Adrian Stähli

Dynamics of Religion and Religious Space in the Ancient Mediterranean (GSAS Workshop, 2018–19)

Religious practices and sacred spaces operated at the crux of Greek and Roman society, acting as both a source of social cohesion and a locus of divisive tension throughout antiquity. Greek and Roman religious practices, generally characterized as conservative and stable, underwent several phases of radical upheaval during moments of shifting political or cultural circumstances. The purpose of this workshop is to explore these moments of religious change in the ancient Mediterranean world, broadly conceived as any instance of transition, disruption, cooperation, reconsideration or resistance related to religion from the Archaic to the Byzantine period.... Read more about Dynamics of Religion and Religious Space in the Ancient Mediterranean (GSAS Workshop, 2018–19)

Ancient Bronzes through a Modern Lens

New Publication: Ancient Bronzes through a Modern Lens

September 9, 2015

Yale University Press has published Ancient Bronzes through a Modern Lens: Introductory Essays on the Study of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Bronzes. Edited by Susanne Ebbinghaus, Head, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, and George M.A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art, it features contributions by Lisa M. Anderson, Francesca G. Bewer, Ruth Bielfeldt, Susanne Ebbinghaus...

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Graduate student workshop: "Territories of Empire: Transition, Function, and Atrophy"

September 9, 2014

The wildly popular graduate workshop “Discovery of the Classical World” has been renamed and refocused as it enters its third year. Under the continuing supervision of faculty advisors Prof. Adrian Stähli and Prof. Paul Kosmin, and shepherded by graduate student coordinators Charles Bartlett ...

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