SASA Masterclass- Ancient Carvings: Writing Your Own (Secret) Messages in Ancient Scripts
8Hosted by Dr. Martine Diepenbroek, a Dutch Classicist and Ancient historian with a PhD in Classics and Ancient History from the University of Bristol.
Do you want to learn about ancient scripts and do you want to carve your own (secret) messages into bars of soaps (as if they were ancient Greek wax tablets)?
When thinking of communication security, you probably think of banks, computer systems and secret services like the FBI and CIA. Yet, communication security is as old as the hills! The Greeks, Romans, and Near Eastern people knew dozens of ways to hide confidential communication from the enemies. This is known as cryptography and steganography.
In this Masterclass we will discuss Homer’s story of Bellerophon. We will take a look at different kinds of scripts and types of messages used in Greece, Rome and the Near East to find out more about the role of writing and literacy in ancient societies.Then we will write our own secret messages into bars of soap. What will you write? And in what language?
This is a live stream event, where anyone can send questions and comments in the chat!
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