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SUMMARY:Pericles: Statesman\, Demagogue\, Eccentric
DESCRIPTION:Bust of Pericles\, Roman copy\, Vatican Museums\, wikicommons \nBSA Friends’ lecture\nProfessor Paul Cartledge (AG Leventis Senior Research Fellow Clare College Cambridge)\, ‘Pericles: Statesman\, Demagogue\, Eccentric’\nAbstract: \nPericles ‘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 the available evidence – literary (Thucydides\, Plutarch)\, epigraphical\, and material-cultural (the building programme) – have his overall achievement and legacy been correctly assessed? In this lecture using the same title as his recent book Paul Cartledge will re-examine his illustrious career under three main subtitular rubrics: statesman (did Thucydides get that right?)\, demagogue (was Pericles really so different from his rival would-be ‘leaders of the demos’?) and eccentric (just how odd were his public-facing career and private life?). \nBio: Paul Cartledge has published solo and jointly over 30 books\, the latest Pericles: Statesman\, Demagogue\, Eccentric (Reaktion Books\, 2026) in the series he edits ‘Great Lives of the Ancient World’. Prof. Cartledge first joined the BSA as a Student in 1970 and is a longstanding Friend. He is a Commander of the Order of Honour (Hellenic Republic) and an Honorary Citizen of Sparta. He holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Thessaloniki and Thessaly. \nHybrid event \nRegistration links available soon.\n\nPlease do consider a donation to the Friends’ Lectures here: https://www.bsa.ac.uk/donate/ \nWe suggest £10 if you are a BSA Supporter\,  £15 otherwise. Please quote “Friends Lecture” in the Additional Comments field. Thank you for your generosity!
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/pericles-statesman-demagogue-eccentric/
LOCATION:Room 264 Senate House\, London\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Loneliness and Solitude in the Colonels’ Greece\, 1967-1974
DESCRIPTION:Aerial view of Gyaros\, the infamous and lonely island of exile. By Olaf Tausch – Own work\, CC BY 3.0\, \nBSA Friends’ lecture\nDr Huw Halstead (Dr Huw Halstead)\, ‘Loneliness and Solitude in the Colonels’ Greece\, 1967-1974’\nAbstract: \nIn this paper\, I offer a quiet history of the Colonels’ regime in Greece (1967-1974) by focusing on times and spaces in which people found themselves alone under dictatorial rule. Drawing on oral testimonies\, I explore both experiences of loneliness and practices of solitude. I discuss how dictatorial regimes cultivate popular loneliness both directly (through means such as exile\, imprisonment\, or solitary confinement) and indirectly (by polluting the social bonds that tie people together). At the same time\, I also demonstrate the capacity for bottom-up practices of solitude to push back against this imposed loneliness\, to create distance between the individual and dictatorial power\, and even to strengthen social bonds despite dictatorial interference. \nBio: Dr Huw Halstead is Lecturer in Public History in the School of History\, Classics\, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on memory\, public history\, and everyday life. He is author of the book Greeks without Greece: Homelands\, Belonging\, and Memory amongst the Expatriated Greeks of Turkey (Routledge\, 2019) and co-editor of the book Miniatures: A Reader in the History of Everyday Life (University of Exeter Press\, 2025. \nOnline only. \nRegistration link available soon.\n\nPlease do consider a donation to the Friends’ Lectures here: https://www.bsa.ac.uk/donate/ \nWe suggest £10 if you are a BSA Supporter\,  £15 otherwise. Please quote “Friends Lecture” in the Additional Comments field. Thank you for your generosity!
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