Date and Time: November 3, 2016 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Lecture Hall Room 110, West campus
Campus: West campus
Price: Free
Despite being the only universally-recognized building for prostitution from the ancient Roman world, the purpose-built brothel (lupanar) of Pompeii remains a misunderstood structure. Modern research has painted an incomplete picture of the edifice, with nearly all emphasis being assigned to its sexually-explicit aspects while its other details are ignored. This is especially true in regard to its rarely-seen second floor, a segment that has almost no scholastic record of study. Through a careful examination of the remaining physical and archaeological evidence, this talk shall reconstruct the lupanar as an economic enterprise embedded in a larger urban fabric, generating a more comprehensive illustration of this thus-far unique construction. Michel "Mike" Zajac is an independent scholar who has taught at Arizona State University and throughout the Maricopa Community College system since 2009. He holds a B.I.S. degree in Art History and Psychology (summa cum laude) and an M.A. in Art History, both from ASU. He conducted his graduate fieldwork at Pompeii, and has worked as a researcher and excavator for six seasons at the Greco-Roman site of Marion / Arsinoe in Cyprus. He is the former Secretary of the Archaeological Institute of America's Central Arizona Society.
Department: School of International Letters and Cultures
Website: http://silc.asu.edu
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Contact: Almira Poudrier
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Phone: 602-738-5784
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