On Thursday, November 29th, Elizabeth Greene will deliver a lecture to the Canadian Society for the Advancement of Turkish Studies titled, “Fluid Technologies: Amphoras and Exchange Mechanisms on the 6th-Century BCE Shipwreck at Pabuç Burnu, Turkey.” The lecture will take place at 6:00 p.m. in 4 Bancroft Hall, Room 200B, at the University of Toronto.
On Thursday November 22, Prof. Allison Glazebrook will deliver a lecture titled “Working Women in Classical Athens.” Sponsored jointly by the Brock Talks series and the Niagara Peninsula Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, the talk will take place from 7-9 pm in the Mills Room of the St Catharines Public Library.
Kudos to Prof. Fanny Dolansky for her contribution, “Household and Family,” in the newly released Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual, edited by R. Uro, J. J. Day, R. Demaris, and R. Roitto.
Check out the Brock news for a writeup of the Department’s International Archaeology Day event, planned by Dr. Murray!
Save the date for an interdisciplinary panel discussion on the Department of Dramatic Arts’ production of Sophocles’ Antigone and the play’s contemporary relevance. Featuring Dr. Nickel and Dr. Rappold as panelists, the discussion will take place on Wednesday, October 31 from 3:00-4:15 pm in the Cairns Atrium.
See the writeup in the Brock News.
Don’t miss Yannis Galanakis’ (University of Cambridge) review of R. Angus K. Smith, Mary K. Dabney, Evangelia Pappi, Sevasti Triantaphyllou, James C. Wright, Ayia Sotira. A Mycenaean Chamber Tomb Cemetery in the Nemea Valley, Greece, Prehistory Monographs 56. Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press, 2017. Pp. xxviii, 202; 54 p. of plates. ISBN 9781931534901. $80.00.
Galanakis writes: …the Ayia Sotira publication of these six small and modestly furnished Mycenaean chamber tombs is the best of its kind yet available in Aegean archaeology. It confirmed a number of aspects previously suspected or hypothesized in scholarship, while also adding extra layers of knowledge with regard to the use of Mycenaean tombs and their associated practices. One can only reiterate the wish of the authors of this volume (pp. 181–182) that similarly rigorous methodologies will be extended in the future to “all Mycenaean cemetery excavations” so that these results can be compared, contextualized, and scrutinized, and so that they may stand as the foundation for further discussion and debate.
Read the rest of the review here or buy a copy by clicking this link.
Don’t miss the new mainstage production of Sophocles’ Antigone from Brock’s Department of Dramatic Arts (DART), adapted and directed by Mike Griffin. Classics professor Adam Rappold served as a consultant for the performance. In an interview with the Brock News, he explains,
“It is a work which manages to be, at once, both bewitchingly alien while still also familiar enough that it could have been ripped from today’s headlines. More pressingly for our current moment, it is likely the voice and personality of Antigone herself who continues to speak to audiences — a powerful and decidedly female scream of rage against iniquity and oppression, which, even after more than two centuries, refuses to be silenced.”
Antigone runs Oct. 26 and Oct. 27 at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 28 at 2 p.m., and Nov. 2 and 3 at 7:30 p.m. There will be a high school matinee on Nov. 2 at 11:30 a.m. The evening performance on Nov. 2 will include an American Sign Language interpreter for members of the deaf and hard-of-hearing community.
The production will run at the Marilyn I. Walker Theatre at Brock’s Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts in downtown St. Catharines.
Tickets for the show are $18 for adults and $15 for students and seniors. There’s also a $10 group rate and a $5 eyeGo high school program rate available. Tickets are available through the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre box office at 905-688-0722 or on the PAC website.
Read more here: https://brocku.ca/media-room/2018/10/15/antigone-explores-modern-ideas-through-classic-greek-tragedy/
On Saturday, September 29 at 11:00 am, Allison Glazebrook will deliver a lecture titled, “The Erotics of Characterization: Problematizing Desire in Lysias 3 and 4.” She is speaking at the Midwestern Ancient Greek History and Theory Colloquium at the University of Toronto. The colloquium will take place 29-30 September in Room 205, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queens Park.
Congratulations to Angus Smith for receiving the 2018 Faculty of Humanities Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity! Smith’s research in mortuary archaeology and Aegean Bronze Age ceramics, as well as his fieldwork in Mochlos, Ayia Sotira, and Gournia, have resulted in important scholarly contributions and myriad opportunities for student learning in the field and in the classroom.
This month’s Archaeology Magazine features an article about the Marzamemi Maritime Heritage Project. Led by Dr. Elizabeth Greene, Brock students participated in the underwater excavation of this late antique shipwreck as part of the Archaeological Practicum in Mediterranean Lands.
“Nearly 1,500 years ago, a Byzantine merchant ship swung perilously close to the Sicilian coastline, its heavy stone cargo doing little to help keep it on course. The ship’s crewmen were probably still clinging to the hope that they could reach a safe harbor such as Syracuse, 25 miles to the north, when a wave lifted the vessel’s 100-foot hull and dashed it on a reef, sending as much as 150 tons of stone to the seafloor. The doomed ship was carrying a large assemblage of prefabricated church decorations—columns, capitals, bases, and even an ornate ambo, or pulpit. These stone pieces lay on the seafloor for 14 centuries until a fisherman spotted some in 1959 while hunting for cuttlefish.”
Read more here: https://www.archaeology.org/issues/309-1809/features/6856-sicily-byzantine-shipwreck.
MA student Esther Knegt sketches two columns beneath a large boulder. In the background, Classics graduate Alex Moore ’18 excavates around another column.
