News and Events


21st November 2015

Workshop 2: Epiros and Thessaly (Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byz. Studies, Oxford)

  • Presentation of the project ‘Beyond the Borders. The archaeology of northern Greece’
    Maria Kopsacheili, Milena Melfi, Maria Stamatopoulou (Oxford)
  • Aspects of settlement organization in ancient Thesprotia
    Antonia Tzortzatou and Vassiliki Lamprou (Ephorate of Antiquities of Thesprotia and Archaeological Museum of Igoumenitsa)
  • Remarks on the fortifications of four Thesprotian urban centres (Gitana, Elea, Dymokastro, Doliani). Practical necessities, function and semantics
    Christos Spanodimos (Ephorate of Antiquities of Thesprotia)
  • Looking for borders and gates of Molossia and specifying a typology of fortifications: the contribution of archaeological sources
    Marie-Pierre Dausse (Département d'Histoire, Université Paris 8)
  • Revealing facets of Archaic and Classical Thessaliotis: recent archaeological discoveries from western Thessaly
    Christos Karagiannopoulos (Ephorate of Antiquities of Karditsa)
  • Zones de frontière, zones de contact entre Epire, Thessalie et Macédoine : un point de vue thessalien
    Richard Bouchon and Laurence Darmezin (Laboratoire HiSoMA, MSH Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon)
  • Artemis and the art of crossing boundaries
    Sofia Kravaritou (Oxford)

22nd May 2015

6th International Colloquium L’Illyrie Méridionale et l’Épire dans l’antiquité (National Museum, Tirana)

Per Epirum. An alternative to the Adriatic: the territory of Hadrianopolis and the Drino valley in the Greek and early Roman periods.
M. Melfi


7th May 2015

Institute of Archaeology and Faculty of Classics of the University of Oxford

Papers by Despoina Ignatiadou (Senior Curator of sculpture in the Athens National Museum)
Glass seals in Classical and Hellenistic Macedonia
Colourless glass for the Macedonian elite


20-21 February 2015

Conference: Βορειοελλαδικά: Histoires du monde des ethné. Colloque international en l’honeur de Miltiade B. Hatzopoulos, Athens.
Demetrias, The archaeology of an International Macedonian Harbour
M. Stamatopoulou

23rd January 2015

Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies (University of Oxford)

Workshop1 Beyond the Borders: establishing a network, research questions and methodology.

Participants:
Richard Bouchon (CNRS, Hisoma, Lyon)
Miltiades Hatzopoulos (Hellenic National Research Foundation)
Bruno Helly (CNRS, Hisoma, Lyon)
Myrina Kalaitzi (Hellenic National Research Foundation)
Maria Kopsacheili (Oxford)
Sofia Kravaritou (Archaeological Institute for Thessalian Studies)
Milena Melfi (Oxford)
Paschalis Paschidis (Hellenic National Research Foundation)
Roberto Perna (University of Macerata)
Jessica Piccinini (University of Vienna)
Maria Stamatopoulou (Oxford)


28th November 2016

Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford
New identities in Old Sanctuaries: recent manumission records from Beroia
Yannis Graekos (Ephorate of Antiquities of Emathia)

21st November 2016

Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford
Public Profiles and Mediated Selfies in Ancient Macedonia: the gravestones' facebook
Myrina Kalaitzi (NHRF, Athens)

14th November 2016

Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford
In the Shadow of the “Old Mountain”. Funerary painting of Bulgaria between the Late-Classical and Late Roman period.
Consuelo Manetta (Aarhus)

7th November 2016

Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford
The Cemeteries of Pydna through time [in Greek with English translation]
Manthos Bessios (Ephorate of Antiquities of Pieria)

31st October 2016

Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford
Beyond the Vergina palace: evidence, challenges and moving forward in the study of Hellenistic basileia in Northern Greece
Maria Kopsacheili (Manchester)

24th October 2016

Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford
Monumental painting in ancient Macedonia and the Classical heritage
Harikleia Brekoulaki (NHRF, Athens)

17th October 2016

Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford
Heaven's Gate. The economic role of Amphipolis in the Athenian empire and in fourth-century Macedonia.
Manuela Mari (University of Cassino)

23rd May 2016

Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford
The arrival and the expansion of the Mycenaeans in Thessaly.
Anthi Batziou (Ephorate of Antiquities of Magnesia)

16th May 2016

Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford
Temple-like Buildings among the Epirote Ethne. Archaeology and Architecture of a Peripheral Sacred Landscape
Lorenzo Mancini (Italian School of Archaeology, Athens)

9th May 2016

Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford
A view from within: the Classical-Hellenistic Settlement at Kastro Kallithea in Thessaly, Greece
Margriet Haagsma (University of Alberta)

2nd May 2016

Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford
Chaonia in Epirus from the late Iron Age to the Roman conquest. A new assessment in the light of recent archaeological data
Julian Bogdani (University of Bologna)

Acknowledgements

The John Fell Fund - Oxford University

Faculty of Classics - Oxford University

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