CANCELED: 20,000 Leagues Under the Wine-Dark Sea

Wednesday, October 11, 2023
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Allendale Campus
Alumni, Community, Staff, Students

DUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED NEXT SEMESTER.

Join as we take a deep dive into Bronze Age Mediterranean society with Professor Emily Egan from the University of Maryland. We'll learn about the thought processes and working methods of Greek Bronze Age artists and consider the symbolism of wide array of sea creatures such as octopods and dolphins. A special focus will be the enigmatic argonaut and its appearance in the wall paintings of the Mycenaean ‘Palace of Nestor’ at Pylos. New research suggests that argonauts were not simple ornaments but powerful royal symbols, on par with more fearsome Aegean “totems” like lions and griffins.

Presenter Emily C. Egan is Assistant Professor of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Art and Archaeology at the University of Maryland. She holds degrees from the University of Cincinnati (PhD. and M.A.), the University of Cambridge (M.Phil.), and Brown University (B.A.). Her research focuses on painted wall and floor decoration in the Bronze Age Aegean and especially at the sites of Mycenae and Pylos, where she is engaged in active fieldwork. From 2019-2020 she served as Fellow in Aegean Art at Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies. Her publications investigate issues of iconography, artistic agency, cross-craft interaction, and early traditions of Mycenaean mural making. Currently, she is preparing a monograph on the painted floors of the megaron of the Palace of Nestor.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). Professor Egan is this year's Oscar Broneer Memorial AIA Lecturer.

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Lake Ontario Hall Room 164

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This event was added to the calendar by Kristen Krueger-Corrado (kruegekr@gvsu.edu) on Thursday, September 21, 2023 and was last updated on Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 11:23 a.m.

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