Hosted by the ICAA Washington Mid-Atlantic Chapter
Join us in an exploration of how classical painting and the greatest works in the canon of western literature - The Aeneid, The Iliad, and The Odyssey - inspired each other and helped shape our understanding of classical architecture. Presenting will be classics scholar Harry Donoghue, museum educator Alice W. Iglehart, and George Washington University Associate Professor Dr. Elise Friedland.
Speakers:
Harry Donoghue is an Oxford- and Cambridge-educated classicist, writer, and broadcaster. He has an MA in Classics and French from Trinity College, Oxford. His focus was Marcel Proust and the nature of art, as well as Homer and Roman poetry of the Augustan era. He posts daily videos about Latin and Greek language and literature to more than 85,000 followers on social media. He also lectures in schools and leads online group classes on ancient texts.
Alice W. Iglehart is a museum educator with over forty years of experience teaching at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She trains docents at numerous historic house museums and art organizations, is on the faculty at School of Visual Arts, Art History and Critical Studies Department, and lectures for the Museum Travel Alliance.
Dr. Elise Friedland is a WMA ICAA chapter member and Associate Professor of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Art History at George Washington University. She has developed and presented many lectures for the chapter as well as having participated in New Heights in both 2024 and 2025. She is a valued member of the chapter’s team.
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