
Dr. Laferrière’s Academic Pages:
Academia: https://usc.academia.edu/CarolynLaferriere
USC page: https://dornsife.usc.edu/center-for-the-premodern-world/postdoctoral-fellowship/
Personal page: https://carolynlaferriere1.wixsite.com/carolynmlaferriere
On this episode of the Peopling the Past Podcast, we hear from Dr. Carolyn M. Laferrière, who you’ll recognize as a co-host of this podcast. Here, she discusses the role of music, art and religious ritual in the context of the Vari Cave, and the ways in which we can use the framework of sensoryscapes to understand how ancient peoples would have experienced this sacred space.
Dr. Laferrière is a Postdoctoral Scholar and Teaching Fellow at the University of Southern California’s Center for the Premodern World. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Associate with Archaia, Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Program for the Study of the Ancient World, as well as a Lecturer in the Departments of the History of Art and Classics.
Looking for additional research on these topics? Check out these articles by Dr. Laferrière:
“Sacred Sounds: The Cult of Pan and the Nymphs in the Vari Cave” Classical Antiquity (2019) 38 (2): 185–216.
Dr. Laferrière’s exhibition, Sights and Sounds of Ancient Ritual, at the Yale University Art Gallery and its review in the Wall Street Journal.
Entrance to the Vari Cave, Mount Hymettos, from Wikimedia Steep entrance into the Vari Cave, from Wikimedia Vari Cave, East Room, from Wikimedia Archedemos, East Room, from Wikimedia Distinctive appearance of the Vari Cave, east room, from Wikimedia In the Vari Cave with the ASCSA In the cave. Photo by Chelsea Gardner. An example of a 4th century votive relief to Pan and the Nymphs, from a cave on Mount Parnes. Image from Wikimedia. Location of Vari Cave
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Additional Resources for this Episode
Ancient Music:
Good introductory resource for ancient music: https://books.google.com/books/about/Companion_to_Ancient_Greek_and_Roman_Mus.html?id=BneezAEACAAJ
Musical concert at the 2018 annual MOISA conference, held in Reading, UK. Performed by Stef Conner and Barnaby Brown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsIZznIKQgM
Vari Cave:
Pleiades link: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/580056/?searchterm=vari%20cave*
Experiencing the Ancient World:
Don Delillo, The Names: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/39031/the-names-by-don-delillo/
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