The "Getty Hexameters" in Western Sicily Revisited: An Archaeology of Cross-Cultural Encounters

The NYU Center for Ancient Studies announces The Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies : Western Sicily Revisited: An Archaeology of Cross-Cultural Encounters
Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center for Arts and Science, 32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)

Intervention de Christopher Faraone, University of Chicago, résident à l'IEA de Paris
Titre de l'intervention : The Getty Hexameters

PROGRAM

9:30am Welcome
Matthew S. Santirocco, Senior Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs, Professor of Classics, and Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies, NYU

Clemente Marconi, James R. McCredie Professor in the History of Greek Art and Archaeology; Director, IFA Excavations at Selinunte, IFA-NYU

10:00am Western Sicily before the Greeks: Mycenaeans and Others along the Mediterranean Seaboard
Massimo Cultraro, CNR Catania

10:45am Monte Iato: A Native Settlement in Western Sicily
Christopher Reusser, University of Zurich

11:30am Tyranny in Selinus
Nino Luraghi, Princeton University

12:15pm The Cult of Demeter at Selinunte: A Reassessment
Caterina Greco, Archaeological Park of Selinunte

1:00pm LUNCH BREAK

2:00pm The Getty Hexameters
Christopher Faraone, University of Chicago

2:45pm Greeks and Non-Greeks in Selinunte between the Archaic and Hellenistic Periods: A Revision
Clemente Marconi, IFA-NYU

3:30pm Building Local Responses: Ritual Architectures in Western Sicily (8th-5th Centuries B.C.E.)
Meritxell Ferrer Martin, Stanford University

This conference is co-sponsored by the NYU Institute of Fine Arts and is being presented in conjunction with the IFA's annual lecture on November 7th reporting on the IFA-NYU excavations on the Akropolis of Selinunte.