Mar 26, 2026 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Main Library, Room 346
- Sponsor
- The Department of Classics and The Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- Contact
- Carrie Lingscheit
- carriel@illinois.edu
- Originating Calendar
- Campus Humanities Calendar
From its invention in the Bronze Age, glass was conceived as “molten stone” and continuously used to emulate gems, gold, and rare marbles. Drawing on archaeological finds, representations in art works, and written sources, Dr. Anastasios Antonaras (Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki,) places Byzantine glass in context to a wider Mediterranean tradition where it emerges as a powerful medium of splendor, authority, and sacred presence.