The 2020-2021 AIA Lecture Series will culminate with a lecture by our own Dr Greene. Her lecture will discuss her fascinating current research project. Join us on Sunday, March 14th at 3:00pm for “Ephemeral Heritage: Boats, Migration, and the Central Mediterranean Passage”.
Registration for the event can be done by clicking here.
For more information on the AIA Niagara Peninsula Society click here.
Recent excavations in Piazza Emanuele II in Rome have revealed the pleasure gardens, Horti Lamiani, connected with Caligula. An exciting new exhibition is being mounted to display the numerous sculptures and other finds from the site. See the NY Times article for more information.
Brock’s resident expert on ancient Roman gardens, Dr Katharine T. von Stackelberg, was interviewed by Salon to get her take on the importance of the Horti Lamiani. See the Salon article for more.
The AIA Niagara Peninsula Society will welcome Prof Judith Barringer (University of Edinburgh) on Sunday 28 February at 3:00 EST to give a presentation: The Workings of Treasuries in Greek Sanctuaries.
All are welcome to virtually attend the event. Pre-registration is required.
Please visit the AIA Niagara Peninsula page of this website for a link to the registration form or go straight to the MS Form for the registration link.
Many of you will recognize her work from one of the textbooks used in the undergraduate Greek art sequence, The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece.
Apply for the Canadian Classical Association’s Desmond Conacher Scholarship for a $3000 prize, applications are due April 1st.
See the CAC website for details
Dr Liz Greene, from Brock’s Department of Classics, is due to give three upcoming research talks online about maritime archaeology in the ancient Mediterranean. Because of the pandemic these will all be available to join online. Please use the suggested links from the other institutions for further details.
Friday, February 19, 2021 @12:00 PM EST
“Ephemeral Heritage: Migration, Boats and Heritage in the Central Mediterranean Passage.”
Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World Lecture Series, University of Pennsylvania.
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 @6:00 PM EST
“Exchange in the Age of Lyric Poetry: The 6th-century BCE Shipwreck at Pabuç Burnu, Turkey.”
New York Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, New York, NY.
March 2021– Further details TBD
“Ephemeral Heritage: Migration, Boats and Heritage in the Central Mediterranean Passage.”
Department of Classics, Western University, London, ON.
The AIA Niagara Peninsula Society will welcome Dr Kristina Killgrove on Sunday 31 January at 3:00 to give a presentation: Death Comes to Oplontis. Victims of Mt Vesuvius Reveal Life in 79 AD. The talk promises to be a fascinating look into the physical remains of victims of the eruption that covered the Vesuvian lands.
All are welcome to virtually attend the event. Pre-registration is required. Please visit the AIA Niagara Peninsula page of this website for a link to the registration form.
Brock News Story by Alison Innes– Kristina Killgrove
The joint annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the Society for Classical Studies (SCS) was held virtually for the first time Jan 5-10, 2021.
If you are interested in seeing the presentations, you can register and access the recorded sessions for 30 days following the conference.
Be sure to look out for Dr Greene in her research presentation with Justin Leidwanger: “Ephemeral Heritage: Migration, Boats and Heritage in the Central Mediterranean Passage”
and a workshop in which she acted as the respondent: “Examining the Context of Monuments, Monumentality, and Counter-monuments” (sponsored by the Cultural Heritage Committee).
Congratulations to Jazz Demetrioff, a second-year MA student in Classics at Brock, for her two recent publications.
In Past Imperfect, her paper explores how malarial stricken landscapes in ancient Rome, both the city and the marshland, were negatively affected by the parasite, and how it became a problematic infestation in both ecological environments. Jazz’s article originated as a research paper while she was an undergraduate student at the University of Winnipeg. The concept behind this study is related to Jazz’s overall research interests that encompass the study of health, pharmacology and archaeology in Rome. The Past Imperfect journal is a peer-reviewed, graduate student journal based at the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta.
Jazz continues to pursue an interest in health in the ancient world for her current MA research here at Brock with a study of the snake and its association with health in antiquity. Related to this, she has just published a second piece in Electra, a journal published by the Department of Philology at the University of Patras, Greece. Here, she investigates the varied roles that the snake has played in ancient literary sources and material culture with a focus on its role in health.
Well done to Jazz on both of these publications and continuing her research for the MA and beyond.
Congratulations to Dr Angus Smith for winning the Archaeological Institute of America, Anna Marguerite McCann Award for Fieldwork Reports for the 2017 publication of Ayia Sotira: A Mycenaean Chamber Tomb Cemetery in the Nemea Valley, Greece. Prehistory Monographs 56 (R. Angus K. Smith, Mary K. Dabney, Evangelia Pappi, Sevasti Triantaphyllou, James C. Wright).
This volume is the final publication of the results of excavation of six Mycenaean chamber tombs in the Late Bronze Age cemetery of Ayia Sotira within the Nemea Valley of the Argolid region of Greece. The work presented includes artifactual and ecofactual remains such as pottery, jewelry, figurines, metal objects, human skeletons, and botanical remains. The volume represents a tremendous amount of work including three excavation seasons, two study seasons, and an additional seven years for the team to complete the write-up. The excavation was an important one because the site was in the process of being looted. It was not a wealthy group of tombs, but instead belonged to the small farming community of nearby Tsoungiza in the Nemea Valley. Dr Smith explained “it’s demonstrative of the mortuary traditions of a small farming community in the shadow of the much larger and wealthier site of Mycenae.”
The Ayia Sotira team also includes Mary K. Dabney, a Research Associate at Bryn Mawr College; Evangelia Pappi, from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture Ephorate of Antiquities for the Argolid; Sevasti Triantaphyllou, an Associate Professor in Prehistoric Archaeology and Osteoarchaeology at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki; James Wright, a Professor Emeritus of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr, and a former Director of ASCSA.
See the Brock News for the full story!
R. Angus K. Smith, Mary K. Dabney, Evangelia Pappi, Sevasti Triantaphyllou, James C. Wright (2017) Ayia Sotira: A Mycenaean Chamber Tomb Cemetery in the Nemea Valley, Greece. Prehistory Monographs 56.
The Brock News covers the upcoming virtual Saturnalia gathering, the annual celebration thrown by the Department of Classics. Alison Innes explores the idea of what might the Romans have thought of a virtual Saturnalia festival?
