{"id":668,"date":"2022-02-08T00:12:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T05:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=668"},"modified":"2022-02-08T00:27:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T05:27:06","slug":"thinking-about-kings","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/lecture\/thinking-about-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking About Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Christopher Smith, Director, British School in Rome<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">The tradition of the Roman kings is firmly fixed in the canonical accounts of the early history of <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Rome. Although we know that much of the tradition must be invented, the processes by which<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">this invention took place have seldom been analyzed in detail. Profesor Smith will look at what<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">modern scholars have done with the tradition of the kings, and also will discuss how and when <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">the tradition of Roman kingship came to be formed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Christopher Smith was educated at Oxford University, and is Professor of Ancient <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">History at the University of St Andrews. He is currently Director of the British School at Rome, a leading research centre for archaeology, art history, history and the fine arts, which has also been a centre for Canadian scholarship. His work embraces the archaeology of early Rome, and the traditions about the early city, and he is also the editor of a major new edition of the fragmentary Roman historians.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Organized by the Greek and Roman Studies, Department at Carleton University, i<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">n partnership with CIMS and the Archaeological Institute of America.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Smith, Director, British School in Rome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[20,26],"tribe_events_cat":[17],"class_list":["post-668","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tag-italy","tag-roman-empire","tribe_events_cat-ottawa-chapter","cat_ottawa-chapter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/668\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}