Dr. Brian Rose, "Recent Discoveries and the Homeric Tradition." Tues. March 5

The archaeology of Troy, in what is now Turkey, has captured the human imagination for nearly a century and a half.  In l988 archaeologists from the University of Cincinnati and the University of Tübingen, Germany, began new excavations with the intent of examining all phases of habitation from the Bronze Age through the Byzantine period.  In his lecture, “Uncovering Troy: Recent Discoveries and the Homeric Tradition,” Professor C. Brian Rose will present the results of the Bronze Age, Greek, and Roman level excavations during the last 24 years, including the impact that recent discoveries have made on the relationship between the site and the Troy of Homer’s Iliad.

Professor Brian Rose is the James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania, and is Past President of the Archaeological Institute of America.  A specialist in Roman art and archaeology and the archaeology of Anatolia, he is head of the post-Bronze Age excavations at Troy, and has also conducted field work at Aphrodisias and Gordion in Turkey. 

The lecture will take place on Tuesday, March 5, 2013, at the Cincinnati Art Museum.  It will begin at 7:00 p.m., and is free and open to the public.  Professor Rose will be giving a Joukowsky Lecture, named for Martha Sharp Joukowsky, a past President of the Archaeological Institute of America and Professor of Old World Archaeology at Brown University.  The Joukowsky Lectureship is part of the AIA’s National Lecture Program.