Delphi © Prof. Lin Foxhall. UK Friends' lecture Professor Lin Foxhall (University of Liverpool), "Re-imagining ancient Greek landscapes" Abstract: Ancient Greek landscapes were both like and unlike those we see today. Landscapes are dynamic and change over time, sometimes very rapidly. The human relationships within local communities linked together a variety of urban and rural spaces […]
International Symposium Celebrating 200 Years of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man Mary Shelley’s third published novel, The Last Man (1826), tells of a great plague which exterminates the human race at the end of the twenty-first century, just as the Greek Revolution reaches its long-postponed conclusion with the conquest of Constantinople. In what many critics […]
Philippos Margaritis, A Greek Lady, c.1855, Th. Theodorou Collection Book presentation Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters The event will feature three talks presenting the book Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters recently published by Routledge in the British School at Athens—Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies Series. The volume examines the […]
Panel discussion Panel 1: Translation and the Magnitude of Historical Figures: Homer, Lorca and Seferis Co-hosted with the Cyprus High Commission in London Chair: Gonda Van Steen Panel: Dimitra Kotoula, Andry Christofidou-Antoniadou, Jennifer Kellogg, Afroditi Athanasopoulou Dimitra Kotoula: ‘The Smile of Astyanax: Working with Homer’ My contribution to this workshop consists of posing questions, rather […]
The translator of Athens Tales with the city in the background, photo credit: Andrew Spyrou Friends of the BSA Greece lecture Joshua Barley, ‘Athens Tales’ Book Presentation Recently published by Oxford University Press, Athens Tales is an anthology of Greek writing about the city, from the late nineteenth century to today. The book brings together […]
Annual Open Lectures 2026 London --- Please note: updated venue and time --- Please join us for the Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens on Tuesday 3rd February at 6 pm which will be held at the Great Hall, King's College London, Strand, WC2R 2LS. A reception will follow from 7.30pm […]
Panel discussion Panel 2: Translation and the Magnitude of Historical Figures: Michalis Ganas and Translation Co-hosted with Aiora Press in Athens Chair: David Ricks Panel: John Stathatos, Vassilis Letsios, Joshua Barley Chair: David Ricks Unusually among modern Greek poets Michalis Ganas (1944-2024) was not a translator. Yet his poems have had a second life in many languages, […]
Annual Open Lectures 2026 Thessaloniki Please join us for the Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens on Tuesday 17th February 2026 at 7 p.m. The lecture will take place in the Cast Gallery of the Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The Work of the British School at Athens in 2025 […]
Annual Open Lectures 2026 Athens Please join us for the Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens on Thursday 19th February 2026 at 7 p.m. which will be held at the Archaeological Society (Lecture Hall), 22 Panepistimiou Street, Athens. The Work of the British School at Athens in 2025 Professor Rebecca Sweetman BSA […]
View of the Staphylos peninsula, Skopelos, credit: ASkoS Project Upper House Seminar Professor Peter Pavúk (Charles University), "Central Greece at the dawn of the Mycenaean Age and the role of contacts to the North" Abstract: The transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age in the Argolid is commonly defined by the Shaft Graves […]
Atlantis https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_landscape_of_Atlantis.jpg Philosophy Seminar Professor Alex Long (University of St Andrews), "The city-cosmos contrast in Plato’s Timaeus and Critias" Abstract: Plato’s Timaeus and Critias offer a puzzling combination of cosmology and the political quasi-history of ancient Athens and Atlantis. Previous discussions have taken Plato’s aim to be naturalizing the political theory or likening political lawgivers […]
Mercy Money-Coutts at Knossos, Crete, 1937, PEN/7/2/6/667, John Pendlebury Family Papers © British School at Athens. 4th workshop on Women in the Archaeology of Greece Call for papers - Women Archaeologists and War When: 09 & 10 March 2026 Where: EFA conference room | Didotou 6, Athens & British School at Athens | Upper House Organised by the École […]
image credit: Giulio Lucarini & Toby Wilkinson BSA Friends' lecture Professor Cyprian Broodbank (University of Cambridge), 'The Emergence of Civilisation', and the Maghreb Hybrid event
The Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies and the British School at Athens are pleased to announce a Colloquium which will focus on the life and work of Richard M. Dawkins, Director of the British School at Athens (1906 to 1914) and the first occupant of the Bywater and Sotheby Chair of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature at the University of […]
Mosaic pavement showing the Horae from a villa in Patras. 2nd – 3rd c. CE. Archaeological Museum of Patras Upper House Seminar Dr Nikki Vellidis (BSA Cary Student), "Reading Myth on the Mosaics of Imperial Era Greece" Hybrid lecture Please note: this event will not be recorded
