Professor Yvona Trnka-Amrhein (University of Colorado) comes to NHM Discussions.

Professor Yvona Trnka-Amrhein (University of Colorado) comes to NHM Discussions to discuss newly-discovered Euripides papyrus which contains excerpts from the lost plays Ino and Polyidos--an important find for Greek tragedy and world literature. We wil also hear about the world of Greeks living in Egypt who adapted to the ancient culture of their new home but also maintained links to the Classical Greek past.

Yvona Trnka-Amrhein studied at Harvard (AB and PhD) and Oxford (MSt). She researches the culture of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt with a focus on literary papyrology (the study of ancient books), producing first editions of texts of Greekliterature that were not transmitted by Medieval manuscripts. She has recently written about Ptolemaic narratives of city foundation and Ptolemaic musical culture, and she is working on a book about how histories of the Pharaonic past were transformed for political purposes in Greek texts from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. She co-directs the City of the Baboon Project at Hermopolis Magna which is excavating and restoring the Greco-Roman city center, the 5th century Basilica Church, and a Temple of Ramesses II that was redecorated under the Roman Emperor Nero.

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