UNC Asheville Hosts Talk on Roman Inscriptions

UNC Asheville will host a talk on "Can We Believe Roman Inscriptions?" by James Anderson, professor of classics at the University of Georgia, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21, in UNC Asheville’s Ramsey Library Whitman Room. The event is free and open to the public.

Anderson will examine the truthfulness, or lack of truthfulness, of the inscriptions placed on Roman buildings. He will discuss the inscriptions on the Pantheon, Column of Trajan, arch of Septimius Severus and other notable buildings.

Anderson is the author of "Roman Architecture and Society" and is currently finishing his second book, "The Architecture of Roman Provence." He is the director of UGA’s Classics Study Abroad Program in Rome and is the former director of the Classical Summer School of the American Academy in Rome. Anderson holds a doctorate and master’s degree from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

The talk is co-sponsored by the UNC Asheville Classics Department and the Western Carolina Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.

For more information, call Laurel Taylor, UNC Asheville adjunct assistant professor of classics, at 828/251-6466.

Media Contacts:

• Laurel Taylor, UNCA Adjunct Assistant Professor of Classics, 828/251-6466
• Jill Yarnall, UNCA Public Information Assistant Director, 828/251-6526