The influences of Indian culture on Greek civilization about 2,000 years ago is the topic of the next free Brown Bag Lunchtime Lecture at Wake Forest University s Museum of Anthropology Thursday, Feb. 13. Jeffrey D. Lerner, visiting assistant professor of history, will present a slide lecture on the inscriptions of Ashoka, an Indian king in Greek-ruled Kandahar in southeast Afghanistan. He will also discuss how this Greek outpost community lost its Greek ethnicity and became part of Indian civilization. Brown Bag Lunchtime Lectures are regular features of the museum s adult programming.
Admission is free.
The museum is located behind the track stadium on the Wake Forest campus. For information, call the museum at 759-5282.