From the Sport and Competition in Ancient Greece and Rome conference:
Category: Online Talks
Lecture | Vivienne Lo ~ Perfect bodies:sports medicine and immortality
From the Sport and Competition in Ancient Greece and Rome conference, June 2012:
Lecture ~ Hazel Dodge:Victory and Spectacle in Roman Circus Mosaics
This is another one from the Sport and Competition in Ancient Rome conference last June at the British Museum:
A Futuristic Look Through Ancient Lenses: A Symposium on Ancient Greece
This is actually pretty impressive … last October/November the folks at Eastern Illinois University held a symposium on assorted Greek themes (they’ve previously done one on ancient Egypt) and the whole thing is available at Youtube. There are 30+ videos here to occupy your time on various themes:
Lecture: Greece and Asia in the Late Bronze Age: The Historical Background of Homer’s Iliad
The intro:
Dr. Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, Director of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens, speaks. In 1924, Swiss archaeologist Emil Forrer announced a new discovery relating to the Trojan War. After examining texts found at Hattusa, once the capital of the Hittite empire in Asia Minor, he identified the Hittite words for Troy (Wilusa) and Mycenaean Greece (Ahhiyawa), and concluded that there was evidence for conflict between them. While Forrer’s “Greek Hypothesis” was once widely attacked by other academics, recent research and excavations have confirmed his theory, which offers exciting insights into the historical background of Homer’s Iliad.
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