The Experience of Ancient Battle: Greek Infantry Combat and Modern Riot Control

Gorgas Library 205 , United States

Prof. Jon E. Lendon, of the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia, will present a talk entitled "The Experience of Ancient Battle: Greek Infantry Combat and Modern Riot Control.” Comparing ancient and modern tactics, Prof. Lendon seeks to "explain the mechanics of Greek hoplite combat and also the subjective experience of battle…

Free

Guest Lecture, Dr. Lindsay Driediger-Murphy – “Roman Gods and Civil War”

Recent decades have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in the phenomenon of civil war at Rome and how survivors coped with this. However, the question of what impact the civil wars had on Roman religion remains understudied. In this talk, I will argue that civil war posed problems for Romans on a divine level,…

Free