The Ancient History Lab in Trento is glad to announce the international workshop ‘New Trends in Ancient Greek History. Aristocratic Culture and Social Mobility in Archaic Greece’ which will be held at the Department of Humanities of the University of Trento on November, 27th-28th. Please find the programme below.
All welcome.
Tuesday 27th
9.00 Introductory remarks (M. Giangiulio)
9.15 Towards a definition of archaic Greek aristocracy (M. Wecowski)
10.15 Seeking success in Archaic Greece (C. Pearson)
11.00 Coffee break
11.15 Early Greek poetry and social mobility (M. Wecowski)
12.15 Is social mobility visible in the archaeological record of the Archaic Greek world? (X. Charalambidou)
14.30 Light after darkness – social mobility in Pindar (K. Kostecka)
15.15 Cretan Archaic elites: an archaeological perspective (M. D’Acunto)
16.00 Spartan aristocracies (M. Lupi)
16.45 Coffee break
17.00 Discussion
Wednesday 28th
10.00 Chrysophorein/Wearing gold (E. Franchi)
10.45 Archaeological insights into social status and prestige in Archaic Greece (X. Charalambidou)
11.30 Coffee break
11.45 Debating ‘aristocracies’ (M. Giangiulio)
12.30 Discussion
14.30 Aristocratic culture in the ‘Attic drinking songs’ (G. Proietti)
15.15 Geographical mobility and status – the case of elite ‘specialists’ (K. Kostecka)
16.00 Coffee break
16.15 Local games in Archaic and Classical Greece (C. Pearson)
17.00 Final discussion and conclusions