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James Whitley, “The Rocky Heart of Crete: From the Hellenistic to the ‘Minoan’”
n the popular imagination, Crete is indelibly associated with the ‘Minoans’, and the Minoans have little to do with later Cretan history or archaeology. This popular view no longer represents archaeological reality. Since the 1990s there has been increasing emphasis...
Philippa Steele, “The vitality of writing traditions in the Bronze Age Aegean and Iron Age Cyprus”
The syllabic writing systems of Bronze Age Greece and Iron Age Cyprus (with particular focus on Linear A, Linear B and the Cypriot Syllabic script) did not survive to the modern day. This lecture poses the question of...
Prof. Tony Spawforth, ‘The Athenian Family of Herodes Atticus and the Spartan Contest of Endurance’
This talk introduces the Sparta of Roman times, before focusing on a new Greek inscription from Sparta published last year by Georgios Steinhauer. The talk argues that this inscription records acclamations shouted by spectators at lads competing in the...
Prof. John Wilkes & Dr Susan Walker, “Sparta: a suitable place for the British archaeologist”
John Wilkes and Susan Walker consider the British engagement with the idea of Sparta as an ancient city and the urban reality as revealed by excavation in the 1980s and 1990s of the Roman Stoa and Theatre on the south side of the Acropolis.
Graham Shipley, “Space and place in early Hellenistic and Classical Messenia”
In this lecture I plan to outline some developing reflections on Classical and early Hellenistic Messenia as a dynamic landscape, attempting to apply concepts such as regionality, civic territories, and routes as well as certain geographical notions explored by the late Yi-Fu Tuan.
Joshua Whitaker, Artist Researcher in Residence: ‘Acid History‘
Acid History’ is neither a record of psychedelic culture nor a catalogue of LSD experience. ‘Acid’ is deployed within the seminar, as Jeremy Gilbert has theorised it, as an adjective— a term that is both mystical in its practice and adamant in its materialism...
Dr Matthew Haysom, “Men, Women and Others in Minoan Iconography”
James Whitley, “The Rocky Heart of Crete: From the Hellenistic to the ‘Minoan’”
Philippa Steele, “The vitality of writing traditions in the Bronze Age Aegean and Iron Age Cyprus”
Prof. Tony Spawforth, ‘The Athenian Family of Herodes Atticus and the Spartan Contest of Endurance’
Prof. John Wilkes & Dr Susan Walker, “Sparta: a suitable place for the British archaeologist”
Graham Shipley, “Space and place in early Hellenistic and Classical Messenia”
Joshua Whitaker, Artist Researcher in Residence: ‘Acid History‘
Revolutionising the archives: The BSA George Finlay collection, the Greek Revolution and the digital condition