Linda Maria Gigante presents Resurrecting Dead Romans: Reconstructing the Lives of Slaves and Freedmen from Their Tombs and Epitaphs on Tuesday, March 9, at 6:30 p.m. at the Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St.
Gigante will discuss the role slaves and freedmen played in Roman culture and what close examination of their tombs and epitaphs reveals about their lives. She will focus on a collection of 1st and 2nd century epitaphs that were removed from non-elite tombs in Rome in the late 19th century and have, since 1929, been in the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky.
Gigante is an associate professor in the department of fine arts at the University of Louisville. Her areas of specialization are Roman funerary arts and monuments of commemoration.
Resurrecting Dead Romans is the 2010 Edward J. Bader Lecture, which is funded by an endowment made to the Archaeological Institute of America. The lecturer is chosen each year by the AIA Lecture Program Committee.
Admission is free.
The event is funded by the Archaeological Institute of America and co-sponsored by the Classical and Ancient Studies Program at the University of Missouri—Kansas City.
