
Spurlock Hosts Classics Seminar
- Post Date: 11/9/2018
- Author: Beth Watkins
- Reading Time: 2 minute read
This summer, Spurlock Museum and Krannert Art Museum co-hosted a six-week-long seminar called The Use of Art and Material Culture in Scholarship and Teaching (external link). Arranged jointly by the Society of Classics Studies and the UIUC Classics Department (external link), scholar specialists and doctoral students from across the country explored both museums’ collections of Greek and Roman artifacts. Below are some of the topics the students discussed.
Parthenon frieze
Archaic and Greek ceramics
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1926.01.0008 Washington University Professor Emeritus Susan Rotroff listens as students evaluate the function of a Greek baby feeder from the 4th century BCE.
Etruscan and Roman pottery and sculpture
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1989.09.0021 Students Marleigh and Ekaterina use a flash light to illuminate and examine the iconography on a Roman sarcophagus fragment from the 2nd century.
Greek and Roman coins
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1914.21.0015 UIUC Classics Professor Daniel Leon assists students Matthew and Ashley in translating a Roman papyrus fragment from Egypt documenting a woman’s will dating back to 331 CE.
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