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Stephen Duckworth, “Nineteenth century travellers in Crete - Edward Lear, Pashley and Spratt”
BSA Friends' Lecture
Abstract: Whilst Western travellers to the newly independent Greece in the 19th century after independence were often critical of the performance and effectiveness of the new government, travel in Crete was very different. It was still under Ottoman rule after the independence movement failed, and the population was mixed Christian and Moslem. In Pashley’s time, the wounds of the war which had also taken place in Crete only a few years earlier were still fresh and there are numerous references in his book to some of the horrors about which he was told.
The interests of the three travellers varied widely. Both Pashley and Spratt wrote well and clearly. Pashley in particular had done voluminous prior reading of earlier sources. Spratt had detailed professional knowledge of the geography and geology of the island. Lear came with much less precise knowledge or objectives. His wide range of travels were individual projects to soak up the experience of the country and to produce numerous landscape drawings which would later be his stock-in-trade for producing finished watercolours and oil paintings for his clients.
In this paper I will describe the workings of the three men, in chronological order. I do not attempt to follow their journeys in detail, apart from a brief description. It seemed of more interest to describe their interests and the lengths they sometimes went to describe these.
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Prof Benjamin Morison, "Δόξα and ἐπιστήμη in Aristotle: some implications for ethical thought"
มุมมอง 983 หลายเดือนก่อน
THE MICHAEL FREDE MEMORIAL LECTURE Abstract: According to Aristotle, one part of our soul grasps scientific truths and can achieve ἐπιστήμη concerning them. A different part knows about practical truths, including truths about morality, and has a different kind of grasp of those truths, a kind of δόξα. Yet according to Aristotle in Posterior Analytics I 33, it is impossible to have ἐπιστήμη and...
Christine Willis, "50 years a Potter"
มุมมอง 593 หลายเดือนก่อน
BSA Friends Greece lecture Event description: My Story: In the past year, I have been working with a group of Archaeologist and PhD students researching the different clays in the Anthemounta River Valley on the outskirts of Thessaloniki. Most of these archaeologist have been working on the site of Toumba located in the heart of the city. We have been using local clays to re-create some of the ...
Dr Conor Trainor: “What Happened Under Roman Rule? A View From Two Greek Cities”
มุมมอง 1273 หลายเดือนก่อน
BSA Friends' Lecture Abstract: Traditionally, the Roman period of Greek history has been interpreted as a period of economic decline, or stagnation. In recent years, new research, especially from survey projects, has begun to challenge this picture. This talk will present some results from two urban survey projects that appear to indicate some level of economic growth in Greece during the Roman...
Senta German (Montclair State University), “Piet de Jong and the Post War Restorations of Knossos”
มุมมอง 1233 หลายเดือนก่อน
BSA Bader Archive Lecture Abstract: To most visitors, the restorations of the site of Knossos are the site’s most distinguishing feature. Begun under the direction of Sir Arthur Evans during his first season of excavation in 1900, work to restore, stabilize and/or save the architecture and built spaces of the palace has remained a near constant activity. The extensive restorations of Knossos we...
Beyond the Classical Landscape: Photographs of Rural Greece from the SPHS Image Collection
มุมมอง 1384 หลายเดือนก่อน
by Sebastian Marshall (Cambridge/BSA) Since the earliest days of modern travel to Greece, landscape and the rural environment have been an object of fascination among foreign visitors. A preoccupation with ancient ‘topography’ and ‘picturesque’ views are familiar tropes in images produced by travellers, and the nostalgic sense that rural Greece offers an idyllic contrast to urban modernity rema...
Prof. Gelina Harlaftis (IMS/FORTH), “Onassis Business History, 1924-1975”
มุมมอง 1634 หลายเดือนก่อน
Aristotle Onassis is the most famous shipowner of the 20th century, the archetype and image of the shipowning magnate, the symbol of Greek enterprise on a global scale. He created the shipping business of the new global era, which has continued to operate in institutional terms on the models that he laid down, to the present day.
The tholos cemeteries in south-central Crete during Pre- and Protopalatial periods
มุมมอง 2614 หลายเดือนก่อน
This lecture presents a synopsis of my doctoral thesis that aimed to examine the architectural and depositional complexity of the best documented tholos cemeteries in south-central Crete during the Prepalatial and Protopalatial periods.
Dr Matthew Evans: Group Identity, Representation, and the Gymnasium on Late Hellenistic Delos
มุมมอง 1935 หลายเดือนก่อน
In the corpus of inscriptions from Delos during the Second Athenian Domination (167/6 - 88 BCE), we come across various formal and informal groups associated with the island’s athletic education institutions. This paper explores the role that these groups played in the lives, identities, and representation of the gymnasium’s clientele on Delos as well as in the social and political dynamics of ...
A solar flare in 5259 BCE solves the Dispilio riddle
มุมมอง 4186 หลายเดือนก่อน
Dispilio by Kastoria Lake is Greece’s first systematically excavated wetland site. It contains waterlogged wooden piles, C14 dated to the 6th millennium BCE at a density of almost 1000 piles per 500 square metres. The extreme density makes it impossible to distinguish between distinct house plans. The apparent lack of dwellings posed an unanswered enigma for Dispilio and influenced the site’s s...
Tina Rowe, Artist in Residence Talk
มุมมอง 866 หลายเดือนก่อน
UAL Research Resident Artist Tina Rowe will talk about the residency and the ways that this experience has evolved her approach to her PhD. She will discuss her use of the archive and the questions that have arisen from working with materials she understands and content she has limited experience of. She will also talk about her own practice the ways in which this residency will contribute to it.
Panel Discussion - Committee for Society, Arts & Letters
มุมมอง 596 หลายเดือนก่อน
Translation and the sound of ancient Greek music: The second of two panel discussions exploring how the sounds of Greek poetry influence their modern translation into both words and music.
Prof John Bennet, "Never the twain shall meet: reflections on text and image in Minoan Crete"
มุมมอง 1986 หลายเดือนก่อน
The world of Neopalatial Crete was visually rich; it was also a literate world. Yet these two categories, as we define them, never combine in the same field. In this talk, I explore this apparent anomaly and suggest how we might explain it. Any interpretation needs to take account of the specific historical context and so might challenge our modern conceptions of the role of writing and its rel...
The Work of the BSA: 2024 Annual Open Lecture London
มุมมอง 1326 หลายเดือนก่อน
Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens, Tuesday 6th February 2024, King’s College London, Strand Campus, London. Chair: Professor Roderick Beaton. Speakers: Professor Rebecca Sweetman (BSA Director) "The Work of the British School at Athens in 2023". Professor Naoíse Mac Sweeney (University of Vienna) "The heirs of Agamemnon or the Progeny of Priam? Mythical Genealogies and the In...
The Work of the BSA: 2024 Annual Open Lecture 2024 Athens
มุมมอง 446 หลายเดือนก่อน
Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens, Thursday 15th February 2024, the Archaeological Society (Lecture Hall), 22 Panepistimiou Street, Athens. Chair: Professor Roderick Beaton. Speakers: Professor Rebecca Sweetman (BSA Director) "The Work of the British School at Athens in 2023". Dr Evangelia Kiriatzi (Fitch Laboratory Director) "The Marc & Ismene Fitch Laboratory for Archaeolog...
An Overview of the BSA 2024
มุมมอง 6028 หลายเดือนก่อน
An Overview of the BSA 2024
Mythical Retellings: Reimagining the women of Greek Myth
มุมมอง 2679 หลายเดือนก่อน
Mythical Retellings: Reimagining the women of Greek Myth
Prof Gerasimos Tsourapas "Greek-Turkish Relations and Migration Power Politics in the Mediterranean"
มุมมอง 2499 หลายเดือนก่อน
Prof Gerasimos Tsourapas "Greek-Turkish Relations and Migration Power Politics in the Mediterranean"
Aspects of the Political Philosophy of the British Idealist Philosopher Bernard Bosanquet
มุมมอง 3379 หลายเดือนก่อน
Aspects of the Political Philosophy of the British Idealist Philosopher Bernard Bosanquet
Professor Amy Smith "Redressing Aphrodite on Sir William Hamilton’s Meidias hydria"
มุมมอง 2139 หลายเดือนก่อน
Professor Amy Smith "Redressing Aphrodite on Sir William Hamilton’s Meidias hydria"
Prof. Amy Bogaard - "Archaeology and ‘eco-cultural’ heritage: case studies from Greece and beyond"
มุมมอง 1829 หลายเดือนก่อน
Prof. Amy Bogaard - "Archaeology and ‘eco-cultural’ heritage: case studies from Greece and beyond"
Dr Matthew Haysom, "Men, Women and Others in Minoan Iconography"
มุมมอง 3469 หลายเดือนก่อน
Dr Matthew Haysom, "Men, Women and Others in Minoan Iconography"
Cousins and allies?: the Special Operations Executive and the Office of Strategic Services in Greece
มุมมอง 18310 หลายเดือนก่อน
Cousins and allies?: the Special Operations Executive and the Office of Strategic Services in Greece
The three West Court Kouloures at Knossos: between the First and Second Palace periods
มุมมอง 35110 หลายเดือนก่อน
The three West Court Kouloures at Knossos: between the First and Second Palace periods
The Treaty of Lausanne (1923) and its impact on the Muslim population of Crete
มุมมอง 56110 หลายเดือนก่อน
The Treaty of Lausanne (1923) and its impact on the Muslim population of Crete
The Rocky Heart of Crete: From the Hellenistic to the ‘Minoan'
มุมมอง 756ปีที่แล้ว
The Rocky Heart of Crete: From the Hellenistic to the ‘Minoan'
The Athenian Family of Herodes Atticus and the Spartan Contest of Endurance
มุมมอง 379ปีที่แล้ว
The Athenian Family of Herodes Atticus and the Spartan Contest of Endurance
The vitality of writing traditions in the Bronze Age Aegean and Iron Age Cyprus
มุมมอง 389ปีที่แล้ว
The vitality of writing traditions in the Bronze Age Aegean and Iron Age Cyprus
Space and place in early Hellenistic and Classical Messenia
มุมมอง 170ปีที่แล้ว
Space and place in early Hellenistic and Classical Messenia
Sparta: a suitable place for the British archaeologist
มุมมอง 182ปีที่แล้ว
Sparta: a suitable place for the British archaeologist

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  • @r.dalmazzone4334
    @r.dalmazzone4334 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Onassis's first job in Buenos Aires was rowing a boat in the rotten water of La Boca, he moved people from one place to the other, it was the lowest level job that existed in Buenos Aires in those years. Then he sold clips for ties on Florida Street (hawker ) and it was there where my grandfather met him. His second export business in Buenos Aires was at Viamonte 330 Street, today it is a dry cleaners.

  • @froschkenig
    @froschkenig 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Very informative. Thank you for putting it up!

  • @AmesiDimokratia
    @AmesiDimokratia 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Πολύ ωραία παρουσίαση. Πώς γνωρίζουμε πως είναι Βυζαντινό και πως δεν ανήκει στο τότε Παπικό κράτος ή στην Αυτοκρατορία των Φράγκων;

  • @christoupolitis6499
    @christoupolitis6499 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mr. Eastmond, thank you for this wonderful small lecture!

  • @Burke1O1
    @Burke1O1 หลายเดือนก่อน

    how do i get avi's translation?

  • @dorianphilotheates3769
    @dorianphilotheates3769 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A pleasant voice, fair French, perfect Greek and English enunciation - a delight to hear...also, Εμπειρίκος was a weirdo.

  • @daveo2797
    @daveo2797 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great analysis!

  • @jessieadore
    @jessieadore 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lolllll ‘asiatic’ 😂😂😂 that’s the ‘british school’ for ya

  • @lucianopavarotti2843
    @lucianopavarotti2843 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Looking forward to his "Muse of History" , out in June.

  • @danielplantagenet8385
    @danielplantagenet8385 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Robin Lane Fox is like Greece, a treasure. His 2005 book (penguin) “The Classical World, An Epic History of Greece and Rome” is a book I have returned to often. 👑⚔️🛡️

  • @AbdulAbdul-qp4yo
    @AbdulAbdul-qp4yo 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @pedromayallguilayn507
    @pedromayallguilayn507 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great conference!

  • @marco1963
    @marco1963 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am reading the book and developing a growing interest on Greek culture and Greek peoples.

  • @NirvanaFan5000
    @NirvanaFan5000 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    very interesting. thank you for sharing

  • @free_gold4467
    @free_gold4467 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very interesting, thank you. It seems to me that 'tying down' the Theran eruption is absolutely key to matching up the various relative chronologies and understanding the period.

  • @free_gold4467
    @free_gold4467 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very interesting, thank you.

  • @giobacc509
    @giobacc509 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I find the lecture very interesting. Is it possible to know the height or any measure of the pithos shown at min. 30:42 ? Is there any paper or publication about? I couldn't find anywere in the 2023 paper.

  • @free_gold4467
    @free_gold4467 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Interesting, some stuff I wasn't familiar with here, the images of women carrying 'dead' animals and the type of robe worn in the 'harvester' vase being carried and probably exchanged. It does seem to be the same (type of) garment.

  • @free_gold4467
    @free_gold4467 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you.

  • @theologos83
    @theologos83 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

  • @tm2bow653
    @tm2bow653 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Let's not forget that Dna proves that ancient Greeks come both from Eastern populations and eastern Europe populations. They don't come from the west.

  • @pedromayallguilayn507
    @pedromayallguilayn507 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excelente presentatipn

  • @KarlKarsnark
    @KarlKarsnark 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Modern Non-Greeks" can't take any "liberties"(i.e. "rewriting"/"redacting") the actual Myths to make them more "appealing to Modern Audiences(tm)". Will they be taking these same "Liberties" to "update and improve" Shakespeare too? "Frailty thy name is Woman.", indeed ;)

  • @KarlKarsnark
    @KarlKarsnark 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Ancient Greeks treated women like chattle the vast majority of the time. Go read what the "Great Philosophers" had to say about them :) Sorry, no amount "Modern Revisionist History(tm)" is gonna change that ;) Yes, the Culture these folks admire most is also the Culture they say they hate the most.....A very "modern" approach to "History"(tm).

  • @KarlKarsnark
    @KarlKarsnark 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Seriously, look how many times the words "modern" and "retelling" occur in the description. LOL! The Newspeak is real ;) Like I said, nothing if not utterly predictable and pedantic.

  • @KarlKarsnark
    @KarlKarsnark 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Funny, how these "Modern" Marxist "Academics" can only ever "reinvent", "reinterpret", "reimagine", "redact", "revise" or attempt to "reverse" the facts and events of real History. They are completely and utterly devoid of intellect, insight and originality. Hence, their compulsion to always steal from others, whilst also complaining about everything they're stealing along the way. Very "Progressive", indeed.

  • @arvindthomas2227
    @arvindthomas2227 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very inspiring talk

  • @ricardobardales8137
    @ricardobardales8137 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Definitely a spellbinding topic about Aristotle lessons of ethic, and about the lecture, the professor is clear, precise and above all with smooth words is plenty understandable. Greetings from Perú.

  • @loriw1234
    @loriw1234 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fascinating! But, was only 9 minutes in and 2 commercials already. If there's a commercial every 5 minutes...you break my concentration. Ugh.

  • @peterkarras8523
    @peterkarras8523 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Venizelos should not have called an election in 1920

  • @CaptainHarlock-kv4zt
    @CaptainHarlock-kv4zt 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very interesting theme. I'm saving it for later since now I'm a bit drunk.

  • @FRUIT2001
    @FRUIT2001 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Colossus close

  • @axelsandi
    @axelsandi 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The narrators accent makes her speech incomprehensible. Asta eglezika kalitera, milate ellinika ke valte ipotitulus.

  • @ΞενοφώνταςΜπόκος
    @ΞενοφώνταςΜπόκος ปีที่แล้ว

    👍

  • @georgekiriak7027
    @georgekiriak7027 ปีที่แล้ว

    One question . why when greeks sing it sounds eastern? micro tonality wes present in greek music from the classical era

  • @BaldingClamydia
    @BaldingClamydia ปีที่แล้ว

    There's no real reason for drag queens not to have contact with kids. Thank you for this lecture

  • @TyZaTube
    @TyZaTube ปีที่แล้ว

    Great lecture

  • @TyZaTube
    @TyZaTube ปีที่แล้ว

    Great lecture!

  • @greatalexander404
    @greatalexander404 ปีที่แล้ว

    PEOPLE GREEKS IS ORIGINS ILIRIANS ALBANIANS @@NO ANTIKS GREEKS @@👍🏽🍺🌻🥂🙋‍♂️🌺

  • @LuciusQuinctiusCincinnatus111
    @LuciusQuinctiusCincinnatus111 ปีที่แล้ว

    👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @stretmediq
    @stretmediq ปีที่แล้ว

    Can't lie I've had a crush on Angie Hobbs since the first time I watched one of her lectures ❤

  • @utror
    @utror ปีที่แล้ว

    13.05

  • @warningsigns4526
    @warningsigns4526 ปีที่แล้ว

    what happened?

  • @RealBonnieBlue
    @RealBonnieBlue ปีที่แล้ว

    An ethnic, Hellenic identity connected to its past and present has always existed from the Greek people's beginnings. Greeks have always identified as a collective people even if they also call themselves by their ancient regional names city-states or by their citizenry under occupying forces. They were Athenians and Hellenes, Macedonians and Hellenes, Spartans and Hellenes, citizens of Rome (Romaioi) and Hellenes, Ottoman Christians, and Hellenes. Like brothers, they may fight amongst each other, and unify with one against the other in family squabbles but ultimately, come together when the collective is threatened. Their desire for independence did not fall from the sky. Greeks haven't stopped fighting for their freedom since Rome first occupied Greece. The Greek collective consciousness, connection to their past and sense of being Greeks has never been lost.

  • @robertb6768
    @robertb6768 ปีที่แล้ว

    My God, it’s like someone hit a buzzword pinata with a sledgehammer.

  • @cugilbert3799
    @cugilbert3799 ปีที่แล้ว

    😎 "Promo SM"

  • @ritaroberts1265
    @ritaroberts1265 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for sharing your knowledge Anna. I studied Linear B and I will certainly enjoy recreating one following your directions

  • @stephennicolay1940
    @stephennicolay1940 ปีที่แล้ว

    Interesting. Is excavation work still being done in this area?

  • @2550205
    @2550205 ปีที่แล้ว

    38:30 proper yo(u)r sine is orthogonal to Θ compute the sine cosine and tangent of any three points on a sphere using geometry ...:...have been listening to reading and looking at the work of Plato and of that era for the last few years now often the names of people of situations of objects and of ideas sound like pronunciations of other words in other languages. Try typing an english word using the EL enic keyboard in Google Chrome. The words are, once one understands the connected change in pronunciation of the Elenec Σλένικ Λανγκουαγε language suddenly πι(υς) μακες Σενσε... Wa is the Japanese pronunciation of the global verb to be this expressed as this is thought of as this is round ness remembered as the sun/the moon/points in the background as foreground (points and what makes the points possible) also part of the word for peace/peace/full as in 平和/な the sun shining on a man walking against a wall read to the right leaning on the wall to the left kore wa this is depends on the emphasis on syllable KOre koRE kORΣ δεπεντς I was looking for this sort of thing a year ago and You Tube is just dishing this up to me today based on my recent homework I suppose is the best word for it... ...:...have time to look at things like this for a few hours a day...(:)... have been doing it now for quite a while I started in 1980 in the financial services industry finding the cause and fixing what amounted to typos due to sloppy handwriting On multi part forms of which I had to write two or more new ones to fix the old mistake...:...still have a callous on the index finger knuckle (one of a commonly accessable number known as a set) where the pressure left a mark...: :...spent 20 years in Tokyo sitting in front of screens where sets of numbers were used to represent securities 6758 is SNE Sony a google search confirms that memory is not a fantasy I owned some of it for a few minutes...kept it on a spreadsheet with other things If you think there is a way for that sort of experience under 20 years of living in another culture and never being fluent in the language used primarily around you might be of use...get in touch

  • @lucianopavarotti2843
    @lucianopavarotti2843 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the ragu curtains