EVENT
EVENT
When: Tuesday, May 27, 2025 | 18:00 – 20:00
Where: Deree Faculty Lounge, The American College of Greece
Speaker: Daphne D. Martin, Visiting Fellow, IHCLA – The American College of Greece
Organized by: Institute for Hellenic Culture and the Liberal Arts
The seminar can also be attended via Zoom. The link will be provided on the day of the event and sent via email to those opting for online participation. After the seminar, refreshments and light snacks will be offered.
About the seminar
Stereotypes around Sparta portray a xenophobic, warfare-oriented society, with little concern for art, luxury, and cultural exchange. In this talk, I will use Hans Beck (2020) and Tamar Hodos’ (2023) frameworks of local and global to re-consider key material culture from within Sparta, as well as Spartan material culture found abroad. Ultimately, I argue for Sparta as a key paradigm for understanding how the ‘local’ and the ‘global’ unfold in tandem in the first millennium BCE Mediterranean.
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Bio of the speaker
Dr. Daphne D. Martin recently completed her PhD in Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Cambridge on the material construction of identity in Sparta and Lakonia. Her work focuses on the art and archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean world, as well as on issues of restitution, repatriation, and public archaeology. She has more than eight years of excavation experience at sites in Greece and Italy, and has worked at museums in Europe, the US, the UK, and Australia. Prior to her PhD and MPhil at the University of Cambridge, she completed her BA at Yale University (2019) in History of Art and Classics with distinction in both majors.