There are numerous references to plants used by goddesses and gods to heal or enchant, within Greek Myth, and the names of many of these plants have been incorporated into the Latin binomials that are used to identify them. The first physicians…
Neither Julian Hoffman nor Sofka Zinovieff are originally from Greece and yet they’ve both devoted a large part of their careers to writing and thinking about this country. Between them, they’ve explored it in novels, nonfiction, short stories, podcasts and essays. One lives in Athens, the other in Prespa…
Based on the ancient technique of mosaics, the conversation between the Director of the BSA Prof Rebecca Sweetman (expert on ancient mosaics) and Visual Artist Christina Nakou approaches concepts such as making, wear, durability, corporeality and transformation to highlight the importance of the inclusion…
The BSA is delighted to host the Michael Marks Awards and its winning poets who stay at the BSA for a week as part of the programme. This year’s poets in residence are Ben Verinder, the Environmental Poet of the Year 2024, and Professor Paul O’Prey, winner of the Publisher Award 2024 (Dare- Gale press), who will give readings at the BSA Upper House.
The paper will explore the diaspora as an actor seeking to gain agency in Greek American relations. We aim to identify the characteristics of this community, its institutional identity and how it evolves over time, the extent and ways it intervenes within both Greek and American political elites…
In this paper I shall discuss Plotinus’ views on causation of and in the sensible sphere—by “the sensible sphere” I mean the physical world around us. The main focus is on the question whether all causes are ultimately mental and, if so, what conclusions can be drawn from that about Plotinus’ ontology. Is he a dualist with respect to the mind and the body? Or is he perhaps…
his presentation explores the institutional and political context of the Wehrmacht’s Kunstschutz (‘Art Protection’), established in 1941 following the conquest of Crete, through archival testimonies and the case studies of two young archaeologists, August Schörgendorfer and Ulf Jantzen. Recruited under the guise of protecting…
It was probably sometime in 1941 or early 1942 when İzmet İnönü, the second president of the Turkish Republic, summoned the minister of national education, Hasan Ali Yücel who confirmed – as İnönü had suspected – that Byzantine topics were not taught at the university level in the young Turkish Republic. Yücel was asked to immediately remedy the situation…
During the Second World War, more than four-fifths of Greece’s Jewish population, including ninety-five per cent of Thessaloniki’s 50,000 Jews, were murdered in Nazi concentration camps. That war…
In the long nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire promulgated not one but four regulations on antiquities: the first one in 1869, the second one in 1874, the third one in 1884 and the final one in 1906. These regulations reflected…