The Centre for Spartan & Peloponnesian Studies at the University of Nottingham and the Municipality of Sparti are pleased to invite you to this week’s Sparta Live! webinar, which will take place on Thursday 24 October, 5pm (BST) / 7pm (EET)
Dr Daphne D. Martin (University of Cambridge; The American College of Greece) will speak on Sparta’s Mediterranean.
Summary of talk
Recent scholarly attention to globalisation, migration, mobility and local identity in the ancient Mediterranean has made possible much more subtle and sensitive interpretations of how Greeks interacted with each other and with non-Greek communities in the first half of the 1st millennium BCE. Yet, curiously little work has been devoted to Sparta’s relationship to this wider world, and in particular where Sparta fits in connecting distant local horizons, whether through trade-networks, political alliances, Spartan settlements abroad, or Dorian cultural influence. In this talk, I will explore two case studies, Taranto and Cyrene, in order to consider how and why they articulate and maintain a material relationship to Sparta over time. By examining the extant archaeological evidence for Spartan influence at each locale, as well as how such influence was perceived by local communities and changed over time, a novel understanding of how Sparta cultivated and maintained its relationship with ‘diaspora’ populations beyond its territory emerges.
Attendance to the webinar is free but you must register in advance via this link https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/66eaa380-b2c7-474a-8483-bda64059e679@67bda7ee-fd80-41ef-ac91-358418290a1e
The event will also be broadcasted live via https://manimedia.gr/