Donald Hammer, President, Andrea Berlin Vice President, Rochelle Reitinger, Newsletter.
All lectures are free and open to the public.
This program was made possible with funding from the Minnesota Humanities Commission in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Minnesota State Legislature. The findings, conclusions, etc. of the lecturers do not necessarily represent the views of the Minnesota Humanities Commission or the National Endowment for the Humanities. Recently, a new type of archaeological fieldwork has shifted the weight of archaeological studies from excavations of cities and single sites to the study of the rural past of Greece. The Oropos Survey Project, directed by the speaker, is part of this trend in classical archaeology and aims at exploring the area of ancient Oropos, near Athens, whose turbulent history spans more than 3,000 years. In this lecture the history of the area is reconstructed on the basis of the archaeological finds and an effort is made to reach an understanding of the factors and mechanisms that affected life in the countryside during the successive periods of Greek civilization.