Dalrymple Lecture Series 2022
Published: 11 October 2022
8 to 11 November 2021
We are delighted to announce that the 2022 Dalrymple Lecture Series on 'Polity to polis? The development of Greek communities, c.1450-c.500 BCE' will be delivered by Professor Lin Foxhall on 14-17 November 2022.
These lectures emerge from a major book project on the development of Greek communities from the Later Bronze Age to the late Archaic/early Classical period. The canonical narrative of the transition from the Bronze Age ‘world of palaces’ to the Classical ‘world of poleis’ (city-states) is a story of dramatic palatial collapse culminating in Iron Age breakdown followed several centuries later by a ‘Greek Renaissance’ and the rapid rise of states (mostly) in the form of the polis. Constructed in the 1980s this remains, albeit with significant nuancing, the foundational paradigm for scholarly understandings of how Greek societies and communities developed and the city-state came to prevail. The aim of these lectures is to re-frame and re-evaluate the social, political and economic changes for communities that took place across the Greek and wider Mediterranean world over this time.
The programme is available here.
First published: 11 October 2022
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