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Invited Lectures & Responses (selected)
  • "'Dicing with Death: Games, Contests, and Play on Roman Sarcophagi"
    Locus Ludi: The Cultural Fabric of Play and Games in Classical Antiquity, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 26 May 2021

  • "'Sleeping Sexy': Jonah and the Sea Monster on Roman Sarcophagi"
    Department of Classics and the Archaeological Institute of America, Urbana-Champaign, 16 April 2021

  • "When Gods and Heroes Retreat: The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi"
    Kansas City/Lawrence Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, Lawrence, Kansas, 8 April 2021

  • "'Sleeping Sexy': Jonah and the Sea Monsters on Roman Sarcophagi"
    Winnipeg Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 7 February 2021

  • "Dicing with Death: Games, Contests, and Play on Roman Sarcophagi"
    The 2020 Sienkewicz Lecture in Roman Archaeology, Monmouth College, 12 November 2020
 
  • "Death Divine: Portraits in the Guise of Gods and Heroes on Roman Sarcophagi"
    Depicting the Dead: From Ancient Syria to Social Media, Getty Villa, Malibu, 16 March 2019
 
  • "Pressing the Purple: Vintage, Vats, and the Christianization of Imperial Porphyry Sarcophagi"
    Colored Stone Statuary in the Ancient Mediterranean: Quarries, Workshops, Uses, and Meanings, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 28 November - 1 December 2017
 
  • "Strutting Your Stuff: Finger Struts on Roman Sarcophagi"
    Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Rome, 9 June 2017
 
  • ​​"The Lycian Sarcophagus of Sidon"
    Center for Arts and Humanities, American University of Beirut, 21 April 2017​
 
  • "Baring Arms, Not Bearing Arms: Sea Nymphs and the Absent Arms of Achilles on Marine Sarcophagi"
    Department of Classics and the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, 7 April 2017
 
  • "When Gods and Heroes Retreat: The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi"
    Central Illinois Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, Urbana-Champaign, 12 October 2014
 
  • "The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi"
    Kolloquium des Instituts für Klassische Archäologie, Freie Universität Berlin, 11 November 2013
 
  • "A Season for Grieving? Life and Death on a Roman Season Sarcophagus in the Legion of Honor"
    California History-Social Sciences Project, San Francisco, 19 July 2011
 
  • "Stone Dead? Visions of the Afterlife on Roman Sarcophagi"
    The I.F. Grose Memorial Lecture in Classical Studies, Concordia College, 10 March 2010
 
  • Critical Response to papers by R.R.R. Smith and Björn Ewald
    ​Flesh Eaters: An International Symposium on Roman Sarcophagi, Berkeley, 18-19 September 2009
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Mont Allen
Assistant Professor of Classics & Art History
Dept. of Languages, Cultures, & International Trade
1000 Faner Drive, MC 4521
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL  62901
+1 (618) 303-6553

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background:  sarcophagus showing Selene approaching the sleeping Endymion (New York, Metropolitan Museum, inv. 47.100.4a,b)