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SUMMARY:Lorenzo Calvelli\, "A View from Athens. Reassessing Cyriac of Ancona’s Vita and Commentaria"
DESCRIPTION:The west pediment of the Parthenon after Cyriac of Ancona \nVisiting Fellow Lecture\nDr Lorenzo Calvelli (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)\, “A View from Athens. Reassessing Cyriac of Ancona’s Vita and Commentaria”\nAbstract: This lecture will explore the manuscript tradition and the discoveries of Cyriac of Ancona\, the fifteenth-century Italian humanist\, merchant and traveller who is often regarded as the earliest pioneer of modern epigraphy and archaeology. It will first trace the history of Cyriac’s Commentaria de rebus antiquis — a vast corpus of travel journals once comprising several volumes\, now almost entirely lost but echoed in later manuscript sources. Through these documents\, it will be possible to understand how Cyriac’s observations on ancient monuments and inscriptions circulated among humanists and shaped the study of classical antiquity for centuries. The second part will reconstruct Cyriac’s first visit to Athens in April 1436\, when he recorded dozens of inscriptions and monuments — from the Parthenon and the Tower of the Winds to the choragic monuments of Lysicrates and Thrasyllos — capturing the appearance of a city that has since been transformed. The talk will conclude by taking the audience on a journey through fifteenth-century Athens\, rediscovering the city through the eyes of its first modern witness. \nBio: Lorenzo Calvelli is an Associate Professor of Ancient History at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice\, where he leads the Laboratory of Latin Epigraphy and coordinates the Research Institute for Digital Cultural Heritage. A specialist in the writing cultures of the ancient world\, his research focuses on the manuscript transmission of inscriptions and on their reuse as spolia\, both material and conceptual\, including the production of forgeries. He has explored the classical past of Venice and Cyprus by examining the Roman conquest of the island and the reappropriation of its antiquities in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. On these topics\, he has published two books: Cipro e la memoria dell’antico (2009) and Il tesoro di Cipro (2020). A former research fellow of the universities of Harvard (Villa I Tatti)\, Princeton and Oxford\, he has taught in Heidelberg\, London\, Paris\, Poitiers\, Rome\, Sydney and Warwick. Co-founder and co-editor of the diamond open-access journal History of Classical Scholarship\, he is committed to promoting the values of the classics and of the humanities in today’s global world from both an interdisciplinary and a decolonising perspective. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a member of the International Association of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. \nHybrid lecture \nTo attend in-person in Athens\, please register HERE \nTo attend online via webinar\, please register HERE
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/lorenzo-calvelli-a-view-from-athens-reassessing-cyriac-of-anconas-vita-and-commentaria/
CATEGORIES:Visiting Fellow Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20251110T180000
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SUMMARY:Nicoletta Momigliano\, "Mal d’Archive/Archive Fever (some reflections on Sinclair Hood’s archive at the British School at Athens)"
DESCRIPTION:Sinclair Hood as BSA Director (1954-62). © BSA \nVisiting Fellow Lecture\nProfessor Nicoletta Momigliano (University of Bristol)\, “Mal d’Archive/Archive Fever (some reflections on Sinclair Hood’s archive at the British School at Athens)”\nThis lecture presents some reflections stemming from current research on the Royal Road excavations that were carried out by Sinclair Hood at Knossos between 1957 and 1961. The focus is on the rich Hood Archive\, which was recently moved from his home in Oxford to the British School at Athens\, and the remarkable research opportunities it offers. \nbio: Nicoletta Momigliano is Professor of Aegean Studies at the University of Bristol. A graduate of the University of Pisa and University College London\, she specialises on the archaeology and reception of Minoan Crete. She has directed and co-directed archaeological projects in Crete and Turkey\, including excavations at Knossos and Palaikastro\, and field surveys in Lycia.  She has published many articles and books on these subjects. Her 2020 book In Search of the Labyrinth: the Cultural Legacy of Minoan Crete was longlisted for the Runciman prize and shortlisted for the European Archaeological Association prize. Her most recent volume (published in 2024) is Aegeomania: modern reimaginings of the Aegean Bronze Age. \nTo attend in person in Athens\, please register HERE \nTo attend online via Zoom webinar\, please register HERE \nHybrid lecture
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/nicoletta-momigliano-mal-darchive-archive-fever-some-reflections-on-the-sinclair-hoods-archive-at-the-british-school-at-athens/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Visiting Fellow Lecture
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SUMMARY:Theodora Jim\, "Thinking through Greek and Chinese gods from a comparative perspective"
DESCRIPTION: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. \nVisiting Fellow Lecture\nDr Theodora Jim (University of Nottingham)\, “Thinking through Greek and Chinese gods from a comparative perspective”\nAbstract: Contrary to the tendency to study ancient Mediterranean religions in isolation from religions in the Far East\, this talk brings together for the first time two world polytheistic systems: ancient Greece and premodern China. It embraces Marcel Detienne’s call to ‘compare the incomparable’. In this seminar I will think through the key features of the Greek and Chinese deities from a comparative perspective. The central question is: how did worshippers in two major polytheistic traditions imagine\, experience\, and represent the gods as they confronted the unknown and unknowable? I will look at the wide-ranging power of the gods in the Greek and Chinese pantheons on the one hand\, and worshippers’ religious beliefs\, practices and experience of worshippers on the other. I hope also to shed light on the Greek and Chinese religious worldviews and perceptions of their gods\, and ultimately to open up new questions for the study of both fields. \nBio: Theodora Jim is an Associate Professor in Ancient Greek History at the University of Nottingham in the UK. An ancient historian specializing in the religion and culture of ancient Greece\, she is interested in worshippers’ religious beliefs and lived experience and the comparative study of different polytheistic systems. As Visiting Fellow at the BSA in 2024/2025\, she is conducting research for a book on comparing Greek and Chinese polytheism. Her work makes extensive use of epigraphic and literary evidence\, and engages with anthropological approaches. She is the author of Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece (Oxford\, 2022) and Sharing with the Gods: Aparchai and Dekatai in Ancient Greece (Oxford\, 2014). She is the Principal Investigator of a Leverhulme-funded project comparing Greek and Chinese polytheism and a holder of the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Classics 2021. \nIn-person only lecture. \nTo attend in-person in Athens\, please REGISTER here
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/theodora-jim-thinking-through-greek-and-chinese-gods-from-a-comparative-perspective/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Visiting Fellow Lecture
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SUMMARY:Eva Mol\, "Myth\, matter\, and the making of the Mediterranean"
DESCRIPTION:Davelis cave\, Pentelli\, Athens. Photo: Eva Mol \nBSA Visiting Fellow lecture\nDr Eva Mol (University of York)\, “Myth\, matter\, and the making of the Mediterranean”\nAbstract: 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 of mythologies\, the types of knowledge and historicities generated from the interaction between myth and material culture\, and the effect that this interaction had on historical processes. We all know of Troy of course\, but there are many more of such entanglements to find. The project departs from the view that it is important to take the worlds in which ancient people and communities believed in myths and legends seriously. In this way I hope to add further knowledge to the making of Mediterranean history\, alterity in the ancient world\, and to archaeological imagination. Among others\, case studies are on work done at the BSA: caves on the north slope of the Acropolis hill and so-called baetylus stones: sacred stones that were considered alive or representing deities.  \nBio: Eva Mol is a lecturer in Roman Archaeology at the University of York\, she is specialised in Greco-Roman religion\, Roman slavery\, and (digital) archaeological imagination. As Visiting Fellow at the BSA in 2024\, she is working on her next book project about myth and archaeology in the Mediterranean. \nPlease note: this lecture will not be recorded. \n  \nHybrid lecture\, 16:00 (UK) / 18:00 (Greece)  \nPlease register here to attend online via Zoom webinar. No registration required for in-person attendance.
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/eva-mol-myth-matter-and-the-making-of-the-mediterranean/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Visiting Fellow Lecture
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SUMMARY:Jane Rempel\, '“Home to an original and distinctive form of Hellenism”: Athenian exports and Black Sea burials'
DESCRIPTION:Image:  Minns\, E.H. 1913. Scythians and Greeks. Cambridge\, p. 300. \nDr Jane Rempel (University of Sheffield / BSA Visiting Fellow)\, ‘“Home to an original and distinctive form of Hellenism”: Athenian exports and Black Sea burials’ \nAbstract \nIn an overview of the Greek cities in the Black Sea\, Stanley Burstein (2006:150) described the region as “…home to an original and distinctive form of Hellenism.” Of the many factors impacting the development of poleis in the Black Sea\, the role of Athens is one that has long received attention due to the rich evidence for trade\, diplomatic and cultural exchanges between the two regions\, particularly in the late Classical period. This paper presents ongoing research into the evidence for import and consumption of Athenian goods in Black Sea burials\, especially highly decorated and plastic pottery vessels and sculpture. In particular it will present the evidence for Attic and ‘Atticizing’ grave stelai in the Black Sea and establish their context and patterning (iconographic\, chronological\, geographic). This will be considered in conjunction with the more copious evidence for local Black Sea stelai traditions that have been argued to draw on Athenian traditions in various ways. This analysis argues that consumption of Attic stelai and their associated funerary imagery was selective\, driven by prosperous and heterogeneous elite markets in the Black Sea. \nBurstein\, S. 2006. The Greek cities of the Black Sea. In K.H. Kinzl (ed.) A companion to the classical Greek world\, 137-152. Oxford: Blackwell. \nPlease register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fx_Qeim7R-mnV59DSSABZw \nVirtual lecture \nMonday 14th March\,  5.00pm (UK) / 7.00pm (Athens)
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/jane-rempel-home-to-an-original-and-distinctive-form-of-hellenism-athenian-exports-and-black-sea-burials/
CATEGORIES:Visiting Fellow Lecture
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SUMMARY:Maria Pretzler\, "Herodotus and the foundation of the Peloponnesian League"
DESCRIPTION:Dr Maria Pretzler (University of Swansea / BSA Visiting Fellow 2020-21)\, “Herodotus and the foundation of the Peloponnesian League” \nPlease register here to participate: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rBSPQmpNRSaAtTToZAjaxA \nAbstract \nHerodotus 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 often more raises more questions than it answers. As part of my work on the Peloponnesian League I assess Herodotus’ account in its wider context\, considering alternative evidence for the development of communities in the peninsula. This paper will also consider how developments in the fifth-century Peloponnese shaped the narrative: apart from Sparta\, Argive and Tegean perspectives seem to have had a particular impact. The result is a new history of the beginnings of the Peloponnesian League\, and perhaps also a better understanding of how Herodotus compiled his account.  \nMonday 17th January\,  5.00pm (UK) / 7.00pm (Athens)
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/maria-pretzler-herodotus-and-the-foundation-of-the-peloponnesian-league/
CATEGORIES:Visiting Fellow Lecture
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20200427T210000
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SUMMARY:Mike Edwards\, "Places in the Attic Orators: a philologist and his topography"\, Virtual Lecture.
DESCRIPTION: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 these places remains uncertain\, but often where a place was may have a direct bearing on the text or argument of a passage. In this lecture I will focus on the location of three demes\, Paiania\, Holargos and Besa\, which are among the thirty-two demes mentioned in the speeches of the fourth-century orator Isaios and which\, in very different ways\, were the motivating factors of my project on Places in the Attic Orators as the BSA’s Visiting Fellow for 2020. \nPlease note that this lecture will take place at 5pm (UK) / 7pm (Greece) \nYou can participate in the lecture online via Zoom.\nAttendance is limited to the first 500 people registered\, so please sign-up early via the following link to avoid disappointment:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5315875619430/WN_3leG4-sfS6amW3FN4Dfg8Q\n\n** Interest in attending this lecture has been large and we understand that many have been turned away once the initial limit of 100 was reached.  We have just opened the lecture up to up to 500 attendees\, so if you were unable to register\, please try again using this link:
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/places-in-the-attic-orators/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Visiting Fellow Lecture
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SUMMARY:Mike Edwards\, "Places in the Attic Orators: a philologist and his topography" - POSTPONED
DESCRIPTION:Professor Mike Edwards (Honorary Research Fellow\, Royal Holloway\, University of London / Visiting Fellow\, BSA)\, “Places in the Attic Orators: a philologist and his topography”
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/mike-edwards-places-in-the-attic-orators-a-philologist-and-his-topography/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Library\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Visiting Fellow Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20190403T190000
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SUMMARY:Gonda Van Steen\, "Adoption\, Memory\, and Cold War Greece"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Gonda Van Steen (King’s College London)\, “Adoption\, Memory\, and Cold War Greece”
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/gonda-van-steen-adoption-memory-and-cold-war-greece/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Library\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Visiting Fellow Lecture
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CREATED:20180925T091704Z
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SUMMARY:Dr Ralph Wilde\, "On the refugee 'crisis'and international law"
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URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/dr-ralph-wilde-on-the-refugee-crisisand-international-law-12/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Visiting Fellow Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160307T190000
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DTSTAMP:20260517T000506
CREATED:20180925T091628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181003T091755Z
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SUMMARY:Dr Alexandra Villing\, "Mortaria and Mediterraneanisation?  Reconsidering the role of kitchen pottery in Archaic Greek trade and exchange"
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URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/dr-alexandra-villing-mortaria-and-mediterraneanisation-reconsidering-the-role-of-kitchen-pottery-in-archaic-greek-trade-and-exchange-12/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Library\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Visiting Fellow Lecture
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