{"id":666,"date":"2022-02-08T00:09:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T05:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=666"},"modified":"2022-02-08T00:13:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T05:13:23","slug":"eauty-victory-death-and-marriage-in-archaic-athens-phrasikleia-and-the-merenda-kouros","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/lecture\/eauty-victory-death-and-marriage-in-archaic-athens-phrasikleia-and-the-merenda-kouros\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty, Victory, Death, and Marriage in Archaic Athens: Phrasikleia and the Merenda Kouros"},"content":{"rendered":"

Susan Rotroff<\/span>, Washington University in St. Louis<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1972 Greek archaeologists unearthed two nearly complete Archaic (800 to 480 BC) statues a <\/span>foot below the modern surface of an olive grove in the countryside of Attica, outside the city of<\/span> Athens. They represent a young man and a young woman of the second half of the 6<\/span>th<\/span> century<\/span> BC, carved in the traditional static pose of the time. They had been erected as grave markers in<\/span> a nearby family cemetery. But, after standing guard over the deceased for only a short period of <\/span>time, they had been deliberately removed and buried.<\/span><\/p>\n

Who are the deceased? What, precisely, do the statues represent? Why were they chosen to <\/span>mark these particular graves? What achievements or qualities of the deceased \u2013 either real or<\/span> desired \u2013 do they commemorate, and what funeral practices may they document? And what<\/span> threat impelled family members to bury these splendid grave monuments so soon after their<\/span> erection? In her lecture, Professor Susan Rotroff will address these questions, and explore the <\/span>ways in which the statues reflect the interconnected themes of youth, beauty, athletic prowess, <\/span>marriage and death in the society of 6<\/span>th<\/span>-century Athens.<\/span><\/p>\n

Susan Rotroff i<\/span>s a Classical archaeologist who specializes in the archaeology of Athens and in<\/span> Greek ceramics. Educated at Bryn Mawr College and Princeton University, she has worked at<\/span> several sites in Greece (Lefkandi, Corinth, Karystos, Samothrace) and Turkey (Troy, Sardis,<\/span> Cilicia). Her primary association, however, has been with the Agora Excavations, where<\/span> archaeologists are investigating the ancient civic center of Athens. Her research focuses on the <\/span>ways in which ceramic evidence informs us about the activities and behavior of ancient peoples.<\/span> She has taught at Mount Allison University, in Canada, and at Hunter College; currently she is<\/span> the Jarvis Thurston and Mona van Duyn Professor in the Humanities at Washington University<\/span> in St. Louis. She has published three volumes on the Hellenistic ceramics of the Athenian Agora <\/span>and has recently been working in Turkey on an underwater survey at Kaledran, and on the <\/span>excavation of a Roman ship at Kizilburun.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a Norton Lecture, named for Charles Eliot Norton, the founder <\/span>and first President of the AIA and former Professor of the History of Art at Harvard University. <\/span>The Norton Lectureship is part of the AIA\u2019s National Lecture Program<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Susan Rotroff, Washington University in St. Louis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[57,42,36,33],"tribe_events_cat":[17],"class_list":["post-666","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tag-archaeology","tag-art","tag-greece","tag-women","tribe_events_cat-ottawa-chapter","cat_ottawa-chapter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/666\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}