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“Logistics in Greek sanctuaries: Exploring the Human Experience of Visiting the Gods” Athens, 13-16 september 2018

Greek sanc­tu­ar­ies have been stud­ied for more than 150 years, but mainly with a fo­cus on tem­ples, stat­ues, mon­u­ments and sac­ri­fi­cial rit­ual. Our con­fer­ence adopts a dif­fer­ent per­spec­tive, that of the hu­man vis­i­tor, in or­der to ex­plore the hands-on, lo­gis­ti­cal ex­pe­ri­ence of some­one com­ing to a Greek sanc­tu­ary. Of in­ter­est is how peo­ple …

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Athens Greek Religion Seminar 2018

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Conference: “Religions and Medicine. From Antiquity to Contemporary Age”

Museum of Religions of Religions “Raffaele Pettazzoni”

Religions and Medicine From Antiquity to Contemporary Age June 5-6-7-8-9, 2018

Sala Micara – Velletri’ Cathedral S. Clemente Place 1, Velletri (Rome)

Program

Accommodation: those people interested in the conference who …

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Thucydides the Athenian: International Conference June 26 – 29, 2018

This conference seeks to put Thucydides back into his native city, exploring the man within his political and social circles, and delving deeper into the realities of Periclean policy and ideology. An international group of scholars will address these questions through analyses of Pericles’ allies and enemies, and Thucydides’ staging of these characters …

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Lecture: O μάκελλος της Θάσου και η ελληνιστική προέλευση του ρωμαϊκού μάκελλου

Lecture

O μάκελλος της Θάσου και η ελληνιστική προέλευση του ρωμαϊκού μάκελλου

Speaker: Jean – Yves Marc, Université de Strasbourg

Presented by: THE CIRCLE: Dialogues on Greek and Roman Architecture

Date: Monday, 21 May 2018, 19:00

Location: Austrian Archaeological Institute, 26 Alexandras avenue, Athens

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Lecture: The Many Faces of the Gods

The French School at Athens and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens are presenting the lecture:

The Many Faces of the Gods: Iconographic Choise in Athenian Divine Statuary of the Roman Period

 

Speaker: Brian Mertens -ASCSA /Lincoln College, Oxford University

Date: Monday, 21 May 2018, 18:00

Location: Lecture Room …

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The Athens Greek Religion Seminar: Lecture

The Athens Greek Religion Seminar orginizes a lecture by

Despina Iosif

Title: When Christians Had Come into the World, the Universe Went to Ruin’. -‘Come on! Christians Do Not Differ From Other People!

The seminar takes place Tuesday May 22, 2018, at 15.00 at the Swedish …

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Call for papers: Exiles, Sanctions and Punisments in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages

“EXILES, SANCTIONS AND PUNISHMENTS IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES” 29th  June 2018 ORGANIZED BY THE BIRKBECKINSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES (BIH), WITH MATTIACHIRIATTI (UNIVERSIDAD DE ALCALÁ DE HENARES*) AND REBECCA DARLEY (BIRKBECK)   Call for papers Exile represented a complex phenomenon in the secular as well as the ecclesiastical sphere throughout the Late …

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Call for Papers: Understanding Hagiography and its Textual Tradition

 

Conference

Understanding Hagiography and its Textual Tradition: the Late Antique and the Early Medieval Period (6th-11th centuries)

University of Lisbon, October 24-26, 2018

Between the sixth and the eleventh centuries, passions, lives of saints, translations of relics, miracles and other hagiographical genres underwent a remarkable …

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Roman Seminar: Lecture by S. Dillon

Roman Seminar by Sheila Dillon (Duke University) is to be held on Thursday 26 April 2018 at 7.00 pm.

Title: «The Roman Imperial-period Portrait Statuary from the Library of Pantainos Complex in the Athenian Agora»

The lecture will take place at the German Archaeological Institute (Pheidiou 1, lecture hall, 2nd floor).

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