Online Talks
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Alain Touwaide from the Smithsonian speaks on: Mapping the Ancient Environment: The Contribution of Manuscripts and Texts
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… by Christopher Lightfoot, of the Met:
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Image via Wikipedia I think this will be the last one from the Toledo series that I post today … one could kill a lot of time with these: The Circus Maximus is generally considered a place of spectacle where emperors indulged an impotent public with displays of power and largess to ensure public complacency.…
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Image by Tintern via Flickr I suspect this one from the Toledo Museum of Art will be popular among our readers: Andrea Mall discussed room groupings in Roman domestic architecture and their decoration at the Toledo Museum of Art. These suites of rooms, or diaetae as they were called in Latin, likely had their origin…
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Image via Wikipedia Here’s another one from the Toledo Museum of Art … here’s the official description of an interesting talk on the fanaticism of fans ar Roman chariot races: Dr. Sinclair Bell, Professor in the Department of Art History at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, presented his program “Fans and Fame in the Roman…
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