Sinclair Hood as BSA Director (1954-62). © BSA Visiting Fellow Lecture Professor Nicoletta Momigliano (University of Bristol), "Mal d’Archive/Archive Fever (some reflections on Sinclair Hood’s archive at the British School at Athens)" This lecture presents some reflections stemming from current research on the Royal Road excavations that were carried out by Sinclair Hood at Knossos […]

Artemis holding two long torches, 4th century B.C., Megara. National Archaeological Museum of Athens. NM 4540. Photo by George E. Koronaios (22 July 2018) via Wikimedia Commons, shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence. Visiting Fellow Lecture Dr Theodora Jim (University of Nottingham), "Thinking through Greek and Chinese gods from a comparative perspective" Abstract: Contrary to […]

Davelis cave, Pentelli, Athens. Photo: Eva Mol BSA Visiting Fellow lecture Dr Eva Mol (University of York), “Myth, matter, and the making of the Mediterranean” Abstract: The lecture will share work in progress on my current project about myth and materiality. It focuses on the roles that objects and physical locations played in the creation […]

Image:  Minns, E.H. 1913. Scythians and Greeks. Cambridge, p. 300. Dr Jane Rempel (University of Sheffield / BSA Visiting Fellow), '“Home to an original and distinctive form of Hellenism”: Athenian exports and Black Sea burials' Abstract In an overview of the Greek cities in the Black Sea, Stanley Burstein (2006:150) described the region as “…home to […]

Dr Maria Pretzler (University of Swansea / BSA Visiting Fellow 2020-21), "Herodotus and the foundation of the Peloponnesian League" Please register here to participate: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rBSPQmpNRSaAtTToZAjaxA Abstract Herodotus is our main source for the political history of the Peloponnese and especially the beginnings of the Peloponnesian League. Often the Histories offer the only available information, and yet, his account […]

Hundreds of places in Athens and Attica, and more broadly in Greece and across Europe, are referred to in the speeches of the Attic Orators, the canon of ten speechwriters and politicians from the fifth and fourth centuries BC. Among them are demes and sanctuaries, buildings and even walls. The precise location of many of […]