Humanities West: The Roman Republic – Two-Day Pass
Explore the Roman Republic with Humanities West in a two-day event with history experts, panel discussions, and a hilarious theater performance adapted from Plautus’s ‘Casina.’
From its modeling of democratic values to its golden age of drama and its Greek- and Etruscan inspired art, the Roman Republic was a major turning point in western civilization that inspires us to this day.
This two-day pass gives you access to:
Friday, Oct. 24, 2014
7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
– Walter Scheidel (Stanford)
– Performance of Plautus’s ‘Casina’
Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM & 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM
– Lisa Pieraccini (UC Berkeley)
– Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Standford)
– Christopher Krebs (Stanford)
– Susana Braund (University of British Columbia)
– Performance of Virgil’s and Seamus Heaney’s ‘Glanmore Eclogue.’