Ancient Studies Week Events

The Department of Ancient Studies invites you to celebrate Ancient Studies Week! We have an exciting lineup of events, listed below. We hope that you will join us. Please email Emily Hubbard (ehubbard@umbc.edu) with any questions.

Monday, Oct. 5, 12:00-12:50pm—Webex Meeting: Dr. Molly Jones-Lewis, UMBC, “Ancient Medical Instruments.” Dr. Jones-Lewis will display, describe, and explain the uses of ancient medical instruments unearthed in archaeological digs.

Meeting Link: https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=m36497f59a5d58214437dee9e8680cb4c 

Meeting Password: ancientstudies

Tuesday, Oct. 6, 4:00-7:00pm—Webex Meeting: Homerathon: A Reading of Selections of Homer’s Iliad.

Meeting Link: https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=me5ff8ce3ca2943871f631ff0e7e5b54b

Meeting Password: ancientstudies

Wednesday, Oct. 7, 7:00-9:00pm—Webex Meeting: Student and Faculty Reading of Aristophanes’ Women at the Thesmophoria, an irreverent and scatological comedy about the tragedian Euripides’ attempts to liberate his kinsman from police custody.

Meeting Link: https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=m5ce58c042f68ef67573582f4044aab4f

Meeting Password: ancientstudies

Thursday, Oct. 8, 4:00-5:30pm—Webex Meeting: Ancient Studies Week Keynote Lecture by Dr. Jackie Murray, University of Kentucky, “Racecraft in the Odyssey and Argonautica.” Co-sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities. Please visit the Dresher Center's webpage about this lecture for 

more information-(https://dreshercenter.umbc.edu/humanities-forum-series/current-humanities-forum/?id=85473)

Meeting Link: https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/onstage/g.php?MTID=e10e7d4fae8a1fc76fa06d71e0c76061e