A teaching collection in the Department of Classical Studies, the Ancient World Gallery is a space for learning about and being inspired by the art and material culture of the ancient Mediterranean world.
First opened in North Court in 1979 by Classics professor Stuart Wheeler, the gallery houses antiquities that had been collected for the museum of Richmond College at the end of the 19th century, including the mummified remains and coffin of an Egyptian woman named Ti Ameny Net.
Filled with artifacts of ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Near Eastern cultures, the gallery invites visitors to gain a deeper understanding of the ancient Mediterranean world.
4th Floor, Humanities Building
Hours:
During academic sessions: Mon-Fri: 10 a.m.–12 p.m. and 1:30-4:30 p.m.
or by appointment.
Closed during summer and winter breaks.
Open House 4-4:45 p.m. | Humanities Building 419, Ancient World Gallery
Lecture 5 p.m. | Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall
Presented by Kara Cooney, Professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA and Egytologist
A woman’s power in the ancient world (and perhaps even today) was always compromised from the outset, and this lecture will address the root causes of this social inequality. Given this social reality in the ancient world, how then did women negotiate their limited leadership roles? Were they able to rule “behind the throne” so to speak? How are we to find a woman’s power when it was so habitually cloaked by a man’s dominance? This lecture will address those questions and ask how much of this ancient reality still touches us today.
Classics majors and minors have opportunities to pursue independent research relating to the Ancient World Gallery or any topic that interests them, through faculty-mentored summer research fellowships or independent study during the academic year.
The Department of Classical Studies offers the Gertrude Howland Summer Grant to support the participation of outstanding classics and archaeology students in non-credit experiential learning programs exploring the ancient cultures represented in the Ancient World Gallery. Research funds are also available through Summer Research Fellowships through the School of Arts & Sciences.
Elizabeth Baughan, associate professor of classics and archaeology, presented "Repurposed furniture-top markers at African American cemeteries in Richmond, Virginia" at the Association for Gravestone Studies annual conference.
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Erika Zimmermann Damer, associate professor of classical studies and women, gender, & sexuality studies, published “Religious Authority and Classical Reception in Baroque Rome: Martha Marchina’s Musa Posthuma and Feminist Epistemologies of Care” in Believing Ancient Women Feminist Epistemologies for Greece and Rome.
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Erika Zimmermann Damer, associate professor of classical studies and women, gender & sexuality studies, published “What is a Future for Classics” in the American Book Review.
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Dieter Gunkel, associate professor of historical linguistics, published “Musical Evidence for Low Boundary Tones in Ancient Greek” in Greek and Roman Musical Studies.
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Two UR students receive Beckman awards to further faculty-mentored student research on anti-cancer drugs and ancient DNA.
Department of Art & Art History
Linguistics Interdisciplinary Program
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Interdisciplinary Program
Mailing Address:
Department of Classical Studies
University of Richmond
Humanities Building
106 UR Drive
Richmond, Virginia 23173
Phone: (804) 289-8736
Fax: (804) 287-6053
Department Chair: Dr. Walter Stevenson
Academic Administrative Coordinator: Shelby DeWalle