Winter 2020 Lecture Series
Life, Death, and the Gods Wednesday, January 29
7:30 p.m.
Kane Hall 130 What happens after death? How should the living care for the dead? How do beliefs about the gods and the afterlife shape different approaches to death and burial? In this exciting set of lectures, four UW historians examine the relationship between the living and the dead in Ancient Rome and Iran and among the Aztecs and the Chinese. Skeletons and Dining Couches: Eating and Dying in the Roman Empire
Mira Green, Lecturer, History
From stuffed dormice to recreational vomiting, modern ideas about ancient Roman eating practices fall back on images of decadent excess, set against a backdrop of violence and disease. But what does the evidence say about how the ancient Romans actually lived? |