Janus: A Door to Understanding — Presentation Detail — Celebration of Scholars

Instructions

Student presentations must have a faculty sponsor.

Abstracts must include a title and a description of the research, scholarship, or creative work. The description should be 150-225 words in length and constructed in a format or style appropriate for the presenter’s discipline.

The following points should be addressed within the selected format or style for the abstract:

A clear statement of the problem or question you pursued, or the scholarly goal or creative theme achieved in your work.
A brief comment about the significance or uniqueness of the work.
A clear description of the methods used to achieve the purpose or goals for the work.
A statement of the conclusions, results, outcomes, or recommendations, or if the work is still in progress, the results you expect to report at the event.

Presenter photographs should be head and shoulder shots comparable to passport photos.

Additional Information

More information is available at carthage.edu/celebration-scholars/. The following are members of the Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Committee who are eager to listen to ideas and answer questions:

Jun Wang
Kim Instenes
John Kirk
Nora Nickels
Andrew Pustina
James Ripley

Janus: A Door to Understanding

Name: Richard Ward
Major: Classical Archaeology
Hometown: Tinley Park
Faculty Sponsor:
Other Sponsors:
Type of research: Course project

Abstract

The project Janus: A Door to Understanding is a research based project geared towards looking deeper into the Janus as a god during Roman times and understanding how his history as a god influenced people of this time period in numerous aspects of life. This project is an attempt to combine many different ideas and evidences into a description that is as cohesive and complete as possible given what is already known of Janus. The culmination of these many ideas into a solid understanding is hard to find, given all of the separate aspects of the gods and how they were portrayed both in public and private settings. The project will be accomplished by using as many resources as possible on the subject matter and finding evidence from artifacts and writings to support generalized ideas and theories of this god. This will entail using archived works and possibly outreaching to specialists in the field of mythology to confirm certain facts about Janus. Then, the information will be analyzed and put into a suitable format showing the different parts of Janus as he was seen during the Roman period. I expect to be able to present a presentation on all the accepted aspects of Janus and show how he was constantly related to lifestyles, religious actions, and societal policies.