Sarah Morris, Steinmetz Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture, University of California, Los Angeles, will be presenting Out of Anatolia: The Trojan War from Hatti to Hissarlik for the Department of Classics' 2024 Townsend Lecture Series.

II. Parallel Lives of Homeric Heroes: Epic Adventures Beyond Troy and Athens

During the first millennium BCE, names and places from those regions survived in local memory and inspired epic tales linked to Homeric personalities and adventures that unfolded beyond the events imagined around the ruins of Troy, which shaped the poetic work attributed to Homer. These parallel lives emerge through a close examination of early Greek art beyond Athens and in Archaic poetry, across the constellation of islands and cities named by Homer.

Reception to follow in History of Art Gallery.

Lecture I: Out of Anatolia: The Prehistory of the Trojan War

Lecture III: From Ilion to Hissarlik: The Evolution of Troy as a Sacred Space