#  GSAS/Classics Department: Herodotus, Aristotle and Sounding Weights: The Deep Sea as a Frontier in the Hellenistic and Roman World 

 



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 **October 24, 2017** 

 04:30PM - 06:00PM EDT 

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 **Emerson Hall Rm. 101, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

 The Harvard Classics Department and the GSAS research workshop *Technical Traditions in Greece and Rome: Between Theory and Practice* are sponsoring a talk on Tuesday, October 24, 4:30–6:00 in Emerson 101, by **Professor John Peter Oleson**. The title of the talk, which focuses on the technology of navigation in the ancient Mediterranean, is ***‘Herodotus, Aristotle and Sounding Weights: The Deep Sea as a Frontier in the Hellenistic and Roman World.’***

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