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University of London School of Advanced Study
INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES
joint ancient history — classical archaeology seminar
Thursdays 4.30 pm
Senate House South Block G22/26
Spring term – Organizers: Alexandra Villing (BM) and Hans van Wees (UCL)
Contacts: AVilling AT thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
ucrahvw AT ucl.ac.ukPROGRAMME SUMMER 2010
ANCIENT TRADE: textual and material evidence
This seminar series brings together ancient historians and classical archaeologists to discuss questions of evidence and method, focused on the topic of trade in the ancient world. In order to stimulate discussion, we propose an artificially strict separation of textual and material evidence. In each session, a historian will discuss what the textual evidence (literary and epigraphical) can and cannot tell us about a range of aspects of trade, and an archaeologist will do the same for the material evidence. We hope that this approach will serve to identify the most significant differences between the pictures which emerge from each kind of source, to determine the extent to which these pictures are complementary or mutually exclusive, and to explore the implications for our interpretation of the evidence.
13 May Archaic Greece
Errietta Bissa (Lampeter) and Thomas Brisart (Oxford / Brussels)
20 May Classical Greece
Robin Osborne (Cambridge) and Alan Johnston (UCL / ICS)
27 May The central Mediterranean 600–300
Tim Cornell (Manchester) and Gabriele Cifani (Rome)
3 June Imperial Rome
Neville Morley (Bristol) and Kris Lockyear (UCL)
10 June Indo-Roman trade
Dominic Rathbone (KCL) and Roberta Tomber (BM)
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