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Estelle Strazdins (ANU): Herodes Atticus: the Hero of Marathon?
29 August: 9:00 UK; 16:00 Beijing; 18:00 Canberra
https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/96121900278?pwd=V9kbZUIL1mHh6eyRDP7mKDRyBxc387.1
Meeting ID: 961 2190 0278
Passcode: 486363
Herodes Atticus – the hero of Marathon?
Estelle Strazdins (ANU)
This lecture explores Herodes Atticus’ attempts to reconfigure the landscape of Marathon and shape the memory attached to it in his own image via a study of his material interventions in and around the deme. It will focus on the many curse-inscribed herms of his favourite foster-sons; the poetic inscriptions that cast him as a kind of Hellenistic king bound to that deme (IG II2 3606) or characterise Marathon itself as an empty desert before the advent of his family (SEG 53.220); and an outright claim to ownership on the Gate of Eternal Concord (IG II2 5189). At the same time, it will contextualize these monumental endeavours within the contemporary and near contemporary literary depictions that elucidate the tensions his activities appear to have created between himself, the city of Athens, and Roman imperial rule (e.g. Lucian’s Icaromenippus and Demonax; Philostratus’ Lives of the Sophists). I argue that Herodes’ ‘hero of Marathon’ persona was less an attempt to associate himself with the famous battle of 490 BCE than to displace the battle’s significance to the plain in favour of his own.
Estelle Strazdins is lecturer in Classics at the Australian National University, who specialises in Greek literature and history, especially the Second Sophistic. Her first book, "Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece" uses literature, inscriptions, art, and architecture to explore the relationship of elite Greeks of the Roman Imperial period to time, emphasising the importance of the future and future audiences to authors and builders in this period.
Giorgos Mitropoulos (NHRF): Women in Roman Greece: Persons, Activities and Networks
23 September: 12:00 UK; 13:00 CET; 19:00 Beijing
https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/99791483890?pwd=t5Mqm2DLMaCntNSl6H0Bt3mAJQQPTQ.1
Meeting ID: 997 9148 3890
Passcode: 074687
Nikki Vellidis (Oxford): From Myth to Mundane: Mosaics in Imperial Era Greece
24 October: 9:00 UK; 10:00 CET; 17:00 Beijing
https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/96207314374?pwd=L6O8C3f2MuTL6BCeCSHkM4WGLSLGAw.1
Meeting ID: 962 0731 4374
Passcode: 285658
Sophia Zoumbaki (NHRF): Foreigners from the West in Greek Towns
7 November: 9:00 UK; 10:00 CET; 17:00 Beijing
https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/99086467162?pwd=uEqg3QeukcKLyBugnqvcf8eu1M0qN3.1
Meeting ID: 990 8646 7162
Passcode: 584926
Banban Wang (Heidelberg/TU Braunschweig): Adaptation, Anchoring or Appropriation? The epigraphic landscape of Roman Delphi (189 BCE-4th C. CE)
5 December: 9:00 UK; 10:00 CET; 17:00 Beijing
https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/92092309369?pwd=vSbn0bWOfb7Jb6e4R6HkvYfj1qPnhp.1
Meeting ID: 920 9230 9369
Passcode: 704171
