interpreted as representing engagements with the divine about health and healing\, broadly construed. They offer key insights into both religion in early Italy and ideas about the human body. This lecture first offers an overview of the extant material and the cult practice\, the address and thanks to the gods that these artefacts embody\, summarizing both recent finds and new scholarship on the phenomenon of the anatomical ex-voto. The focus then turns to the ‘polyviscera’\, the objects which depict multiple organs\, in a range of presentational styles\, and to the meanings they might have\, both in terms of the ways the human body was understood in antiquity\, and the ways divinities might be invited to intervene in it. \nCo-sponsored by the Ottawa Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/anatomy-as-religion-the-body-in-ancient-italian-votive-practice/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210307T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210307T150000
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UID:120-1615125600-1615129200@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:Renaissance Readers and Their Books: Representations of a Fugitive Act
DESCRIPTION:Antonio Ricci\, York University \n \nThe image of a person holding a book appears frequently in Renaissance art and literature. The privileged status of texts in humanist culture and their proliferation after the coming of print technology contributed to the motif’s popularity. This lecture will examine depictions of readers in paintings and poems of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The intention is to recover aspects of the experience of reading during the period and\, at the same time\, to gain a measure of insight into what remains an elusive phenomenon. What does reading mean? What is it\, really\, that we are doing when we engage in this fundamentally human act? The Renaissance offers us intriguing answers. \nGenerously funded by Joe Di Geso. \nPresented jointly by CIMS Ottawa and CIMS Toronto.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/renaissance-readers-and-their-books-representations-of-a-fugitive-act/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter,Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210221T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210221T150000
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UID:22-1613916000-1613919600@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:The Beauty and Enigma of Roman Crete
DESCRIPTION:Professor George W. M. Harrison\, Carleton University \nTourists are attracted to Crete for the splendours of Minoan Knossos and other Bronze Age sites. The architecture of Roma Crete is as substantial as the earlier periods and the importance of Crete to the Roman Empire rivals the earlier periods. Dr. Harrison looks at the key sites but also presents material from sites tourists rarely see. The paper balances information with interpretation of the data and limitations of the evidence\, particularly as applied to Romanization. Comparisons with Ottoman Crete/Crete during enosis with Greece are made especially in two areas: the micro-economies of thrift and the crucial influence of new technologies on culture. \nDr. Harrison first started working on Crete in 1980 as a graduate student and in 2008 was elected to the Société internationale des amis de Nikos Kazantzakis.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/the-beauty-and-enigma-of-roman-crete/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210211T200000
DTSTAMP:20220717T012445Z
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UID:118-1613070000-1613073600@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:Unholy Texts: Reading Biblical Rape Narratives
DESCRIPTION:Carl Ehrlich\, York University \n \n  \nThe topic of rape appears a number of times in the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament).  It may be found broached both explicitly and implicitly in texts reflective of a number of literary genres\, including legal texts\, narrative texts\, poetic texts\, and prophetic texts.  While the violent act of rape is nowhere condoned\, it was a tragic fact of life in the biblical world – as it still is in ours.  This lecture will survey biblical texts relating to rape in a number of literary genres and attempt to classify the allusions to rape according to various literary\, social\, theological\, and legal criteria.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/unholy-texts-reading-biblical-rape-narratives/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210114T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210114T200000
DTSTAMP:20220717T012416Z
CREATED:20210622T212434Z
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UID:115-1610650800-1610654400@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:The Yahweh of the South: The Site of Kuntillet 'Ajrud and its Controversial Connection with the Northern Kingdom of Israel
DESCRIPTION:Cristiana Conti\, York University \n \nThe epigraphic findings of Kuntillet ‘Ajrud\, a 9th-8th century BCE site at the intersection of several land routes that connected Sinai to the major trade networks of the time\, reveal the existence of “Yhwh of Teman\,” a southern manifestation of the cult of Yahweh.  The travelers and merchants who paused their journey at this site worshiped this version of Yahweh alongside a northern one\, whose principal temple was most likely located in Samaria\, then the capital of the Northern Kingdom of Israel.  Interestingly\, Kuntillet ‘Ajrud\, although located in southeast Sinai\, was culturally and politically affiliated with the Northern Kingdom rather than Judah.  This lecture will review the epigraphic and archaeological evidence found at Kuntillet ‘Ajrud and evaluate the merits of the site’s association with the Northern Kingdom of Israel but also its underlying and distinctive cultural identity.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/the-yahweh-of-the-south-the-site-of-kuntillet-ajrud-and-its-controversial-connection-with-the-northern-kingdom-of-israel/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20201210T200000
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UID:112-1607626800-1607630400@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:Ancient Synagogues in the Galilee and Golan Heights
DESCRIPTION:Amit Rozenblum\, Site Conservator\, Israel Antiquities Authority \n \nThe synagogue was created as a physical place of worship because at a specific point in history the survival of the Jewish faith depended on it.  What contributed to the appearance of synagogues in the Jewish religion? To answer the question\, this lecture will go through the historical events\, the necessary changes to Jewish laws\, and the new Jewish leadership leading to the emergence of the synagogue.  To do this we will learn about the unique architectural features of the first type of synagogues in the Galilee and the Golan Heights as we examine four case studies and learn about the conservation work that took place in them.  They were part of the first kind of conservation project of ancient synagogues in the Galilee and the Golan Heights led by the speaker in 2013-2014.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/ancient-synagogues-in-the-galilee-and-golan-heights/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20201118T200000
DTSTAMP:20220717T012305Z
CREATED:20210622T212021Z
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UID:108-1605726000-1605729600@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:Portraits of a Forgotten Kingdom: Tayanat Sculptures and Other Recent Discoveries on the Plain of Antioch in Southeastern Turkey
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Timothy Harrison\, Professor\, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations\, University of Toronto \n \nThe remains of a series of majestic sculptures have been uncovered during the University of Toronto’s ongoing excavations at Tell Tayinat (ancient Kunulua)\, royal city of the Neo–Hittite Kingdom of Palastin/Walastin\, located in the North Orontes Valley\, southeastern Turkey. The sculptures\, found carefully deposited in the vicinity of a monumental gate leading to the site’s upper mound\, or citadel\, include the head and torsos of male and female figures\, the latter intentionally—possibly ritually—defaced in antiquity\, a winged bull andsphinx\, and a magnificently carved lion figure. The sculptures date to the early 9th century BCE\, and they are identified in inscriptions as the representations of important royal figures in the ruling Neo–Hittite dynasty at Tayinat\, contemporary rivals of the Phoenicians and biblical Israelites to the south. The discovery of the Tayinat sculptures accentuates the remarkable sculptural tradition of the Iron Age communities of Syro–Anatolia\, and highlights the innovative role these communities played in thebroader cultural and political ferment witnessed in the eastern Mediterranean during the early centuries of the first millennium BCE. This illustrated lecture will present these extraordinary sculptures and other recent discoveries of the Tayinat Archaeological Project (TAP) excavations and contextualize these discoveries within the broader cultural milieu of the early first millennium eastern Mediterranean world.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/portraits-of-a-forgotten-kingdom-tayanat-sculptures-and-other-recent-discoveries-on-the-plain-of-antioch-in-southeastern-turkey/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter,Toronto Chapter
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