The Blog has Moved!

Significant progress was made in the past year to improve and to extend the Institute’s electronic footprint. The next step is to consolidate all of our communications on one platform. Thus, as of this blog all future blogs will be found at the CIG website (www.cig-icg.gr) under the heading “Blog”, no less!

We will retain the address cig-icg.blogspot.gr as the Archive of the CIG Blog which started in January, 2011 through today’s “final” blog. The link on this blog will take you to the CIG website.

In the new location I look forward to continue sharing with our readers and supporters news relating to the Institute, announcements of lectures/events at CIG and in Athens, comments on archaeological topics relating to Greece, guest blogs from our fieldwork projects and images from the Frederick Winter B/W Negative Collection.

Cordially,
David Rupp
Director

Harvest Moon (almost) for an (almost) Fresh Crop of Links

Hello All,

My name is Chris and I am the new Leipen Fellow at the CIG in Athens. This is my first blog entry for this site (or anywhere else). I'm not a fan of long introductions, so let's get down to it.

The hit-stats for our blog say that a good number of you are reading this from some place other than Greece. For my first post I thought I would offer up a short list of fun events for those lucky enough to be in Canada this October:

Starting in the west, in Vancouver, Hector Williams will be giving a talk on “Lemnos: the Archaeology of a Greek Island” on October 24.
http://www.cnrs.ubc.ca/hector-williams-lemnos-archaeology-greek-island-pharos

In Edmonton, Jennifer Niels will be talking about “The Parthenon and Periklean Politics” on October 6.
http://www.archaeological.org/events/5480

In Winnipeg, you can spend All Hallows Eve with Victoria Wohl and her lecture on “Living the Law in Democratic Athens.”
http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/classics/lectures/index.html

Christopher Smith, Director of the British School at Rome will be making his way across Ontario on an AIA sponsored lecture tour. You can catch him in Ottawa on the 18th and 19th, London on the 24th, and Toronto on the 28th.
http://www.archaeological.org/events/6409
http://www.archaeological.org/events/6410
http://www.uwo.ca/classics/events/index.html
http://classics.chass.utoronto.ca/

Those in Toronto to see Christopher Smith might also consider walking across the street to the Royal Ontario Museusm, which has recently opened three new galleries focused on classical Rome and the Greek East:
http://www.rom.on.ca/exhibitions/wculture/index.php

Dans la belle province, on peut voir Robert Vergnieux à la 5 octobre ou Jacques Perrault à la 24:
http://www.fl.ulaval.ca/evenement/article/conference-midi-innovation-ti-les-dessous-et-tendances-de-la-modelisation-3d-en-archeologie/
http://www.fl.ulaval.ca/evenement/article/les-midis-de-linstitut-detudes-anciennes-argilos-colonie-dandros-recherches-archeol/

And on the east coast, the big news is the annual meeting of the Atlantic Classical Association, happening on October 14th and 15th on the lovely campus of Memorial University.
http://www.mun.ca/classics/home/ACA2011.php

There are, no doubt, many fine public lectures and events that I have missed. The most important one of all is coming up this Monday, when people all over Canada are invited to have an extra helping of turkey for me!

To put you in the Thanksgiving spirit, the first person to send me an email naming this body of water, or the park it runs through, wins a fresh rutabaga. (Delivery not included; you have to dig it up yourself.)

Christopher Wallace
Ph.D. Candidate (Classics), University of Toronto
Neda and Franz Leipen Fellow, Canadian Institute in Greece

Altar of the Twelve Gods and the Zea Harbour Project

Here are a couple of links which may be of interest. The first is to an article in the English version of the Greek newspaper Kathimerini. The piece  reports on the unearthing of the Altar of the Twelve Gods, in the area of the Athenian Agora, during renovation works on the Piraeus-Kifissia metro line:
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4Dcgi/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite4_1_17/02/2011_379147

The second is the new website of the Zea Harbour Project, a combined land and underwater archaeological investigation of the ancient harbours of Zea and Mounichia in the Piraeus. The project operates under the auspices of the Danish Institute at Athens:
http://www.zeaharbourproject.dk/

Best wishes,
Jonathan Tomlinson
Assistant Director