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Cost: Individual Lectures, $6 WAM members; $8 non-members Series (3 total), $12 WAM members; $16 non-members

A Walk Through Antioch

Christine Kondoleon, Worcester Art Museum
Sunday, October 8, 2 pm
Location: Worcester Art Museum, Higgins Education Wing

Join Christine Kondoleon, curator of Greek and Roman Art at the Worcester Art Museum and organizer of Antioch: The Lost Ancient City, as she walks you through the exhibition. This lecture includes a general introduction to the city of Antioch, the exhibition, and its goals.


Constantinople: The Other Great Metropolis

Sunday, December 3, 2 pm
W. Eugene Kleinbauer, Indiana University
Location: Worcester Art Museum, Higgins Education Wing

In 330 AD, the emperor Constantine transferred the capital of the Roman Empire to an outpost in the eastern Mediterranean which he renamed Constantinople. Over the next few centuries this great city grew to surpass Rome in population and importance. Eugene Kleinbauer places Constantinople in the context of late antique urban history, making fascinating and informative connections to Antioch.


Eight Centuries of Money: The Antioch Mint

Sunday, January 14, 2 pm
William Metcalf
Location: Worcester Art Museum, Higgins Education Wing

From 300 BC to the 6th century AD, the mint at Antioch provided the Roman Empire with currency. Join William Metcalf, numismatic scholar, as he tours the mint and its production and explains the meaning of coins found in Antioch: The Lost Ancient City.


The Amelia and Robert Hutchinson Haley Memorial Lecture

Pictures, Prospects, and Perspectives Underfoot: Roman Floor Mosaics
Sunday, October 15, 2 pm
Richard Brilliant, Columbia University
Location: Worcester Art Museum, Higgins Education Wing
Cost: $5 WAM members; $8 non-members

Most mosaics that survive from the ancient world were originally intended to decorate floors of private and public buildings. Prof. Richard Brilliant delves into the ambiguities of representation and the uncertainties of the apparent surfaces viewed underfoot or in a downward angled prospect.


Special Lecture

Christianity in Ancient Antioch
Sunday, November 12, 3 pm
Susan Harvey, Brown University
Cost: $10, includes Reception following Lecture at Worcester Art Museum
Location: Tuckerman Hall

The Christianity of ancient Antioch grew and flourished among a diverse populace: a sophisticated wealthy elite, the involuntary poor of the city streets, and the ordinary families involved in the busy clutter of ancient urban life. This talk reveals how the Christians of ancient Antioch gave a distinctive legacy to today's living church.

The Antioch Association, Worcester, Mass., sponsors this lecture.


The People of Antioch

Keynote speaker: Glen W. Bowersock, Institute for Advanced Study
Saturday, November 18, 7 pm
Free and open to the public
Worcester Art Museum Café

Find out why Antioch became such a leading city in late Antiquity. Glen Bowersock fills the streets, houses, and temples of the city with its citizens in order to see the life they lived, the tastes they had, and the cults they observed to conjure up the teeming world from which the great mosaics evolved.


Last Updated: December 14, 2000