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Robert Littman, MLitt., PhD is a Professor of Classics at the University of Hawaii. He is a specialist in the languages, history and archaeology of the ancient world particularly in Greece and Egypt. Educated at Oxford and Columbia Universities, he has been a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Dec 17, 2021 · World renowned scholar in Greek history and literature, ancient medicine and archaeology Robert Littman celebrated 50 years at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in September. Littman was recruited by UH in 1971 and is a professor in the College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature ( CALL ).
- A Life of Digging
- An Ancient Manufacturing Center
- Is It Really Cleopatra’s Perfume?
- Recreating An Ancient Scent
Littman, a professor of Classics at UH Manoa, is a world renowned scholar in Greek history and literature, ancient medicine, and archaeology. By the age of 14, Littman had read the entirety of Homer’s work (in Greek), and went from washing dishes in a commercial kitchen for 60 cents an hour, to tutoring college students in calculus when he was 15 y...
Spices were imported from all over the world to Mendes, Littman said, including from India, Arabia and Africa, making Mendes a major center of the perfume trade from about 300 B.C. to about 800 A.D. During the third century B.C., the ancient city of Thmouis produced a perfume, which was named after the main city and called the Mendesian perfume. Th...
Silverstein believes the residue could come from a Mendesian, or another type of perfume such as a Metopian or Kyphi. “I strongly suspect that it’s one of those three, but I wouldn’t commit to any one at this point,” Silverstein sad, “It could even be that the residue may contain elements of all three if they reused the pots, you know — today we’re...
Goldsmith, who Littman contacted after the residue was uncovered, was brought on to the research team to recreate the Mendesian perfume. By collaborating with Sean Coughlin, a historian of Greco-Roman philosophy and science at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, the two experimented with different materials, ingredients, and approaches – one p...
Apr 19, 2022 · Thousands of years have passed since anyone knew what Cleopatra’s perfume smelled like, but University of Hawaii professor Robert Littman hopes he’ll know for certain soon. The archeology of smell: Behind this UH professor’s ongoing quest for Cleopatra’s perfume | Features | manoanow.org
Robert LITTMAN | Professor and Chair of Classics, Director Tell Timai Excavation | M.Litt., Ph.D. | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Hawaii | UH Manoa | LLEA | Research profile. About....
Apr 25, 2022 · April 25, 2022. Member Spotlight: Robert Littman. This month, we’re excited to spotlight Robert Littman of the Hawaii Society. Robert is a Professor of Classics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Director of the Tell Timai Archaeological Project in Egypt.
Director. Tell Timai Archaeological Project. Website. About. Robert Littman is an American classicist, biblical scholar, ancient historian and archaeologist. He is currently Professor of Classics at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and Director of the Tell Timai Excavations Timai El Amdid Egypt.
