Sarah James, University of Texas at Austin: The archaeology of apocalypse? Corinth after 146 BC

Friday, January 27, 2012

5 pm

HUMN 250

While literary accounts of the Roman sack of Corinth in 146 B.C. paint a grim picture of utter devastation and subsequent abandonment, new archaeological evidence challenges these descriptions and demonstrates that life continued in the city well into the 1^st c. B.C. Although this is only one conclusion that can be drawn from the re-study of Corinthian Hellenistic pottery, it has broad implications for our understanding of the social and economic history of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean in the 2^nd and 1^st c. B.C.

This lecture is free and open to the public. Everyone is welcome.