Recent Thrills
The Getty Villa in Malibu, mounted an extraordinary exhibit of artifacts from Herculaneum's Villa dei Papiri,
thru 28 October 2019
The American Friends of Herculaneum coordinated a day of lectures, "Reading Herculaneum Papyri: past, present, future"
featuring Richard Janko, David Blank, and Brent Seales.
There was a splendid soiree.
The Getty show featured the fresh restoration of the bronze Drunken Satyr from the Villa dei Papiri, conserved in the Getty labs in preparation for the June opening. The Iris blog has an article by AFoH trustee Ken Lapatin.
Read & watch it here.
Call for Papers: The paper panel at the 2021 Society for Classical Studies (Chicago, 7-10 Jan) sponsored by the AFoH is called "The Villa of the Papiri at Herculaneum: Pieces of the Puzzle". Abstracts are due by 27 February 2020.
Click this link for full information.