Daniel P. Diffendale
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Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 3 weeks agoThis course offers a survey of the archaeology of settled landscapes in the ancient Mediterranean world,
including both the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean basin. In particular, the course will focus on
city-country dichotomies in order to study the patterns of development, demography, and land use in
selected case study areas. While…[Read more] -
Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Roman art: an introduction in the group
Roman archaeology on Humanities Commons 3 weeks agoThis course provides an introduction to the visual culture and art forms of the Italo-Roman world from the
Early Iron Age to the beginning of Late Antiquity. The course examines the developmental arcs of art
forms in various spheres (public, private, sacred, funereal) and considers key media (sculpture, painting,
mosaic, decorative arts).…[Read more] -
Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Roman art: an introduction in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 3 weeks agoThis course provides an introduction to the visual culture and art forms of the Italo-Roman world from the
Early Iron Age to the beginning of Late Antiquity. The course examines the developmental arcs of art
forms in various spheres (public, private, sacred, funereal) and considers key media (sculpture, painting,
mosaic, decorative arts).…[Read more] -
Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes on Humanities Commons 3 weeks ago
This course offers a survey of the archaeology of settled landscapes in the ancient Mediterranean world,
including both the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean basin. In particular, the course will focus on
city-country dichotomies in order to study the patterns of development, demography, and land use in
selected case study areas. While…[Read more] -
This course provides an introduction to the visual culture and art forms of the Italo-Roman world from the
Early Iron Age to the beginning of Late Antiquity. The course examines the developmental arcs of art
forms in various spheres (public, private, sacred, funereal) and considers key media (sculpture, painting,
mosaic, decorative arts).…[Read more] -
Henry Colburn wrote a new post, In memoriam Amélie Kuhrt (1944-2023), on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 6 days ago
I have just received the distressing news of the death of Amélie Kuhrt, one of the foremost historians of the Achaemenid Empire and the ancient Near East more generally. Along with Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg she […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, The Customer is Always Right, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
I just read a distressing item by Christiane Gruber in New Lines about an adjunct instructor at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, whose spring courses were cancelled after a student objected to the […]
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Justin Walsh's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, A New Literary Genre, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
One of the great pleasures of teaching this course for the Honors College at Hofstra is the opportunity to read some really great stuff, like Montaigne’s Essays. Another pleasure is seeing the invention of new […]
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, Palmyra in Perspective, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 1 month, 4 weeks ago
In a few days I depart for Copenhagen for the conference Palmyra in Perspective at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. I have just looked at the conference program, and I will be in esteemed […]
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Rebecca Kennedy's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
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Jody Gordon's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, In memoriam Oscar White Muscarella (1931-2022), on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
Last night I received the sad news that Oscar White Muscarella has died. He was, without question, the conscience of the field of Near Eastern archaeology. At a time when it was rarely even discussed openly, he […]
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Michael Anthony Fowler's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
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Alexis Christensen's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
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Alexis Christensen changed their profile picture on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
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Henry Colburn wrote a new post, The Universe Hates Parthian Art, on the site Henry P. Colburn on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week ago
That, at least, is the only logical conclusion I can draw from the fact that I tested positive for COVID two days ago, right before I was supposed to give my talk on ‘Greek Style and the Problem of Parthian Art’ […]
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Rebecca Kennedy deposited “Teaching Race in Greco-Roman Antiquity: Some Considerations and Resources” on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week ago
On teaching race and ethnicity in high school and college classrooms and the challenges.
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Rebecca Kennedy deposited “Racist Reactions to Black Achilles” on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week ago
Discussion of the racist backlash against the casting of a Black actor as Achilles in BBC’s Troy: Fall of a City.
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Rebecca Kennedy deposited “Otis Mason and Hippocratic Environmental Theory in Early Smithsonian Anthropological Displays” on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week ago
Discussion of reception of ancient Hippocratic environmental theory by Smithsonian anthropologist Otis Mason in his technogeography theory of human cultural development.
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