Being able to work as interns for the AMCA Mobile Lab for the past two years has been an incredible experience. Audrey: I always enjoyed mythology growing up. I still remember doing a play presentation focusing on the myth of…
Author: Wendy Vencel
I am a senior at Butler University majoring in History and Classics, minoring in Anthropology. I am currently an intern with the Ancient Mediterranean Cultures and Archaeology (AMCA) Mobile Lab at Butler. I have been able to study abroad twice with the Classics Department, first to Italy in Summer 2016 and then to Greece in Summer 2017. I am originally from Bloomington, IN and plan to attend a post graduate program in the UK upon my graduation from Butler. My greatest accomplishment as a lab intern was working on the osteological collection held by the lab.
“The Frome Hoard and the Breakaway British Empire (AD 286-296)” will be presented by Dr. Sam Moorhead on Wednesday April 25th at 8:00PM in Campus Center Theater (CE) room 002 at the Indiana University – Purdue University (IUPUI) Indianapolis Campus.…
Laura Allaben (Butler University Class of 2021) is a history and political science major, who took Dr. Kvapil’s “Greek Art and Myth” PCA course this spring. For her final project, she chose to focus on the myth of Daphne and…
Dr. Debra Trusty, a lecturer of Classics at the University of Iowa, wrote a great review of Netflix’s Troy: Fall of A City for the Society of Classical Studies. If you have watched the show or are thinking about watching it, read…
Colors of Classical Art is a new digital museum exhibit highlighting the permanent collection of classical pieces through the perspective of color. Curated by Juliet Graver Istrabadi, Acting Curator of Ancient Art and Julie Van Voorhis, Associate Professor of the…
At Butler University’s Classics Club April meeting, Classics minor Kailey Steward will be presenting her paper “That’s Just a Myth: A Look at Classical Mythology in Toni Morrison’s Paradise”. Here is a brief summary of the paper in Kailey’s words: In…
#1 Cleopatra Cleopatra VII was queen of Egypt in the first century BCE . Cleopatra was the last monarch of the Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt, who can trace their ancestry back to Macedonia, gaining power after the death of Alexander…