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The Art of Antiquity: Objects and Their Biographies from the Athenian Agora
The Dr. John and Helen Collis Lecture
Tags for: The Art of Antiquity: Objects and Their Biographies from the Athenian Agora
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Speaker: John K. Papadopoulos, Distinguished Professor of Classics at UCLA and Director of the Excavations of the Athenian Agora at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Sunday, September 29, 2024, 2:00–3:00 p.m.
Location: Off-Site
CWRU Tinkham Veale Center, Ballrooms A, B, and C
Free; Ticket Required
Illustration of Late Geometric Amphora with Applied Snakes and Funerary Imagery from the Athenian Agora. Piet de Jong (Dutch, 1915–2016). Watercolor; 25.4 x 35.5 cm. Photo: Craig Mauzy
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About The Event
This presentation showcases the contexts of myriad things—artworks and artifacts—found in the civic center of the world’s first democracy and the commercial marketplace of ancient Athens. This long-lived area, adjacent to the Acropolis, has seen the interaction of people and things from before 5000 BCE to yesterday. The objects found belonged to people, and just like people, they enjoyed a cultural biography. By reconstructing their contexts and biographies, we get closer to the people who made, used, discarded, and discovered the objects we enjoy today.
Limited parking is available at the Severance garage (CWRU’s Lot 29 Campus Center Garage), which has direct access to the ballrooms. Alternate parking options include the CMA garage and metered parking along East Boulevard and Bellflower Road.
Sponsors
The Hellenic Preservation Society of Northeastern Ohio
All education programs at the Cleveland Museum of Art are underwritten by the CMA Fund for Education. Major annual support is provided by Brenda and Marshall Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Fortney, David and Robin Gunning, Dieter and Susan M. Kaesgen, Eva and Rudolf Linnebach, Gail C. and Elliott L. Schlang, Shurtape Technologies, and the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation. Generous annual support is provided by Gini and Randy Barbato, the M. E. and F. J. Callahan Foundation, Dr. William A. Chilcote Jr. and Dr. Barbara S. Kaplan, Char and Chuck Fowler, the Giant Eagle Foundation, Robin Heiser, the late Marta and the late Donald M. Jack Jr., Bill and Joyce Litzler, the Logsdon Family Fund for Education, William J. and Katherine T. O’Neill, Betty T. and David M. Schneider, the Sally and Larry Sears Fund for Education Endowment, Roy Smith, Paula and Eugene Stevens, the Trilling Family Foundation, and the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
