Name: Profs & Pints Richmond: Witches of Antiquity
Start: 2026-10-26
End: 2026-10-26

Upscale pub grub. Late-night service, open mic nights, and live music.

Poe's Pub

Honey Baked Bee! Small local bakery in RVA that uses local honey in dessert and breakfast pastries!

Honey Baked Bee

Authentic Philly cheese steaks in the heart of RVA!

Str8 Out of Philly

Richmond's landmark eatery, established 1989, is one of Richmond's most unusual and welcoming spots for a cozy dinner or a quick tasty lunch. Housed in an old 'diner' in Richmond's Tobacco Row/Church Hill historic district, Millie's is a comfortable, friendly place....lunch is frequented by local ad agencies, the downtown business crowd, tourists, and locals....dinner is much-loved by loyal locals, neighbors in Church Hill and Shockoe, out of town business visitors and young professionals. A warm, inviting atmosphere, a tiny open kitchen, creative cuisine, knowledgeable staff and an ever-changing menu are hallmarks of Millie's and have given it an amazing national reputation for twenty five years now. An international, diverse and moderately priced wine list adds to Millie's assets and while you enjoy a nice bottle, you can even dial up some great music on their vintage table side jukeboxes. Vintage atmosphere, modern food and comfort set Millie's apart from the rest! Millie's is famous for their bustling weekend brunches on Saturday and Sundays, it's a must for any visitor who wants to have some fun and great creative brunch fare! www.milliesdiner.com

Millie's Diner

The Hill Café located in Historic Church Hill offers delicious neighborhood "comfort" foods in a cozy setting. Nightly "Blue Plate" specials, a broad selection of wines & beer and friendly service make The Hill Café a great spot to eat, drink and enjoy the neighborly atmosphere.

Hill Café

The result of a public/private partnership, landscapes in Great Shiplock Park and the Low Line have been transformed into inviting and exciting public green space. Concerned citizens lead the efforts through a group known as Capital Trees. Most recent efforts have created a linear park along a critically important but neglected stretch of the Kanawha Canal and Virginia Capital Trail. Now dubbed the “Low Line”, with a nod to New York City’s High Line, the site connects a recently enhanced Great Shiplock Park (GSP) with Richmond’s much-loved Canal Walk. The great lock, built between 1850-1854, connected the James River with the Richmond Dock, completing the James River and Kanawha Canal system that bypassed seven miles of falls and continued 197 miles through Virginia’s western mountain ranges. This park is the lowest of historic Kanawha Canal locks with an interpretive display.It also offers great fishing off Chapel Island.

Great Shiplock Park and the Low Line

Coffee café and restaurant in Richmond’s Church Hill neighborhood that also offers coffee beans to go by the pound.

Riverbend Roastery

We're excited to bring church hill all sorts of fun sandwiches! Marinated sliced pork loin, roasted garlic broccoli rabe, banana pepper relish, provolone and so much more!

Chimbo Sandwich Shoppe

Tiny Space is a hidden retail constellation located in the historic Church Hill neighborhood of Richmond, VA, emphasizing handpicked and handmade items.

Tiny Space

Curated, used only vinyl shop with frequent new arrivals. appointments available through the week. Always buying collections of all sizes.

Records & Relics RVA

We’re a community of runners, hikers, bikers and ballplayers. We’re an outdoor playground, designed by Mother Nature, with class III and IV rapids running right through our downtown. A 52-mile bike trail runs along the James. The Richmond Marathon and Ukrop’s 10k are huge celebrations, and the whole region comes out to cheer on our local teams. In fact, we’re so sports-minded that the Washington Redskins have their training camp right in the center of the city. Add to that awesome hotels, beautiful venues, attractions, art, craft beer, more than 900 restaurants and a convenient location, and you’ve got a top choice for your next sports event. Welcome to RVA!

From indoor to outdoor facilities, the Richmond region has the fields, pitches, diamonds, venues and the dedicated staff to ensure your event is a huge success. 



Sports Richmond, VA

Profs and Pints Richmond presents: “Witches of Antiquity,” on the sorceresses of ancient Greece and Rome, with Barbette Stanley Spaeth, professor emerita of classical studies at William & Mary and scholar of magic and the supernatural in the ancient world.  
  
Seductive enchantress. Murderous sorceress. Corpse-mangling hag. The witches of the ancient world were among antiquity’s most vivid and disturbing characters.   
  
Get to know some of antiquity’s most unforgettable women with the help of Barbette Stanley Spaeth, who last year gave fantastic Profs and Pints talks on ancient magic and ancient terrors of the night.  
  
We’ll spend time with Homer’s beautiful Circe, Euripides’ passionate Medea, and Horace’s sinister Canidia. You’ll encounter Lucan’s terrifying Erictho, a witch so powerful she could raise the dead and force even the gods to obey her.  
  
Along the way, we’ll ask why the image of the witch changed so dramatically as it traveled from Greece to Rome. Greek writers often imagined witches as beautiful, alluring, and sometimes even helpful. Roman authors, on the other hand, increasingly portrayed them as ugly, lustful, dangerous old women. What can these frightening figures tell us about ancient attitudes toward magic, women, sexuality, and power?  
  
The answers take us beyond spells and potions into some of the deepest anxieties of the ancient world, about women who possessed power, men who feared losing it, and what might happen when accepted boundaries—between male and female, human and divine, living and dead, and even order and chaos—began to break down.  
  
For over thirty years at William & Mary and Tulane University, Dr. Spaeth taught courses on ancient magic and the supernatural. She has published several studies of ancient witchcraft and is currently working on a book on the subject. Her talk is sure to leave you spellbound. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.)  
  
Image: From “Circe Offering the Cup to Odysseus,” an 1891 painting by John William Waterhouse (Gallery Oldham / Public Domain).

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