Katherine Dunbabin, McMaster University, delivered the Townsend Lectures in the Spring of 2005 on "Spectacular Images: Performance in the Art of the Later Roman Empire."
The dates and titles of her seven lectures were:
March 29 - "Greek Festivals in Roman Art"
April 5 - "The Traditional Theatre"
April 12 - "Pantomime and Mythological Spectacle"
April 19 - "Mime and Popular Entertainment"
April 26 - "The Circus Races"
May 3 - "Gladiators and Wild Beast Hunts"
May 10 - "The Games in the Christian Empire"
Theater and Spectacle in the Art of the Roman Empire is a part of the Townsend Lectures Series of Cornell Studies in Classical Philology.
