ICS/ Herculaneum Society Lecture: 'Invisible Herculaneum'
Michael Scott, whose BBC documentary series 'Invisible Cities' delved beneath Naples, Rome and Athens - amongst other cities - talks about his experiences at Herculaneum and examines what else may yet...
19 Feb 20200s
ICS/British School at Rome Lecture 'January 14, 1506: the discovery of the Laocoon'
Professor Rita Volpe, Roma Tre University On January 14 1506 the statue group of the Laocoon was discovered in a vineyard on the Esquiline Hill in Rome. It was almost intact and recognized at once as...
20 Feb 201848min
Dorothy Tarrant Lecture: Earthquakes, Etruscan Priests, and Roman Politics in the Age of Cicero
Speaker: Anthony Corbeill, University of Virginia In 56 BCE Cicero, orator and statesman, was enjoying his first Roman spring since returning from exile. April brought terrestrial rumblings north of ...
24 Jan 201843min
ICS/British School at Athens Lecture: Pella. The Great Capital of the Macedonian Kingdom
Institute of Classical Studies ICS/British School at Athens Lecture: Pella. The Great Capital of the Macedonian Kingdom Dr Elisavet Bettina Tsigarida (Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of the ...
31 Okt 20170s
Why do we need Monsters?
Why do we need Monsters? Today we worry about chimaeras - organisms created by combining genes from more than one species - and science fiction writers imagine bizarre aliens on other planets, just ...
17 Okt 20170s
Why do we need Monsters?
Why do we need Monsters? Today we worry about chimaeras - organisms created by combining genes from more than one species - and science fiction writers imagine bizarre aliens on other planets, just ...
17 Okt 20170s
Classicist Foremothers and Why They Matter
Institute of Classical Studies Classist Foremothers and Why They Matter Professor Edith Hall (King's College London) J P Barron Memorial Lecture
6 Jun 201754min
