Mosaics provide missing pieces to popular ancient plays
Tuesday, January 4, 2011 - 11:33
in Paleontology & Archaeology
At the Jan. 6-9 meeting of the American Philological Association, Classics Professor Kathryn Gutzwiller will present her research on recently discovered mosaics depicting lost scenes from four Greek plays popular in Roman antiquity . Her presentation, New Menander Mosaics and the Papyri, will introduce previously unknown scenes by Menander, an Athenian comic poet from fourth century BC whose popularity in the Roman empire was only exceeded by Homer.