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Professor Lin Foxhall (University of Liverpool), “Re-imagining ancient Greek landscapes“
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 and locations. Survey archaeology...
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...
In Aristophanes’ Acharnians (33-36), Dikaiopolis expresses his nostalgia for the good old days in the Attic countryside when no one ever used the word ‘buy’ and the land produced everything he needed. This passage has been used by several scholars as evidence that the market played only a peripheral role in the lives of Greek farmers. This assumption has also led scholars like Möller and Osborne to assert that there is no evidence for...
Archaeology in the Ottoman Aegean: Consuls – Culture – Commerce
How did local communities contribute to archaeology in the 19th and early 20th centuries? What were the connections between Ottoman officials, international diplomats, and competing curators? And what was the role of the antiquities market in stimulating intellectual developments? These are some of the questions this panel discussion will explore, bringing together historians and archaeologists to discuss the relationship between...
Recent years have seen an increasing application of models derived from the cognitive sciences to the study of ancient religious experience. In particular, specific models are being drawn from the theoretically pluralist field of the Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) in order...
This 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...
Professor Polly Low (Durham University), “Towards a new history of ancient Greek empire(s)”
Can we talk of ’empire’ when studying the behaviour of Greek states in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE? Does using this terminology clarify or obscure our understanding of how states and individuals behaved, and how they understood their behaviour? These questions...
Dr Angela Paine, “Healing Plants of Greek Myth”
There are numerous references to plants used by goddesses and gods to heal or enchant, within Greek Myth, and the names of many of these plants have been incorporated into the Latin binomials that are used to identify them. The first physicians...
Professor Lin Foxhall (University of Liverpool), “Re-imagining ancient Greek landscapes“
Dr Lorenzo Calvelli (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), “A View from Athens. Reassessing Cyriac of Ancona’s Vita and Commentaria”
Professor Edward Harris (Durham University), “A New Approach to the Attic Countryside: Markets in the Demes”
Archaeology in the Ottoman Aegean: Consuls – Culture – Commerce
Ben Cassell (BSA/King’s College London), “The Aiora and Thesmophoria: Cognitve, embodied and psychological approaches”
Professor Nicoletta Momigliano (University of Bristol), “Mal d’Archive/Archive Fever (some reflections on Sinclair Hood’s archive at the British School at Athens)”
Professor Polly Low (Durham University), “Towards a new history of ancient Greek empire(s)”
Dr Angela Paine, “Healing Plants of Greek Myth”