LEXINGTON COMMUNITY EDUCATION presents The Fiveash Legacy Lecture

The Fiveash Legacy Lecture Series is in­spired by and intended to keep influential, the teaching tradition and legacy of Dr. Michael Fiveash, a long time and beloved Latin and Classics teacher at Lexington High and Lexington Community Education.

The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii in 79 CE brings many images to our imagination: the city’s structures on fire, a rainstorm of pumice stones and ash burying the entire region, and plaster casts of the city’s residents, their arms raised to protect their faces against the inferno. Yet these flashes only scratch the surface of what life was like in Pompeii and the Bay of Naples before this cataclysmic event. Pompeii was a lived city. Pompeii offers us a chance to catch a glimpse of daily life in the Roman world. Its excellent state of preservation affords unique opportunities to understand, discover, and learn more about life in ancient cities.

Professor Fred S. Kleiner is Professor of Art History and Archaeology; Etruscan & Roman Art at Boston University and the author of more than a hundred articles, reviews, and books. He won Boston University’s Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2002 and has twice received the Distinguished Teaching Prize of the Col­lege of Arts and Sciences Honors Program.

This event will be held on Thursday, September 27 at 7:00pm at the Lexington Depot. The cost of the event is $10.00.

Pre-registration is strongly recommended by contacting Lexington Community Education at 781 862 8043.