Disasters, whether natural or anthropogenic, can be drivers of landscape and cultural change. The Late Bronze Age Thera eruption was one of the largest natural disasters witnessed in human history. Its impact, consequences, and timing, has dominated the discourse of ancient Mediterranean studies for nearly a century.
Since the Athens riots of 2008, Greece has experienced serious episodes of violence with clear political connotations. Framed as a fight against austerity, an expression of anti-immigrant stances or an anti-establishment struggle, political violence has reached unprecedented levels.
That some second-century figures under the broad umbrella of Second Sophistic entertained nativist conceptions of Hellenicity is not news as such. Dio of Prusa was not only a fairly outspoken critic of the Roman rule, but saw the utility of using physiognomic readings as a tool of invective;
Dr Mairi Gkikaki (University of Warwick / The Open University of Cyprus), “Tokens in Late Classical and Hellenistic Athens” Abstract Although, symbola, the Greek term for tokens, are first attested […]
BSA Friends’ Lecture Prof. Bill Cavanagh, “Kouphovouno and the story of Lakonia 6000-1600 BC” Abstract: Early farmers settled at Kouphovouno, just south of Sparta, around 5,800 BC, one part of the […]
A flythrough of the architectural plan for the renovated BSA Knossos Research Centre. After almost a century of activity, the BSA Knossos Research Centre needs urgent renovation and updating to […]
BSA Friends’ Lecture Series Prof. Thomas Gallant (University of California, San Diego), Historical and Contemporary Archaeology in Greece Abstract: The fields of Historical Archaeology and Contemporary Archaeology are well-established globally, yet they have […]
Dr Mary Ikoniadou (University of Central Lancashire / BSA, Early Career Fellow), “Periodical publishing: images, texts and materiality in processes of constructing, performing and (re)claiming the nation in Cold War […]
Dr Anna P. Judson speaks about her research at the British School at Athens on how the clay tablets, used to write records in the Linear B writing system in […]
Georgios Karyotis (University of Glasgow), “Culture Wars? Affective Polarisation and Emerging Political Cleavages in Crises-Ridden Greece” Discussant: Manos Matsaganis (Polytechnic University of Milan) Research series on Modern Greek Studies organised […]