To most visitors, the restorations of the site of Knossos are the site’s most distinguishing feature. Begun under the direction of Sir Arthur Evans during his first season of excavation in 1900, work to restore, stabilize and/or save the architecture and built spaces of the palace has remained …
Since the earliest days of modern travel to Greece, landscape and the rural environment have been an object of fascination among foreign visitors. A preoccupation with ancient ‘topography’ and ‘picturesque’ views are familiar tropes in images produced by travellers, and the nostalgic sense that rural Greece offers….
Aristotle Onassis is the most famous shipowner of the 20th century, the archetype and image of the shipowning magnate, the symbol of Greek enterprise on a global scale. He created the shipping business of the new global era, which…
This lecture presents a synopsis of my doctoral thesis that aimed to examine the architectural and depositional complexity of the best documented tholos cemeteries in south-central Crete during…
In the corpus of inscriptions from Delos during the Second Athenian Domination (167/6 – 88 BCE), we come across various formal and informal groups associated with the island’s athletic education institutions.
Dispilio by Kastoria Lake is Greece’s first systematically excavated wetland site. It contains waterlogged wooden piles, C14 dated to the 6th millennium BCE at a density of almost 1000 piles per 500 square metres.
UAL Research Resident Artist Tina Rowe will talk about the residency and the ways that this experience has evolved her approach to her PhD.
Translation and the sound of ancient Greek music: The second of two panel discussions exploring how the sounds of Greek poetry influence their modern translation into both words and music.
The world of Neopalatial Crete was visually rich; it was also a literate world. Yet these two categories, as we define them, never combine in the same field.
Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens, Tuesday 6th February 2024, King’s College London.