Arts and Humanities Speaker Series

Marvelous Inventions of the Classical World

At the Museum and Library of Alexandria, state-sponsored scholars and engineers produced some amazing devices, some that would prove practical and others that were simply weird. We’ll look at a selection of these in an illustrated lecture, and then speculate on the nature of creativity and the relationship between art and technology, two terms that in antiquity were expressed by the same word: techne in Greek and ars in Latin.

Presenter: John Humphrey spent 15 seasons excavating at Greek and Roman sites in Greece and Turkey, and has published two books on the history of ancient technology.

He is a member of UofC’s Teaching Excellence Hall of Fame.

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