For Immediate Release		 				April 30, 1996
 
Ancient Olympic Games Revisited in Lawrence University Archaeology Lecture
 
 
	APPLETON, WIS. - The sites and spirit of the original Olympic games will
be revisited in Professor Daniel J. Taylor's entertaining and lavishly
illustrated lecture/slide presentation, "Olympia and the Olympic Games: 776
B.C.-1996 A.D." Tuesday, May 7 at Lawrence University. The presentation, at 7:30
p.m. in the Wriston Art Center Auditorium, is free and open to the public.
	Through slides and expert commentary, Taylor's program tours the site of
the ancient Olympic games, examines some of the visual evidence of the original
contests themselves and explains why the Olympic games weren't then, and are not
today, just another sporting event.
	One of the world's foremost authorities on Roman scholar Marcus Varro,
Taylor has been a member of the Lawrence University classics department since
1974.  He earned his bachelor's degree in classics at Lawrence in 1963 and his
Ph.D. in classics at the University of Washington.        
 
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