Join the Classics Department for a walk through the Agora with John M. Camp II, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Professor Emeritus of Classics at Randolph-Macon College and former director of the Athenian Agora Excavations.
This talk will present the results of excavations of the American School of Classical Studies in the center of ancient Athens over the past decade. New finds have shed light on various matters: an elusive hero, an ancient art gallery, a famous philosophical school, Athenian portraiture, and the origins of Athenian democracy.
John Camp was trained at Harvard, Princeton, and the American School in Athens. He excavated in the Agora for 58 years, serving as director for 28 of them, and he was the Mellon professor at the ASCS for 11 years. He was also the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Professor of Classics at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia. His interests are ancient Athens, Greek epigraphy, and architecture.
This event will be held in The Gund Community Foundation Theater on Thursday, March 27, at 4:15 p.m. Free and open to the public