... Access Statistics: 5 Abstract Views - Detailed Statistics. Created: Fri, 21 Oct 2011, 10:52:5... more ... Access Statistics: 5 Abstract Views - Detailed Statistics. Created: Fri, 21 Oct 2011, 10:52:52 EST by Dr Amelia Brown on behalf of School of History, Philosophy, Religion & Classics - Detailed History. The University of Queensland. ...
dichotomy and places the Romans in Xerxes’ place before the destruction of his holy city. This di... more dichotomy and places the Romans in Xerxes’ place before the destruction of his holy city. This discussion prefaces similar arguments for Strabo and Plutarch. The book closes with an epilogue on the modern presentation of the king in Zach Synder’s 300 and its sequel. This discussion, while learned and perhaps useful for most students who will have come across Xerxes first in this way, almost seems out of place given the focus on antiquity. Its inclusion forces a rushed survey of post-Classical appearances of the king, before giving a careful analysis of his role in the two films. This book presents a useful synopsis of the various roles that Xerxes has played in the Graeco-Roman literary imagination since he first set foot on European soil. It effectively chronicles how the early characterisation of the king set the stage for his continued reception. The book will provide an essential starting point for anyone who wishes to work on our image of not only Xerxes but also his successors.
Every time students at the University of Queensland pass through the northern door of the Law Sch... more Every time students at the University of Queensland pass through the northern door of the Law School in Forgan Smith, they encounter two of the giants of Western law: Plato and Justinian. Both these men are carved in halflength portrait busts flanking the doorway, Plato in the cloak of a Greek philosopher to the left as one enters, and Justinian in his Roman imperial regalia to the right. Why were these two men chosen? They symbolize the Western legal tradition upon which Australian law rests: Plato represents Greek legal theory, and Justinian, Roman theory and practice. Both men have been famous since Antiquity for their substantive contributions to legal theory, though their legal output, character and historical context were quite different.
ABSTRACT From 1306 to 1798, the Hospitaller Order of the knights of St John was headquartered on ... more ABSTRACT From 1306 to 1798, the Hospitaller Order of the knights of St John was headquartered on the Mediterranean islands of Rhodes and Malta. These ‘crusaders’ encountered island landscapes, ancient texts and monumental ruins of Graeco-Roman antiquity there first-hand. Their attitude to ancient sculpture and inscriptions changed over time, however, as did their scholarship of classical Greek, Roman or Byzantine texts and antiquities. Their antiquarianism shifted as some retreated from battlefields or hospitals, connecting with the literary, material and Christianised legacy of ancient Greece and Rome around them. Ruins like the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus were rebuilt into fortifications c.1500, but by 1647, Commendatore G. F. Abela was collecting, and writing about, his own ‘modern’ museum of classical antiquities on Malta. Antiquarian activities of the Hospitaller Knights thus chart the growth of both neoclassicism and the academic study of the Mediterranean islands in antiquity, forming a key legacy of the Order.
Religious Convergence in the Ancient Mediterranean
Aphrodite was an important patron goddess for ancient Greek mariners, and thus was carried east a... more Aphrodite was an important patron goddess for ancient Greek mariners, and thus was carried east and west from Hellas on sea voyages of exchange, colonization, and war- fare. Some aspects of her sanctuaries near harbors or atop coastal heights in Magna Grae- cia, especially southern Italy and Sicily, seem related to this role. The development of coastal sanctuaries dedicated to Aphrodite was encouraged by Greek mariners, and interchange with Phoenician and western Mediterranean indigenous traditions then shaped this sacred maritime network with distinctive spatial features. Common use of coastal sanctuaries by Greek and Phoenician mariners alongside local people with a common concern for safe travel helps to explain how the ancient Mediterranean network of sanctuaries dedicated to Aphrodite or Astarte and later Venus developed. Coastal sanctuaries had sacred enclosures near harbors and/or atop coastal heights with views over and from the sea, with statues, small altars, rich votive d...
Review(s) of: The Ostrogoths from the Migration Period to the Sixth Century: An Ethnographic Pers... more Review(s) of: The Ostrogoths from the Migration Period to the Sixth Century: An Ethnographic Perspective, by Barnish, Samuel, and Federico Marazzi (ed), (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology 7, 2007) hardback, 497 pages, 18 b/w illustrations, RRP 60.00/US$115.00, ISBN 9781843830740.
These fifteen articles derive from the 6th Bristol Myth Conference, organised by editor Hawes, wi... more These fifteen articles derive from the 6th Bristol Myth Conference, organised by editor Hawes, with J. Priestley, in 2013. The contributors explore myriad relationships between ancient Greek mythology and its landscapes, finding literal and metaphorical connections among literature, material culture and some landscapes of ancient Hellas (Thebes, Thessaly, Arcadia). Hawes organises the papers loosely around ‘various themes and landscape features’, including ‘layered time accessed through space’, water supply and mental topographies (p. 11). Scholars familiar with ancient Greek mythography will find much of interest on specific texts and on mental or physical connections that ancient authors made with their landscapes. Disappointingly for this reviewer, however, papers rarely refer to one another, and most compare textual representations, rather than map them onto ‘the storied landscapes of ancient Greece’. There is little on Aegean islands, the Athenian (or any other) acropolis, the Peloponnese, Panhellenic sites or even the small agricultural plains, harbours and olive-covered slopes which most would agree are typical of Greek landscapes. Most readers will seek out texts or regions already of interest, and they will find many new insights here. Hawes’s ‘Of Myths and Maps’ introduces the topic’s potential brilliantly, starting with Plutarch’s Theseus 1.1, about what lay at that intersecting edge of (Athenian) space and time for Plutarch, and all Hellenes of the High Empire: ‘a land inhabited by poets and mythographers’ (p. xvii). Hawes well summarises how the landscapes of ancient Hellas were given meaning by Plutarch and other ancient Greek poets, prose authors and artists through mythic, mental, literary, iconographic and cartographic means. The volume skews towards the study of certain authors (Homer, Herodotus, Apollodorus, Pausanias) and textual myths set in long-past heroic landscapes. Yet, as Hawes argues, all forms of Greek myth were connected to Greek landscapes in both physical and mental (or imagined) ways, and myth thus formed a shifting nexus between stories and spaces, in a process common to all cultures worldwide, but available to us today to a remarkable degree via the rich literary and archaeological record of ancient Greece. Perspectives on these connections changed over time, and a palimpsest of textual references and landscape features built up throughout antiquity, extending far beyond ancient Greece. The ancient Greek literary record and its long-term cultural impact could better inform modern understanding of how all human stories link in to landscapes and how myth and history interact. Hawes also briefly introduces each paper and relates them to one another. I regroup the papers slightly here, to better review their individual and overall contributions to research on itineraries, civic space, water, mountains and spatial peripheries, both in ancient Greek mythological writing and in its corresponding concepts of landscape. In ‘Walking through History: Unlocking the Mythical Past’ K. Clarke links the myths, metaphors and itineraries that ancient Greek authors applied to their landscapes. She argues that Herodotus, Strabo and Pausanias all consider myth an element of paideia and portray travel as a way to unlock mythic landscapes, but differ in their definitions of myth and preferences for past vs present. Her evocation of metaphorical islands of story strung out along itineraries as an ancient Greek way of myth-telling and the contrast between THE CLASSICAL REVIEW 618
Andrew S. Jacobs, Epiphanius of Cyprus: A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity . Oakland: Univers... more Andrew S. Jacobs, Epiphanius of Cyprus: A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity . Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. xiv + 335 pp. ISBN 9780520291126. $95.00. Andrew S. Jacobs argues that Epiphanius, bishop of Salamis (Constantia) on Cyprus in the later fourth century, is a key figure for understanding the culture of Late Antiquity. This is provocative, as Epiphanius, the compiler of the catalogue of heresies called the Panarion (‘Cure-All’), is often marginalized and mocked in modern times. However, Jacobs argues persuasively that Epiphanius decisively shaped the debates gripping Christianity in Late Antiquity. Jacobs introduces Epiphanius’ life and works, and demonstrates in five case studies how he contributed to discourses on celebrity, conversion, discipline, scripture, and salvation during his lifetime. He concludes with a brief exploration of Epiphanius’ own “After Lives,” first as a Jewish convert and miracle-worker in a fifth-century hagiographic vita , then as a key player in Iconoclasm (on both sides), and finally as a character in a Victorian novel by Thomas Wimberley Mossman. Jacobs succeeds throughout in putting Epiphanius back in his social context, illuminating him, his direct audience, and a larger culture in which Christian bishops increasingly directed the daily lives and choices of congregations all around the Mediterranean sea. This is a well-written and well-argued book which all scholars of Late Antiquity and Early Christianity can read with benefit. Jacobs situates his scholarship in a groundswell of work on Epiphanius and his later fourth-century context, especially by his mentor Liz Clark, Frank Williams (translator of the Panarion , 2009–2013), and Young Richard Kim (translator of Epiphanius’ Ancoratus , 2014, and author of a 2015 monograph on Epiphanius). Jacobs starts with Epiphanius’ own writings. These include the treatises Ancoratus and the Panarion , two biblical commentaries preserved mainly in translation, and his letters (especially those to his student Jerome, and to Basil of Caesarea). Ancoratus is presented as a reply of circa 373–4 sent to the churches of Asia Minor, on …
Messene, founded in 369 bce, was the central city-state of ancient Messenia in the southwestern P... more Messene, founded in 369 bce, was the central city-state of ancient Messenia in the southwestern Peloponnese of Greece. The excavated site, with extensive ruins of the Hellenistic and Roman eras, lies below Mount Ithome's sanctuary of Zeus, a spiritual and military center for resistance to Sparta before the foundation of the city. Pausanias and epigraphy are the main sources for Messene's political and religious development. The site has a well-preserved stadium, fortification walls, Asklepieion, Agora, and theater. Keywords: archaeology; Greek history; historical archaeology; urban history
... Access Statistics: 5 Abstract Views - Detailed Statistics. Created: Fri, 21 Oct 2011, 10:52:5... more ... Access Statistics: 5 Abstract Views - Detailed Statistics. Created: Fri, 21 Oct 2011, 10:52:52 EST by Dr Amelia Brown on behalf of School of History, Philosophy, Religion & Classics - Detailed History. The University of Queensland. ...
dichotomy and places the Romans in Xerxes’ place before the destruction of his holy city. This di... more dichotomy and places the Romans in Xerxes’ place before the destruction of his holy city. This discussion prefaces similar arguments for Strabo and Plutarch. The book closes with an epilogue on the modern presentation of the king in Zach Synder’s 300 and its sequel. This discussion, while learned and perhaps useful for most students who will have come across Xerxes first in this way, almost seems out of place given the focus on antiquity. Its inclusion forces a rushed survey of post-Classical appearances of the king, before giving a careful analysis of his role in the two films. This book presents a useful synopsis of the various roles that Xerxes has played in the Graeco-Roman literary imagination since he first set foot on European soil. It effectively chronicles how the early characterisation of the king set the stage for his continued reception. The book will provide an essential starting point for anyone who wishes to work on our image of not only Xerxes but also his successors.
Every time students at the University of Queensland pass through the northern door of the Law Sch... more Every time students at the University of Queensland pass through the northern door of the Law School in Forgan Smith, they encounter two of the giants of Western law: Plato and Justinian. Both these men are carved in halflength portrait busts flanking the doorway, Plato in the cloak of a Greek philosopher to the left as one enters, and Justinian in his Roman imperial regalia to the right. Why were these two men chosen? They symbolize the Western legal tradition upon which Australian law rests: Plato represents Greek legal theory, and Justinian, Roman theory and practice. Both men have been famous since Antiquity for their substantive contributions to legal theory, though their legal output, character and historical context were quite different.
ABSTRACT From 1306 to 1798, the Hospitaller Order of the knights of St John was headquartered on ... more ABSTRACT From 1306 to 1798, the Hospitaller Order of the knights of St John was headquartered on the Mediterranean islands of Rhodes and Malta. These ‘crusaders’ encountered island landscapes, ancient texts and monumental ruins of Graeco-Roman antiquity there first-hand. Their attitude to ancient sculpture and inscriptions changed over time, however, as did their scholarship of classical Greek, Roman or Byzantine texts and antiquities. Their antiquarianism shifted as some retreated from battlefields or hospitals, connecting with the literary, material and Christianised legacy of ancient Greece and Rome around them. Ruins like the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus were rebuilt into fortifications c.1500, but by 1647, Commendatore G. F. Abela was collecting, and writing about, his own ‘modern’ museum of classical antiquities on Malta. Antiquarian activities of the Hospitaller Knights thus chart the growth of both neoclassicism and the academic study of the Mediterranean islands in antiquity, forming a key legacy of the Order.
Religious Convergence in the Ancient Mediterranean
Aphrodite was an important patron goddess for ancient Greek mariners, and thus was carried east a... more Aphrodite was an important patron goddess for ancient Greek mariners, and thus was carried east and west from Hellas on sea voyages of exchange, colonization, and war- fare. Some aspects of her sanctuaries near harbors or atop coastal heights in Magna Grae- cia, especially southern Italy and Sicily, seem related to this role. The development of coastal sanctuaries dedicated to Aphrodite was encouraged by Greek mariners, and interchange with Phoenician and western Mediterranean indigenous traditions then shaped this sacred maritime network with distinctive spatial features. Common use of coastal sanctuaries by Greek and Phoenician mariners alongside local people with a common concern for safe travel helps to explain how the ancient Mediterranean network of sanctuaries dedicated to Aphrodite or Astarte and later Venus developed. Coastal sanctuaries had sacred enclosures near harbors and/or atop coastal heights with views over and from the sea, with statues, small altars, rich votive d...
Review(s) of: The Ostrogoths from the Migration Period to the Sixth Century: An Ethnographic Pers... more Review(s) of: The Ostrogoths from the Migration Period to the Sixth Century: An Ethnographic Perspective, by Barnish, Samuel, and Federico Marazzi (ed), (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology 7, 2007) hardback, 497 pages, 18 b/w illustrations, RRP 60.00/US$115.00, ISBN 9781843830740.
These fifteen articles derive from the 6th Bristol Myth Conference, organised by editor Hawes, wi... more These fifteen articles derive from the 6th Bristol Myth Conference, organised by editor Hawes, with J. Priestley, in 2013. The contributors explore myriad relationships between ancient Greek mythology and its landscapes, finding literal and metaphorical connections among literature, material culture and some landscapes of ancient Hellas (Thebes, Thessaly, Arcadia). Hawes organises the papers loosely around ‘various themes and landscape features’, including ‘layered time accessed through space’, water supply and mental topographies (p. 11). Scholars familiar with ancient Greek mythography will find much of interest on specific texts and on mental or physical connections that ancient authors made with their landscapes. Disappointingly for this reviewer, however, papers rarely refer to one another, and most compare textual representations, rather than map them onto ‘the storied landscapes of ancient Greece’. There is little on Aegean islands, the Athenian (or any other) acropolis, the Peloponnese, Panhellenic sites or even the small agricultural plains, harbours and olive-covered slopes which most would agree are typical of Greek landscapes. Most readers will seek out texts or regions already of interest, and they will find many new insights here. Hawes’s ‘Of Myths and Maps’ introduces the topic’s potential brilliantly, starting with Plutarch’s Theseus 1.1, about what lay at that intersecting edge of (Athenian) space and time for Plutarch, and all Hellenes of the High Empire: ‘a land inhabited by poets and mythographers’ (p. xvii). Hawes well summarises how the landscapes of ancient Hellas were given meaning by Plutarch and other ancient Greek poets, prose authors and artists through mythic, mental, literary, iconographic and cartographic means. The volume skews towards the study of certain authors (Homer, Herodotus, Apollodorus, Pausanias) and textual myths set in long-past heroic landscapes. Yet, as Hawes argues, all forms of Greek myth were connected to Greek landscapes in both physical and mental (or imagined) ways, and myth thus formed a shifting nexus between stories and spaces, in a process common to all cultures worldwide, but available to us today to a remarkable degree via the rich literary and archaeological record of ancient Greece. Perspectives on these connections changed over time, and a palimpsest of textual references and landscape features built up throughout antiquity, extending far beyond ancient Greece. The ancient Greek literary record and its long-term cultural impact could better inform modern understanding of how all human stories link in to landscapes and how myth and history interact. Hawes also briefly introduces each paper and relates them to one another. I regroup the papers slightly here, to better review their individual and overall contributions to research on itineraries, civic space, water, mountains and spatial peripheries, both in ancient Greek mythological writing and in its corresponding concepts of landscape. In ‘Walking through History: Unlocking the Mythical Past’ K. Clarke links the myths, metaphors and itineraries that ancient Greek authors applied to their landscapes. She argues that Herodotus, Strabo and Pausanias all consider myth an element of paideia and portray travel as a way to unlock mythic landscapes, but differ in their definitions of myth and preferences for past vs present. Her evocation of metaphorical islands of story strung out along itineraries as an ancient Greek way of myth-telling and the contrast between THE CLASSICAL REVIEW 618
Andrew S. Jacobs, Epiphanius of Cyprus: A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity . Oakland: Univers... more Andrew S. Jacobs, Epiphanius of Cyprus: A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity . Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. xiv + 335 pp. ISBN 9780520291126. $95.00. Andrew S. Jacobs argues that Epiphanius, bishop of Salamis (Constantia) on Cyprus in the later fourth century, is a key figure for understanding the culture of Late Antiquity. This is provocative, as Epiphanius, the compiler of the catalogue of heresies called the Panarion (‘Cure-All’), is often marginalized and mocked in modern times. However, Jacobs argues persuasively that Epiphanius decisively shaped the debates gripping Christianity in Late Antiquity. Jacobs introduces Epiphanius’ life and works, and demonstrates in five case studies how he contributed to discourses on celebrity, conversion, discipline, scripture, and salvation during his lifetime. He concludes with a brief exploration of Epiphanius’ own “After Lives,” first as a Jewish convert and miracle-worker in a fifth-century hagiographic vita , then as a key player in Iconoclasm (on both sides), and finally as a character in a Victorian novel by Thomas Wimberley Mossman. Jacobs succeeds throughout in putting Epiphanius back in his social context, illuminating him, his direct audience, and a larger culture in which Christian bishops increasingly directed the daily lives and choices of congregations all around the Mediterranean sea. This is a well-written and well-argued book which all scholars of Late Antiquity and Early Christianity can read with benefit. Jacobs situates his scholarship in a groundswell of work on Epiphanius and his later fourth-century context, especially by his mentor Liz Clark, Frank Williams (translator of the Panarion , 2009–2013), and Young Richard Kim (translator of Epiphanius’ Ancoratus , 2014, and author of a 2015 monograph on Epiphanius). Jacobs starts with Epiphanius’ own writings. These include the treatises Ancoratus and the Panarion , two biblical commentaries preserved mainly in translation, and his letters (especially those to his student Jerome, and to Basil of Caesarea). Ancoratus is presented as a reply of circa 373–4 sent to the churches of Asia Minor, on …
Messene, founded in 369 bce, was the central city-state of ancient Messenia in the southwestern P... more Messene, founded in 369 bce, was the central city-state of ancient Messenia in the southwestern Peloponnese of Greece. The excavated site, with extensive ruins of the Hellenistic and Roman eras, lies below Mount Ithome's sanctuary of Zeus, a spiritual and military center for resistance to Sparta before the foundation of the city. Pausanias and epigraphy are the main sources for Messene's political and religious development. The site has a well-preserved stadium, fortification walls, Asklepieion, Agora, and theater. Keywords: archaeology; Greek history; historical archaeology; urban history
The final program of the second annual meeting of the Mediterranean Archaeology Australasian Rese... more The final program of the second annual meeting of the Mediterranean Archaeology Australasian Research Community: 31 January - 2 February 2022 via Zoom, co-hosted by the University of Melbourne and the University of Auckland
We are inviting proposals for papers through the following 6 themed sessions:
1) Reflection in... more We are inviting proposals for papers through the following 6 themed sessions:
1) Reflection in the Mediterranean worlds: from mirrors to digital humanities (Session Organizers: Goran Đurđević - Beijing Foreign Studies University and Tom Keep - University of Melbourne
The panel Reflection in the Mediterranean world deals with two parts of reflection or reverse image linked with mirrors and polished surfaces. The first one is reflection produced by water or mirrors in the ancient Mediterranean including Egyptians, Etruscans and Greco-Roman world. The other concept discussed is reflection in the digital world and digital humanities including photogrammetry and big data. The linking point of various papers is reflection as more than reverse image and authors analyze reflection in the political, cultural, social and functional context of ancient Mediterranean political entities.
2) The Archaeology of pre-Roman South Italy (Session Organizer: Ted Robinson (University of Sydney)
3) Gendered Landscape (Session Organizers: Larissa Tittl - University of Melbourne and Caroline Tully - University of Melbourne)
Gender can be thought of as the constructed set of roles, activities and behaviours that are socially assigned to the sexed human body. Gender is defined differentially across cultural groups, and because this was also the case in the past, the importance of gender is now widely recognised in archaeology. Gender archaeology seeks to understand women and men and their interactions with other people, animals, objects and places in the past, as well as contemporary archaeological practices based on cultural assumptions about sex.
Landscape can also be associated with gender: gendered bodies move through and across landscapes, and the landscape itself can also be thought of as a gendered body. Here, we can find a landscape archaeology that foregrounds the investigation of relationships between gender and environmental, geographical, social and symbolic space.
This session calls for contributors who research gender in the context of landscape, across the Mediterranean in both space and time: Neolithic to Late Antiquity; the coastlines, hinterlands and connected places that comprise the Mediterranean in the widest geographical and theoretical sense. We might consider the following: how is gender implicated in the formation of social landscapes? What gender power dynamics are evident in the transformation of natural landscapes into cultural landscapes? What intersections are present between gender, embodiment, status, ethnicity and natural, built or imagined environments? We invite both theoretically informed papers—including those with new, radical or experimental approaches—and papers based in rich interpretations of fieldwork and survey data, or museum collections. Also welcome are papers that incorporate textual and epigraphical evidence alongside archaeological material.
4) The Archaeology of Cyprus (Session Organizers: Craig Barker - Chau Chak Wing Museum/University of Sydney and Jennifer Webb - La Trobe University)
Australian interest and involvement in the archaeological investigations of Cyprus have a long and distinguished history dating from the work of James R.B. Stewart beginning in the 1930s and 1950s, through to more recent decades including La Trobe University’s excavations at Marki Aloni and the University of Sydney’s work at the Hellenistic-Roman theatre of Nea Paphos.
Australian and Australian-born researchers are today engaged in a variety of archaeological investigations of the island from the Early Bronze Age to the Medieval era.
This panel will present on a range of topics that are diverse spatially and temporally. Uniting them are a number of key themes that will be explored by presenters: the unique material cultural developments of Cyprus throughout antiquities; the theoretical framework of understanding insularity and internationalism within a dynamic island environment; the growth and development of urban and funeral patterns of behaviour on the island; domestic and international influences throughout time; and the significant role played by Australian researchers for more than nine decades.
5) Representations of Ancient, Medieval & Modern Mediterranean Women (Session Organizer: Amelia Brown - University of Queensland)
Extant visual representations of ancient, medieval or early modern Mediterranean women are layered with meaning, whether those representations depict human or divine, historical or mythological, Christian or Muslim women. Physical manifestations of the human female form beyond the children born of living women all still embody social, political and cultural spheres in which they were created, received and then transmitted to the present day. Over time, most of these physical images of bodies have been altered, sometimes violently, and all have endured through multiple changes of viewership and significance across myriad cultures and times. Their encoded meanings have been reinterpreted, remade or even wholly reimagined.
Modern and now Post-Modern (or Anthropocene?) and culturally-specific perceptions of women, the female body and gender have also greatly influenced the ways in which ancient and medieval female imagery has been interpreted. Ancient and medieval imagery of women has been, and still is, harnessed as a positive encouragement for self-confidence in some spheres and weaponised in others, either to action or to attack modern feminist (and other) agendas in academic, popular and international discourse.
This panel will explore a variety of ways in which women are represented in the material culture of the ancient, medieval and/or modern Mediterranean cultures (or their receptions); the processes by which these images were made, and how meaning was created, attached to these images, and changed; and the ways in which specific physical depictions of women have changed over media, time and different cultural contexts.
Papers are invited that:
- contribute to the discussion of women and gender representation in ancient material culture;
- examine reception of ancient, medieval or modern imagery of women in late ancient, medieval, modern or post-modern Mediterranean cultures; or
- engage with intersectional discourses such as queer studies, race and ethnicity studies, or disability studies.
6) Disability in History and Archaeology (Session Organizers: Hannah Vogel - Macquarie University and Sarah Massingham - Macquarie University)
Disability is a constant phenomenon throughout human history. However, diversity within the experience of disability has been largely understudied and undertheorised in the disciplines of history and archaeology. In addition to a lack of critical study on disability in the ancient past, the experience of disability and ableism for scholars researching the ancient world is underrepresented in academic discourse.
As such, this panel explores the complex concepts and experiences of disability, ableism, chronic pain, health and wellbeing, bodily differences and accessibility in history and archaeology broadly defined. The scope of this panel includes historical and archaeological evidence of disability and related themes in the ancient world, focusing on the Mediterranean region, as well as experiences of disabled scholars/scholars with a disability in the study of history and archaeology in Australasia.
This rather unconventional panel will include several traditional paper presentations with time for questions, as well as a roundtable discussion between the panelists, before opening to a Q&A session. Breaks, closed captions, transcripts and accessible slides will be worked into the panel in an attempt to demonstrate accessibility best-practice. We hope to set a standard for accessibility and develop an open forum in which disability in history and archaeology (both in the ancient world and today in these disciplines) can be discussed in a constructive manner that incites collaborative future research.
Additionally, we are also inviting paper proposals for a general (non-themed) session.
We are inviting proposals for papers through 9 themed sessions.
SESSION 1 - NEW SITES FROM OLD ... more We are inviting proposals for papers through 9 themed sessions.
SESSION 1 - NEW SITES FROM OLD Session Organizers: David Frankel, La Trobe University and Jenny Webb, La Trobe University and the University of Cyprus
SESSION 2 - PLACE AND BEYOND: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD OF LOCALITY AND EXTERNAL CONTACTS Session Organizer: Stavros A. Paspalas, Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens
SESSION 3 - MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE AND THE RISE AND CONTINUING DEVELOPMENT OF COMPLEX SOCIETY Session Organizer: Holly Winter, University of Sydney
SESSION 4 - WOMEN FROM AUSTRALASIA IN MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE (PANEL SPONSORED BY AWAWS) Session organisers: Candace Richards, The University of Sydney and Amelia Brown, University of Queensland
SESSION 5 - MEDITERRANEAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS IN AUSTRALIA IN 2021 – RESEARCH, ACCESS AND LEGACY Session Organizers: Candace Richards, The University of Sydney/The Nicholson Museum, Josh Emmitt, University of Auckland and Rebecca Phillips, University of Auckland
SESSION 6 - FROM FIELD TO TABLE: FOOD AND BEVERAGE PRODUCTION, PROCESSING, AND CONSUMPTION Session Conveners: Sophia Aharonovich, Macquarie University and Emlyn Dodd, Macquarie University
SESSION 7 - PAPHOS THEATRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT 25: A QUARTER CENTURY OF AUSTRALIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF HELLENISTIC-ROMAN CYPRUS Session Organizer: Craig Barker, The University of Sydney
SESSION 8 - PRE- AND EARLY ROMAN ITALY: SETTLEMENT, SOCIETY AND ECONOMY Session Organizers: Gijs Tol, University of Melbourne and Jeremy Armstrong, University of Auckland
SESSION 9 – SACRED GEOGRAPHIES: LANDSCAPE AND RELIGION IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN Session Organizers: Larissa Tittl, University of Melbourne and Caroline Tully, University of Melbourne
All welcome to the Athens Greek Religion Seminar. Sessions take place on selected Tuesdays, at 17... more All welcome to the Athens Greek Religion Seminar. Sessions take place on selected Tuesdays, at 17h Athens time, starting September 7. The first two seminars will be digital and links are available a week before each event. We look forward to a semester of stimulating discussions!
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1) Reflection in the Mediterranean worlds: from mirrors to digital humanities (Session Organizers: Goran Đurđević - Beijing Foreign Studies University and Tom Keep - University of Melbourne
The panel Reflection in the Mediterranean world deals with two parts of reflection or reverse image linked with mirrors and polished surfaces. The first one is reflection produced by water or mirrors in the ancient Mediterranean including Egyptians, Etruscans and Greco-Roman world. The other concept discussed is reflection in the digital world and digital humanities including photogrammetry and big data. The linking point of various papers is reflection as more than reverse image and authors analyze reflection in the political, cultural, social and functional context of ancient Mediterranean political entities.
2) The Archaeology of pre-Roman South Italy (Session Organizer: Ted Robinson (University of Sydney)
3) Gendered Landscape (Session Organizers: Larissa Tittl - University of Melbourne and Caroline Tully - University of Melbourne)
Gender can be thought of as the constructed set of roles, activities and behaviours that are socially assigned to the sexed human body. Gender is defined differentially across cultural groups, and because this was also the case in the past, the importance of gender is now widely recognised in archaeology. Gender archaeology seeks to understand women and men and their interactions with other people, animals, objects and places in the past, as well as contemporary archaeological practices based on cultural assumptions about sex.
Landscape can also be associated with gender: gendered bodies move through and across landscapes, and the landscape itself can also be thought of as a gendered body. Here, we can find a landscape archaeology that foregrounds the investigation of relationships between gender and environmental, geographical, social and symbolic space.
This session calls for contributors who research gender in the context of landscape, across the Mediterranean in both space and time: Neolithic to Late Antiquity; the coastlines, hinterlands and connected places that comprise the Mediterranean in the widest geographical and theoretical sense. We might consider the following: how is gender implicated in the formation of social landscapes? What gender power dynamics are evident in the transformation of natural landscapes into cultural landscapes? What intersections are present between gender, embodiment, status, ethnicity and natural, built or imagined environments? We invite both theoretically informed papers—including those with new, radical or experimental approaches—and papers based in rich interpretations of fieldwork and survey data, or museum collections. Also welcome are papers that incorporate textual and epigraphical evidence alongside archaeological material.
4) The Archaeology of Cyprus (Session Organizers: Craig Barker - Chau Chak Wing Museum/University of Sydney and Jennifer Webb - La Trobe University)
Australian interest and involvement in the archaeological investigations of Cyprus have a long and distinguished history dating from the work of James R.B. Stewart beginning in the 1930s and 1950s, through to more recent decades including La Trobe University’s excavations at Marki Aloni and the University of Sydney’s work at the Hellenistic-Roman theatre of Nea Paphos.
Australian and Australian-born researchers are today engaged in a variety of archaeological investigations of the island from the Early Bronze Age to the Medieval era.
This panel will present on a range of topics that are diverse spatially and temporally. Uniting them are a number of key themes that will be explored by presenters: the unique material cultural developments of Cyprus throughout antiquities; the theoretical framework of understanding insularity and internationalism within a dynamic island environment; the growth and development of urban and funeral patterns of behaviour on the island; domestic and international influences throughout time; and the significant role played by Australian researchers for more than nine decades.
5) Representations of Ancient, Medieval & Modern Mediterranean Women (Session Organizer: Amelia Brown - University of Queensland)
Extant visual representations of ancient, medieval or early modern Mediterranean women are layered with meaning, whether those representations depict human or divine, historical or mythological, Christian or Muslim women. Physical manifestations of the human female form beyond the children born of living women all still embody social, political and cultural spheres in which they were created, received and then transmitted to the present day. Over time, most of these physical images of bodies have been altered, sometimes violently, and all have endured through multiple changes of viewership and significance across myriad cultures and times. Their encoded meanings have been reinterpreted, remade or even wholly reimagined.
Modern and now Post-Modern (or Anthropocene?) and culturally-specific perceptions of women, the female body and gender have also greatly influenced the ways in which ancient and medieval female imagery has been interpreted. Ancient and medieval imagery of women has been, and still is, harnessed as a positive encouragement for self-confidence in some spheres and weaponised in others, either to action or to attack modern feminist (and other) agendas in academic, popular and international discourse.
This panel will explore a variety of ways in which women are represented in the material culture of the ancient, medieval and/or modern Mediterranean cultures (or their receptions); the processes by which these images were made, and how meaning was created, attached to these images, and changed; and the ways in which specific physical depictions of women have changed over media, time and different cultural contexts.
Papers are invited that:
- contribute to the discussion of women and gender representation in ancient material culture;
- examine reception of ancient, medieval or modern imagery of women in late ancient, medieval, modern or post-modern Mediterranean cultures; or
- engage with intersectional discourses such as queer studies, race and ethnicity studies, or disability studies.
6) Disability in History and Archaeology (Session Organizers: Hannah Vogel - Macquarie University and Sarah Massingham - Macquarie University)
Disability is a constant phenomenon throughout human history. However, diversity within the experience of disability has been largely understudied and undertheorised in the disciplines of history and archaeology. In addition to a lack of critical study on disability in the ancient past, the experience of disability and ableism for scholars researching the ancient world is underrepresented in academic discourse.
As such, this panel explores the complex concepts and experiences of disability, ableism, chronic pain, health and wellbeing, bodily differences and accessibility in history and archaeology broadly defined. The scope of this panel includes historical and archaeological evidence of disability and related themes in the ancient world, focusing on the Mediterranean region, as well as experiences of disabled scholars/scholars with a disability in the study of history and archaeology in Australasia.
This rather unconventional panel will include several traditional paper presentations with time for questions, as well as a roundtable discussion between the panelists, before opening to a Q&A session. Breaks, closed captions, transcripts and accessible slides will be worked into the panel in an attempt to demonstrate accessibility best-practice. We hope to set a standard for accessibility and develop an open forum in which disability in history and archaeology (both in the ancient world and today in these disciplines) can be discussed in a constructive manner that incites collaborative future research.
Additionally, we are also inviting paper proposals for a general (non-themed) session.
Proposals for papers should be sent to mediterraneanarchaeology@gmail.com and must include the following information:
· Title of the Paper
· Name, affiliation and email of the proposer(s)
· Title of the session in which you would like to offer a paper (one of the advertised themed sessions or the open session)
· A short abstract of your proposed paper (of not more than 200 words)
Papers will be 20 minutes with 10 minutes question time.
The final list of speakers for each session will be decided by the session organisers in consultation with the MAARC 2022 local organizing committee.
The deadline for the submission of all paper and poster proposals is the 19th of December 2021.
SESSION 1 - NEW SITES FROM OLD
Session Organizers: David Frankel, La Trobe University and Jenny Webb, La Trobe University and the University of Cyprus
SESSION 2 - PLACE AND BEYOND: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD OF LOCALITY AND EXTERNAL CONTACTS
Session Organizer: Stavros A. Paspalas, Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens
SESSION 3 - MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE AND THE RISE AND CONTINUING DEVELOPMENT OF COMPLEX SOCIETY
Session Organizer: Holly Winter, University of Sydney
SESSION 4 - WOMEN FROM AUSTRALASIA IN MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE (PANEL SPONSORED BY AWAWS)
Session organisers: Candace Richards, The University of Sydney and Amelia Brown, University of Queensland
SESSION 5 - MEDITERRANEAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS IN AUSTRALIA IN 2021 – RESEARCH, ACCESS AND LEGACY
Session Organizers: Candace Richards, The University of Sydney/The Nicholson Museum, Josh Emmitt, University of Auckland and Rebecca Phillips, University of Auckland
SESSION 6 - FROM FIELD TO TABLE: FOOD AND BEVERAGE PRODUCTION, PROCESSING, AND CONSUMPTION
Session Conveners: Sophia Aharonovich, Macquarie University and Emlyn Dodd, Macquarie University
SESSION 7 - PAPHOS THEATRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT 25: A QUARTER CENTURY OF AUSTRALIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF HELLENISTIC-ROMAN CYPRUS
Session Organizer: Craig Barker, The University of Sydney
SESSION 8 - PRE- AND EARLY ROMAN ITALY: SETTLEMENT, SOCIETY AND ECONOMY
Session Organizers: Gijs Tol, University of Melbourne and Jeremy Armstrong, University of Auckland
SESSION 9 – SACRED GEOGRAPHIES: LANDSCAPE AND RELIGION IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
Session Organizers: Larissa Tittl, University of Melbourne and Caroline Tully, University of Melbourne