EVENT: Fifth Talk of Liverpool’s Work in Progress Seminar Series (Wednesday 15th March)

The Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology department at the University of Liverpool is delighted to announce the fifth talk for the Work in Progress (WiP) seminar series. Façade of the Celsus library, in Ephesus, near Selçuk, west Turkey. Source: Benh LIEU SONG, 2010, Wikimedia Commons,  Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (no changes made). Dr Paolo Costa …

EVENT: Gina Coulthard Memorial Lecture (13th January 2023)

The University of London are hosting a memorial lecture dedicated to Gina Coulthard, the former British Institue at Ankara (BIAA) London Administrator and manager of several BIAA publications. The event is to take place on Friday 13th January 2023. The lecture is to be given by Jane Rempel (University of Sheffield), and will focus on …

EVENT: Online Lecture on Herakleia-under-Latmos (5th January 2023)

Dr Zeliha Gider Büyüközer (Selçuk University Faculty of Letters) is giving an online lecture via Zoom on Herakleia-under-Latmos on Tuesday 5th January 2023 at 20:00 (17:00 GMT). Zoom link:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85411641668?pwd=SWpnbHpwUU92SjZyZWxpdXU2S0lsQT09 Meeting ID: 854 1164 1668Passcode: 869876

EVENT: Migrations in Iron Age Western Anatolia workshop

The Institute for Classic Archaeology at the University of Vienna is pleased to announce a one-day workshop Migrations in Iron Age Western Anatolia, organised as part of the Migration and the Making of the Ancient Greek World, a European Research Council funded project at the University of Vienna. The workshop will be structured as a series of …

EVENT: ICS, London – The Troublesome ‘Anatolianness’ of Greek Gods in Ionia (Alan Greaves)

This research seminar is part of the Institute of Classical Studies series on Greek religion. Click the link below for more details. Event Details

EVENT: ‘Between East and West: the case of Dionysius’ “hybridity” in Chariton’s novel Callirhoe’ (Dr Mai Musié, University of Oxford)

This paper will focus on Dionysius, the aristocrat of Miletus who has come to serve the Persian Great King. Dionysius is associated with Greek paideia, but as a Milesian and Ionian occupies a position of cultural fluidity between Greek West and Persian East. His access to more than one cultural identity means his identity can …

NEWS: Milesian Tales 2018 Lecture

John Brendan Knight (Liverpool) 15.00-16.00 11th May 2018, Rendall SR3, University of Liverpool Miletos and Lydia beyond Herodotus. The relationship between Miletos and Lydia in the Archaic period, viewed through the lens of Herodotus, has often been categorised as one of mutual enmity. Yet, there also exists much evidence to suggest close socio-cultural connections between …

NEWS: The Classical Greek Historians Study Day (12/05/18)

On Saturday the 5th of May 2018, Milesian Tales' John Brendan Knight will be running a study day through Liverpool University's department of Continuing Education. It will focus on the three main Classical Greek historians: Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon.  Through their narratives the course will explore the origin of historical writing, thematic elements, and political …

NEWS: Panels on Ionia at Classical Association in Leicester

There will be two panels on Ionia at the Classical Association Annual Conference in Leicester on Saturday 7th April 2018. The first, chaired by Alan M. Greaves, will be on Archaic East Aegean and the speakers include Elif Koperal, Rik Vaessen, Yasar Ersoy, and Michael Loy. The second panel will be a discussion of the …

NEWS: Shedding Light on the Matter Conference

This workshop aims to create a new approach to the origins of the earliest Greek scientific thought in light of the material and archaeological contexts of archaic Ionia. Dates of workshop: 22nd to 23rd March 2018 University of Cambridge Link to Conference Website *UPDATE 04/02* Extended abstracts of the papers being presented are now available …