Books by Vassilis Evangelidis
Oxbow publications, 2022
Macedonia is a region that provides its own intriguing questions due to its position on the fring... more Macedonia is a region that provides its own intriguing questions due to its position on the fringe of the classical Greek world. It is also an area which is of special interest to students of history and archaeology of Roman period Greece since it was the first to be incorporated in the Roman state. Macedonia shared a similar path of development with Achaea during the imperial period. As provinces far from productive zones and frontiers, both played a minor role in the imperial administrative structure. Beneath this similarity, however, lie many di erences: in Macedonia's proximity to the Balkans, its early contact with Rome, its relatively low level of urbanization, its multicultural context and its sizeable economy, which played their own role in the formation of the urban and rural environments. With a focus on elements of the built environment and human habitat, this book examines old and new archaeological evidence to present a concise overview of the archaeology of the area and develop a better perception of the region in terms of archaeology of the built environment, architecture and architectural influences, urbanization and use of land and resources from the 2nd century BCE to the early 4th century CE. Driven by a set of key questions that are addressed through the archaeological evidence, the book explores key issues in understanding the archaeology of the area, like the role of architectural tradition and innovation, the interdependency between practical bases of architecture and socio cultural aspects, the exploitation of local resources, and the role of external influences. Special importance is given to the interaction of Greek, Roman and local cultures and the ways that the formation of the built environment eventually led to the assimilation of ideas from East and West in terms of workmanship, use of materials, design and function.
The study examines the development of the main public space of the Greek cities and roman colonie... more The study examines the development of the main public space of the Greek cities and roman colonies during the imperial period. Emphasis is given to the romanization process and how this was reflected in architecture and spatial design.
In: What's New in Roman Greece? Recent Work on the Greek Mainland and the Islands in the Roman Period, edited by V. di Napoli, F. Camia, V. Evangelidis, D. Grigoropoulos, D. Rogers & S. Vlizos, pp. xiii-xxviii. Athens: NHRF, 2018
What’s New in Roman Greece? Recent Work on the Greek Mainland and the Islands in the Roman Period. Proceedings of a Conference held at Athens, 8-10 October 2015, 2018
At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a f... more At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a friendship alliance. By the end of the first century AD the city had been incorporated into the Roman province of Achaea. Along with Athenian independence perished the notion of Greek self-rule. The rest of Achaea was ruled by the governor of Macedonia already since 146 BC, but the numerous defections of Greek cities during the first century BC show that Roman rule was not yet viewed as inevitable.
In spite of the definitive loss of self-rule this was not a period of decline. Attica and the Peloponnese were special regions because of their legacy as cultural and religious centres of the Mediterranean. Supported by this legacy communities and individuals engaged actively with the increasing presence of Roman rule and its representatives. The archaeological and epigraphic records attest to the continued economic vitality of the region: buildings, statues, and lavish tombs were still being constructed. There is hence need to counterbalance the traditional discourses of weakness on Roman Greece, and to highlight how acts of remembering were employed as resources in this complex political situation.
The legacy of Greece defined Greek and Roman responses to the changing relationship. Both parties looked to the past in shaping their interactions, but how this was done varied widely. Sulla fashioned himself after the tyrant-slayers Harmodius and Aristogeiton, while Athenian ephebes evoked the sea-battles of the Persian Wars to fashion their valour. This interdisciplinary volume traces strategies of remembering in city building, funerary culture, festival and association, honorific practices, Greek literature, and political ideology. The variety of these strategies attests to the vitality of the region. In times of transition the past cannot be ignored: actors use what came before, in diverse and complex ways, in order to build the present.
Available open access at: https://www.sidestone.com/books/strategies-of-remembering-in-greece-under-rome-100-bc-100-ad
Advances in Physarum Machines Adamatzky A. (ed.)
Presentation of the book "What's New in Roman Greece? Recent Work on the Greek Mainland and the I... more Presentation of the book "What's New in Roman Greece? Recent Work on the Greek Mainland and the Islands in the Roman Period", edited by V. Di Napoli, F. Camia, V. Evangelidis, D. Grigoropoulos, D. Rogers, S. Vlizos.
Proceedings of the international conference held in Athens (8-10 Oct. 2015), ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 80, Athens 2018.
With the participation of: Sophia Kremydi (NHRF - IHR), Valentina Di Napoli (Roman Seminar research group), Kristina Winther-Jakobsen (Danish Institute at Athens) and Pavlina Karanastassi (University of Crete).
Venue: the Italian Archaeological School at Athens, Parthenonos 14-16, Athens, Greece.
At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a f... more At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a friendship alliance. By the end of the first century AD the city had been incorporated into the Roman province of Achaea. Along with Athenian independence perished the notion of Greek self-rule. The rest of Achaea was ruled by the governor of Macedonia already since 146 BC, but the numerous defections of Greek cities during the first century BC show that Roman rule was not yet viewed as inevitable.
In spite of the definitive loss of self-rule this was not a period of decline. Attica and the Peloponnese were special regions because of their legacy as cultural and religious centres of the Mediterranean. Supported by this legacy communities and individuals engaged actively with the increasing presence of Roman rule and its representatives. The archaeological and epigraphic records attest to the continued economic vitality of the region: buildings, statues, and lavish tombs were still being constructed. There is hence need to counterbalance the traditional discourses of weakness on Roman Greece, and to highlight how acts of remembering were employed as resources in this complex political situation.
The legacy of Greece defined Greek and Roman responses to the changing relationship. Both parties looked to the past in shaping their interactions, but how this was done varied widely. Sulla fashioned himself after the tyrant-slayers Harmodius and Aristogeiton, while Athenian ephebes evoked the sea-battles of the Persian Wars to fashion their valour. This interdisciplinary volume traces strategies of remembering in city building, funerary culture, festival and association, honorific practices, Greek literature, and political ideology. The variety of these strategies attests to the vitality of the region. In times of transition the past cannot be ignored: actors use what came before, in diverse and complex ways, in order to build the present.
Available open access at: https://www.sidestone.com/books/strategies-of-remembering-in-greece-under-rome-100-bc-100-ad
Papers by Vassilis Evangelidis
AURA 7, 2024
Over the past two decades, there has been a surge of interest in applying spatial concepts and te... more Over the past two decades, there has been a surge of interest in applying spatial concepts and techniques in archaeology, underscoring the versatility of GIS technology as a crucial asset for humanities. The focus of this paper is to present an overview of GIS applications in the archaeology of North Greece, specifically highlighting the endeavors of the AeGIS Laboratory of Archaeological GIS (http://aegis.athenarc.gr/). The exploration spans from intra-site analysis and data management, exemplified by the Aristotle University excavation in Karabournaki, to macro-scale investigations, such as studying the interplay between environment and settlements in Aegean Thrace. The paper also delves into the integration of GIS data with game engines, such as Unity 3D, for reconstructing and exploring movement and visibility in archaeological landscapes. Emphasizing the theoretical complexity of these spatial tools, the authors argue that, as familiarity with GIS and game engines grows in the archaeological community, these systems, particularly open-source GIS, offer an invaluable and adaptable toolbox. As archaeologists themselves, they contend that platforms like GIS and Unity 3D possess the potential to evolve into heuristic devices, aiding in challenging assumptions and framing insightful archaeological inquiries. The collaborative and open nature of these tools facilitates customization to suit the diverse requirements and preferences of archaeologists.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Roman and Late Antique Thrace Conference "Conflicts and Catastrophes in Roman and Late Antique Thrace" (Burgas, 12th – 16th October 2020), 2024
The increase in recent years of studies stressing the impacts of natural disasters, pandemics or ... more The increase in recent years of studies stressing the impacts of natural disasters, pandemics or conflicts on ancient societies indicates the significant effect that these had on cultural histories. Thus, the ability of ancient societies to adapt successfully to catastrophic features of their natural and man-made environment in a sustainable fashion becomes elementary in any attempt to understand change and development. The south part of ancient Thrace, the main passage towards the East, had its own shares of catastrophes either these were natural events or human-made destructions. Floods, pandemics, earthquakes, conflicts are beginning to be recognized as key factors within the process of cultural evolution and in the shaping of the environment. The overall aim of this article is to critically examine the role (direct or indirect) of extreme catastrophic events (natural processes or results of conflicts) in the area of Aegean Thrace in causing change, reaction, contraction in the settlement strategy of the area during the Imperial period.
Θ’ Συμπόσιο Θασιακών Μελετών, «Η Θάσος δια μέσου των αιώνων: Ιστορία, Τέχνη, Πολιτισμός», Θάσος 29 Σεπτεμβρίου-1 Οκτωβρίου 2023, 2024
Στην αυγή του 21ου αιώνα οι χώροι πολιτισμού προσπαθούν να ανταποκριθούν στην ολοένα και αυξανόμε... more Στην αυγή του 21ου αιώνα οι χώροι πολιτισμού προσπαθούν να ανταποκριθούν στην ολοένα και αυξανόμενη ανάγκη παρουσίας τους στον ψηφιακό κόσμο. Μπορεί η ανάγκη αυτή να έγινε εντονότερη την περίοδο της πανδημίας, ωστόσο είναι πλέον εμφανές ότι η υποχώρηση της υγειονομικής κρίσης δεν συνεπάγεται και επιστροφή στην προτεραία κατάσταση. Βασισμένοι στα διδάγματα του πρόσφατου παρελθόντος, οι φορείς που διαχειρίζονται πολιτιστικά αποθέματα κινούνται όλο και περισσότερο προς τη λογική μιας υβριδικής, όσο και πλουραλιστικής προσέγγισης του κοινού στο οποίο απευθύνονται. Η Θάσος με το πλούσιο πολιτιστικό της απόθεμα δεν μπορεί να αποτελέσει την εξαίρεση. Η πολιτιστική κληρονομιά της Θάσου, που καλύπτει χρονικά μια τεράστια περίοδο από την προϊστορική εποχή μέχρι και τα χρόνια μετά την ενσωμάτωση του νησιού στο ελληνικό κράτος, αποτελεί σημαντικό κεφάλαιο, η ψηφιακή ανάδειξη του οποίου μπορεί να έχει πολλαπλά οφέλη για την τοπική κοινωνία. Το σύγχρονο ψηφιακό αποτύπωμα του πολιτιστικού αποθέματος του νησιού είναι, βέβαια, διακριτό, αλλά εστιάζει σε συγκεκριμένους άξονες. Εντοπίζεται κυρίως στη δραστηριότητα επίσημων φορέων πολιτισμού, ενώ ιδιαίτερο ενδιαφέρον παρουσιάζουν οι αναρτήσεις ιδιωτών με ποικίλα κίνητρα και στόχους. Στο πλαίσιο αυτό, αντικείμενο της ανακοίνωσης είναι να χαρτογραφήσει το υπάρχον ψηφιακό αποτύπωμα της Θάσου με στόχο να τεθούν οι βάσεις για εμβάθυνση στο συγκεκριμένο θέμα, να αναδειχθούν κενά και ανάγκες, να εντοπιστούν αλληλεπικαλυπτόμενες προσπάθειες και να αναζητηθούν προτάσεις που να αναδεικνύουν τις προοπτικές της ψηφιακής ανάδειξης του πολιτιστικού αποθέματος του νησιού. Βασικός οδηγός στη διερεύνηση αυτή θα είναι οι ψηφιακές ανθρωπιστικές επιστήμες (digital humanities) που προσφέρουν ένα ευρύ φάσμα ψηφιακών εργαλείων και έχουν ένα επίσης μεγάλο πεδίο εφαρμογών.
The early establishment of Roman power and control in Macedonia in the second century bce brought... more The early establishment of Roman power and control in Macedonia in the second century bce brought about significant changes in the traditional land-owning schemes and site hierarchy. After the turbulent late Hellenistic period, the stabilization of financial and social conditions under the Roman Empire allowed the continuation of urban and rural growth. Old and new cities gradually incorporated all the features that characterized Roman urban life like the provision of high-quality services, functionality and monumentality, while in the countryside next to the traditional agricultural, pastoral, or mining communities new villae rusticae appeared as a dominant feature of the rural landscape. Although the formation of the provincial landscape followed a similar path with Achaea, many differences, like Macedonia's proximity to the Balkans, its early contact with Rome, its relatively lower level of urbanization, and the presence of different cultural contexts, might have played their own role in the process we conventionally call Romanization.
New Directions in the Archaeology of Roman Greece: Connectivity, Interaction and Innovation,” at... more New Directions in the Archaeology of Roman Greece: Connectivity, Interaction and Innovation,” at the British School at Athens from Wednesday, May 15th to Friday, May 17th, 2024.
The main goal of this conference is to integrate the research on Greece during the Roman Empire and Greece's position within the wider Roman Mediterranean into the current Roman archaeology scholarship while actively engaging with the conceptual agenda of interconnectivity, identities, and social inequalities. The conference aims to explore how new networks of connectivity and mobility impacted Greek communities amidst the economically, socially, and politically changing climate brought by the Roman Empire. Sixteen papers, presented across three days, will bring together different perspectives on the effects of connections, exchange, and innovation in the region in terms of commodity flow, demography, foodways, religious interaction, social dynamics, and cultural transformations. With a strong focus on cutting-edge approaches, the conference seeks to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue, challenge existing paradigms, and stimulate fresh perspectives on the complex interplay between global connections and local innovations in Roman Greece during this dynamic period. Opening keynote lecture: Prof. Greg Woolf (UCLA) Only Disconnect. Resisting the Deep History of Roman Greece.
Proceedings of the Third International Roman and Late Antique Thrace Conference “Roads, Communica... more Proceedings of the Third International Roman and Late Antique Thrace Conference “Roads, Communication and Mobility”, Komotini, 18 – 21st October 2018, edited by Chryssa Karadima, Domna Terzopoulou, Marina Tasaklaki, Maria Chryssaphi
BULLETIN OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY XLIX 2022
Proceedings of the Fourth Internation... more BULLETIN OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY XLIX 2022
Proceedings of the Fourth International Roman and Late Antique Thrace Conference (RaLATh)
"Conflicts and Catastrophes in Roman and Late Antique Thrace" (Burgas, 12-16 October 2020
Greek Cities in a Roman world: features, trends and changes of the built environment in Roman Gre... more Greek Cities in a Roman world: features, trends and changes of the built environment in Roman Greece. A short introduction on the Romanization/"Romanization" of Roman Greece (terms and anti terms) in Congress on Romanization 15 – 17/12/2017, Institut fur Klassische Archaologie, Heidelberg
Experiencing the Landscape in Antiquity 2 (BAR-IS 3107), edited by A. Cristilli, F. De Luca, G. Di Luca, A. Gonfloni, 2022
Being, among others, a social construction, landscape has been associated with identity. From our... more Being, among others, a social construction, landscape has been associated with identity. From our perspective, landscapes mirror identities generated by features and qualities providing a sense of belonging. Landscape and identity are tightly bounded in a feedback loop. The case of Aegean Thrace with the sharp difference between the Rhodope Mt and the coastal plain, is thought to have created cultural zones where Greeks and Thracians coexisted for centuries. This unique environment favoured the development of a special cultural milieu that continued until the imperial years. Nonetheless, just like other provincial contexts, Aegean Thrace has been quite often interpreted in economic terms, without giving much effort to trace the ideology of landscape. This paper aims to demonstrate how local rural groups organized ritual burial and residential landscapes to project a series of identities, as well as the contribution of these landscapes to the formation of local identities.
Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente 99.1,, 2021
Aegean Thrace, the long strip of land that stretches between the river Nestos and Hebrus fell int... more Aegean Thrace, the long strip of land that stretches between the river Nestos and Hebrus fell into the grasp of Roman power almost immediately after the submission of Macedonia in 168 BC. The intricate relationships of Rome with the Greek cities along the North Aegean coast and the rivaling royal Thracian houses (relationships that ranged from the exercise of brute force to the production of different alliances and the support of a Thracian client kingdom) are well documented and long known to historiography. As elsewhere the impact of Rome has been regarded to have had a tremendous effect on the organization of the area with changes in the existing hierarchies. The question of course is how this impact is manifested in terms of archaeology (especially through features like via Egnatia). What changes did the advent of Rome bring in the settlement pattern and the rural landscape of this culturally diverse area, which in many aspects was radically different from that of central and southern Greece, the core of the ancient Greek cities? Tumuli, open air sanctuaries, native settlements, megalithic monuments and rock cut graves, strongholds and enceintes along with more conventional Greek type sites belonging (or influenced) to the coastal Greek cities like Abdera or Maroneia dotted a landscape that was dominated by the Rhodope range in the north and the alluvial plain in the south. Despite the great variety of features, there are significant gaps in the knowledge of this landscape. For many years the academic interest was mainly focused on the Greek colonies on the littoral and only limited research (by some of the pioneers in the archaeology of the area like D. Triantaphyllos) has been conducted which tried to bring to the surface the wide range of different types of rural sites. The aim of the paper is to present an overview of the rural landscape of the area, discuss issues regarding site typology, site hierarchy and identification problems but also to examine to what degree this multivariate environment
changed over the late republican and imperial period .
THIASOS 2020, n. 9.2 IN SOLO PROVINCIALI Sull’architettura delle province, da Augusto ai Severi, tra inerzie locali e romanizzazione a cura di Giuseppe Mazzilli, 2020
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Books by Vassilis Evangelidis
In spite of the definitive loss of self-rule this was not a period of decline. Attica and the Peloponnese were special regions because of their legacy as cultural and religious centres of the Mediterranean. Supported by this legacy communities and individuals engaged actively with the increasing presence of Roman rule and its representatives. The archaeological and epigraphic records attest to the continued economic vitality of the region: buildings, statues, and lavish tombs were still being constructed. There is hence need to counterbalance the traditional discourses of weakness on Roman Greece, and to highlight how acts of remembering were employed as resources in this complex political situation.
The legacy of Greece defined Greek and Roman responses to the changing relationship. Both parties looked to the past in shaping their interactions, but how this was done varied widely. Sulla fashioned himself after the tyrant-slayers Harmodius and Aristogeiton, while Athenian ephebes evoked the sea-battles of the Persian Wars to fashion their valour. This interdisciplinary volume traces strategies of remembering in city building, funerary culture, festival and association, honorific practices, Greek literature, and political ideology. The variety of these strategies attests to the vitality of the region. In times of transition the past cannot be ignored: actors use what came before, in diverse and complex ways, in order to build the present.
Available open access at: https://www.sidestone.com/books/strategies-of-remembering-in-greece-under-rome-100-bc-100-ad
Proceedings of the international conference held in Athens (8-10 Oct. 2015), ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 80, Athens 2018.
With the participation of: Sophia Kremydi (NHRF - IHR), Valentina Di Napoli (Roman Seminar research group), Kristina Winther-Jakobsen (Danish Institute at Athens) and Pavlina Karanastassi (University of Crete).
Venue: the Italian Archaeological School at Athens, Parthenonos 14-16, Athens, Greece.
In spite of the definitive loss of self-rule this was not a period of decline. Attica and the Peloponnese were special regions because of their legacy as cultural and religious centres of the Mediterranean. Supported by this legacy communities and individuals engaged actively with the increasing presence of Roman rule and its representatives. The archaeological and epigraphic records attest to the continued economic vitality of the region: buildings, statues, and lavish tombs were still being constructed. There is hence need to counterbalance the traditional discourses of weakness on Roman Greece, and to highlight how acts of remembering were employed as resources in this complex political situation.
The legacy of Greece defined Greek and Roman responses to the changing relationship. Both parties looked to the past in shaping their interactions, but how this was done varied widely. Sulla fashioned himself after the tyrant-slayers Harmodius and Aristogeiton, while Athenian ephebes evoked the sea-battles of the Persian Wars to fashion their valour. This interdisciplinary volume traces strategies of remembering in city building, funerary culture, festival and association, honorific practices, Greek literature, and political ideology. The variety of these strategies attests to the vitality of the region. In times of transition the past cannot be ignored: actors use what came before, in diverse and complex ways, in order to build the present.
Available open access at: https://www.sidestone.com/books/strategies-of-remembering-in-greece-under-rome-100-bc-100-ad
Papers by Vassilis Evangelidis
The main goal of this conference is to integrate the research on Greece during the Roman Empire and Greece's position within the wider Roman Mediterranean into the current Roman archaeology scholarship while actively engaging with the conceptual agenda of interconnectivity, identities, and social inequalities. The conference aims to explore how new networks of connectivity and mobility impacted Greek communities amidst the economically, socially, and politically changing climate brought by the Roman Empire. Sixteen papers, presented across three days, will bring together different perspectives on the effects of connections, exchange, and innovation in the region in terms of commodity flow, demography, foodways, religious interaction, social dynamics, and cultural transformations. With a strong focus on cutting-edge approaches, the conference seeks to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue, challenge existing paradigms, and stimulate fresh perspectives on the complex interplay between global connections and local innovations in Roman Greece during this dynamic period. Opening keynote lecture: Prof. Greg Woolf (UCLA) Only Disconnect. Resisting the Deep History of Roman Greece.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Roman and Late Antique Thrace Conference (RaLATh)
"Conflicts and Catastrophes in Roman and Late Antique Thrace" (Burgas, 12-16 October 2020
changed over the late republican and imperial period .
http://www.thiasos.eu/supplementum-iv-in-solo-provinciali-sullarchitettura-delle-province-da-augusto-ai-severi-tra-inerzie-locali-e-romanizzazione/
In spite of the definitive loss of self-rule this was not a period of decline. Attica and the Peloponnese were special regions because of their legacy as cultural and religious centres of the Mediterranean. Supported by this legacy communities and individuals engaged actively with the increasing presence of Roman rule and its representatives. The archaeological and epigraphic records attest to the continued economic vitality of the region: buildings, statues, and lavish tombs were still being constructed. There is hence need to counterbalance the traditional discourses of weakness on Roman Greece, and to highlight how acts of remembering were employed as resources in this complex political situation.
The legacy of Greece defined Greek and Roman responses to the changing relationship. Both parties looked to the past in shaping their interactions, but how this was done varied widely. Sulla fashioned himself after the tyrant-slayers Harmodius and Aristogeiton, while Athenian ephebes evoked the sea-battles of the Persian Wars to fashion their valour. This interdisciplinary volume traces strategies of remembering in city building, funerary culture, festival and association, honorific practices, Greek literature, and political ideology. The variety of these strategies attests to the vitality of the region. In times of transition the past cannot be ignored: actors use what came before, in diverse and complex ways, in order to build the present.
Available open access at: https://www.sidestone.com/books/strategies-of-remembering-in-greece-under-rome-100-bc-100-ad
Proceedings of the international conference held in Athens (8-10 Oct. 2015), ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 80, Athens 2018.
With the participation of: Sophia Kremydi (NHRF - IHR), Valentina Di Napoli (Roman Seminar research group), Kristina Winther-Jakobsen (Danish Institute at Athens) and Pavlina Karanastassi (University of Crete).
Venue: the Italian Archaeological School at Athens, Parthenonos 14-16, Athens, Greece.
In spite of the definitive loss of self-rule this was not a period of decline. Attica and the Peloponnese were special regions because of their legacy as cultural and religious centres of the Mediterranean. Supported by this legacy communities and individuals engaged actively with the increasing presence of Roman rule and its representatives. The archaeological and epigraphic records attest to the continued economic vitality of the region: buildings, statues, and lavish tombs were still being constructed. There is hence need to counterbalance the traditional discourses of weakness on Roman Greece, and to highlight how acts of remembering were employed as resources in this complex political situation.
The legacy of Greece defined Greek and Roman responses to the changing relationship. Both parties looked to the past in shaping their interactions, but how this was done varied widely. Sulla fashioned himself after the tyrant-slayers Harmodius and Aristogeiton, while Athenian ephebes evoked the sea-battles of the Persian Wars to fashion their valour. This interdisciplinary volume traces strategies of remembering in city building, funerary culture, festival and association, honorific practices, Greek literature, and political ideology. The variety of these strategies attests to the vitality of the region. In times of transition the past cannot be ignored: actors use what came before, in diverse and complex ways, in order to build the present.
Available open access at: https://www.sidestone.com/books/strategies-of-remembering-in-greece-under-rome-100-bc-100-ad
The main goal of this conference is to integrate the research on Greece during the Roman Empire and Greece's position within the wider Roman Mediterranean into the current Roman archaeology scholarship while actively engaging with the conceptual agenda of interconnectivity, identities, and social inequalities. The conference aims to explore how new networks of connectivity and mobility impacted Greek communities amidst the economically, socially, and politically changing climate brought by the Roman Empire. Sixteen papers, presented across three days, will bring together different perspectives on the effects of connections, exchange, and innovation in the region in terms of commodity flow, demography, foodways, religious interaction, social dynamics, and cultural transformations. With a strong focus on cutting-edge approaches, the conference seeks to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue, challenge existing paradigms, and stimulate fresh perspectives on the complex interplay between global connections and local innovations in Roman Greece during this dynamic period. Opening keynote lecture: Prof. Greg Woolf (UCLA) Only Disconnect. Resisting the Deep History of Roman Greece.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Roman and Late Antique Thrace Conference (RaLATh)
"Conflicts and Catastrophes in Roman and Late Antique Thrace" (Burgas, 12-16 October 2020
changed over the late republican and imperial period .
http://www.thiasos.eu/supplementum-iv-in-solo-provinciali-sullarchitettura-delle-province-da-augusto-ai-severi-tra-inerzie-locali-e-romanizzazione/
and what it might have meant in the imperial context. Assessing identity of well-known groups like the Bessi entails a number of issues and considerations that must be taken into account then what can we say about other, less well known groups of Thracians like for instance the
groups of people living on the Aegean shore? Due to lack of credible textual sources, can archaeology (acknowledging all the pitfalls that such a process entails) provide the means to approach and understand different layers of identity of the Thracians living in the lands south
of Rhodope?
Edited by V. Di Napoli, F. Camia, V. Evangelidis, D. Grigoropoulos, D. Rogers, S. Vlizos
Among the numerous fragments of Roman period
sculpture discovered in the north terrace of the Agora
of Thessaloniki, there are three inscribed slabs bearing
the names of Alexander the Great, Thessalonike
and Alexander IV. The slabs belonged to a large
pedestal carrying most probably a monumental
group depicting the Argeads, the royal house of
Alexander the Great. Two larger than life high quality
marble heads of the second half of the 2nd century
AD, one belonging to a seated male god and the
other to a female figure, were attributed to this group
by G. Despinis. The evidence so far indicates the existence
―somewhere in the Area Sacra― of a cult
dedicated to the Argeads, which must be seen exclusively
as a Roman period phenomenon related to
the idealization of Alexander in the Roman world and
the special interest that the Severi showed in the conqueror
and his family.
However, such a large and important monument
may be seen in another light: that of the embedded - inscribed
memory, an aspect of collective memory or
the communal concept of how things were in the past.
The paper argues that the monument is in fact a piece
of constructed memory which was fabricated by the
city (or at least by the local elites), so as to achieve
a connection with an ideal past, that was very popular
in the antique loving context of the late 2nd century
AD.
Since E.L. Bowie’s seminal article on the Greeks and their past in the Second Sophistic, the study of Greece in the Roman Empire has been experiencing what has been described in other areas of social sciences and the humanities as a ‘mnemonic turn’. The purpose
of this article is to rethink the role and scope of these approaches by revisiting some of their assumptions and by posing a series of related questions: was the Roman conquest a catalyst for the emergence of phenomena of mobilization of the past in Greek societies?
If such phenomena articulated conscious local responses to the imperial situation, how uniform were these responses across the Greek mainland? Were Greeks unique in this respect compared to other provincial societies across the empire? Did every use and representation
of the past always have an ideological significance that can be read from the available textual and material evidence? Can we classify and describe all these phenomena by using the ‘language of memory’? By examining these issues, we wish to highlight the
complex nature of the evidence and the need to take into account its potential and its limitations when making inferences about remembering as a social and cultural strategy.
https://www.sidestone.com/books/strategies-of-remembering-in-greece-under-rome-100-bc-100-ad
Athena Lab along with one additional contribution from one of the moderators who actively participated in the concluding discussion. The workshop took place on March 30, 2023, at the British School at Athens. https://archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.php/JGA/article/view/2781
and art education with the goal of unleashing creative potential
and delving into co-creation frontiers within culturally diverse
societies. Emphasizing the significance of arts in fostering social
inclusion and embracing cultural diversity, the paper outlines the
transformative role of AI in enhancing creativity and collaborative
processes within education. The envisioned ecosystem, integrating AI-assisted co-creation tools, storytelling development, and
digital display boards, proposes a comprehensive framework for
revolutionizing art education. The paper places a strong emphasis
on ethical considerations and technical robustness, delineating
key challenges and foundational components for successful
implementation. Envisioned as a versatile platform designed for
diverse educational settings, from primary to higher education
and non-formal contexts, the initiative aims to foster cultural
diversity, social inclusion, and tolerance. Simultaneously, it seeks
to promote lifelong learning and collaboration on a global scale.
- George Malaperdas (Laboratory of Archaeometry, University of the Peloponnese)
Geomatics in action in the archaeological excavations at Terpni Paliokastro - Sylviane Déderix & Lionel Fadin (École française d’Athènes)
Mapping Underwater Cultural Heritage. Accessing the archaeological archive beneath the waves - Alex Tourtas (University of Aegean)
Participants
Antoniadis V., Bonnier A., Boyd M.J., Campbell R., Donati J.C., Efkleidou K., Evangelidis V., Giannakoula G., Herbst J., Indjerd H., Karta M., Katevaini A., Katsianis M., Kennedy W., Kopanias K., Lolos Y., Loy M., Malaperdas G., Meyer N., Mourthos Y., Mousouris S., Nenci N., Orengo H., Renfrew C., Sarris A., Tsiafaki D., Tzavella E., Vassiliou A.
The identification of ancient coins is a time consuming and complex task with huge experience demands. The analysis of numismatic evidence through patterns detection executed by Machine Learning methods has started to be recognized as approaches that can provide archaeologists with a wide range of tools, which, especially in the fields of numismatics, can be used to ascertain distribution, continuity, change in engraving style and imitation. In this paper we introduce what we call the Ancient Coins (AnCoins-12) dataset. Α set of images composed of 12 different classes of Greek ancient coins from the area of ancient Thrace, aiming for the automatic identification of their issuing authority. In this context we describe the methodology of data acquisition and dataset organization emphasizing the small number of images available in this field. In addition to that we apply deep learning approaches based on popular CNN architectures to classify the images of the new introduced dataset. Pre-trained CNNs, through transfer learning approaches, achieved a top-1 validation accuracy of 98.32% and top-5 validation accuracy of 99.99%. For a better diffusion of the results in the archaeological community, we introduce a responsive web-based application with an extension asset focusing in the identification of common characteristics in different coin types. We conclude the paper, by stressing some of the most importance key elements of the proposed approaches and by highlighting some future challenges.
Due to its rich computing abilities, Physarum polycephalum, a vegetative stage of acellular slime, has been repeatedly used during the last decade in order to reproduce transport networks. After conducting a series of biological experiments and with the help of a Cellular Automata (CA) model we try to explore the ability of the slime in order to imitate the Roman road network in the Balkans, an area which was of great strategic importance for the stability of the Roman Empire in the East. The application of Physarum machines hopes to offer a first step towards a new interdisciplinary, almost unconventional, approach to archaeology.
Physarum Polycephalum is a single cell visible by unaided eye. This is a plasmodial, vegetative stage of acellular slime mould. This single cell has myriad of nuclei which contribute to a network of bio-chemical oscillators responsible for the slime mould’s distributed sensing, concurrent information processing and decision making, and parallel actuation. When presented with a spatial configuration of sources of nutrients, the slime mould spans the sources with networks of its protoplasmic tube. These networks belong to a family of planar proximity graphs. The protoplasmic networks also show a degree of similarity to vehicular transport networks. Previously, we have shown that the foraging behaviour of the slime mould can be applied in archaeological research to complement and enhance conventional geographic information system tools. The results produced suffered from limitation of a flat substrate: transport routes imitated by the slime mould did not reflect patterns of elevations. To overcome the limitation of the ‘flat world’ we constructed a three-dimensional model of Balkans. In laboratory experiments and computer modelling we uncovered patterns of the foraging behaviour that might shed a light onto development of Roman roads in the Balkans during the imperial period (1st century BC – 4th century AD).
motorways in several countries has been demonstrated, the same is expected when using that biological computer for transport networks built in historical time periods.
To accelerate the computations a Cellular Automata model, proposed previously, that can approximate the computing abilities of the plasmodium has been used.
Here the area of Balkans was considered, so as to evaluate the Roman road network
built during the imperial period (1st century BC–4th century AD) which was of paramount significance in terms of maintaining the East territories of the Roman
Empire under control. The results produced in the laboratory experiments and those
delivered by the proposed model successfully approximate segments of the actual Roman road network. Exploring the efficiency of Physarum-based computers and bio-inspired algorithms can lead to an unconventional, interdisciplinary method that will be implemented in the field of archaeological research.
Η Βρετανική Σχολή Αθηνών έχει τη χαρά να διοργανώνει την πρώτη, δωρεάν διαδικτυακή σειρά διαλέξεων με τίτλο Η Αρχαία Πόλις: δημόσιοι χώροι και δημόσιες τελετές. Το πρόγραμμα αυτό απευθύνεται σε δασκάλους της πρωτοβάθμιας και της δευτεροβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης που διδάσκουν αρχαία ιστορία, αλλά και σε εκπαιδευτικούς που δεν έχουν καμία εμπειρία διδασκαλίας της αρχαίας ιστορίας. Οι διαλέξεις θα γίνουν στην ελληνική γλώσσα
Sponsored by Evangelos Pistiolis Foundation
and organized by Mantha Zarmakoupi, University of Pennsylvania
This phenomenon is equally evident in Roman Macedonia, situated at the heart of the erstwhile formidable Macedonian kingdom, encompassing vast territories from the Adriatic shore to the west to the alluvial expanses of Aegean Thrace in the east. This presentation aims to provide a comprehensive survey of the religious landscape found within the cities of Macedonia. Drawing extensively from archaeological evidence, the study investigates a series of illustrative examples. It delves into the resilience displayed by old religious structures in the face of evolving eras, while also scrutinizing the emergence and construction of new architectural forms and layouts.
By examining these transformations, the paper endeavors to elucidate the extent to which these architectural shifts contributed to the remolding of religious expression. By dissecting the interplay between tradition, innovation, and urban dynamics, this presentation hopes to contribute to a deeper comprehension of the religious tapestry that wove through the cities of Roman Macedonia. The paper aims to uncover the fusion of established customs with novel practices, underscoring the region’s adaptability to evolving religious paradigms within the context of a globally expanding empire.
This paper offers an integrated approach to modelling commodity flows and transport routes to the sanctuary of Kalapodi in the Roman period by analyzing pottery distribution data from the entire region and exploring Kalapodi within regional and global distribution and infrastructural networks of the Roman period.
Over the last four years, research conducted at RC Athena and more specifically at the newly established Archaeological GIS Laboratory (AeGIS Athena http://aegis.athenarc.gr/) has sought to employ these technologies in the archaeology of Northern Greece and to shed new light on the enormous potential of their application in the archaeological research. The purpose of this paper is to show and discuss the different possibilities and contribution of those applications through the employment of certain case studies.
Conflicts and Catastrophes in Roman and Late Antique Thrace
Burgas, 12-16 October 2020
Gastronomy and Food choices in the multivariate/diverse landscapes of Xanthi: an overview through time.
A’ International Business Conference
“Xanthi: Alternative Perspectives –from Gastronomic experiments
to a sustainable and just growth”
1. How and when did settlement change along the drainage?
2. How does that relate to changes in water and land management?
3. Why did these changes occur or what is the cultural context behind these changes?
Geo Spatial technology (open access GIS) in combination with geological and hydrological evidence will be used as a tool to allow us to contextualize the relationship between site and environment and detect changes in settlement patterns over an extended period of time.
Tracing the Roman Phases(s) of a Public Monumental Building in Rhodes
The lecture will take place on Friday, 19 May 2023, at 19.00 EEST (UTC/GMT +3 hours).
Please note that this is an online event only.
To attend please follow the link: https://ionio-gr.zoom.us/j/98946957902 (Meeting ID: 989 4695 7902)
With best wishes,
The Roman Seminar Organizing Committee
poster credits: © Ephorate of Antiquities of the Dodecanese (photo); © N. Sepentzoglou (artwork)
"What's New in Roman Greece?. Recent Work on the Greek Mainland and the Island in the Roman Period". Eds. V. DI NAPOLI, F. CAMIA, V. EVANGELIDIS, D. GRIGOROPOULOS, D. ROGERS, S. VLIZOS. Meletemata 80 (2019).
This event is organized by the Roman Seminar Research Group and the National Hellenic Research Foundations (EIE).
It will be presented by: S. KREMYDI, V. DI NAPOLI, K. WINTHER-JACOBSEN and P. KARANASTASI.
Monday, 3 June 2019, 'Doro Levi Lecture Hall', 7.00 p.m.
We are very happy to announce the 2023 Roman Seminar Lectures, which also marks the 10 year anniversary of RS. Our first guest will be Goce Pavlovski from the National Institution of Stobi who will speak about the really interesting Building with Arches, one of the grand public buildings of the Roman city of Stobi, a unique chance to know the public architecture of this large urban center. The lecture will be held in a hybrid format at the Danish Institute at Athens, the Director of which continuously supports our effort to promote the Roman period Archaeology and History.
You are welcome to attend and take part in the discussion and for the people who want to join us virtually the zoom link is
https://upatras-gr.zoom.us/j/92163343167?pwd=YkMxTTBTVzFUL1A5OWZXNERqa05JZz09
Aspects of the cult of Isis in Roman Greece,
by Silvana Blazevska, Dafni Maikidou-Poutrinou and Barbette Spaeth.
Discussant: Eleni Fassa.
Wednesday, March 29, 2023, at 17.00 (Athens time) in a hybrid format with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and via Zoom link. Plese register in https://www.sia.gr/en/articles.php?tid=786
November 29, 2018, 7 p.m.
The Netherlands Institute at Athens, Library (Makri 11, Athens)
Abstract
This talk will discuss the epigraphic and literary evidence for women’s membership in palaistrai and gymnasia, as well as their victories in the games of the late Hellenistic and early Roman periods in the Greek world. It will become evident that, in spite of the small number of inscriptions and literary references that survive on the topic, we can accept that athleticism and its venues were not an all-male sphere as previously thought, but one where young women athletes participated in and competed at local and Panhellenic festivals.
οικουμένη: Διάχυση, οργάνωση και διείσδυση στις τοπικές κοινωνίες
Σε φιλολογικές πηγές (από τον 3ο αι. π.Χ.) και σε επιγραφικά κείμενα
(από τον 2ο αι. π.Χ. και εξής) εμφανίζονται ομάδες ανθρώπων που
προσδιορίζονται ως Ῥωμαῖοι/cives Romani ή Ἰταλικοί/Italici,
προσδιορισμοί που συχνά συνοδεύονται από όρους, όπως consistentes,
qui consistunt/negotiantur/morantur, κατοικοῦντες, παρεπιδημοῦντες,
πραγματευόμενοι κ.α. Οι κοινότητες αυτές μαρτυρούνται σε όλο το
ρωμαϊκό κόσμο, από το Δούναβη ως τη βόρεια Αφρική κι από την
Ιβηρική χερσόνησο και τη Βρετανία μέχρι τη Συρία, ενώ δεν λείπουν
ενδείξεις της παρουσίας τους κι ακόμη βαθύτερα στην Ανατολή καθώς και πέρα από τα βόρεια σύνορα του ρωμαϊκού κράτους.
Ο ρυθμός εξάπλωσης αυτών των κοινοτήτων, η πιθανότητα εσωτερικής τους οργάνωσης, οι βασικές οικονομικές τους δραστηριότητες, οι τρόποι με τους οποίους προσπαθούν να ενταχθούν ή να διακριθούν στις κοινωνίες που τους φιλοξενούν, θα πρέπει να διερευνηθούν ξεχωριστά για κάθε περιοχή λαμβάνοντας υπ’ όψιν τις κατά τόπους ιδιαιτερότητες και αξιοποιώντας τα διαθέσιμα γραπτά και αρχαιολογικά τεκμήρια. Είναι ωστόσο γενική η διαπίστωση ότι υπήρξε πολύ σημαντικός ο ρόλος των κοινοτήτων αυτών στην κοινωνική και οικονομική ζωή, ακόμη και στη διαμόρφωση μιας νέας φυσιογνωμίας, των περιοχών όπου εγκαταστάθηκαν μόνιμα ή παροδικά, καθώς επρόκειτο για ένα τεράστιο ανθρώπινο δυναμικό που μετακινήθηκε γεμάτο ενθουσιασμό για αναζήτηση του κέρδους, με την σχετική ασφάλεια που παρείχε η σύνδεση με τη Ρώμη μέσα στην «παγκοσμιοποιημένη» οικονομική πραγματικότητα της ύστερης ελληνιστικής και της ρωμαϊκής εποχής.
H Ρόδος την ελληνιστική περίοδο αναδύεται ως περιφερειακή δύναμη στην Ανατολική Μεσόγειο, προσελκύοντας πλήθος καλλιτεχνών από την Αθήνα και τις πόλεις της Μικράς Ασίας. Όσοι γλύπτες εγκαθίστανται μόνιμα ιδρύοντας εργαστήρια, λαμβάνουν σταδιακά πολιτικά δικαιώματα και τα παιδιά τους υπογράφουν ως Ρόδιοι, στις βάσεις των -χαμένων πλέον- χάλκινων εικονιστικών ανδριάντων, τιμητικών και αναθηματικών στα μεγάλα ιερά της Ρόδου, την Λίνδο και την Κάμιρο και στην πόλη της Ρόδου. Οι μαρμάρινοι ιματιοφόροι ανδριάντες, λαξευμένοι σε ποικιλία τύπων, αρχικά για επιτύμβια χρήση και κατόπιν ως τιμητικοί ή αναθηματικοί, νεανικά ιδεαλιστικά πορτρέτα με αθλητικά στοιχεία και εικονιστικά κεφάλια ώριμων ανδρών με εξατομικευμένα χαρακτηριστικά, αντικατοπτρίζουν την κυρίαρχη αστική τάξη της ελληνιστικής δημοκρατίας.
Μετά τη λεηλασία του Κάσσιου και την επικράτηση του Αυγούστου η ελληνιστική μητρόπολη χάνει την πολιτική και εμπορική της δύναμη. Σε σχέση με τις ακμάζουσες πόλεις της Μικράς Ασίας αλλά και με τη γειτονική Κω όπου τη ρωμαϊκή περίοδο η γλυπτική παραγωγή είναι ποσοτικά μεγαλύτερη, στη Ρόδο ο αριθμός των ρωμαϊκών γλυπτών είναι περιορισμένος. Στα λιγοστά αυτοκρατορικά και ιδιωτικά πορτρέτα, ανιχνεύονται τα χαρακτηριστικά των καλλιτεχνικών εργαστηρίων της Ανατολικής Μεσογείου, όπου η ελληνιστική παράδοση και τα κλασικιστικά στοιχεία υποχωρούν σταδιακά, τα επίσημα αυτοκρατορικά πρότυπα δεν υιοθετούνται πιστά, ενώ στα τελευταία ροδιακά πορτρέτα διακρίνεται σχηματοποίηση και διακοσμητικότητα στην απόδοση των χαρακτηριστικών
Please take note of the programme of lectures 2018-2019 of the Roman Seminar.
The Organizing Committee
Please take note of the upcoming Roman Seminar by Mali Skotheim (University of Wisconsin) to be held on Thursday 8 November 2018 at 7.00 pm.
The lecture is co-sponsored with and kindly hosted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Cotsen Hall, 9 Anapiron Polemou, Athens).
For further information see poster attached.
The Organizing Committee
Roman Seminar
This paper presents the preliminary results of study of the many fragments of Roman-period portrait sculpture from the Library of Pantainos. These include the fragments from two over lifesize armored statues of an emperor, probably Trajan. Given the find contexts of these sculptural fragments, these portrait statues were originally set up in close proximity to where they were found, a situation that is somewhat unusual for the Agora. That is, much of the sculpture found in the Agora excavations comes from contexts that are unrelated to their original display context, as a great deal of sculptural material migrated into the Agora in the post-Antique period. The fragments from the Library of Pantainos therefore provide an unusual opportunity to reconstruct with a greater degree of certainty than is typical for the Agora the sculptural decoration of an Imperial-period building.
That Athens and Rome needed huge amounts of slaves to function is well known, and their numbers and lives have been the subject of renewed interest in recent years. Much less study has been devoted to their external supply: to the polities that furnished Greek and Roman traders with slaves for work in the mines and on plantations. The evidence is patchy to non- existent, of course. This talk will proceed by analogy, introducing the slaving society of Dahomey, and then showing how the evidence from certain Gallic tribes, and, perhaps, the Odyrissian kingdom, follows similar patterns, and the kinds of evidence that might be used to tease them out.
Σας ενημερώνουμε για το προσεχές Ρωμαϊκό Σεμινάριο που φιλοξενεί διάλεξη του Στυλιανού Κατάκη (Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών) την Πέμπτη 8 Φεβρουαρίου 2018 στις 7.00 μ.μ.
Η διάλεξη θα λάβει χώρα στο Γερμανικό Αρχαιολογικό Ινστιτούτο (Φειδίου 1, αίθουσα διαλέξεων, 2ος όροφος).
Περισσότερες πληροφορίες στη συνημμένη αφίσα.
Η Οργανωτική Επιτροπή
Ρωμαϊκό Σεμινάριο
Τα γλυπτά από την Απτέρα. Παρατηρήσεις στην πλαστική της Ύστερης Αρχαιότητας από τη Δυτική Κρήτη.
Αφορμή της σημερινής ομιλίας είναι η μελέτη των γλυπτών από την αρχαία Απτέρα, κοντά στα Χανιά στη δυτική Κρήτη. Ελάχιστα είναι τα πλήρως σωζόμενα αγάλματα ή αγαλμάτια, από την Απτέρα, και αυτά κατά κανόνα δεν προέρχονται από συστηματικές ανασκαφικές έρευνες. Πρόκειται κυρίως για μικρά θραύσματα ελληνιστικών και ρωμαϊκών χρόνων, από τα οποία ιδιαίτερα σημαντικά είναι δύο ένθετα μέλη από χέρια αγαλμάτων αξιωματούχων της Ύστερης Αρχαιότητας. Τα αγάλματα αυτά όπως και δύο κεφαλές στο Μουσείο Χανίων, δείχνουν ότι μετά τον καταστρεπτικό σεισμό του 365 μ.Χ. άρχισε μία νέα περίοδος ανάκαμψης.
Με βάση τη στατιστική ανάλυση των ρωμαϊκών και επαρχιακών εκδόσεων που βρέθηκαν στην Αιγαιακή Θράκη, στην περιοχή δηλαδή μεταξύ του Νέστου και του Έβρου ποταμού, η παρούσα ομιλία έχει ως στόχο την παρουσίαση της νομισματικής κυκλοφορίας και κατ’ επέκταση την ανίχνευση σχέσεων μεταξύ των πόλεων που ήκμασαν κατά τους 1ο και 3ο αι. μ.Χ. Πρόκειται για την Τόπειρο, τα Άβδηρα, τη Μαρώνεια, την Τραϊανούπολη και την Πλωτινόπολη, πόλεις δηλαδή που επηρεάστηκαν έμμεσα και άμεσα από τις διοικητικές αλλαγές που προώθησαν ρωμαίοι αυτοκράτορες στο πλαίσιο της μετατροπής της Θράκης σε Επαρχία.
Μελετήθηκαν συνολικά 1214 νομίσματα, τα οποία προήλθαν από τις ανασκαφικές έρευνες που διεξήχθησαν από την τοπική Εφορεία Αρχαιοτήτων-πρώην ΙΘ΄ ΕΠΚΑ. Επιπλέον, έχουν συμπεριληφθεί επιφανειακά ευρήματα από γνωστές όμως θέσεις που ανήκουν στη συλλογή του Αρχαιολογικού Μουσείου Κομοτηνής, και τα οποία αντιστοιχούν στο ποσοστό των 36% επί του συνόλου των νομισμάτων. Η παρουσίαση του υλικού θα γίνει γεωγραφικά από Δυτικά προς Ανατολικά, τουλάχιστον όσον αφορά τις μεγάλες πόλεις και στη συνέχεια η συζήτηση θα εξελιχθεί χρονολογικά, σε τρεις βασικές ενότητες.
Από τον 2ο αι. μ.Χ. πολυτελείς επαύλεις ανεγείρονται σε κομβικές θέσεις του αθηναϊκού αστικού ιστού, κοντά σε σημαντικούς χώρους, διοικητικούς, θρησκευτικούς ή πολιτιστικούς, σε πύλες και σε κεντρικές οδικές αρτηρίες. Αποτελώντας με το μέγεθός τους σημεία αναφοράς και προσανατολισμού στην Αθήνα απηχούν και ταυτόχρονα κατασκευάζουν κοινωνικές σχέσεις και ταυτότητες, λειτουργούν ως σύμβολα κύρους, αποτυπώνουν με την αρχιτεκτονική και την οικοσκευή τους την αλληλεπίδραση χωρικού/ υλικού και κοινωνικού.
Στην ανακοίνωση θα συζητηθούν στοιχεία από πρόσφατη ανασκαφή της Γ’ Εφορείας Προϊστορικών και Κλασικών Αρχαιοτήτων στο οικόπεδο της οδού Καλλισπέρη 21, τα οποία συμπληρώνουν την εικόνα για το κτήριο που έχει ταυτιστεί από τους περισσότερους μελετητές με την «Οικία του Πρόκλου».
We are happy to announce the 2017 - 2018 program of lectures
The Organizing Committee
Roman Seminar
The lecture is hosted by the Roman Seminar and will be in Greek with English powerpoint
Follow the link https://upatras-gr.zoom.us/j/92026488318?pwd=OHFVTlJXNmZnTnhybEpUWUZ5MDgwdz09
meeting ID: 920 2648 8318
passcode: 885268
Aspects of the cult of Isis in Roman Greece,
by Silvana Blazevska, Dafni Maikidou-Poutrinou and Barbette Spaeth.
Discussant: Eleni Fassa.
The event is co-organized by the Roman Seminar – an Athens-based initiative hosting lectures on the archaeology and heritage of Roman Greece – and the Athens Greek Religion Seminar - a forum for discussion on all things related Ancient Greek religion.
Wednesday, March 29, 2023, at 17.00 (Athens time) in a hybrid format with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and via Zoom link.
Sixteen papers, presented across three days, will bring together different perspectives on the effects of connections, exchange, and innovation in the region in terms of commodity flow, demography, foodways, religious interaction, social dynamics, and cultural transformations. With a strong focus on cutting-edge approaches, the conference seeks to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue, challenge existing paradigms, and stimulate fresh perspectives on the complex interplay between global connections and local innovations in Roman Greece during this dynamic period.
Organising Committee: Sanja Vucetic (University of Sheffield), Vassilis Evangelidis (Athena Research Center), Dimitris Grigoropoulos (DAI Athen), and Giorgos Mouratidis (BSA).