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The Materials of Ancient Religion - Ivory
Duration: 01:03:46
Date: 29.09.2023

The Materials of Ancient Religion - Ivory
The recording of the thirteenth seminar in our series 'The Materials of Ancient Religion'. This online seminar on 'Ivory' took place on Monday April 24th 2023. The speakers were Dr Georgina Muskett and Dr Adam DiBattista.

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The Materials of Ancient Religion - Hair
Duration: 00:57:14
Date: 29.09.2023

The Materials of Ancient Religion - Hair
The recording of the twelfth seminar in our series 'The Materials of Ancient Religion'. This online seminar on 'Hair' took place on Monday March 6th 2023. The speakers were Professor Mary Harlow and Dr Valerie Hope.

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The Materials of Ancient Religion - Stone
Duration: 00:42:14
Date: 27.09.2023

The Materials of Ancient Religion - Stone
The recording of the eleventh seminar in our series 'The Materials of Ancient Religion'. This online seminar on 'Stone' took place on Monday February 6th 2023. The speakers were Professor Tyler Jo Smith and Jedediah Caesar.

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The Materials of Ancient Religion - Blood
Duration: 00:49:30
Date: 27.09.2023

The Materials of Ancient Religion - Blood
The recording of the tenth seminar in our series 'The Materials of Ancient Religion'. This online seminar on 'Blood' took place on Monday January 9th 2023. The speakers were Professor Gunnel Ekroth (“Blood in ancient Greek religion ”) and Dr Jack Lennon (“Looking for Bad Blood in Roman Religion”).

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The Saturnalia
Duration: 00:02:01
Date: 27.09.2023

The Saturnalia
A short animation exploring the ancient Roman festival of the Saturnalia.

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The Materials of Ancient Religion - Wood
Duration: 00:55:28
Date: 20.09.2023

The Materials of Ancient Religion - Wood
The recording of the ninth seminar in our series 'The Materials of Ancient Religion'. This online seminar on 'Wood' took place on Monday October 3rd 2022. The speakers were Michael Bamforth (“Vignettes from the trenches: Examples of the symbolic use of wood in ancient Britain from the Neolithic to Romano British periods”) and Katie Rask (“Wood in Ancient Greek Sanctuaries: Self-Made Offerings at Brauron and Samos?”).

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The Materials of Ancient Religion - Incense
Duration: 00:58:28
Date: 18.09.2023

The Materials of Ancient Religion - Incense
The recording of the eighth seminar in our series 'The Materials of Ancient Religion'. This online seminar on 'Incense' took place on Wednesday September 21st 2022. The speakers were Professor Adeline Grand-Clément (“What’s in a thumiaterion ? Burning aromata for the gods in ancient Greece”) and Professor Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme (“Divine Scent Trails: The Ritual use of Incense in the Hebrew Bible and in Iron Age Judah”).

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The Materials of Ancient Religion - Water
Duration: 00:49:15
Date: 14.09.2023

The Materials of Ancient Religion - Water
The recording of the sixth seminar in our 2021-22 series 'The Materials of Ancient Religion'. This online seminar on 'Water' took place on Wednesday March 23rd 2022. The speakers were Dr Signe Barfoed (‘Hydrophoroi and the significance of water in ancient Greek material religion’) and Dr Anna Perdibon ('“Between the Mouth of the Two Rivers”: The Agency of Water, Springs and Rivers in ancient Mesopotamian Material Religion’).

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Domestic Devotion in the Ancient Roman World
Duration: 00:42:42
Date: 05.09.2023

Domestic Devotion in the Ancient Roman World
Dr Alexandra Sofroniew visited the Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion at The Open University on 4th May 2023 to give a paper entitled ‘From public to private: votive religion returns to the home’. After the seminar, Jessica Hughes and Alexandra Sofroniew were joined by Emma-Jayne Graham and Dominic Dalglish to record an audio discussion about ‘domestic devotion’ in the ancient Roman world. The discussion also features the voice of Professor Rina Arya, talking about domestic devotion in contemporary Hindu homes.

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The City (or 'Great') Dionysia
Duration: 00:02:04
Date: 04.07.2023

The City (or 'Great') Dionysia
Learn about the ancient Greek festival of the City Dionysia in this short film produced by Fettle Animation in collaboration with The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion. Script authored by Dr Dominic Dalglish. Voiceover by Susan Jones.

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Panathenaia
Duration: 00:01:56
Date: 27.09.2022

Panathenaia
A short animation exploring the ancient Greek festival of the Panathenaia.

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Lupercalia
Duration: 00:02:08
Date: 20.09.2022

Lupercalia
A short animation exploring the ancient Roman festival of the Lupercalia.

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The Materials of Ancient Religion - Lead
Duration: 00:42:32
Date: 26.01.2022

The Materials of Ancient Religion - Lead
The recording of the fourth seminar in our 2021-22 series 'The Materials of Ancient Religion'. This online seminar on 'Lead' took place on Wednesday January 19th 2022. The speakers were Professor Hugh Bowden ('Lead: The Tablets from Dodona') and Professor Richard Gordon ('"Worthless but useful”:Lead as a medium of religious communication in the Roman Empire').

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The Materials of Ancient Religion - Fabric
Duration: 00:58:11
Date: 17.01.2022

The Materials of Ancient Religion - Fabric
A recording of the third seminar in our 2021-22 series 'The Materials of Ancient Religion'. This online seminar on 'Fabric' took place on Wednesday December 8th 2021. The speakers were Mary Danisi ('The Knot that Remembers Everything: Binding the Soul in Athenian Funerary Rites') and Dr Alexandra Sofroniew ('Loom Weights at Sacred Sites in Pre-Roman Italy: Offerings, Weaving and Cloth').

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The Materials of Ancient Religion - Clay
Duration: 01:03:03
Date: 14.01.2022

The Materials of Ancient Religion - Clay
A recording of the second seminar in our 2021-22 series 'The Materials of Ancient Religion', which took place on Wednesday November 10th 2021. The speakers were Dr Stephanie Langin-Hooper (“Clay as Creation, Clay as Communication: The Materiality of Terracotta Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia") and Dr Anna-Katharina Rieger (“Clay - Sacralising Transformations of a Material”) .

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The Materials of Ancient Religion - Flowers
Duration: 01:03:40
Date: 22.10.2021

The Materials of Ancient Religion - Flowers
A recording of the first seminar in our 2021-22 series 'The Materials of Ancient Religion', which took place on Wednesday October 6th 2021. The speakers were Dr Cameron McNeil (“The Flowers of Ancient Maya Ritual: Pollen Evidence from Copan, Honduras”) and Dr Patty Baker ("Roman Floral Crowns: Social Meaning and Memory in Religious Festivals").

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Reassembling Ancient Religion Seminar 5 – Magic
Duration: 00:59:55
Date: 10.09.2021

Reassembling Ancient Religion Seminar 5 – Magic
A recording of the fourth seminar in the 2021 'Reassembling Ancient Religion' seminar series. The speakers are: Emma-Jayne Graham, Stuart McKie, and Adam Parker. The seminar was held on 14th April 2021.

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Reassembling Ancient Religion Seminar 4 – Divinity
Duration: 01:15:06
Date: 14.05.2021

Reassembling Ancient Religion Seminar 4 – Divinity
A recording of the fourth seminar in the 2021 'Reassembling Ancient Religion' seminar series. The speakers are: Dr Emma-Jayne Graham, Professor Robin Osborne, and Professor Graham Harvey. The seminar was held on 24th March 2021.

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Reassembling Ancient Religion Seminar 3 – Bodies
Duration: 01:00:48
Date: 23.03.2021

Reassembling Ancient Religion Seminar 3 – Bodies
A recording of the third seminar in the 2021 'Reassembling Ancient Religion' seminar series. The speakers are: Emma-Jayne Graham, Tulsi Parikh, and Phil Perkins. The seminar was held on 10th March 2021.

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Reassembling Ancient Religion Seminar 2 – Objects
Duration: 00:59:49
Date: 08.03.2021

Reassembling Ancient Religion Seminar 2 – Objects
A recording of the second seminar in the 2021 'Reassembling Ancient Religion' seminar series. The speakers are: Dr Emma-Jayne Graham, Dr Eva Mol, and Dr Eleanor Betts. The seminar was held on 24th February 2021.

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Reassembling Ancient Religion Seminar 1 - Place
Duration: 00:54:11
Date: 17.02.2021

Reassembling Ancient Religion Seminar 1 - Place
A recording of the first seminar in the 2021 'Reassembling Ancient Religion' seminar series. The speakers are: Dr Emma-Jayne Graham, Dr Claudia Moser, and Dr Jessica Hughes. The seminar was held on 10th February 2021.

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The Gods at Home
Duration: 00:33:05
Date: 01.12.2020

The Gods at Home
Dr Philip Kiernan presents a lecture on 'The Gods at Home: Cult Images in Context in the Roman Empire'

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Virtual Collections
Duration: 00:29:27
Date: 11.10.2019

Virtual Collections
Dr Jody Cundy visited the The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion on 21st March 2019, to give a paper entitled “Paradoxographic mentalité and the sacred: thinking through (im)material collections in Pausanias' Periegesis Hellados”. After the seminar, Jessica Hughes and Jody Cundy were joined by Jan Haywood and Angeliki Lymberopoulou to record an audio discussion about ‘virtual collections’ of votives and relics in ancient Greek and later texts. The discussion also featured the voice of Dr Naomi Howell, talking about a different kind of ‘virtual votive’ collection - that is, the 3D digital scans and models of some surviving medieval wax votives in the collections of Exeter Cathedral.

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Votives, Fertility and Early Infancy
Duration: 00:35:32
Date: 29.04.2019

Votives, Fertility and Early Infancy
The inaugural seminar of The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion took place on 14th February 2019. Professor Maureen Carroll from the University of Sheffield gave a paper entitled ‘‘Mater Matuta and her ‘Sisters’: Exploring Fertility Cults and Associated Votives in Early Roman Religion’. After the seminar, Jessica Hughes and Maureen Carroll were joined by Emma-Jayne Graham and Marion Bowman to record an audio discussion about votives, fertility and early infancy. The discussion also featured the voice of artist Tabitha Moses, talking about her work ‘The Go-Between’.

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