Archaeology

Name: Konstantinos Zachos, “Excavations at the Victory Monument of Octavian Augustus at Nikopolis, Epiros: A Monument that Marks the Turning Point in the History of the Ancient World”
Start: 2020-10-10T10:00:00-07:00
End: 2020-10-10T12:00:00-07:00

November 2019
Polyxeni Adam-Veleni, “Thessaloniki: A Metro-Polis through the Centuries”

Featured November 17, 2019 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Royce Hall, 314 10745 Dickson Ct., Los Angeles, CA, United States

Throughout the course of excavations during the construction of the Metropolitan Railway in modern Thessaloniki, important finds were brought to light at seven stations: an unknown Roman cemetery of a wealthy settlement, and many burials and funerary structures in the eastern and western necropoleis of the ancient city. The excavations of two central stations at...

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June 2020
Irini Papageorgiou, “Rites of Passage: The Wedding Rituals in Classical Athens”

June 11, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Irini Papageorgiou is Curator of the Department of Prehistoric, Ancient Greek, and Roman Collections at the Benaki Museum To receive a Zoom link for this lecture, please RSVP to hellenic@humnet.ucla.edu
October 2020
Mary E. Voyatzis, “Exploring Sacred Landscapes in the Mountains of Arcadia”

October 3, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

The mountainous region of Arcadia, situated in the heart of the Peloponnese, has attracted considerable interest and attention since antiquity. Many ancient authors described Arcadia in detail, discussing its rich mythology, many sites, unusual gods, numerous sanctuaries, engaging history, diverse geography, and the important fact that its inhabitants were indigenous, living there even before the...
Konstantinos Zachos, “Excavations at the Victory Monument of Octavian Augustus at Nikopolis, Epiros: A Monument that Marks the Turning Point in the History of the Ancient World”

October 10, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

On September 2, 31 BC, Octavian’s forces defeat those of Mark Antony and the queen of Egypt Cleopatra off the western coast of Greece. The battle is known as the Battle of Actium, after the name of the peninsula at the entrance of the Ambracian Gulf, where an ancient sanctuary to Apollo existed. Few episodes...

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Archaeology

November 2019

Polyxeni Adam-Veleni, “Thessaloniki: A Metro-Polis through the Centuries”

June 2020

Irini Papageorgiou, “Rites of Passage: The Wedding Rituals in Classical Athens”

October 2020

Mary E. Voyatzis, “Exploring Sacred Landscapes in the Mountains of Arcadia”

Konstantinos Zachos, “Excavations at the Victory Monument of Octavian Augustus at Nikopolis, Epiros: A Monument that Marks the Turning Point in the History of the Ancient World”