Two Classics students presented posters at the Oklahoma Archaeology Conference on March 5th. Ella Fried presented her research in which she uncovered an ancient conspiracy by the Emperor Vespasian. She mapped the movement of information presented by the Roman historian Tacitus, and she was able to demonstrate how Vespasian's rise to power was the result of coordinated action rather than an organic movement. Lilianna Laney's poster examined her research into a medieval Byzantine "hand grenade" now held in the permanent collection of the Sam Noble Museum.
