Distinguished scholar and archaeologist Sarah Morris, Steinmetz Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture at the University of California—Los Angeles, will present a lecture entitled “Apollo, Poseidon and the Walls of Troy: Homer and Archaeology” tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Carleton College Gould Library Athenaeum. Morris’ lecture is free and open to the public.
Morris’ teaching and research interests include early Greek literature, Greek religion, prehistoric and early Greek archaeology, ceramics, Greek architecture and landscape studies, and Near Eastern influence on Greek art and culture. She has conducted fieldwork in Israel, Turkey, and Greece, and is currently excavating an early Iron Age burial mound in Albania.
Morris is the author of “Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art” (Princeton University Press, 1992), winner of the Wiseman Book Award from the Archaeological Institute of America in 1993. She has co-edited a volume of essays titled “The Ages of Homer”’ on the archaeological, literary, and artistic background of and responses to Greek epic poetry, and has published several articles on the archaeology of ancient Greek slavery. Morris holds a BA from the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, and a PhD from Harvard University.
Morris’ visit is sponsored by the Gould Library and the Carleton College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, an academic honor society dedicated to fostering and recognizing excellence in the undergraduate liberal arts and sciences. Founded in 1776 at the College of William and Mary, it is the oldest honor society in the United States. For more information and disability accommodations, call (507) 646-5643.
