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 be uncovered. In 79CE, the seaside town of Hercu...

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ICS/ Herculaneum Society Lecture: 'Invisible Herculaneum'

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 the same work of art which Pliny the Elder consid...

ICS/British School at Rome Lecture 'January 14, 1506: the discovery of the Laocoon'

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 Rome. The senate chose to investigate, enlisting E...

Dorothy Tarrant Lecture: Earthquakes, Etruscan Priests, and Roman Politics in the Age of Cicero

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 County of Pella) Sixty years of continuous a...

ICS/British School at Athens Lecture: Pella. The Great Capital of the Macedonian Kingdom

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 as nineteenth-century novelists placed them in the...

Why do we need Monsters?

Institute of Classical Studies Classist Foremothers and Why They Matter Professor Edith Hall (King's College London) J P Barron Memorial Lecture

Classicist Foremothers and Why They Matter

Classist Foremothers and Why They Matter

Institute of Classical Studies Tiryns: from the rise of its palace to the post-palatial resurgence Professor Joseph Maran (University of Heidelberg) Michael Ventris Memorial Lecture

Tiryns: from the rise of its palace to the post-palatial resurgence

Institute of Classical Studies Early History and Landscapes of Rome seen from the Palatine Paolo Carafa (La Sapienza, Rome) Since 1985 we have been investigating the northern slopes of the Palatine, aiming to recover its physical lay-out, and...

Early History and Landscapes of Rome seen from the Palatine

School of Advanced Study Humans and Other Beings in Our Classical Past Professor Greg Woolf (Director of the Institute of Classical Studies) Professor Greg Woolf's research focuses on the history and archaeology of the ancient world at the ve...

Humans and Other Beings in Our Classical Past

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