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SUMMARY:Life in the Ancient World - Dr Michael Scott\, University of Cambr
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nIt’s a question we have always been asking: what
  was life like in the ancient world? But just as interesting and important
  is a slightly different one: how have we\, over the past centuries\, chos
 en to examine and answer that question? This lecture will focus on the cha
 nging attitudes to telling the story of the ancient past\, and particularl
 y the weird and wonderful world of ancient Greece. It will investigate the
  questions we have asked\, the ways in which we have gone about answering 
 them\, and the resulting pictures of life in the ancient Greek world that 
 we have created\, from the first characterizations of ancient Greece by th
 e Romans to the latest cutting-edge 21st century scholarship. In a year wh
 en the Olympics come to Britain\, and our minds turn inescapably towards t
 he connection between the ancient Greek world and our own\, there is no mo
 re important time to think about just how we know what life was like in th
 e ancient world. By telling such a story\, and by demonstrating how we are
  always implicated in creating the picture of our past\, this lecture will
  argue that the question ‘what was life like in the ancient world’ tel
 ls us as much about ourselves as it does about the ancients.\n\nBiography\
 n\nDr Michael Scott is a Research Associate and Affiliated Lecturer at Cam
 bridge\, and formally the Moses and Mary Finley Fellow in Ancient History 
 at Darwin College. He has written on a variety of ancient Greek and Roman 
 world themes and places for both academic and trade publishers (Cambridge 
 UP\, Princeton UP\, Wiley-Blackwell\, Icon). During his time as research f
 ellow at Darwin\, he was a co-organiser of the 2010 Darwin Lecture series 
 on Risk\, and is looking forward to this experience on the other side of t
 he fence as speaker. Michael is committed to communicating his knowledge o
 f the ancient world to as wide an audience as possible\, and is a regular 
 speaker at schools and school conferences around the country\, as well as 
 being part of the Mayor of London's Olympics 2012 'Classics in Schools' in
 itiative and of the Olympics 2012 Cultural Programme. He lectures and guid
 es in both the UK and Greece for schools\, universities\, business organis
 ations and cruises\, writes for a variety of international newspapers and 
 magazines and has appeared on UK and Greek radio\, as well as writing and 
 presenting TV documentaries for the History Channel\, National Geographic 
 and the BBC (Delphi: bellybutton of the ancient world 2010\; Luxury in Anc
 ient Greece 2011). www.michaelcscott.com @drmichaelcscott\n\n
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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