Saturday, April 29, 2023, 2.00pm to 3.00pm CDT
Join Mary Beard, Cambridge Professor Emerita and one of Britain’s best-known Classicists, for a discussion titled “Will the Real Emperor Vitellius Please Stand Up? Finding a Roman Emperor in Modern Art” at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Professor Beard follows the presence of a (not very well known) Roman emperor in modern art to consider how these ancient figures continue to mean something to us. For more information and to register, click here.
Professor Christopher Kelly, Master of Corpus Christi College and Shawn Donnelley, member of the Cambridge in America Board of Directors, invite you to a reception immediately following the lecture.
Click here to read CAm’s Q&A with Professor Beard about her life and legacy as one the foremost leaders in the study of Classics.
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