Early Career Material Culture Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-23 Artemis was a particularly beloved goddess, not just in the ancient city of Messene but also throughout the entire Peloponnese. Most of her sanctuaries were located outside the cities in places that demarcated the borders between regions, often near natural water… Read more
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022–23 From ancient times until the early modern period, determining the arrangement of the planets (forma mundi) posed one of the most difficult and urgent inquiries in the field of cosmology. In his cosmological system, Plato did not resolve the forma mundi problem; rather, he left it as… Read more
Early Career Material Culture Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-23 Few Geometric settlements are as well-preserved as Zagora on Andros (900-700 BC; Fig. 1). A densely inhabited, fortified, coastal town with substantial excavated assemblages, the site offers a rare opportunity to contextualize EIA Aegean socio-political developments at the household level. Undisturbed by… Read more
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-23 Introduction Scattered inscriptions lying in ruins, whether found in their original archaeological setting or embedded within the walls of public buildings, houses, and in Orthodox churches or Muslim mosques, are preserved in the old notebooks of scholars who made a concerted effort to record,… Read more
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-23 Introduction Although archaeological research has revealed a densely occupied landscape on the coastal and the hilly zone of Crete during the Bronze Age, the uplands have been largely overlooked despite comprising almost 50% of the total area of the island. The starting point… Read more
