How to make a Linear B Tablet
Dr Anna P. Judson speaks about her research at the British School at Athens on how the clay tablets, used to write records in the Linear B writing system in […]
Videos – Page 8 – British School at Athens
Culture Wars? Affective Polarisation and Emerging Political Cleavages in Crises-Ridden Greece
Georgios Karyotis (University of Glasgow), “Culture Wars? Affective Polarisation and Emerging Political Cleavages in Crises-Ridden Greece” Discussant: Manos Matsaganis (Polytechnic University of Milan) Research series on Modern Greek Studies organised […]
Self-sufficiency in Aristotle and others: what’s so good about Autarkeia
Professor Lesley Brown (University of Oxford), “Self-sufficiency in Aristotle and others: what’s so good about Autarkeia?” Abstract Self-sufficiency – autarkeia – is a familiar Greek cultural value, and one of […]
Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Renaissance
Dr John Sellars (Royal Holloway, University of London) The Renaissance saw the rise of a group of intellectuals, interested in a wide range of subjects, often labelled ‘Humanists’. These figures […]
Scribal Training in Mycenaean Pylos
Dr Anna Judson (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, British School at Athens) At least 30 people are known to have written administrative documents in the Mycenaean palace of Pylos immediately before its […]
Sons of Albyn, Daughters of Greece
Sons of Albyn, Daughters of Greece: Scottish Tales and Greek Continuities Dr Vassiliki Kolocotroni (University of Glasgow) Abstract: Twenty years after his controversial involvement in the Greek political scene in […]
Reframing Metapolitefsi – Transitions and Identity
Professor Dimitris Tziovas (University of Birmingham), “Reframing Metapolitefsi: Transitions and Identity” Abstract The event aims to offer a new perspective on the period from junta to crisis based on the new […]
Athens – City of Wisdom
Abstract: Author, Journalist and Lecturer, Bruce Clark discusses his latest book with Prof. Bettany Hughes (Historian, Author and Broadcaster) and Dr John Kittmer (Former British Ambassador to Greece). In the words […]
Home to an original and distinctive form of Hellenism
“Home to an original and distinctive form of Hellenism”: Athenian exports and Black Sea burials Dr Jane Rempel (University of Sheffield / BSA Visiting Fellow) Abstract: In an overview of […]
The Greeks – A Global History
Distinguished historian and BSA Chairman Prof. Roderick Beaton (KCL) discusses his latest book with Prof. John Bennet (Director, BSA), Prof. Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge), Bruce Clark (Author, Journalist and […]