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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...
Looking at Byzantium through materials: the case of stucco (ca 850-1453)
In 1890, Robert W. Schultz and Sydney Barnsley spent two months at the monastery of Hosios Loukas, documenting the byzantine remains of the monastery on behalf ...
Roads and resources on Archaic/Classical Samos
By the end of the sixth century BC, and particularly under the tyrant Polykrates, the island of Samos had grown into one of the most prominent naval powers in the East Aegean region.
In Search of the Greek and Roman agricultural economies in Epirus during the early Imperial period
In the ancient world different farms and country houses existed. Some have held the spotlight, like villas that proliferated in Roman times, and as a result ...
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
Looking at Byzantium through materials: the case of stucco (ca 850-1453)
Roads and resources on Archaic/Classical Samos
In Search of the Greek and Roman agricultural economies in Epirus during the early Imperial period