Events

Public Lectures

The Classics & Archaeology public lectures showcase research of excellence undertaken by scholars in classics and archaeology as well as visiting scholars from around the world. These lectures are free and open to the public.

The annual H. W. Allen Memorial Lecture:
Erotes on the Euphrates: redecorating the wall of a Hellenistic house in North Syria

Heather Jackson
ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Classics and Archaeology, University of Melbourne

Recently-discovered fragments of a stucco figured frieze from the wall of a house at Jebel Khalid, in North Syria, stimulated this attempt to reconstruct the appearance of the original wall, which dates from the Hellenistic period and was contemporary with the famous tomb paintings of Macedonian sites and the highly decorated walls in rich houses on Delos. Examples of Hellenistic wall decoration from the Near East are very rare and this figured frieze is unique. The discovery raises questions about the prosperity of the inhabitants of the house, their cultural heritage, their use of the Greek tetrachrome palette and adherence to a Greek mythical motif.

Since 1995, Dr. Heather M. Jackson has been Field Director of an excavation of a whole insula of houses at Jebel Khalid on the Euphrates in North Syria and Co-Director, with Professor Graeme Clarke of ANU, Canberra, of the on-going Jebel Khalid campaigns. She is co-author of Greek Vases in the University of Melbourne (1999), the National Gallery of Victoria's Handbook of Antiquities (2003), and author of Jebel Khalid on the Euphrates, Volume Two: the Terracotta Figurines (2006).

Date: Wednesday, 9 April 2008
Time: 8:15pm
Location: Kaye Scott Room, Ormond College, University of Melbourne

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Seminars

Ancient World Seminars

These seminars focus upon research in classics & archaeology. They are open to the public and occur regularly throughout the year.

Conferences

International Conference:
P A P H L A G O N I A and P O N T U S

in Antiquity and the Early Byzantine Period
(7th c. BC- 7th c. AD)

31st May - 4th June 2008
Izmir, Turkey

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Private and Public Lies:
The Discourse of Despotism and Deceit in the Ancient World

The University of Melbourne, 7-10 July, 2008

The central themes for this conference are the deep fascination which ancient writers and societies had for how private actions by powerful individuals could step over boundaries and affect public responsibilities, and how these individuals used deceit to disguise the real facts of private and public reality.

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