Texas Scholars Dig Roman Villas
Join us for this special presentation as two distinguished scholars from Texas, John R. Clarke (University of Texas at Austin) and Thomas Noble Howe (Southwestern University), discuss their innovative archaeological projects exploring, documenting, and preserving the luxurious Roman villas constructed along the Bay of Naples and destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
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Join us for this special presentation as two distinguished scholars from Texas, John R. Clarke (University of Texas at Austin) and Thomas Noble Howe (Southwestern University), discuss their innovative archaeological projects exploring, documenting, and preserving the luxurious Roman villas constructed along the Bay of Naples and destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
Professor Clarke has taught at the University of Texas at Austin since 1980. He has published extensively on ancient Roman art and culture and, since 2005, has directed the Oplontis Project (www.oplontisproject.org), a multidisciplinary study of two villas near Pompeii. In 2017 the Archaeological Institute of America awarded him its Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Archaeology.
Thomas Noble Howe, PhD, is a professor in the department of art history at Southwestern University and director of the Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation (www.stabiae.org). He has been involved in planning three international traveling exhibitions of material from the Roman villas of Stabiae: In Stabiano (2004-2009), Otium Ludens (2007-2009) and Além de Pompeya (2011-2012).
Image caption: View from the Villa San Marco, Stabiae, to the Bay of Naples and Mount Vesuvius. (Photo: J. Powers)
Lectures and Artist Conversations are made possible by generous support from the Louis A. and Frances B. Wagner lecture fund.
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