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Epic Fails – Tragic Heroes, Antiheroes, and Ambivalent FiguresWe warmly invite you to the opening of our student-curated special exhibition on Friday, 17 April 2026 at 6:00 p.m. at the Collection of Classical Antiquities. When we think of ancient myths, the images that usually come to mind are those of radiant heroes and all-powerful gods. Yet a closer look reveals a far more complex and shadowy world: one populated by tragic figures, antiheroes, and monsters against their will. Many of these stories are, in fact, stories of different kinds of failure. Hubris and self-inflicted downfall – when arrogance, overconfidence, or the pursuit of power paves the way to ruin. Epic Fails invites visitors to rediscover well-known myths as stories about transgression, defeat, and the ambivalence of heroism. |
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EU-Peace-Project ‘Our Cultural Heritage - The Basis of Our House Europe’The archaeological departments of the universities of Marburg (geoarchaeology), Giessen (classical archaeology), Comillas (landscape archaeology), Mostar (Roman archaeology) and Sarajevo (remote sensing) have joined forces for the EU-Peace project ‘Our Cultural Heritage - The Basis of Our House Europe’ in order to train students at an international level in the conservation and management of cultural heritage. Through joint courses, workshops and summer and spring schools conducted in English, the program will teach and test approaches and practices of cultural heritage conservation and management on both theoretical and practical levels. The practical training will involve applying traditional excavation and conservation methods, as well as learning innovative digital techniques, which will be taught in the field during ongoing excavations. |
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