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