Post by schlager7 on Feb 26, 2007 23:36:03 GMT -6
I saw that fightgal ran this on her own Yahoo Group and thought it might be of interest here, as well...
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Special Lecture: Combat in the Ancient World, A 2-Part Series The Aesthetics of Roman War
Mar 8, 2007 6:30 PM
at the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston www.mfah.org
War suffused ancient Roman life in a way unparalleled in other ancient societies. Through a combination of obsessive discipline and frenzied, though carefully orchestrated, brutality, RomeĀ“s armies conquered most of the lands stretching from Scotland to Syria, and the Black Sea to Gibraltar. Although the historical place of war in Roman culture has been well-studied, Katherine Welch is the first scholar to examine the ways in which the Romans represented war in all sorts of visual contexts. In this lecture she looks at the aesthetics of war during the towering period of Roman power and international influence, the 3rd century B.C. to the 2nd century A.D.
Dr. Katherine Welch, Associate Professor of Fine Arts, New York University Institute of Fine Arts; Deputy Director for The Aphrodisias Excavations; and author of Representations of War in Ancient Rome, published by Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Related Exhibition: Arms and Armor from the Ancient World
Special Lecture: Combat in the Ancient World, A 2-Part Series The Aesthetics of Roman War
Caroline Wiess Law Building
Admission is free and open to the public.
A reception to meet the speaker and exhibition viewing follows each lecture.
"Of arms and the man I sing," so begins The Aeneid, one of the most famous epic stories of the ancient world. Arms and warfare were the means by which empires were created and destroyed; and soldiersĀ“ equipment often made the difference between life and death, victory and defeat.
The special 2-part lectures series, Combat in the Ancient World, is designed to complement the exhibition Arms and Armor from the Ancient World, on view at the MFAH from Saturday, February 17 through Tuesday, July 31, 2007. The exhibition features a dazzling array of bronze helmets, a complete suit of hoplite armor, parade masks, weapons, a military diploma, and a marble relief depicting gladiator warfare. These artistic yet fearsome arms transformed soldiers into warriors of superhuman appearance and forged the great empires of Greece and Rome more than 2,000 years ago.
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Special Lecture: Combat in the Ancient World, A 2-Part Series The Aesthetics of Roman War
Mar 8, 2007 6:30 PM
at the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston www.mfah.org
War suffused ancient Roman life in a way unparalleled in other ancient societies. Through a combination of obsessive discipline and frenzied, though carefully orchestrated, brutality, RomeĀ“s armies conquered most of the lands stretching from Scotland to Syria, and the Black Sea to Gibraltar. Although the historical place of war in Roman culture has been well-studied, Katherine Welch is the first scholar to examine the ways in which the Romans represented war in all sorts of visual contexts. In this lecture she looks at the aesthetics of war during the towering period of Roman power and international influence, the 3rd century B.C. to the 2nd century A.D.
Dr. Katherine Welch, Associate Professor of Fine Arts, New York University Institute of Fine Arts; Deputy Director for The Aphrodisias Excavations; and author of Representations of War in Ancient Rome, published by Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Related Exhibition: Arms and Armor from the Ancient World
Special Lecture: Combat in the Ancient World, A 2-Part Series The Aesthetics of Roman War
Caroline Wiess Law Building
Admission is free and open to the public.
A reception to meet the speaker and exhibition viewing follows each lecture.
"Of arms and the man I sing," so begins The Aeneid, one of the most famous epic stories of the ancient world. Arms and warfare were the means by which empires were created and destroyed; and soldiersĀ“ equipment often made the difference between life and death, victory and defeat.
The special 2-part lectures series, Combat in the Ancient World, is designed to complement the exhibition Arms and Armor from the Ancient World, on view at the MFAH from Saturday, February 17 through Tuesday, July 31, 2007. The exhibition features a dazzling array of bronze helmets, a complete suit of hoplite armor, parade masks, weapons, a military diploma, and a marble relief depicting gladiator warfare. These artistic yet fearsome arms transformed soldiers into warriors of superhuman appearance and forged the great empires of Greece and Rome more than 2,000 years ago.