Aspects of Antiquity: Free Public Lecture

UNE is pleased to welcome Professor Alexander Mazarakis Ainian for this special Aspects of Antiquity Public Lecture through the Gale Visiting Professorship by the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens.

📅 Monday 8 September
📌A2 Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, UNE Armidale Campus
🔗Zoom available
🍰5-5:30pm: Complimentary refreshments
🎤5:30pm-7pm: Lecture


'Homer and archaeology: is the quest worth pursuing?'

Since Heinrich Schliemann’s excavations in the late nineteenth century at Troy and Mycenae, there has been a continuous quest to prove the presence of historical truth underlying the Homeric epics. From the mid twentieth century onwards, thanks to new archaeological discoveries, this debate was greatly expanded by scholars who tried to link numerous aspects of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age material culture with the poems, with opinions varying significantly. Homeric issues even became the focus of political manipulations within modern geopolitical views in the Aegean itself. This talk reviews these developments and assesses whether it is still worth pursuing a connection between objects and epics, or if it is pointless to continue posing such questions.

More information is available about Professor Alexander Mazarakis Ainian here: https://bit.ly/3HSfDIY

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