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New Perspectives into Ancient Greek Culture: Hairstyles | Katherine Schwab Art History Lecture
Feb
26
7:30 PM19:30
Art History Lecture

New Perspectives into Ancient Greek Culture: Hairstyles | Katherine Schwab Art History Lecture

NEW DATE: Wednesday, February 26, 2025
7:30 PM

As an example of experimental archaeology, in 2009, Dr. Schwab and six students collaborated with a professional hairstylist to test whether or not the six Caryatids’ hairstyles could be recreated with a positive result. Tools and hair products, just like today, were important in the domestic sphere. The arrangement of hair became a clear signal of rites of passage and status within the community. Locks of hair were often dedicated in temples or cut before warriors left for battle. Together we will explore a range of ancient Greek hairstyles and their meanings for both individual and society.

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New Perspectives into Ancient Greek Culture: Jewelry | Katherine Schwab Art History Lecture
Feb
13
7:30 PM19:30
Art History Lecture

New Perspectives into Ancient Greek Culture: Jewelry | Katherine Schwab Art History Lecture

Thursday, February 13, 2025
7:30 PM

Ancient Greek gold jewelry is renowned for its intricate designs and goldsmithing techniques, such as granulation. Adornment applied to both men and women, even to statues and other objects. Gold jewelry accompanied an individual throughout a lifetime to the grave. Statues could be adorned with wreaths or earrings, and vases could be adorned with painted gold necklaces. Women dedicated jewelry to a goddess in her temple. Royal families amassed extraordinary examples of goldwork, all of it ornate and substantial in size and weight. Numerous gold wreaths with leaves and acorns or berries have been discovered in royal tombs. Today some of the finest jewelers in Greece have found inspiration from these artifacts when developing their own jewelry for the public. In this lecture we will explore some of the finest examples of ancient Greek gold jewelry.

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New Perspectives into Ancient Greek Culture: Athletics | Katherine Schwab Art History Lecture
Feb
6
7:30 PM19:30
Art History Lecture

New Perspectives into Ancient Greek Culture: Athletics | Katherine Schwab Art History Lecture

Thursday, February 6, 2025
7:30 PM

Several customs, traditions, and events in today’s modern Olympics can be traced back to the ancient competitions held at Olympia. Today’s victors are celebrated for their athletic prowess, as they were in ancient Greece. This lecture will focus on the important role of athletics in ancient Greece, the four Panhellenic sites, and the unique Panathenaic Games celebrated in Athens. As they are today, athletics were popular in ancient Greece, where boys and young men devoted time to working out in the palaestra (gymnasium) to maintain fitness and ultimately to be ready for combat. Even the passage of time was organized around the four-year interval between Olympic Games known as the Olympiad, and specific Olympiads were numbered as markers of the events and political developments associated with those times.

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New Perspectives into Ancient Greek Culture: Coinage | Presented by Katherine Schwab
Jan
30
7:30 PM19:30
Art History Lecture

New Perspectives into Ancient Greek Culture: Coinage | Presented by Katherine Schwab

Thursday, January 30, 2025
7:30 PM

We carry pocket change as currency. The idea for these coins or coinage came from the ancient Greek world. The earliest coins, made of electrum at Sardis, rapidly evolved into silver coins of different weights and values. One drachma (the Greek monetary unit at the time) equaled a day’s wage. Both the front and back of the coin displayed designs, resembling miniature relief sculptures. Artists sometimes added their signature to the coins. Cities and islands developed unique images, an early form of advertising and branding. Once in circulation, Greek coins traveled great distances throughout the Mediterranean region and beyond. Even today, many of these ancient coins are admired in museums and sought by collectors for their beauty and rarity.

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New Perspectives into Ancient Greek Culture | Lecture Series Presented by Katherine Schwab
Jan
23
7:30 PM19:30
Art History Series

New Perspectives into Ancient Greek Culture | Lecture Series Presented by Katherine Schwab

Thursdays, January 23 & 30; February 6 & 13, 2025
7:30 PM

In this four-part lecture series Dr. Katherine Schwab will explore topics that help us discover a deeper understanding of the people and times in Ancient Greece. Using hairstyles, coinage, athletics, and jewelry, she will highlight objects to consider how a society over two millennia ago thought about adornment, objects, and activities that are quite familiar to us in our own lives today.

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Bringing Color to Greek Antiquity: Polychrome Art and the Parthenon | Presented by Katherine Schwab
Oct
18
7:30 PM19:30
Art History Lecture

Bringing Color to Greek Antiquity: Polychrome Art and the Parthenon | Presented by Katherine Schwab

Wednesday, October 18, 2023
7:30 PM

The Athenaeum is excited to present Dr. Katherine Schwab, an expert in the authentic aesthetics and representations of ancient Greek sculpture. In her lecture, which begins at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 18, Schwab will explore the evidence for color on ancient Greek sculpture and the use of both new and old technologies to aid our understanding of their original polychromatic appearance.

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