Jonathan Migliori is a British-American archaeologist and educator from Rhode Island. He concentrated in Archaeology, Medieval Cultures, and Classics at Brown University. He holds an MA in Archaeology from the University of Durham, where he wrote his dissertation on rural settlement and the Euphrates frontier in Roman Syria and is also a member of the Senior Common Room of University College. He also studied in Rome and has participated in archaeological excavations in Rhode Island and Ostia Antica.

After graduate school, he joined the ancient art department at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, where he worked on the reinstallation of the museum’s ancient Egyptian collection, lectured all ages, wrote for the blog, and developed curricular materials for local schools. Currently he teaches Latin at The Wheeler School in Providence, RI.

Ancient Mediterranean
“The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus”
“Pompeii and Herculaneum: Cities Frozen in Ash”
“The Forum Romanum: Layers of History”
“The Religious Landscape of Ancient Rome”
“Bread and Circuses: Gladiators and Spectacle in Ancient Rome”
“Oracles and Olympics: The Religious Landscapes of Ancient Greece”
“The Persian Wars and the Rise of Athens”
“The Acropolis: The Heart of Athens”
“The Real Trojan War”
“The Palaces of Minoan Crete”
“Alexander’s Empire”
“The Life, Death, and Afterlife of King Tutankhamen”
“After the Pharaohs: Egypt in the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Periods”
“The Pyramids of Giza"

Ancient and Medieval Northern Europe
“Old English Literature: Beowulf and Beyond”
“The Norman Conquest”
“Skalds and Sagas: The Literature of the Vikings”
“Silent Stones: Decoding Orkney’s Megaliths”
“The Jarls of Orkney and Shetland”
“Hadrian’s Wall: The End of an Empire”
“The Ancient Celts: Britain’s Not-So Mysterious Past’
“Norse Colonization of the North Atlantic”
“Viking Religion”
“Mysteries of the Bog Bodies”

Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean
“Dante’s Florence”
“Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire”
“The World of Da Vinci and Michelangelo”
“Medici Florence”
“Bernini and Borromini: Baroque Rome”
“The Crusades”
“Constantinople: Jewel of an Empire”
“Venice’s Empire"

Viking
Into the Midnight Sun: London to Bergen; July 1–14, 2017, Viking Sky; Guest Speaker
Into the Midnight Sun: London to Bergen; July 14–28, 2018; Viking Star; Resident Historian
Viking Homelands: Bergen to Stockholm; July 28–August 11, 2018; Resident Historian

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