Monmouth, Ill. —

Jason Nethercut, visiting assistant professor in classics at Knox College, will present the next archaeology lecture series program at Monmouth College at 7:30 p.m. March 25 in the Morgan Room in Poling Hall.

Nethercut’s lecture, “Image and Text: Methodological Preliminaries,” will explore some of the pitfalls that attend interdisciplinary approaches to classical antiquity, looking especially at those that present themselves when examining the aesthetics of literary and visual textual narratives.

His lecture will look at a few test cases from the walls of Pompeii and literary descriptions of artworks from Latin epic. Through these, Nethercut says, the important differences between visual and verbal art become especially focused, “even as they encourage us to harmonize our approaches to ancient art and literature.


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