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Aphrodisias: School for
Sculptors
Friday, May 5, 6:30 and 8:00 PM
Location: 370 Dwinelle
Christopher Hallett, Associate Professor, History of Art
and Classics Departments, UC Berkeley
A catered spring reception will be held in 371 Dwinelle
before the lecture, from 6:30-7:30pm. Reservation forms for tickets for
this reception will be available, but TCF members may also receive a
discount or waiver of this fee and reservation policy (more on this
later). The lecture itself is free and open to the public.
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(Image courtesy UCHDA, http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/ uchistory/) |
Illustrated Lecture
Free First Thursday, May 4, 5:30 PM
Location: Museum Theater
In conjunction with The Bancroft Library at 100: A Celebration,
1906-2006, on view through December 3, 2006
Texts in the Bancroft
Library's Tebtunis
collection are written in
Greek and demotic Egyptian on papyrus-the ancient equivalent of
paper, made from the fibers of papyrus plants native to Egypt. They
include letters, handbooks on medicine, property records, and tax
receipts as well as partial copies of Homer's Iliad and unique
fragments of the once-lost play Inachus, by Sophocles.
A professor of classics and of theater, dance, and performance
studies, Mark Griffith brings a very special focus to his work at UC
Berkeley's Center for Tebtunis Papyri, where he is currently the
acting director. With a background in Greek literature and
performance, Griffith has been investigating dramatic texts that
appear amid the papyri.
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