The Ancient World in American Popular Culture
By Leonard J. Greenspoon
Ancient Egypt, classical Greece and the Roman Empire are everywhere these days. This illustrated talk explores many ways in which movies, the popular press, museum exhibitions, TV shows, comic books, the Internet — and other forms of popular culture — entertain and educate us about the ancient world, and what all of this tells us about antiquity and about our own world of the 21st century.

Introduction to Classical Mythology
By Evelyn Haller
This program provides an introduction to the basic Greek and Roman myths. As a framework, it uses the most accessible and useful book on the subject, Ovid's "Metamorphoses." A contemporary of Christ, Ovid was a skilled rhetorician who constructed an epic composed of myths that were current in the Rome of his time. Haller's discussion of "Metamorphoses" is based on its Penguin paperback edition, a prose translation by Mary Innes. The slide illustrations she uses include medieval manuscript illuminations. 

The Survival of the Ancient Public Libraries
By Kathryn A. Thomas
The oldest reported public library in the Western tradition was that of Ramses II in Thebes. In Greece, during the classical period, starting with the ruler Pisistrates, public libraries were found in the gymnasiums and in the major "schools" of philosophy, including Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum, Zeno's Stoa and the Garden of Epicurus. The histories of these libraries and those that followed are filled with intrigue and adventure. Depending on the technical resources and space available, this presentation uses the human voice, slides or projected computer images to recreate the ancient public libraries and their appearance in Alexandria, Egypt.