From jsicking at fsu.edu Wed Feb 17 07:24:20 2021 From: jsicking at fsu.edu (James Sickinger) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 12:24:20 +0000 Subject: [Discipuli] Classics/Underwater Archaeology Lecture Tomorrow (Thurs, 2/18) Message-ID: <615B6B8D-7483-4637-8101-FD32F80037F4@fsu.edu> Dear Classics Majors, You are invited to the Classics department's annual Elizabeth Hunter Lecture tomorrow (Thursday, February 16) at 6:00 pm: The Anatomy of an Ancient Naval Battle: The Battle of the Aegates (Egadi) Islands Professor William M. Murray Mary and Gus Stathis Professor of Greek History and Director of the Ancient Studies Center University of South Florida The lecture is being given via Microsoft Teams, and you can watch it either through the Teams app or directly through a web browser. The link is: https://bit.ly/3jF9HCs The lecture combines both Roman history and underwater archaeology and is aimed specifically at undergraduates. Here is a summary: Guided by a fisherman?s recovery of a single bronze warship ram, the Sicilian Soprintendenza del Mare initiated a joint underwater project with RPM Nautical Foundation in 2005 and, together, they found the ancient debris field, the first ever discovered from an ancient sea battle, of the Battle of the Aegates (Egadi) Islands, fought between the Romans and Carthaginians on 10 March 241 B.C. After two decades of research, only a portion of the full battle zone has been discovered and mapped. Rich in finds (23 bronze rams, 30+ helmets, multiple sword concretions, hundreds of amphoras destined for the troops ashore, etc.), this site allows us to attempt what has never before been possible, the analysis of an actual sea battle with reference to both historical texts and physical evidence. Guided by this goal, the lecture will compare our best ancient account of the battle with the artifact scatter on the sea floor to help explain the peculiarities and problems posed by the new Egadi evidence. Hope you can make it! Dr Sickinger -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Hunter-Lecture-Sp21.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 1861295 bytes Desc: Hunter-Lecture-Sp21.pdf URL: From jsicking at fsu.edu Thu Feb 18 16:29:56 2021 From: jsicking at fsu.edu (James Sickinger) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 21:29:56 +0000 Subject: [Discipuli] =?iso-8859-1?q?Reminder=3A_Classics_Department_Lectu?= =?iso-8859-1?q?re_Tonight_=28Thurs=2E=2C_2/8=29=2C6=B700pm?= Message-ID: <02C9B079-2EDD-4BA7-8AAB-EE977C83C929@fsu.edu> Dear Classics majors Just a reminder that this year's Elizabeth Hunter Lecture (meant primarily for undergraduate Classics majors) will be given tonight, Thursday, February 18, at 6:00 pm, by Professor William M. Murray, Mary and Gus Stathis Professor of Greek History and Director of the Ancient Studies Center, University of South Florida. The lecture's title is: The Anatomy of an Ancient Naval Battle: The Battle of the Aegates (Egadi) Islands The lecture combines underwater archaeology and Roman history to offer an innovative and exciting analysis of this decisive engagement between the Romans and Carthaginians! The lecture will be delivered via Microsoft Teams; you can view it through the Teams app (available for download to all FSU students and faculty via the university's Office 365 subscription), or through your web browser, at this link: https://bit.ly/3jF9HCs. Macintosh users may be asked to "choose application" when opening the link; simply choose your regular web browser and then follow the instructions to "watch on the web" (you can ignore requests to download the Teams app). Please contact me with questions (jsicking at fsu.edu). Best, Dr Sickinger -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jsicking at fsu.edu Fri Feb 26 07:40:04 2021 From: jsicking at fsu.edu (James Sickinger) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 12:40:04 +0000 Subject: [Discipuli] Upcoming Lecture!! Message-ID: <4BB5FC4C-E453-42CD-8433-5BECA3BFC3B2@fsu.edu> Dear Classics majors, The Classics department is hosting an online lecture next week, on Thursday, March 4, 5-7pm, and you are cordially invited to attend! , The lecture is entitled ?Plato on the Value of Rule? and will be given by Professor Melissa Lane of Princeton University. She is a Visiting Langford Scholar at FSU this term. The event will take place on Zoom. For details and registration, please follow the link given in the attached poster. We hope you can attend! Dr Sickinger -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Langford Poster Sp21.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 82290 bytes Desc: Langford Poster Sp21.pdf URL: