Professor Dr Hans Rupprecht Goette

Details of Professor Dr Hans Rupprecht Goette's Munro Lecture.

Event details

Lecture title: Attic Marble for the Ancient World - Pentelicon, Hymettos and Life in Ancient Attica

Date: 4 March 2010, 5.15pm

Venue: Faculty Room South, David Hume Tower, George Square, Edinburgh

Lecture abstract

The ancient city-state of Athens possessed a relatively large hinterland, called Attica. This paper tries to reconstruct the relations between the countryside and the city, to offer glimpses of the political, economical, and social life in rural Attica by investigating several areas on the slopes of Mt. Pentelicon and Mt. Hymettos in the vicinity of Athens through its topography.

We will ‘walk’ through the countryside and look at ancient remains of the daily life of Athenians living outside town, constructing roads, quarrying marble, farming, and worshipping their deities.

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