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Amid the recent popularity of fiction inspired by Greek mythology, authors Claire Heywood, Jennifer Saint, and Susan Stokes-Chapman discuss the opportunities and challenges which come with retelling ancient myths for a modern audience. Are the original myths expanded......
Professor Amy Smith “Redressing Aphrodite on Sir William Hamilton’s Meidias hydria”
In anticipation of the Meidias hydria’s first return to Athens since its unspecified journey to Etruscan shores in antiquity, Professor Smith reevaluates the message of the Meidias hydria, with a focus on its central figure...
SOE, the Special Operations Executive, was established in July 1940 when Britain’s fortunes, following the Dunkirk evacuation, were at their lowest ebb. It is sometimes suggested that Britain at this juncture stood alone against the might of the Axis but Britain was able to call on the resources of the
The main aim of this seminar is to discuss the ceramic material from Evans’s stone-lined rubbish pits’ deposits, i.e. the Kouloures Deposits, which have been published to some extent in MacGillivray’s book Knossos Pottery Groups of the Old Palace Period (1998). The three West Court Kouloures were constructed....
The Treaty of Lausanne (1923) and its impact on the Muslim population of Crete
More than any other population group, the Muslims who left Crete epitomise the trauma and paradoxes of the 1923 population exchange. They were intensely attached to the island, monoglot in Greek, and shared a material culture with their Christian neighbours. While thousands of Muslims had already left the island in the preceding decades...
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 This popular view no longer represents archaeological reality.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...
Panel Discussion chaired by Prof Edith Hall, “Mythical Retellings: Reimagining the women of Greek Myth”
Professor Amy Smith “Redressing Aphrodite on Sir William Hamilton’s Meidias hydria”
Richard Clogg, “Cousins and allies?: the Special Operations Executive and the Office of Strategic Services in Greece”
Minoan Seminar, “The three West Court Kouloures at Knossos: between the First and Second Palace periods”
The Treaty of Lausanne (1923) and its impact on the Muslim population of Crete
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”