Fall 2010 Schedule
Oct. 19: Nanno Marinatos (UIC)
The Visual Background of the Cow Goddess as Queen of Heaven in Syria, Egyptand Crete of the Second Millennium.
Oct. 26: Natalie May (OI Visiting Scholar)
Using the Past in Assyrian Royal Propaganda: Reflections on the Images of the ‘Kings of Old’.
Oct 28: Paul Zanker (Pisa)
Reading Mythological Images without Texts
Friday October 29-30: “Ancient Myth in Private Lives” Seminar
Nov. 4 (Thursday): Sandra Blakely (Emory)
Seafaring and the Sacred: Mediterranean Networks and the Cult of the Great Gods of Samothrace
Friday Nov. 5th: Walsh Lecture by Sandra Blakely (Emory)
From Dardanus to the Philosophers: Initiation and Imagination in Roman Samothrace.
Nov. 9: Walter M. Shandruk (University of Chicago, PAMW)
The Interchange of iota and eta in the Spelling of Xrist- Words in Documentary Papyri
Nov. 16: Tim McGovern (University of Chicago, PAMW)
Side by Side with the Patriarchs: Past, Present, and Future in Second TempleJudaism