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Ancient Art Department
Programs
Complete Listing
Rehearsed Reading of HELEN by Euripides
December 3, 2022, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Ozymandias Undertaken: an overview of New Kingdom mummification patterns
November 5, 2022, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
The Arts of Royalty in Sasanian Iran
May 14, 2022, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PDT)
Famous Faces: the story of a family of ancient marble portraits
March 12, 2022, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PST)
The Wood Comes to the City: Ancient Trees, Sacred Groves, and the "Greening" of Early Augustan Rome
February 12, 2022, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PST)
Rehearsed Reading of OEDIPUS AT COLONUS by Sophocles
December 4, 2021, 2:00 PM - 3:30 pm (PST)
Imagining Oedipus: Art, Myth, and Performance
November 6, 2021, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PDT)
Abydos from Ahmose to Ramesses the Great: An Ancient Cult Center During the New Kingdom
October 2, 2021, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PDT)
Symposium | Convivium: AD 79: When Time Froze in Pompeii
August 28, 2021, 10:00 AM - 3:00 pm (PDT)
Survivors of Vesuvius: Tracking Refugees from Pompeii and Herculaneum
July 17, 2021, 2:00 PM - 3:30 pm (PDT)
Painting Pompeii: pigments, prices, and painterly practice
June 12, 2021, 2:00 PM - 3:30 pm (PDT)
Rehearsing OEDIPUS: Choices and Interpretations
May 22, 2021, 2:00 PM - 3:30 (PDT)
Deciphering Demons: Underworld Figures in Egypt and Etruria
May 8, 2021, 2:00 PM - 03:30 PM (PDT)
A New Look at Ancient Nubia: Magic and Mystery on the Nile
April 10, 2021, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PDT)
The Saga of Queen Zenobia and the Oasis City of Palmyra
February 6, 2021, 2:00 PM - 03:30 PM (PST)
Rehearsed Reading of THE BACCHAE by Euripides
December 5, 2020, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
On An Intellectual Journey: From an Archaeological Bone Farm at El Hibeh, Egypt to Pandemics of the Ancient World
November 7, 2020, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Round Table: Ancient Democracy, the Present Moment, and the Future of a Political Ideal
October 3, 2020, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
"If you build it, they will come": the construction and care of Nemean hero worship
September 19, 2020, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Rehearsed Reading of Euripides’ "Medea"
December 7, 2019, 2:00 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, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Who’s Revitalizing Homer?: The Relevance and Risks of Classical Reception Today
October 26, 2019, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
The Recent and Latest New Discoveries in Egypt
October 6, 2019, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Rubbish, Rhetoric, and Hellenism in Sosos's Unswept Room Mosaic
September 21, 2019, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
On the Occasion of the Retirement of Prof. Andrew Stewart
May 18, 2019, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
A Walk through Hierakonpolis in Predynastic Egypt
April 20, 2019, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Weaving the Urban Fabric of a Roman City: Results of the Via Consolare Project in Pompeii
March 16, 2019, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
The Dramatic Expression in Ancient Greek Art
December 8, 2018, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
An Egyptian Michelangelo: Thutmose, the Creator of the Bust of Nefertiti
October 20, 2018, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Echoes of Alexander: Images of a Hellenistic Ruler in Persian Epic Manuscripts
October 13, 2018, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Nature Tamed and Framed: Reimagining Paradise in the Late Roman and Early Christian World
May 19, 2018, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Munich Doryphoros: Venerated—Suppressed—Forgotten AND Poetry Reading by Marton Csokas of poetry by Gabriele Tinti
April 28, 2018, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Archaeology, Museums, and War: Strategies for the 21st Century
March 3, 2018, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Greece in 1805: The Travels and Paintings of Edward Dodwell and Simone Pomardi
December 2, 2017, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Pervasiveness of Pigment in Antiquity
October 28, 2017, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Couples in Roman Sculpture: Myth, History, and Propaganda
September 23, 2017, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Rethinking Color in Ancient Mediterranean Art
May 20, 2017, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Apollo, Music, and Libations: A God’s Delight
April 29, 2017, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
At-Risk World Heritage and Cyber-Archaeology: The University of California Office of the President Catalyst Project
March 25, 2017, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
The Priest, the Prince, and the Pasha: The Life and Afterlife of an Ancient Egyptian Sculpture
February 11, 2017, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Growing Up Bacchus: An Archaeological Look at a Wine-god’s Early Years
December 3, 2016, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Inhabitants of the Netherworld: Tracking Demons in Ancient Egyptian Mortuary Papyri and Coffins
November 5, 2016, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Ancient Bronzes as Art Objects: Roman Collectors and “Corinthian Bronzes”
October 29, 2016, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Mummies of the Vatican: Genuine or Fake
October 22, 2016, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Invisible Cities: Urban Environments in Ancient Egypt
September 24, 2016, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
New Perspectives on the Art of Mummification
May 14, 2016, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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San Francisco, CA 94121
