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…
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.
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.
BSA Friends’ Lecture Throughout the history of Minoan studies scholars have felt that there was something distinctive about the way that Minoans depicted people. Arthur Evans and the first generation […]
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…
Michalis Sotiropoulos (BSA 1821 Fellow in Modern Greek Studies) Abstract: To what extent can the digital transformation of an archive enhance, or even change, our understanding of Philhellenism and its […]
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 …
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 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 …
This Afterlife, poems that explore Greek mythology, classical reception, ancient and modern Greece, and the diachronic strata of the city of Athens, as well as …