The Fred Winter Collection

Lindos: SE reentrant angle of lower stoa, and view of complete SE wing (Professor Fred Winter, 1984)

Welcome, Monica!

Earlier this month we welcomed Monica Santos to the Institute for a three-month internship. Monica is the sixteenth student intern that the Institute has hosted from York University; she is a third-year undergraduate majoring in Political Science with a certificate in Law and Social Thought.

Monica’s main interest is in political philosophy and her initial interest in the Ancient Greek world began in her first year of university in her Birth of Politics course. Within her first year, she studied books such as The Iliad, The Trial of Socrates, Plato’s Republic, and many more. Through her studies of the ancient Greek world, her curiosity towards ancient Greek ideas such as justice, virtue, democracy, and citizenship grew.

Within the course of her stay in Greece, she plans to enrich her knowledge and understanding of ancient Greek archaeology and history, in order to fully understand the cultural significance of the ancient Greek world in politics. She hopes to use her learning opportunities at The Canadian Institute in Greece, with regard to Greek archaeology, to get a better understanding of the influence that the Greek world has had on Western politics today. She also hopes to immerse herself into today’s Greek culture so that she may thoroughly understand the influences of the ancient Greek world and diversify herself.

Jonathan Tomlinson
Assistant Director

The Fred Winter Collection

Lindos: SE reentrant angle of lower stoa, and view of complete SE wing (Professor Fred Winter, 1984)

Canadian Fieldwork in Greece; Toward a Phenomenology of Historienbilder

The Institute’s annual Open Meeting will take place on Wednesday May 22, starting at 19.00, in the auditorium of the Danish Institute in Athens (Herefondos 14 A, Plaka). The Institute’s Director, Professor Brendan Burke, will report on the activities of the Institute during the past year, focusing on the CIG-sponsored excavations at Argilos (Macedonia), Eleon (Boeotia) and Stelida (Naxos), and the study seasons at Kastro Kallithea (Thessaly) and of the Western Argolid Regional Project.

Following the director’s report, we will hear a lecture by this year’s invited speaker, Professor SeungJung Kim (Department of Art History, University of Toronto). Her lecture is entitled, “Toward a Phenomenology of Historienbilder: The Emergence of Actuality in the Visual Culture of Ancient Greece”.

“It has long been recognized that the ancient Greeks were notoriously obsessed with their mythographic tradition, avoiding representations of actuality at all costs. Historical events, for example, were usually cloaked under a mythological guise, as we see on the famed Parthenon. At the dawn of democracy in the late-sixth century and early-fifth century BCE, however, a new trend emerged in the visual culture Greece. It is then that visual representations of actuality in monumental form—contemporary or historical events or public personages, such as the Tyrannicides or the battle of Marathon—began to be commemorated for the first time. This paper explores the emerging interest in the so-called Historienbilder, or images of the “contemporary-historical,” in the context of a societal shift in Greek attitudes towards time, in which the authority of the past gave way to the uncertainty and the immediacy of the present. In particular, by employing a phenomenological lens through which these new images of reality would have been perceived by the viewer, the phenomenon of Historienbilder is reframed as one of the many changes that late archaic and early classical imagery undergoes that signal a novel relationship between time and the image.”

We look forward to you joining us on Wednesday evening for the final event of the Institute’s 2018-2019 academic programme.

Jonathan Tomlinson
Assistant Director

The Fred Winter Collection

Lindos: general view of rock-cut niche and ship-monument at foot of final ascent to the acropolis (Professor Fred Winter, 1984)

The Fred Winter Collection

Rhodes: Kamiros: panorama of lower part of city from SW (Professor Fred Winter, 1984)