Bust of Pericles, Roman copy, Vatican Museums, wikicommons BSA Friends' lecture Professor Paul Cartledge (AG Leventis Senior Research Fellow Clare College Cambridge), 'Pericles: Statesman, Demagogue, Eccentric' Abstract: Pericles ‘All-round Famous’ is one of the greatest ‘names’ of the ancient Greek world. His name has become a derivative adjective: ‘Periclean Athens’, even ‘Periclean Greece’. But given […]
Award-winning pamphlets Poetry Readings: Michael Marks Awards Hasti (winner of the Poetry Pamphlet Award 2026) and Patrick Romero McCafferty (winner of the Environmental Poetry Pamphlet Award 2026) 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 […]
Athens Archaeology Festival 2026 17th October 2026 11:00-16:00 Location: British School at Athens The Athens Archaeology Festival is a free, interactive celebration of archaeology that brings together researchers, organisations, and the public through hands-on workshops, creative activities, and live experiences. Hosted at the British School at Athens, the festival invites audiences of all ages to […]
Conference Roman Pottery in the South-Eastern Balkans: From Production to Distribution The conference focuses on local pottery production during the Roman period in the southern and south-eastern regions of the Balkan Peninsula, particularly within the Roman provinces of Thrace, Moesia Inferior, Dacia, and Macedonia. Across these regions, numerous pottery workshops have already been identified, producing substantial quantities of wheel-made […]
Aerial view of Gyaros, the infamous and lonely island of exile. By Olaf Tausch - Own work, CC BY 3.0, BSA Friends' lecture Dr Huw Halstead (Dr Huw Halstead), 'Loneliness and Solitude in the Colonels’ Greece, 1967-1974' Abstract: In this paper, I offer a quiet history of the Colonels’ regime in Greece (1967-1974) by focusing […]
