[MGSA-L] Mary Jaharis Center Lecture Series: Eurydice Georganteli (Harvard Univ), "Changing Landscapes: Urban Space and Economic Life in Saint Paul's Balkan Stops, 4th–7th Centuries"

[Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture]

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Many thanks,
Brandie Ratliff
Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture

Announcement
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The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to
announce the first talk in its 2013-2014 lecture series. On December
3, 2013, at 4pm, Dr. Eurydice Georganteli (Harvard University) will
present "Changing Landscapes: Urban Space and Economic Life in Saint
Paul's Balkan Stops, 4th–7th Centuries." Focusing on the sites St.
Paul visited on the Balkan peninsula in 49 or 50 AD, Dr. Georganteli
will trace the dramatic religious, political, and economic changes
that occurred in the region across four centuries. Please join us
afterward for wine and refreshments.

Tuesday, December 3, 2013, 4:00–5:30 pm
The Archbishop Iakovos Library, Reading Room
Hellenic College Holy Cross
50 Goddard Avenue
Brookline, MA 02445

For those traveling by T, shuttles will run between the Brookline
Village T stop and HCHC. HCHC vans will leave the Brookline Village T
stop at 3:15 and 3:40. Shuttles will run between campus and the
Brookline Village T stop following the reception.

Please contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac at hchc.edu), Director, Mary
Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture with any questions.

LECTURE ABSTRACT

When St Paul and his companions Silas, Timothy and Luke, disembarked
at the busy port of Neapolis the year was 49 or 50 AD, and the area
had been a Roman province since 167 BC and the consolidation of Roman
power in the Antigonid kingdom of Macedonia. St Paul’s crossing from
Asia to Europe and his travels across Roman Greece changed forever the
local society, culture and the urban landscape in which that society
lived and died. This lecture explores the changing face of St Paul’s
Balkan stops from the fourth through the seventh century, a period of
profound political, administrative, economic and religious changes.
The rise of Philippi and Amphipolis as major pilgrimage destinations,
Thessaloniki’s urban continuity and architectural splendor, and the
dwindling fortunes of the old and established cities of Athens and
Corinth, are some of the subjects which will be discussed in the light
of written sources, topographical analysis and the latest
archaeological discoveries.

SPEAKER BIO
Eurydice Georganteli was born in Greece and educated at the Aristotle
University in Thessaloniki, and the Universities of Oxford and
Cambridge in the UK. She has worked for the Hellenic Ministry of
Culture and the British Museum before her appointment in 2000 as the
Keeper of Coins and Lecturer in Numismatics at the University of
Birmingham, UK. Currently on research leave (2013–2016) at Harvard
University as Marie Curie International Fellow in Byzantine
Archaeology, Eurydice is writing a book on the medieval Via Egnatia,
one of Europe’s oldest cultural routes. A prize-winning teacher and
writer, Eurydice has lectured and has held research fellowships and
visiting positions in Europe and the United States. She is Fellow of
the Society of Antiquaries of London, member of national and
international Numismatic and Byzantine Studies committees, and a
regular contributor to television and radio programs on archaeology
and monetary history.

ABOUT THE MARY JAHARIS CENTER FOR BYZANTINE ART AND CULTURE
Founded in 2010 through a generous gift from the Jaharis Family
Foundation, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is
dedicated to the promotion and advancement of knowledge about the rich
heritage of Byzantine art and culture. The Mary Jaharis Center’s
location on the Hellenic College Holy Cross campus provides a unique
opportunity to foster Byzantine studies within an Orthodox Christian
community. The Center sponsors a wide range of public programming,
including lectures, conferences, and concerts, aimed at a broad
audience, supports the study of Byzantium through grants and other
resources, and maintains a vibrant Internet and social media presence.

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