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Programs

Complete Listing

Alma Spreckels, the Queen of Greece, and the Antiquities Collection

December 14, 2024 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (Canada | US Pacific Time)

Dramatic Reading of Euripides' "Iphigeneia in Tauris"

November 2, 2024 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (Canada | US Pacific Time)

Rome Reborn: Ars Antiquaria Meets Ars Electronica

October 19, 2024 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (Canada | US Pacific Time)

Archaic Wooden Sculpture in Augustan Temples: Greek and Etruscan cult images in new and refurbished architectural settings: 33-20 BC

September 14, 2024 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (Canada | US Pacific Time)

How Egyptologist George Reisner went Walking among Pharaohs

May 5, 2024 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (Canada | US Pacific Time)

Uses, Re-uses, and Abuses of Egyptian Statues

April 13, 2024 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

The Etruscan Underworld: Journeys, Processions, and Banquets

March 23, 2024 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Beautiful, Valuable, Meaningful, and Intimate: The Experience of Ancient Greek Coinage

February 24, 2024 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Rehearsed Reading of ION by Euripides

December 2, 2023 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PST)

The Etruscans: An Introduction

November 4, 2023 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (PDT)

Gladiators at Pompeii: Roman Spectacle in a Small Town

October 7, 2023 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (PDT)

Babylonian Astrology and the History of Science

September 9, 2023 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PDT)

The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun and Exhibiting Its Treasures

May 6, 2023 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (PDT)

Discovering the Tomb of Tutankhamun and Exhibiting its Treasures

April 22, 2023 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (PDT)

Mesopotamian Women in the Third Millennium BCE: Queens and Palace Workers

March 4, 2023 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PST)

Tutankhamun: from Zero to Hero

February 5, 2023 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PST)

The ancient Egyptian imagery of the Beyond in the Ramesside Period

February 4, 2023 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PST)

Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs

January 28, 2023 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 pm (PST)

Ramses the Great through Nubian Eyes

January 21, 2023 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PST)

Rehearsed Reading of HELEN by Euripides

December 3, 2022 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PST)

Ozymandias Undertaken: an overview of New Kingdom mummification patterns

November 5, 2022 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PDT)

"No One Should Brave the Underworld Alone": Traversing Eternity in the Age of Ramses the Great

October 15, 2022 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PDT)

Adorned for Eternity

September 17, 2022 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (PDT)

Recent Discoveries in Egypt

August 20, 2022 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PDT)

The Arts of Royalty in Sasanian Iran

May 14, 2022 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PDT)

The Kingship is a Perfect Office

April 9, 2022 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PDT)

Famous Faces: the story of a family of ancient marble portraits

March 12, 2022 at 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 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PST)

Rehearsed Reading of OEDIPUS AT COLONUS by Sophocles

December 4, 2021 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 pm (PST)

Imagining Oedipus: Art, Myth, and Performance

November 6, 2021 at 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 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PDT)

Symposium | Convivium: AD 79: When Time Froze in Pompeii

August 28, 2021 at 10:00 AM - 3:00 pm (PDT)

Survivors of Vesuvius: Tracking Refugees from Pompeii and Herculaneum

July 17, 2021 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 pm (PDT)

Painting Pompeii: pigments, prices, and painterly practice

June 12, 2021 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 pm (PDT)

Rehearsing OEDIPUS: Choices and Interpretations

May 22, 2021 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 (PDT)

Deciphering Demons: Underworld Figures in Egypt and Etruria

May 8, 2021 at 2:00 PM - 03:30 PM (PDT)

A New Look at Ancient Nubia: Magic and Mystery on the Nile

April 10, 2021 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (PDT)

On the Road from Persepolis

March 6, 2021 at 2:00 PM - 03:30 PM (PST)

The Saga of Queen Zenobia and the Oasis City of Palmyra

February 6, 2021 at 2:00 PM - 03:30 PM (PST)

Rehearsed Reading of THE BACCHAE by Euripides

December 5, 2020 at 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 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Round Table: Ancient Democracy, the Present Moment, and the Future of a Political Ideal

October 3, 2020 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

"If you build it, they will come": the construction and care of Nemean hero worship

September 19, 2020 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Rehearsed Reading of Euripides’ "Medea"

December 7, 2019 at 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 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Who’s Revitalizing Homer?: The Relevance and Risks of Classical Reception Today

October 26, 2019 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

The Recent and Latest New Discoveries in Egypt

October 6, 2019 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Rubbish, Rhetoric, and Hellenism in Sosos's Unswept Room Mosaic

September 21, 2019 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

On the Occasion of the Retirement of Prof. Andrew Stewart

May 18, 2019 at 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

A Walk through Hierakonpolis in Predynastic Egypt

April 20, 2019 at 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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