Pompeii: City of Venus & Bacchus, with Bettany Hughes, incl. drinks & exhibition private view

When:
November 26, 2019 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
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Where:
Ashmolean Museum
Ashmolean Museum
Beaumont Street, Oxford
OX1 2PH
Cost:
From £20
Contact:
01865278112

Pompeii: City of Venus & Bacchus
With Bettany Hughes, broadcaster and historian, and Paul Roberts, Last Supper in Pompeii curator
Tue 26 Nov, 6.30–7.30pm

This event includes a private view of our current exhibition, Last Supper in Pompeii, and will be followed by a drinks reception.

Pompeii was officially dedicated to Venus, Goddess of Love, while Bacchus, God of Wine and Ecstasy, was also hugely popular. Join award-winning historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes and Exhibition Curator Paul Roberts as they discuss the rich and heady lives of Pompeii’s inhabitants and the deities they adored. This talk coincides with the release of Bettany Hughes’s new book, Venus & Aphrodite – History of a Goddess.

TICKETS: £25/£22/£20 Full, Concession, Members. Booking essential.