“Climbing Snowy Aetna: antiquity, travel and the collecting of knowledge”
Speaker(s): Professor Giovanna Cesarani
Please join the Classics Department for a talk on Friday, November 30, 2018 by Giovanna Ceseranion “Climbing Snowy Aetna: antiquity, travel and the collecting of knowledge” in Building 110, Room 112. The talk will begin at 12:30pm with lunch starting at 12:15pm.
In the eighteenth century tens of thousands visited Italy to glimpse its classical past, some venturing south of Rome in search of the lands of Greek myth and natural wonder. This talk focuses on those travelers who climbed the Sicilian volcano of Aetna in the 1760s. I set their journeys in dialogue with questions about the place of antiquity in the pursuit of modern knowledge, examining the evolving ideal of travel as research.
Giovanna Ceserani is Associate Professor of Classics and, by courtesy, of History at èצӰ. The author of Italy’s Lost Greece: Magna Graecia and the Making of Modern Archaeology (OUP 2012), she works on the intellectual history of the classical tradition and directs the digital Grand Tour Project ().
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