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SUMMARY:Mary E. Voyatzis\, "Exploring Sacred Landscapes in the Mountains of Arcadia"
DESCRIPTION: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 moon (Proselenoi)\, and the original inhabitants of Greece (Pelasgoi). During the Renaissance\, Arcadia was depicted in art as a beautiful\, pristine\, and magical place with unspoiled wilderness. By the 19th c. European travelers were exploring the region\, and later in the century archaeologists began excavating its various sites. For over 140 years Arcadia has been investigated by archaeologists from Greece and many other countries in Europe and North America. In this illustrated lecture\, Professor Mary Voyatzis considers some of the sites recently excavated in Arcadia\, and focuses on two where she has been involved\, the Sanctuary of Athena Alea at Tegea\, and the Sanctuary of Zeus on Mt. Lykaion. We shall see how archaeological discoveries have contributed significantly to our understanding of the history of Arcadia and enhanced our appreciation of this enchanting mountainous region. \nMary E. Voyatzis is Professor in the School of Anthropology and the Department of Religious Studies and Classics at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Her research areas involve Ancient Greek ritual and religion\, sanctuaries and their development over time\, and ancient Greek pottery. Dr. Voyatzis was a Principal Investigator in the excavations at the sanctuary of Athena Alea at Tegea\, 1990-1994\, and she is currently a co-director of the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey project (since 2004). \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. Additional co-sponsors include the Hellenic Cultural Foundation of Tucson and the Panarcadian Federation of America\, Nea Mantineia Chapter #102. \n 
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/mary-e-voyatzis-exploring-sacred-landscapes-in-the-mountains-of-arcadia/
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SUMMARY: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"
DESCRIPTION: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 of ancient history have been commented on more and more often as the Battle of Actium. Admittedly\, it was the beginning of a new world and\, above all\, the beginning of Octavian’s “monarchy\,” while historians since antiquity have been attributing to the battle the dimensions of a symbol. \nAfter the victory\, Octavian\, who is known in history as Augustus\, undertook a series of actions aimed at the economic and social reorganization of northwestern Greece\, while incorporating elements of political and religious propaganda. Specifically\, he founded a city which he named Nikopolis\, i.e. Victory City\, renovated the sanctuary of Apollo at Actium\, and on a hill sacred to Apollo at the outskirts of the new city\, where he had encamped\, erected a Victory Monument. Excavations at this imposing\, extravagant monument over the past few decades\, have revealed a wealth of finds\, some of astonishing artistic rendering\, which represent the victor’s earliest surviving statement regarding the Actian War. \nKonstantinos Zachos is an archaeologist interested in various aspects of Aegean Prehistory and Roman archaeology\, as well as of the archaeology of Epiros. He holds a B.A. from the University of Thessaloniki and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Boston University. During his graduate studies in Boston\, he attended seminars at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)\, Harvard University and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. After his graduate studies\, he entered the Greek Archaeological Service\, worked in several Ephorates of Antiquities and was promoted to Ephor of Antiquities.  He conducted post graduate research as a Privat “Dozent” at the Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte of the University of Heidelberg. \nHe has excavated widely in Epiros\, Peloponnesos\, the Cyclades\, and in Albania. He was the director of the systematic excavation at the Zas Cave in Naxos\, which contributed significantly to the prehistory of Cyclades. \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. \nThis lecture will be offered by ZOOM.
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/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/
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SUMMARY:Greek Book Club: Κάτι θα γίνει\, θα δεις του Χρήστου Οικονόμου
DESCRIPTION:Δεκάξι ιστορίες από τα Καμίνια\, τη Νίκαια\, τη Δραπετσώνα. Από τον ντόκο των Κρητικών\, από το ουζερί “Υπάρχω”\, από το φουγάρο της ΔΕΗ στο Κερατσίνι. Ιστορίες για τράπεζες που παίρνουν σπίτια\, για σπίτια που παίρνουν φωτιά\, για όνειρα που γίνονται στάχτη. Για το σκοτάδι που ζει στη διπλανή πόρτα. Κάτι θα γίνει όμως\, θα δεις. Γιατί εκεί όπου μεγαλώνει ο φόβος μεγαλώνει κι εκείνο που σώζει από τον φόβο. (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου) \n“Φτώχεια\, ανεργία\, ανασφάλεια απέναντι στους μετανάστες\, βία\, χαμένα όρια\, αλλά και έξω καρδιά κι αλληλεγγύη. Όχι\, δεν πρόκειται περί λούμπεν. Στο επίκεντρο της αφήγησης του Οικονόμου στέκει ο σύγχρονος προλετάριος\, γηγενής ή μετανάστης\, με ή χωρίς ταξική συνείδηση. Νικαιώτης και ο ίδιος\, ο συγγραφέας δεν τον παραμορφώνει μέσα από το φακό μιας προσποιητής συμπάθειας\, δεν επιχειρεί να τον εξιδανικεύει. Προσπαθεί απλώς να τον δείξει όπως είναι.\nΑνοίγοντας μια μεγαλύτερη συζήτηση για τη σύγχρονη ελληνική λογοτεχνία\, νομίζω ότι είναι ευχάριστο το γεγονός ότι\, ύστερα από μια αρκετά μεγάλη περίοδο ομφαλοσκόπησης\, πληθαίνουν ξανά τα κείμενα που ασχολούνται με την πολιτική και ιδίως αυτά που κοιτούν κατάφατσα τη σημερινή κοινωνία. Ιδιαίτερα όταν πρόκειται για συγγραφείς της νεότερης γενιάς\, όπως καλή ώρα ο 40χρονος Οικονόμου.\nΗ θεματική του είναι σαφώς ρεαλιστική\, ίσως ακόμη και νατουραλιστική\, όμως η τεχνική του φέρνει πιο κοντά στο μοντερνισμό: εναλλαγές σε πρωτοπρόσωπη\, δευτεροπρόσωπη και τριτοπρόσωπη αφήγηση\, φράσεις που κόβονται στη λέξη\, κοντινά πλάνα αλλά και αποστασιοποιημένες ματιές\, χαρακτήρες που μεταφέρονται από τη μια ιστορία στην άλλη.\nΟ Οικονόμου γνωρίζει τα τερτίπια της δύσκολης και απαιτητικής μικρής φόρμας. Ο λόγος του είναι κοφτός και συμπυκνωμένος. Ξέρει πρώτα από όλα να πλάθει καλοσχηματισμένους χαρακτήρες στα στενά όρια που του επιβάλλει αυτή η φόρμα.\nΔιηγήματα όπως το “Πλακάτ με σκουπόξυλο”\, όπου μιλάει για τα εργατικά ατυχήματα που συμβαίνουν καθημερινά εξαιτίας της πλεονεξίας της εργοδοσίας\, ή το ελεγειακό “Μάο” (“σε γαμάω”)\, σκληρό σχόλιο πάνω στην τυφλή βία που ευδοκιμεί στις υπανάπτυκτες συνοικίες\, είναι για αναγνώστες με υψηλό κριτήριο αλλά και με γερό στομάχι”. (ΘΑΝΑΣΗΣ ΜΗΝΑΣ\, ATHENS VOICE\, 9/6/2010) \nTo participate\, email Dr. Simos Zenios: szenios@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/greek-book-club-2/
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SUMMARY:Artemis Leontis\, "Going after Eva Palmer Sikelianos"
DESCRIPTION:For more than a decade\, Artemis Leontis has carried out a recovery project researching and writing the life of Eva Palmer Sikelianos\, publishing her biography in 2019. Leontis knew Palmer as a shadowy figure in Greek cultural history\, known mostly as the wealthy American wife of the Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos\, who spent all her money on his projects. Through intensive detective work\, she has uncovered a bigger\, more complicated story of a brilliant\, beautiful\, countercultural\, queer woman who may be the most influential philhellene after Lord Byron. In this talk\, she will speak of going “after” Eva Palmer Sikelianos in the double sense of pursuit and succession. She will recount some of her adventures pursuing the hidden archival resources of Palmer’s life\, then foreground the stakes of modern encounters with the ancient Greeks in the light of spectrums of meaning found in Palmer’ legacy. \nArtemis Leontis is C. P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. Her field of specialization is Modern Greek Studies: the study of Greeks\, the Greek language\, migrations in and out of Greece by various ethnic groups\, and the idea of Greece cultivated in the West in the modern period. Greece gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in the 1820s by arguing historical descent from Greek antiquity. Henceforth the desire to align a corporeal\, living Greekness with the idea of Greece cultivated in the West became a driving force in the country’s cultural production. Her first book\, Topographies of Hellenism: Mapping the Homeland\, compared Westerner’s projections of their collective fantasies on Greece and Greek literary modernism’s reterritorialization of those projections. It traced how Greeks inscribed the texts\, materials\, and geographical notions of Hellenism onto their national space: the forms of adaptation\, resistance\, and opposition to Western interventions they developed and deployed. Since the publication of that book\, her inquiry into competing figurations of Greekness has expanded in several new directions. Her other book projects include Greece: A Travelers’ Literary Companion (1997) published by Whereabouts Press in a series that introduces English language readers to countries through those countries’ own writers; and Culture and Customs of Greece\, written for a trade press to introduce students and general readers to countries of the world through a presentation of present-day cultural phenomena. Her multi-media interests are especially apparent in her investigation of the life and work of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874-1952). The Bryn Mawr-educated American visionary lived in Greece from 1907 to 1933 and was married to poet Angelos Sikelianos. She worked for a lifetime to animate the lost Greek life suggested by ancient ruins and living practices. Her writing of this book took her on a 10-year journey to recover the traces of her life\, from the “Eva Sikelianou Papers” in the Benaki Museum Historical Archives to letters and artifacts collected (and sometimes hidden) in unexpected places such as the Center for Asia Minor Studies in Athens. \nRSVP & Registration
URL:https://hellenic.ucla.edu/event/artemis-leontis-going-after-eva-palmer-sikelianos/
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CATEGORIES:Community,Hellenic,Lecture,Modern Greece,Theater
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