G. Castellano, "A Dialogue in Metal: Silver, Bronze, and Cross-Cultural Currencies in Ancient Italy and Sicily"

Dr. Castellano will discuss a new approach to how we understand the emergence of coinage in Ancient Italy and Sicily in light of Greek and local cultural interaction.

Dr. Castellano is a post-doctoral researcher at the Univ. of Texas at Austin. He has an inaugural fellowship of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Engaged Scholar Initiative at the University of Texas at Austin. 

This lecture is sponsored by the Haines-Morris Distinguished Lecture fund of the Department of Classics and is free and open to the public.