The Friends of the Adelphi University Library will hold its 13th Annual Fall Art Lecture with art historian and popular lecturer from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Elizabeth Kessler-Dimin, who will speak on "New Greek and Roman Galleries" on Sunday, November 2, at 3:00 p.m. in Adelphi's Ruth S. Harley University Center Ballroom, 1 South Avenue, Garden City. The event is free and open to the public. Following the event, a drawing will be held for family passes to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

At her first appearance at Adelphi, Ms. Kessler-Dimin will discuss the museum's collection of Greek and Roman art. This slide-illustrated lecture will feature highlights from the museum's new Hellenistic, South Italian, Etruscan, and Roman galleries, a wing housing some 5,400 objects in more than 30,000 square feet of space. The Roman works of art, from the Late Republican period and the Golden Age of the reign of the first emperor Augustus to the conversion of the emperor Constantine the Great in A.D. 312, help tell the story of the rise of Rome. Roman artworks include the museum's stunning Roman wall paintings, found in ancient villas at Boscoreale and Boscotrecase near Pompeii, which form a collection unprecedented outside of Italy. Roman portrait sculpture, as well as architectural reliefs and luxurious objects of silver, glass, mosaic, and cameo stone, also form part of the rich collection.

The event is sponsored by the Friends of Adelphi University Library. Founded in 1947, this organization aims to build up a greater realization of the importance of the library to the future development of the University.

For more information about this and other events on campus, please visit www.adelphi.edu, or call the Cultural Events Hotline at (516) 877-4555.