{"id":170,"date":"2022-11-09T16:51:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T21:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.classics.sites.carleton.edu\/clas220ancientafrica\/?page_id=170"},"modified":"2023-01-04T19:49:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T00:49:52","slug":"front-page-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dh.classics.sites.carleton.edu\/clas220ancientafrica\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Page"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:600\">Students in &#8220;African Perspectives in the Ancient Mediterranean&#8221; engaged with a variety of evidence throughout the course, from Pharaonic literature to Ptolemaic iconography. The visual essays below touch upon a number of themes that were central to our class discussions, but overwhelmingly try to answer the following question: how did African cultures define identity, and how were those identities expressed, oppressed, or transformed over time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);min-height:365px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-60 has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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