Join us online for the unique opportunity to hear roman archaeologist Dr Steven Ellis from the University of Cincinnati discuss the challenges and results of excavating ancient cities of Pompeii and Tharros.

This presentation begins with a behind-the-scenes look at the most recent excavations of the Porta Stabia neighborhood at Pompeii. These excavations, under the auspices of the University of Cincinnati and the American Academy in Rome, targeted two town blocks made up of shops, houses, and hospitality establishments. More than charting the centuries-long development of a sub-elite neighborhood, the intention is to demonstrate the value in more broadly contextualizing not just the research and results but equally so the methods and approaches to digging a city. To that end we will situate the Pompeii excavations with another of Cincinnati’s archaeological projects: the new excavations of the Punic-Roman city of Tharros on the west coast of Sardinia. Both projects offer new insights into the social and economic making of Roman urban neighborhoods: from diet and urban consumption to retail investment and civic infrastructure.

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Steven Ellis (PhD Sydney, 2005) is a Roman archaeologist and Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati, whose research activities and publications spring from his interests in ancient cities and urban life. He has conducted fieldwork principally throughout Italy and Greece, but with other field activities in Spain, Portugal, France, Morocco, and Algeria. Steven directs the University of Cincinnati's excavations at both Pompeii (Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta Stabia) and Tharros, Sardinia (Tharros Archaeological Research Project); and co-directs (with Eric Poehler) the Pompeii Quadriporticus Project and (with Timothy Gregory) the 'East Isthmia Archaeological Project' in Greece. His forthcoming work includes a multi-volume publication on the Pompeii excavations.