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Symposium—Art of the Hellenistic Kingdoms: From Pergamon to Rome, Day 1, Afternoon Session

Lectures:
"Diadems, Royal Hair, and the Berlin Attalos"

Hellenistic Sculpture

Lectures:
"Diadems, Royal Hair, and the Berlin Attalos"
R. R. R. Smith, Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art, University of Oxford

"Hellenistic and Roman Commemorative Military Sculpture: A Bronze Torso in The Met"
Seán Hemingway, Curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Met
Dorothy H. Abramitis, Conservator, Department of Objects Conservation, The Met
Karen Stamm, Conservator, Department of Objects Conservation, The Met

"Metallic Polychromy in Terms of Hellenistic Legacy: Roman Statuettes of an African Boy in the Pose of an Orator"
Sophie Descamps, Curator, Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities, Louvre Museum, France

"An Early Hellenistic Votive Statuette in The Met: Alexander-Dionysos Melanaigis?"
Kiki Karoglou, Assistant Curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Met

"Falling Hero: A Drunken Herakles in The Met"
Lillian Bartlett Stoner, Research Assistant, Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Met

"Pergamene Reflections in the Sanctuary of Diana at Nemi"
Olga Palagia, Professor of Classical Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World, on view April 18–July 17, 2016.

Recorded May 4, 2016


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