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McClanahan Lecture Series

In the Shadow of Argos:
Landscape Histories of the Western Argolid
Dr. Sarah James, University of Colorado 麻豆影院

Thursday, November 5th 2020  |  7:00 p.m.  |  Virtual Webinar

Mountain ranges in the western Argolid; credit: D. Nakassis

Since 2014, a joint CU 麻豆影院-Canadian archaeological team has studied the mountainous valleys along the Inachos River, west of the city of Argos in southern Greece, as part of the Western Argolid Regional Project (WARP). Inhabited for more than 6000 years, Argos was a major center of political and cultural power for millennia benefitting from both its position on the fertile Argive Plain and its ready access to the sea. While Argos and the rest of the Plain have garnered much attention from historians and archaeologists, the western Argolid has long been characterized as merely a corridor for inland traffic instead of a dynamic landscape at a crossroads in the region. Now, thanks to WARP鈥檚 efforts, it has its own story to tell that highlights how this seemingly liminal space responded to the tides of history. 

This lecture is free and will be hosted on Zoom.
  Register Today!
After you register, the link to the lecture will be sent to your email on November 4.

This lecture is sponsored by Mary E.V. McClanahan.  CU Classics is grateful for her generous support.

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The Department of Classics congratulates Sarah James on her tenure and promotion to Associate Professor!

Sarah James (Ph.D. UTexas Austin 2010) studies the archaeology of Hellenistic Greece, particularly of the northeast Peloponnese from the 3rd-1st centuries B.C. Her numerous publications treat the economies and socio-cultural histories of this region through the lens of ceramics, including her 2018 book Corinth VII.7 Hellenistic Pottery: The Fine Wares (ASCSA Princeton). As a field archaeologist, she has directed excavations at the ancient Greek cities of Corinth and Sikyon and co-directed a pedestrian survey of the northwestern Argolid plain (the Western Argolid Regional Project). Her new research project focuses on the activities of Greeks and Romans in the eastern Adriatic, with excavations starting in 2021 on the island of Bra膷, Croatia.

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The Department of Classics congratulates Sarah James!

Sarah James has been awarded a CU Research and Innovation Seed Grant, a major grant that will support two seasons (in 2021 and 2022) of the Classics Department鈥檚 new archaeological project! The project is a collaboration with the University of Split that focuses on the island of Bra膷 in Croatia, the second-largest island in the Adriatic and one with great archaeological potential. The Bra膷 Island Project will explore the archaeology of the island鈥檚 coastal regions from the 1st millennium BC to the 6th c. AD. Among the many regions impacted by the Greeks and Romans in the ancient Mediterranean, the eastern Adriatic coast and its islands are one of the least studied. Sarah and her team will excavate a native Liburnian hillfort that had significant contacts with Greek material culture from the 11th-3rd c. BC and conduct field surveys around two other ancient sites on Bra膷 that have shown evidence of Greek and Roman contacts based on previous studies (see the attached photo of the area of Bol). The project鈥檚 research goals are to inform larger discourses about Greek colonization and trading contacts in the pre-Roman Mediterranean and about the effects on regional populations of integration first into the Roman Republic and later into the Empire. Sarah and her team are in a unique position to be leaders in this new area of Classical studies because theirs is among the first American projects to work in Croatia. The team were originally set to begin excavations next month, but instead the first season has now been rescheduled for May 2021. We look forward to sharing many more updates as the work progresses!

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McClanahan Lecture Series

The Lost City of Sikyon

presented by Sarah James

Tuesday, February 27, 2018
7:00 PM in HUMN 250

Sikyon is probably the most important ancient Greek city that you鈥檝e never heard of. Known for centuries from only brief mentions in Classical literature, intensive archaeological work only began here in the late 1990s. The secrets of this prosperous trading city have been rapidly uncovered by Greek and Danish teams with the most amazing results coming in the past five years. Research has revealed a sprawling Archaic city of more than 40,000 people at a strategic point on the Corinthian Gulf. History may have forgotten Sikyon, but this public lecture shows how our new knowledge brings the city and its ancient past back to life in surprising ways.

Sponsored by Mary E.V. McClanahan an the Department of Classics.

1610 Pleasant St. Eaton Humanities  303-492-6257. Parking available just north of the Eaton Humanities building.

See the event poster.

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The Department of Classics celebrates Sarah James鈥� first co-authored book, available in  and print editions.

This book represents the culmination of Dr. James鈥� twelve years working at Corinth.

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