Holy Ancient Comic Strip, Batman!

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Telling stories in comic book or graphic novels isn’t new—ancient Romans had their own version in the Tabulae Iliacae—but what scholar David Petrain learns from them is. Petrain, assistant professor of classics, is studying the group of 22 carved stone plaques which date to the early Roman empire and tell the story of the Trojan War in picture and texts. Petrain will use a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities grant to show that the Tabulae actually represent a method by which Rome rewrote and presented history.

photo credit: David Petrain