Ancient Art Department
Programs
Complete Listing
Rehearsed Reading of Euripides’ "Medea"
December 7, 2019, 10:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Laughable Tales and Salacious Affairs: How the Founding of the Legion of Honor Led to the Study of Persian Art
November 16, 2019, 10:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Who’s Revitalizing Homer?: The Relevance and Risks of Classical Reception Today
October 26, 2019, 9:00 PM - 3:30 PM
The Recent and Latest New Discoveries in Egypt
October 6, 2019, 9:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Rubbish, Rhetoric, and Hellenism in Sosos's Unswept Room Mosaic
September 21, 2019, 9:00 PM - 3:30 PM
On the Occasion of the Retirement of Prof. Andrew Stewart
May 18, 2019, 9:00 PM - 4:00 PM
A Walk through Hierakonpolis in Predynastic Egypt
April 20, 2019, 5:00 PM - 12:00 PM
Weaving the Urban Fabric of a Roman City: Results of the Via Consolare Project in Pompeii
March 16, 2019, 9:00 PM - 3:30 PM
The Dramatic Expression in Ancient Greek Art
December 8, 2018, 10:00 PM - 3:00 PM
An Egyptian Michelangelo: Thutmose, the Creator of the Bust of Nefertiti
October 20, 2018, 9:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Echoes of Alexander: Images of a Hellenistic Ruler in Persian Epic Manuscripts
October 13, 2018, 9:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Nature Tamed and Framed: Reimagining Paradise in the Late Roman and Early Christian World
May 19, 2018, 9:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Munich Doryphoros: Venerated—Suppressed—Forgotten AND Poetry Reading by Marton Csokas of poetry by Gabriele Tinti
April 28, 2018, 9:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Archaeology, Museums, and War: Strategies for the 21st Century
March 3, 2018, 10:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Greece in 1805: The Travels and Paintings of Edward Dodwell and Simone Pomardi
December 2, 2017, 10:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Pervasiveness of Pigment in Antiquity
October 28, 2017, 5:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Couples in Roman Sculpture: Myth, History, and Propaganda
September 23, 2017, 9:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Rethinking Color in Ancient Mediterranean Art
May 20, 2017, 9:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Apollo, Music, and Libations: A God’s Delight
April 29, 2017, 9:00 PM - 3:00 PM
At-Risk World Heritage and Cyber-Archaeology: The University of California Office of the President Catalyst Project
March 25, 2017, 9:00 PM - 3:15 PM
The Priest, the Prince, and the Pasha: The Life and Afterlife of an Ancient Egyptian Sculpture
February 11, 2017, 10:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Growing Up Bacchus: An Archaeological Look at a Wine-god’s Early Years
December 3, 2016, 10:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Inhabitants of the Netherworld: Tracking Demons in Ancient Egyptian Mortuary Papyri and Coffins
November 5, 2016, 9:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Ancient Bronzes as Art Objects: Roman Collectors and “Corinthian Bronzes”
October 29, 2016, 9:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Mummies of the Vatican: Genuine or Fake
October 22, 2016, 5:00 PM - 11:30 AM
Invisible Cities: Urban Environments in Ancient Egypt
September 24, 2016, 9:00 PM - 3:00 PM
New Perspectives on the Art of Mummification
May 14, 2016, 9:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Ancient Iconography in a New Context: Byzantine Monosandali and Their Monastic Audiences
April 16, 2016, 9:00 PM - 3:00 PM
A Thorny Issue: The Reinvention of an Ancient Bronze in the Middles Ages
March 5, 2016, 10:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Hero in Tears: Reading Homer’s Achilles with the Baltimore Painter
February 27, 2016, 10:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Luxury Objects and Political Power: From Hellenistic Greece to Imperial Rome
November 7, 2015, 10:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Before Petra: The Art and Archaeology of Iron Age Jordan
October 17, 2015, 9:00 PM - 3:00 PM
A Roman Temple Treasure: The Berthouville Silver and Its Context
September 26, 2015, 9:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Origins of Mythic Representation in Greek Art
May 9, 2015, 9:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Ancient Egyptian Masterpieces: Sculpture in Wood
March 21, 2015, 9:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Tracing the Life History of Objects at Pompeii
February 21, 2015, 10:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Life of the Spirit: The Chalcolithic Culture 6,500 Years Ago in the Levant
January 3, 2015, 10:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Paradise as a Walled Garden in Ancient Persia
December 6, 2014, 10:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Oral Poetry and Aural Patterns: On Zoroaster's Poetry and Religion
November 15, 2014, 10:00 PM - 3:00 PM
New Rituals, New Religion? Death's Dominion during the Copper Age of the Southern Levant
November 1, 2014, 9:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Persian Garden: Evolution and Legacy
October 18, 2014, 9:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Pyramids, Mummies, and Cleopatra: Recent Discoveries
May 22, 2014, 9:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Dynasty and Destiny in Imperial Rome: The Augustan Experiment and Its Legacy
May 17, 2014, 9:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Louvre Etruscan Sarcophagus and Its Progeny
April 26, 2014, 9:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Discovery of Assyria and Sumer by the West in the 19th century
March 22, 2014, 9:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Roads of Arabia: Archaeology and History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
December 7, 2013, 10:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Egyptian Excavations of the Metropolitan Museum of Art at Malqata, 1910 to the present
November 16, 2013, 10:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Life, Love, and Death on the Estate of a Sumerian Princess in the 21st Century BCE
October 5, 2013, 9:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Göbekli Tepe: A Stone Age Sanctuary in South-Eastern Anatolia
August 1, 2013, 1:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Ancient Art Council
Legion of Honor
100 34th Avenue, Lincoln Park
San Francisco, CA 94121
