[MGSA-L] Princeton Hellenic Studies Workshop: October 18, 2013

Dimitri H. Gondicas gondicas at Princeton.EDU
Wed Oct 16 06:21:23 PDT 2013



PRINCETON UNIVERSITY



Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies



Workshop





Sotiris Fotakidis

Hellenic Ministry of Culture; University of Athens


Architectural Sculptures from Middle Byzantine Athens


This dissertation-in-progress talk will present a survey of two collections of Middle Byzantine architectural sculptures, one from Hadrian's Library and the other from the Agora of Athens.  The project will involve: compilation of a catalogue of the relevant architectural sculptures and their classification in ensembles according to decorative types;  archival research at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, surveying the excavation reports of the area, and determining the origin of the middle Byzantine architectural ensemble of the Ancient Agora. A study of the topography of the wider area of the Ancient Agora will also be conducted.  Byzantine texts will be directly or indirectly related to the topography, the architecture and the general picture of the city of Athens and the wider area in the middle Byzantine period, shedding light on the marble-carving workshops of Attica.

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Dimitra Kotoula
Hellenic Ministry of Culture; College Year in Athens

A Modern View of Byzantium?
Georgios Lampakes and the Byzantine Research Fund

This talk will address the reception of Byzantium in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, based on Byzantine recordings in the Greek mainland and the islands. The documentation of the Greek Byzantine heritage by the theologian and archaeologist Georgios Lampakes, as well as the records of leading British architects and artists, members of the Arts and Crafts movement - which now form the so-called Byzantine Research Fund Archive of the British School at Athens - will be examined in juxtaposition to those of other proto-scholars, who were active in the area during this period. To what extent could homogenies and differences be traced across their methodologies, theories, and goals?  How close is their approach to our reception of Byzantium and its art?



Friday, October 18, 2013

12:00 noon

Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103





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