Excavating Theater History at Pompeii's House of the Four Styles

Excavating Theater History at Pompeii’s House of the Four Styles

Thursday, April 18 | 8:00 PM | Open to the Public Join Dr. Marden Nichols of Georgetown University for a lecture on ancient Pompeii history. The “House of the Four Styles” is a well-preserved Pompeian house, named for the superb examples of wall painting across all of the Four Styles of Roman mural decoration that […]

Piracy and the Late Bronze Age Collapse

Wednesday, June 19, 2024 | 8:00 PM | Open to the Public | Zoom Join Professor Louise Hitchcock of University of Melbourne over Zoom for a discussion of ancient maritime history. The Sea Peoples were emblematic of the mixed ethnic identities that typified pirates of the Mediterranean world near the end of the Bronze Age. These […]

After 1177 BCE: The Survival of Civilizations

Sunday, May 19, 2024 | 7:30 PM | Open to the Public | At B’nai Israel Join Dr. Eric Cline at B’nai Israel for an evening of ancient history. In the years after 1177 BCE, many of the Late Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean lay in ruins, undone by invasion, revolt, […]

Reconstructing Mysteries of the Sanctuary of the Great Gods at Samothrace

Sunday, March 10, 2024 | 3:00 PM | Open to the Public Join Dr. Amy Sowder-Koch of Towson University for an afternoon of archaeology. The island of Samothrace and its mystery cult that promised safety at sea and improved lives for its initiates are mentioned as early as the Homeric poems, but few finds indicate […]

Imperial Terror and Personal Trauma in the Second Temple Period

Wednesday, February 7, 2024 | 8:00 PM | Open to the Public Join Dr. Xandy Frisch of George Mason University for an evening of ancient history. Beginning in 586 BCE, a virtually uninterrupted succession of empires ruled over Jews both in Israel and in the Diaspora. This lecture will explore how one specific Jewish community, […]

Wisdom and Folly in Early Jewish Wisdom Literature

Wednesday, January 10, 2024 | 8:00 PM | Open to the Public Join Dr. Bradley Gregory of The Catholic University of America for an evening of biblical literature discussion. This presentation will highlight struggles to grapple with the pursuit of wisdom in early Jewish works such as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the second century BCE […]

Daily Lives in Rome Versus Those in the Roman Provinces

Sunday, November 12 | 3:00 PM | Open to the Public Join Dr. Maryl Gensheimer of University of Maryland for an afternoon of archaeology with her lecture, “Daily Lives in Rome Versus Those in the Roman Provinces (As Revealed by Findings at Roman Baths).” Excavating the baths of Roman Britain have produced small finds that […]

Love, Marriage and Domestic Violence in the Book of Hosea

Wednesday, October 11 | 8:00 PM | Open to the Public Join Dr. David Bosworth of The Catholic University of America for an evening of Biblical history as part of the Biblical Archaeology Forum (BAF). The Hebrew Bible is replete with episodes of war and violence. One less explored facet of this presentation includes intimate […]

War and Rumors of War: The Ninth Century B.C.E. in the Bible and Inscriptions

Wednesday, September 13 | 8:00 PM | Free | Open to the Public Join Professor Christopher Rollston of The George Washington University for an evening of archaeology. The 9th century BCE was a period of great tumult in the world of the Bible. For example, King Omri of Israel had battled against, and subjugated, King […]

Leadership at the Twilight of Athenian Democracy

When did the famed classical Athenian democracy actually die?  Was it with the defeat of Athens and its allies by Philip II of Macedon at the battle of Chaeronea in 338 BCE?