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Uncovering Easter Island

Hybrid Hybrid Event

Dr. Jo Anne Van Tilburg Director, UCLA Rock Art Archive Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA Easter Island, more correctly known as Rapa Nui, is a small, remote island in the Southeast Pacific discovered and settled by Polynesian mariners ca. AD 1000. It was rediscovered by the Dutch in 1722 and, since then, has captured the […]

AIA-Nashville Society Book Club: Pericles and Aspasia

Nashville Parthenon 2500 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN, United States

Join us for a free AIA-Nashville Society Book Club meeting at the Nashville Parthenon on Monday, November 4, 2024, at 6 PM. This event is free and open to the […]

When Democracies Vote to Overthrow Themselves: Lessons from Classical Athens.

John Cabot University - Room F.G.4 @ Frohring Campus Lungotevere Raffaello Sanzio, Roma, Lazio, Italy

Democracy most often ends not with a violent spasm, but with a vote. Oligarchic challengers leverage their small numbers to coordinate dis-informing campaigns, hoping that enough citizens will withhold their support for democratic rule. Already in the fifth- and fourth-centuries BCE, Greek democracies experimented with strategies to overcome these problems, such as the Solonian law […]