Friday, January 30, 2015 - 3:30pm

The Howard and Sharon Rich Seminar Room
Jaffe 113

"How to Win Friends and Influence People: The Basilica of Junius Bassus and Aristocratic Self-Presentation in 4th Century Rome"



A tiger attacks a helpless calf in one of the surviving opus sectile panels from the Basilica of Junius Bassus, Rome, c. 331 CE. Capitoline Museum inv. 1222, 124 cm X 184 cm.