The following lectures were recorded by the British School at Athens in both Athens and London,

as part of our academic lecture programmes. These presentations document new research and new

ideas. Some of these ideas are currently unpublished.

Although lectures were not given with the school syllabus in mind, they have been organized here

by module, to provide ‘extension’ activities and additional material for interested students.

The information in these lectures can be used when students are required to make reference to

recent scholarship.

GCSE Classical Civilisation

Myth and Religion

Exorcising Fear: Ritual Performances in

Classical Athens

Chryssanthi Papadopoulou

27th May 2019

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/chryssanthi-

papadopoulou-exorcising-fear-ritual-performances-

in-classical-athens/

Invoking the gods: Religion and authority in

fourth-century Athens

Rebecca van Hove

16th January 2017

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/rebecca-van-hove-

invoking-the-gods-religion-and-authority-in-fourth-

century-athens/

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/chryssanthi-papadopoulou-exorcising-fear-ritual-performances-in-classical-athens/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/chryssanthi-papadopoulou-exorcising-fear-ritual-performances-in-classical-athens/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/chryssanthi-papadopoulou-exorcising-fear-ritual-performances-in-classical-athens/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/rebecca-van-hove-invoking-the-gods-religion-and-authority-in-fourth-century-athens/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/rebecca-van-hove-invoking-the-gods-religion-and-authority-in-fourth-century-athens/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/rebecca-van-hove-invoking-the-gods-religion-and-authority-in-fourth-century-athens/

The message is in the medium: White-ground

lekythoi and stone grave markers in Classical

Athens

Judith Barringer

25th February 2019

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/judith-barringer-the-

message-is-in-the-medium-white-ground-lekythoi-

and-stone-grave-markers-in-classical-athens/

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/judith-barringer-the-message-is-in-the-medium-white-ground-lekythoi-and-stone-grave-markers-in-classical-athens/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/judith-barringer-the-message-is-in-the-medium-white-ground-lekythoi-and-stone-grave-markers-in-classical-athens/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/judith-barringer-the-message-is-in-the-medium-white-ground-lekythoi-and-stone-grave-markers-in-classical-athens/

Sounion Revisited

Zetta Theodoropoulou-Polychroniadis

14th December 2015

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/book-launch-sounion-

revisited-by-dr-zetta-theodoropoulou-

polychroniadis/

The architecture of the Propylaea: new

information gained during the restoration works

Tasos Tanoulas

20th April 2015

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/tasos-tanoulas-the-

architecture-of-the-propylaea-new-information-

gained-during-the-restoration-works/

Women in the ancient world

Unraveling the Fabric of the Past:

Mediterranean Textile Cultures in the First

Millennium BCE

Margarita Gleba

20th November 2017

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/margarita-gleba-

unraveling-the-fabric-of-the-past/

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/book-launch-sounion-revisited-by-dr-zetta-theodoropoulou-polychroniadis/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/book-launch-sounion-revisited-by-dr-zetta-theodoropoulou-polychroniadis/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/book-launch-sounion-revisited-by-dr-zetta-theodoropoulou-polychroniadis/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/tasos-tanoulas-the-architecture-of-the-propylaea-new-information-gained-during-the-restoration-works/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/tasos-tanoulas-the-architecture-of-the-propylaea-new-information-gained-during-the-restoration-works/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/tasos-tanoulas-the-architecture-of-the-propylaea-new-information-gained-during-the-restoration-works/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/margarita-gleba-unraveling-the-fabric-of-the-past/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/margarita-gleba-unraveling-the-fabric-of-the-past/

Exorcising Fear: Ritual Performances in

Classical Athens

Chryssanthi Papadopoulou

27th May 2019

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/chryssanthi-

papadopoulou-exorcising-fear-ritual-performances-

in-classical-athens/

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/chryssanthi-papadopoulou-exorcising-fear-ritual-performances-in-classical-athens/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/chryssanthi-papadopoulou-exorcising-fear-ritual-performances-in-classical-athens/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/chryssanthi-papadopoulou-exorcising-fear-ritual-performances-in-classical-athens/

The Homeric World

Το Μυκηναϊκό Νεκροταφείο του Κλάους

Πατρών. Τα κατάλοιπα ενός λαμπρού κόσμου

στο τέλος εποχής [this lecture is in Greek, but

there are plenty of good images showing

Mycenaean material culture]

Kostas Paschalidis

9th October 2017

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/kostas-paschalidis-το-

μυκηναϊκό-νεκροταφείο-του-κλάο/

The Mycenaeans in Greek History: Orientalism

and Master Narratives

Dimitris Nakassis

29th February 2016

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/dimitris-nakassis-the-

mycenaeans-in-greek-history-orientalism-and-

master-narratives/

War and warfare

Warriors into workers: Military service as wage

labour in the Late Classical and Early Hellenistic

periods

Charlotte Van Regenmortel

13th May 2019

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/dimitris-nakassis-the-mycenaeans-in-greek-history-orientalism-and-master-narratives/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/dimitris-nakassis-the-mycenaeans-in-greek-history-orientalism-and-master-narratives/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/dimitris-nakassis-the-mycenaeans-in-greek-history-orientalism-and-master-narratives/

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/charlotte-van-

regenmortel-warriors-into-workers-military-service-

as-wage-labour-in-the-late-classical-and-early-

hellenistic-periods/

Some things you didn't know about Sparta

Guy Sanders

16th March 2011

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/guy-sanders-some-

things-you-didnt-know-about-sparta/

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/charlotte-van-regenmortel-warriors-into-workers-military-service-as-wage-labour-in-the-late-classical-and-early-hellenistic-periods/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/charlotte-van-regenmortel-warriors-into-workers-military-service-as-wage-labour-in-the-late-classical-and-early-hellenistic-periods/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/charlotte-van-regenmortel-warriors-into-workers-military-service-as-wage-labour-in-the-late-classical-and-early-hellenistic-periods/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/charlotte-van-regenmortel-warriors-into-workers-military-service-as-wage-labour-in-the-late-classical-and-early-hellenistic-periods/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/guy-sanders-some-things-you-didnt-know-about-sparta/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/guy-sanders-some-things-you-didnt-know-about-sparta/

A LEVEL CLASSICAL CIVILISATION

Greek Theatre

Peisetairos, adventurer in Thrace: a New

Reading of Aristophanes’ Birds

Edith Hall

17th December 2016

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/edith-hall-peisetairos-

adventurer-in-thrace-a-new-reading-of-aristophanes-

birds/

Belief and ideas

Bodily Functions: Drinking to Excess in Archaic

Greece

Alan Shapiro

12th December 2016

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/alan-shapiro-bodily-

functions-drinking-to-excess-in-archaic-greece/

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/edith-hall-peisetairos-adventurer-in-thrace-a-new-reading-of-aristophanes-birds/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/edith-hall-peisetairos-adventurer-in-thrace-a-new-reading-of-aristophanes-birds/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/edith-hall-peisetairos-adventurer-in-thrace-a-new-reading-of-aristophanes-birds/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/alan-shapiro-bodily-functions-drinking-to-excess-in-archaic-greece/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/alan-shapiro-bodily-functions-drinking-to-excess-in-archaic-greece/

Exorcising Fear: Ritual Performances in

Classical Athens

Chryssanthi Papadopoulou

27th May 2019

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/chryssanthi-

papadopoulou-exorcising-fear-ritual-performances-

in-classical-athens/

Invoking the gods: Religion and authority in

fourth-century Athens

Rebecca van Hove

16th January 2017

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/rebecca-van-hove-

invoking-the-gods-religion-and-authority-in-fourth-

century-athens/

The Rationality of the Stoic God

George Boys-Stones

28th May 2019

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/george-boys-stones-

the-rationality-of-the-stoic-god/

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/chryssanthi-papadopoulou-exorcising-fear-ritual-performances-in-classical-athens/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/chryssanthi-papadopoulou-exorcising-fear-ritual-performances-in-classical-athens/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/chryssanthi-papadopoulou-exorcising-fear-ritual-performances-in-classical-athens/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/rebecca-van-hove-invoking-the-gods-religion-and-authority-in-fourth-century-athens/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/rebecca-van-hove-invoking-the-gods-religion-and-authority-in-fourth-century-athens/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/rebecca-van-hove-invoking-the-gods-religion-and-authority-in-fourth-century-athens/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/george-boys-stones-the-rationality-of-the-stoic-god/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/george-boys-stones-the-rationality-of-the-stoic-god/

Democracy, Demagoguery and Plato

Angie Hobbs

13th November 2017

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/professor-angie-

hobbs-university-of-sheffield-democracy-

demagoguery-and-plato/

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/professor-angie-hobbs-university-of-sheffield-democracy-demagoguery-and-plato/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/professor-angie-hobbs-university-of-sheffield-democracy-demagoguery-and-plato/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/professor-angie-hobbs-university-of-sheffield-democracy-demagoguery-and-plato/

ANCIENT HISTORY

Athens

Non-Citizens in Athenian Associations

James Kierstead

9th January 2017

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/james-kierstead-non-

citizens-in-athenian-associations/

Attic inscriptions online

Stephen Lambert

5th March 2018

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/attic-inscriptions-

online-dr-stephen-lambert-university-of-cardiff/

Boundaries within the Athenian polis: spatiality

and epigraphy

Graham Oliver

4th April 2012

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/graham-oliver-

boundaries-within-the-athenian-polis-spatiality-and-

epigraphy/

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/james-kierstead-non-citizens-in-athenian-associations/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/james-kierstead-non-citizens-in-athenian-associations/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/attic-inscriptions-online-dr-stephen-lambert-university-of-cardiff/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/attic-inscriptions-online-dr-stephen-lambert-university-of-cardiff/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/graham-oliver-boundaries-within-the-athenian-polis-spatiality-and-epigraphy/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/graham-oliver-boundaries-within-the-athenian-polis-spatiality-and-epigraphy/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/graham-oliver-boundaries-within-the-athenian-polis-spatiality-and-epigraphy/

Sparta

Some things you didn't know about Sparta

Guy Sanders

16th March 2011

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/guy-sanders-some-

things-you-didnt-know-about-sparta/

Relations between Greek states and between Greek and non-Greek states

Luxury and commodity shipping routes in

archaic Greece

Michael Loy

2nd December 2019

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/michael-loy-luxury-

and-commodity-shipping-routes-in-archaic-greece/

Tonight we dine in Duat: Egypt and the

Peloponnese in the Archaic Period

Matthew Skuse

8th May 2017

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/m-skuse-tonight-we-

dine-in-duat-egypt-and-the-peloponnese-in-the-

archaic-period/

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/guy-sanders-some-things-you-didnt-know-about-sparta/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/guy-sanders-some-things-you-didnt-know-about-sparta/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/michael-loy-luxury-and-commodity-shipping-routes-in-archaic-greece/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/michael-loy-luxury-and-commodity-shipping-routes-in-archaic-greece/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/m-skuse-tonight-we-dine-in-duat-egypt-and-the-peloponnese-in-the-archaic-period/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/m-skuse-tonight-we-dine-in-duat-egypt-and-the-peloponnese-in-the-archaic-period/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/m-skuse-tonight-we-dine-in-duat-egypt-and-the-peloponnese-in-the-archaic-period/

Consuming the Wild: Commensality and the

‘Citizen State’ in ancient Praisos

James Whitley

18th January 2016

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/james-whitley-

university-of-cardiff-consuming-the-wild-

commensality-and-the-citizen-state-in-ancient-

praisos/

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/james-whitley-university-of-cardiff-consuming-the-wild-commensality-and-the-citizen-state-in-ancient-praisos/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/james-whitley-university-of-cardiff-consuming-the-wild-commensality-and-the-citizen-state-in-ancient-praisos/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/james-whitley-university-of-cardiff-consuming-the-wild-commensality-and-the-citizen-state-in-ancient-praisos/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/james-whitley-university-of-cardiff-consuming-the-wild-commensality-and-the-citizen-state-in-ancient-praisos/

Pindar and Corinth

Catherine Morgan

25th May 2015

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/catherine-morgan-

pindar-and-corinth/

“An eternal memorial of goodwill towards their

kinsmen”: Abdera and Teos after the Third

Macedonian War

Peter Thonemann

30th September 2019

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/peter-thonemann-an-

eternal-memorial-of-goodwill-towards-their-

kinsmen-abdera-and-teos-after-the-third-

macedonian-war/

https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/catherine-morgan-pindar-and-corinth/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/catherine-morgan-pindar-and-corinth/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/peter-thonemann-an-eternal-memorial-of-goodwill-towards-their-kinsmen-abdera-and-teos-after-the-third-macedonian-war/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/peter-thonemann-an-eternal-memorial-of-goodwill-towards-their-kinsmen-abdera-and-teos-after-the-third-macedonian-war/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/peter-thonemann-an-eternal-memorial-of-goodwill-towards-their-kinsmen-abdera-and-teos-after-the-third-macedonian-war/https://www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/peter-thonemann-an-eternal-memorial-of-goodwill-towards-their-kinsmen-abdera-and-teos-after-the-third-macedonian-war/