Bulletin De L’Institut Canadien En Grèce Spring 2011, No

The Canadian Institute in Greece Bulletin de l’Institut canadien en Grèce Spring 2011, No. 27 printemps 2011, n o 27

President’s Message

The Canadian Institute is preparing to On the subject of our staff in Athens, both welcome its first Neda and Franz Leipen Dr. Tomlinson and Dr. David Rupp, the Fellow in September, as well as its first intern Director of the Institute, have once again been to come from Wilfrid Laurier University. renewed in their positions for three year terms, These are two new opportunities for Canadian at the latest meeting of CIG’s Board, held in students, one graduate and the other March at Wilfrid Laurier University. In total, undergraduate, to study and experience life in 23 people attended that Board meeting, either Greece from the perspective of the Institute. in person or through a conference call hook- up. It marked an important milestone for CIG, Despite rather dismal economic news the 50 th meeting of the Board since the re- emerging regularly from Athens, the founding of the Institute in 1994, and an intellectual life of the city, especially the occasion to remember. So, as Lord Stanley’s various branches of Hellenic studies, has Cup, the Canadian grail, is fought over for the hardly been more vibrant. The lectures and next two months, I shut down my computer for other cultural events at Greek and foreign the evening and head home to watch some of institutions in Athens seem almost the night’s matches, wishing you all a very overwhelming in their diversity and number, productive and enjoyable summer. but it is the social events, often following lectures, where our students will meet peers of other nationalities, form friendships and develop future contacts. This is what I regard as most memorable, and most valuable, from the two years I spent as a student in Athens in the mid-‘70s. Simply in terms of breaking the ice to develop these contacts and friendships, though, there surely is no better opportunity than “Darts Night” at the Red Lion Pub, close Board meeting participants, from left to right: to the Athens Hilton, every Tuesday, organized Gerry Schaus, Sheila Campbell, Jane Francis, for years now by our Assistant Director, Zographia Welch, Alexis Young, Barb Hill Jonathan Tomlinson. Everyone can throw a and Jeff Banks dart, and is welcomed into this convivial gathering of the young and young-at-heart of Gerry Schaus the international community in Athens.

1 The Canadian Institute in Greece L’Institut canadien en Grèce 59 Oueen’s Park Crescent From the Editor Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C4 CANADA The Institute’s website Tel./téléphone (416) 978-8150 continues to make progress, Fax / télécopieur (416) 978-7307 E-mail/ poste éléctronique: [email protected] thanks to the help of Chris Stewart, artist and photo- In Athens: grapher, as well as spouse of a L’Institut canadien en Grèce/ The Canadian Institute in Greece staff member at the Canadian Odos Dion. Aiginitou 7 Embassy in Athens. We look GR - 115 28 Athènes/ Athens forward to even closer GRECE/ GREECE téléphone/ tel. 011-30-210-722-3201 cooperation with the Canadian télécopieur/ fax 011-30-210-725-7968 Embassy through his kind poste électronique/ E-mail: [email protected] assistance. Web site: http://www.cig-icg.gr Nikitas Terzis is a Greek heures d’ouverture: de lunedi à vendredi, 9h à 13h opening hours: Monday to Friday, 09:00-13:00 novelist who has included the Directeur/Director of the Institute: Dr. David Rupp Canadian Institute in his latest Directeur Adjoint/Assistant Director: Dr. Jonathan E. Tomlinson novel. We are privileged that he has contributed a wonderful The Canadian Institute in Greece is a non-profit, charitable organization article for this issue of our incorporated in Canada and dedicated to promoting Greek-related archaeology and scholarly research. It has legal and financial responsibility for the Canadian Bulletin. Institute in Greece, the body, active since 1976, through which the Greek At the recent AIA government awards permits to Canadian scholars for field work. CIG maintains conference in San Antonio, premises in Athens that include a research library, a lecture room and a small Prof. Robert Weir gave a paper hostel. In both Greece and Canada it supports public activities that promote understanding of the history and culture of the Greek peninsula and islands. on ancient astrology used as The Bulletin is published semi-annually by the Canadian Institute in Greece. The propaganda on coins that editor welcomes articles in English or French on relevant topics of interest and caused a stir in the Greek press scholarship and on CAIA-related activities. Please send contributions by email and he has kindly written an to: [email protected] or by post to: account for our readers about D.J.I. Begg, Editor,39793 Fingal Line, St.Thomas, ON, Canada N5P 3S5 tel. (519) 631-2434 the subject of his paper and the reaction to it. L'Institut canadien en Grèce est un organisme philanthropique à but non lucratif Once again I have been enregistré au Canada dont la mission est de promouvoir l’archéologie grecque et prevailed upon by our la recherche académique. L'organisme, qui assume la responsabilité juridique et financière de l’Institut canadien en Grèce sert, depuis 1976, de pont entre le President, and have written an gouvernement grec et les institutions canadiennes au moment de l'octroi de permis account of how far afield de travail sur le terrain. L'organisme possède des locaux à Athènes lesquels sont historical research can lead in dotés d'une bibliothèque, d'une salle de conférence et d'une hôtellerie. En Grèce Greece, in this case beyond the comme au Canada, il subventionne des activités publiques visant une meilleure depths most archaeologists appréciation de l’histoire et de la culture de la péninsule et des îles grecques. Le Bulletin de l'ICG est publié deux fois par année par l’Institut canadien en Grèce. reach, right into the ancient Le rédacteur invite les lecteurs à contribuer au dynamisme du Bulletin en lui Underworld itself. faisant parvenir des articles en français ou en anglais portant sur les activités ou des sujets d’intérêt de l’Institut. Les articles devront être envoyés par courrier Ian Begg électronique au : [email protected] ou par voie postale à l'adresse suivante: D.J.I. Begg, rédacteur,39793 Fingal Line, St.Thomas, ON, Canada, N5P 3S5, Editor téléphone : 519 631-2434

2 Director’s Report us also through our Facebook and Twitter. In addition, Chris has Since my last report we have started to examine and to catalogue had a busy and interesting five the collection of b/w photographic months at the Institute in Athens. negatives relating to Greek Our hardworking graduate intern architecture donated by Prof. Fred from Brock University, Lana Winter (University of Toronto). Radloff, left in mid-December and she was followed in mid-January Sarah Madole (ASCSA), Rosa by another undergraduate intern, Tsakona (Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism), Amalia Kakissis April Ross, from the University of (Archivist, BSA) Waterloo. Both of them continued the work of cataloguing the new books which we had ordered or that had been donated to the Library and then checking and correcting the Library's catalogue. Alison and Chris Stewart, Zoe Their work ethic was excellent! Delibasis (Embassy of Canada) We have also been joined by a volunteer. Chris Stewart is the As always we had an active husband of a member of staff of series of lectures and events for our local Association of Friends. Richard Anderson (Architect the Canadian Embassy in Athens, Emeritus, Agora Excavations, These well-attended affairs an artist and photographer with a ASCSA), Martti Leiwo (Director, background in IT as well. Chris is included: Finnish Institute) advising us on and assisting with November 3: Lecture, “Mycenaean increasing the Institute's visibility Architecture and the Construction of December 8: Lecture, “Eastern the Mycenaean State” by Dr. Rodney on the Internet. For example under Boeotia in the Late Bronze Age” by D. Fitzsimons (Associate Professor, Dr Brendan Burke his guidance we continued to Department of Ancient History and improve the Institute's website, (Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Trent University) Greek and Roman Studies, University adding a guide to graduate of Victoria) programs in Classical Studies and Archaeology in Canada. Further, Jonathan and I started a blog at the beginning of February, www.cig- icg.blogspot.com. At least once a week we keep our friends and supporters up-to-date on the John Cannis MP, Brendan Burke Institute's activities. Another (Victoria), Alison Stewart (Embassy regular feature is the “ Book of the of Canada), Mayor of Kalymnos Barbette Spaeth (ASCSA), Rodney Blog ”. The purpose of these mini- reviews is to bring attention to the Fitzsimons (Trent) new additions in the Library and to emphasize the range of our holdings. Any Canadian scholar who donates his/her book, monograph or edited volume to the library will be featured. We hope the Institute's library will be the Metaxia Tsipopoulou (Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism), repository for all publications relating to Greece published by Stefanie Kennell, Rosemary Donnelly Irene Lemos (Oxford) Canadian scholars. One can follow (Athens Centre), Nigel Kennell (CYA)

3 February 9: Lecture, “Rich Man, Poor Architectural Correlates of After a review of the fieldwork and Man: Reconstructing Social Status in Urbanization at Azoria, East Crete” by activities of the Institute in 2010/11, the Ancient World from Rodney Fitzsimons (Associate the featured lecture will be given by Archaeological Bones” by Michael Professor, Department of Ancient Robert Weir (Department of MacKinnon (Associate Professor, History and Classics, Trent Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Department of Anthropology, University) University of Windsor). It is entitled University of Winnipeg). “Antiochos VIII and the Star of Destiny”. (See his article below) At Prof. MacKinnon’s lecture, the We are looking forward to a Institute introduced a new "annual busy spring and summer in Athens tradition." That is a pitta cutting to along with the arrival of the York welcome in the New Year and to wish University undergraduate intern. good health, productivity and love to Dione Dodis, Nikitas Terzis, Ann Please come and visit us in person at the Institute and its members. Baker, Zoe Delibasis (Embassy) the Institute in the near future! In the meantime, keep following us on our March 23: Lecture, “Searching for blog and on Facebook. Plato's Academy: Post-war Efforts” by James S. Murray (Professor, David W. Rupp Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of New Brunswick). Intern’s Report

The last event on April 6 th for Last fall I had the pleasure of our Friends was the screening of the completing a three-month internship at Canadian movie The Child Prodigy / the Canadian Institute in Greece. As a L'Enfant prodige . This examination of Master’s student in the Classics the bittersweet life of the pianist and Department at Brock University in composer Andre Mathieu was well Ontario, the opportunity to study received. overseas was beneficial for my thesis The Assistant Director and I research which discusses the potential rewrote, expanded and reorganized the utility of unprovenienced antiquities. “Guidelines for Permit Applicants and Though there are ethical issues Permit Holders ”. The purposes were associated with many unprovenienced to update it in terms of the current artefacts, there are those that do not Ministry of Culture and Tourism have this concern. My thesis proposes The cutting of the Institute's requirements, clarify ambiguous pedagogical approaches that make full vasilopitta sections, add necessary information use of these materials in museums and and requirements that were absent educational institutions through public from the previous version, and to displays and private instruction. streamline the application process During my internship in Athens, I had both for the applicant and for the the opportunity to visit museums Institute. This document is available throughout Greece and to observe how now for perusal on the website. they approach the display of The copy editing and correction antiquities with and without of page proofs for the 16 contributions provenance and provenience. of monograph No. 6 in the series: In addition to visiting museums, I Publications of the Canadian was able to participate in the larger Institute in Greece , entitled, Euboea international community to which the Catherine Parnell (Irish Institute), and Athens: Proceedings of a Canadian Institute belongs. As a April Ross (CIG, Waterloo intern) Colloquium in Memory of Malcolm result, there were lectures at the

B. Wallace. Athens, 26-27 June 2009 foreign institutes in Athens that I February 23: The presentation of a were completed just before we closed attended where I learned about various murder mystery set in Athens for the Pascha break. We expect that topics in Greek history and networked involving stolen ancient coins, Bird of this volume will be published in May. with other graduate students and Prey, by the author Nikitas Terzis. The Institute's annual Open professionals, whom I could ask about March 9: Lecture, “Making an Meeting will take place on May 12th. my research interests, doctoral Archaic City: The Social, Political and applications and programs, and other

4 educational opportunities. Moreover, with a procedure. He will explain how hailed, praised, the child prodigy working at the Canadian Institute one's life experiences, carried to an seemed to have everything to succeed. brought me into contact with Canadian extreme, can establish the framework From the top of his vertiginous scholars throughout Canada and of the book - its primary secret, basic successes, to depths of torment, the allowed me to contribute to Canadian plot and character relationships. One life of the “Little Canadian Mozart” archaeological endeavours in Greece. may then proceed to inject a blends into his music. A romantic and Thank you to Dr. Jonathan Tomlinson thoughtful collection of scenes and a passionate composer wishing for and Dr. David Rupp for making this few secondary characters into a real happiness, his story is nevertheless an amazing experience in every way environment to complete the closed played on tragic notes. possible. world of the novel. In a thriller this Luc Dionne's movie is a fanciful world must be full of mystery, intrigue reconstruction of Québécois pianist Lana Radloff and excitement to draw us in and away and composer André Mathieu, who from the drab one we inhabit. began composing at the age of 4. At age 6 Mathieu gave his first recital of Wednesday 9 March, 19.30 his own composition, and was later Lecture by Rodney Fitzsimons pronounced by Rachmaninov to be “a (Associate Professor, Department of genius, more so than I am”. Ancient History and Classics, Trent University) Ottawa Friends “Making an Archaic City: The Social, Political and Architectural During Fall/Winter 2010-11 the Correlates of Urbanization at Friends of CIG – Ottawa Chapter Azoria, East Crete” organized the following lectures: Perhaps the most striking The first lecture entitled development accompanying the “Radiochemical Dating Methods in emergence of the Greek city-state (ca. Archaeology-The Shroud of Turin and 1200-480 B.C.) was the appearance of More ” was presented by Don Wiles, new urban centres whose form, Professor Emeritus, Carleton contents and construction provided the University, Ottawa, ON. This lecture most visible and effective means of was organized by the Canadian creating, reinforcing and symbolizing Institute in Greece –Friends of Ottawa the social, political and economic Lana Radloff Chapter in partnership with the relationships that characterized the Archaeological Institute of America in new “polis” system. Ottawa and was held at the Library Excavations at the site of Azoria and Archives Canada on October 19, Athens Association of (East Crete), conducted from 2002 to 2010, 7:30 p.m. 2006, brought to light an unparalleled Prof. Wiles, described several Friends collection of architectural data largely technical methods for dating ancient unobscured by later building activities objects and discussed which of these Programme of events for Spring that provides one of the best could be applied to archaeological opportunities to study the architectural 2011 artifacts and which are not useful for correlates of state formation and this purpose. A number of the urbanization in the Greek world. Wednesday 23 February, 19.30 methods involved the use of radioactive atoms noting that carbon Presentation by Nikitas Terzis Wednesday 6 April, 19.30 (Novelist; Author of Bird of Prey) dating was one such candidate but Canadian Movie: “The Child potassium-argon was not a useful “Synthesis of a Thriller” Prodigy / L'Enfant prodige” (101 Bird of Prey is a mystery thriller alternative. Thermoluminescence was minutes; French with English another useful method. The famous set in the international archaeological subtitles; 2010) community of Athens. The disappear- case of The Shroud of Turin and other On the keyboard, the young hands relevant examples were presented and ance and secret auction of five ancient fly rapidly and the melody rises. For coins lead a Canadian professor of discussed. the child, nothing is easier; he hears The more than 150 guests numismatics to the centre stage of a the sounds in his head. These hands struggle without rules. attending this lecture had a chance to belong to 6-year-old André Mathieu. meet the speaker and discuss his Nikitas Terzis will recall how he He won his audiences and inspired developed Bird of Prey , to show that informative presentation at a pleasant concerts halls in London, New York, reception that followed the lecture. writing a novel is a conscious process Paris and around the world. Adulated,

5 A second lecture entitled “ The area is one where illegal searching and little direct evidence of the type of Humble Dead- Mortuary Ritual in the excavation is a constant threat. As a questions put to the oracle, but Mycenaean Hinterland ” was presented consequence, methods were developed evidence suggests that the vast by Prof. R. Angus K. Smith, Brock that were useful in recovering as much majority were of a practical nature University. The lecture was organized information as possible, even of the involving the solution to present by the Friends of CIG, Ottawa most thoroughly ransacked remains. problems such as the outcome of wars, Chapter, in partnership with the local Such information presented evidence business dealings, court cases, etc. society of the Archaeological Institute for mortuary rituals used in the The shrine was the subject of power of America, the Canadian Institute for Mycenaean cemetery of Ayia Sotira. struggles over the centuries among Mediterranean Studies, the Parnassos Among the more than 200 guests various states with Sparta dominating. Hellenic Cultural Society and the present were many dignitaries Control of the oracle and its sanctuary Embassy of Greece. It was held at the including Senator of Parliament, Miss enjoyed great prestige and the Library and Archives Canada on Pana Mercharnt and the Ambassador opportunity to get divine blessing for November 16, 2010. The generous of Greece to Canada Mr. Eleftherios its activities. Shrines were also the contribution by Mr. Peter Fustanellas, Anghelopoulos who highly repository of fantastic treasures in a prominent businessman in Ottawa, complimented the efforts of CIG to precious metals in the form of votives helped offset much of the expenses for bring to Ottawa such informative which could be readily converted into this event. lectures and thanked the speaker funds to fuel campaigns. The recourse saying that people like Prof. Smith are to the oracle flourished at the time the true ambassadors of Hellenic when there were many small culture to Canada. The lecture was competing city states (early in Greek followed by a reception kindly history) because there were many provided by the Embassy of Greece. current issues to be addressed. While A third lecture entitled” The the widespread practice of divination Oracle of Zeus at Olympia and the continued after the 4 th century BCE, it Projection of Power in the probably became obsolete because the Peloponnese ” was presented by Prof. oracle likely ceased to be consulted by Susan Downie, Greek and Roman the absolute monarchs of the new Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Hellenistic kingdoms who did not Prof. R. Angus K. Smith ON. It was held at the National want their power to be diluted by Library and Archives Canada on reference to higher powers. February 1, 2011. This lecture was The presence of many students organized by the local chapter of the from the Ottawa and Carleton Archaeological Institute of America in Universities among the over 150 partnership with the Friends of CIG – guests present, was welcome. A Ottawa Chapter, and the Parnassos reception followed the lecture. Hellenic Cultural Society of Ottawa. On March 2011, Carleton Dr. Andreas Vikis, Dr. Helen In this most informative lecture, University, Greek and Roman Studies Tryphonas, Prof. Angus Smith, Prof. Downie, traced the history of the Programme, invited Christos Doumas, Senator Pana Mercharnt, Ambassador oracle from its origins lost in time emeritus professor of pre-historic of Greece to Canada, Mr. Eleftherios (3000 BCE) through its most active archaeology at the University of Anghelopoulos, Mr. Theodossis usage 7th-4th centuries BCE. The Athens to speak to a large audience of Demetracopoulos, Embassy of Greece lecture was highlighted by photos of students and other guests. The first In this eloquent presentation, numerous votive artifacts and of the lecture entitled ‘ Akrotiri, a Prof. Smith informed the audience that thick layer of fatty burnt soil-a Cosmopolitan Bronze Age Harbour during the summers from 2006 to testament to the enormous number of Town on the Mediterranean ’ was 2008 the Canadian Institute in Greece burnt offerings (animals). The speaker presented by Prof. Doumas on March sponsored excavation of the went on to say that the altar itself, 22, 2011 at the Minto Centre, Carleton Mycenaean cemetery of Ayia Sotira which has not survived, was a mound University. Prof. Doumas is well- near Koutsomodi in the Nemea Valley of ash/bone ‘plaster’. However, there regarded as one of Greece’s most in Greece which contains a total of six is a great deal of written evidence outstanding experts on its ancient chamber tombs. One of these was relating to the shrine (Pindar, past. The Archaeological Institute of rescued from looters in a 2002 salvage Sophocles, Xenophon, Plutarch). America in partnership with the operation by the 4 th Ephorate of While there was a single Mantis (high Friends of CIG – Ottawa Chapter, and Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, priest) at the height of the shrine’s use, the Parnassos Hellenic Cultural and the project led by Prof. Smith there were numerous ‘wandering Society seized this opportunity and excavated the other five. Sadly, the seers’ experts in divination. There is organized a second lecture by Prof.

6 Doumas entitled ‘ The Art of Thera Take me for instance. “It fits right in.” (Santorini)’ . This truly interesting I was born in Greece, raised and The course was FAH 101, lecture based on his beautiful educated in Canada and now live in Ancient Art History. At the end, I had publication ‘ The Wall Paintings of Greece. What am I, Canadian or no time to date the girls I had met in Thera’ (1992), was presented to an Greek? Let's look at my professional class. But I did have to pass the exam, equally large number of guests in the life. I am a practising electrical so I learned all about pediments and presence of the Ambassador of Greece engineer who writes mystery-thrillers. metopes and even Hermes of to Canada Mr. Elefhterios Am I a realist or a dreamer? And what Praxiteles. What Dad couldn't explain, Anghelopoulos. It was indeed a am I doing here, rubbing shoulders Professor Shaw had absolutely no unique experience to have such a with the archaeologists on the adjacent difficulty with. distinguished guest speaker in Ottawa! columns of the Bulletin? It doesn't Time passed on. I moved from Another lecture entitled ‘ The make sense, does it? Canada to Greece, I earned my living Kyrenia Ship: A Voyage of Most of life's mysteries don't as an electrical engineer and I started Discovery’ is scheduled to be make sense. But as soon as we learn a writing mystery-thrillers as a hobby. It presented by Helena Wylde Swiny, thing or two, lo and behold, the oddest was just before the 2004 Summer Curator of the Semitic Museum, item suddenly becomes the most Olympics that I started to think about Harvard University, on May 8, 2011 at natural. I mean heavier than air flying my third novel. My first one, The 7:30 p.m., Library and Archives machines didn't make any kind of Edge of Oblivion , had just been Canada, Room A. The ancient sense two hundred years ago, but published in Greek as The Adventures Kyrenia Ship, around 2300 years old, when we discovered the venturi of Asher, Frude, Bonham , and I had was found off the port town of principle and jet propulsion, they just completed my second one, Kyrenia (Cyprus) in the late 1960’s. It became flying buses. Fantasy Land . So as I embarked on remains the most complete ancient My first contact with archaeology my third novel. Besides the characters ship to have been found, excavated, came on May 10 th , 1957 when I was which I had already sketched out in lifted, preserved and reconstructed. hardly four. I know the exact date my head, I wanted an interesting Two replicas of the ancient because I have a photograph with a environment - something I would love merchantman have sailed the date. I am the little guy in the picture. to research and enjoy writing about. Mediterranean and have been filled The big guy is my Dad. It was a very This had to be archaeology. with a replica cargo-contributing eventful day. It was the day I visited What happens in any novel is much to experimental archaeology. the temple of Olympian Zeus, the day extraordinary. It has to be, to hold our This lecture is organized by the I first set foot on the Acropolis, and attention. We don't want to read about Parnassos Hellenic Cultural Society in the day I saw my first real snake as I John taking the garbage out and Mary partnership with the Archaeological was looking down from the ramparts. I cooking; we can see them doing that Institute of America and the Friends of saw a much larger snake made of next door. So to offset the extremities CIG – Ottawa Chapter. marble, inside the Acropolis museum. in character and plot, and to make the In summary, thanks to the “I don't know what's so important story believable, we need an authentic continuous presence and support of about all of this,” Dad had said, “but setting. Internet and library research members and friends of CIG, the AIA, people come from all over the world can provide information, but the CIMS, the Parnassos Hellenic to see and admire these stones.” Well archaeologists move in a human Cultural Society, the Embassy of now, what was this that even Dad environment not easily accessible to Greece and the generosity of Mr. couldn't explain? those outside it. If my characters and Fustanellas, CIG in Ottawa made Many years later, I was a fourth their academic world were to be real, I available to all present a rich lecture year engineering student looking for had to gain access to it. I had to meet program for the past season and look an interesting non-technical course I the appropriate people and visit them forward to another equally successful had to take. 'Psychology' was filled at their place of work. series of lectures in the upcoming and 'African politics' seemed boring. I write in the first person and my Fall/Winter session. One of my friends came to the rescue. narrators are much like myself: “There is this course” he said, Canadians who find themselves in Helen Tryphonas, Ph.D. “where 90% of the class is women.” Greece. If my characters were to be President My God! What an incredible English-speaking archaeologists, they figure! After three whole years in the had to operate within the international engineering desert of 3% femininity, archaeological community in Athens. I A Fake Archaeologist here was an oasis! I attended the next 'googled' my enquiry, and being class, and it was only after I checked Canadian, I found myself on the Some of us are not just perplexed the audience, that I wondered what the doorstep of the Canadian Institute in or confused but all muddled-up. At course was about. Greece . From there on, things moved least it seems that way. “Fa something,” said my friend. very quickly. Dr J. Tomlinson gave

7 me the e-mails of archaeologists and I make as much sense as heavier than grandfather had found on the hills attended a few events given by the air flying machines? outside Edinburgh in 1934 to have it CIG and other schools. I had a lively But even if I am a poor fake vetted by the knowledgeable shop- four-hour lunch with Dr. Mac archaeologist, I did do one thing owner. It was indeed a coin of the Wallace, sadly no longer with us, who properly. One day, not too long ago, I Roman period, in fact a tetradrachm of filled me in on real archaeology and took my father up to the Acropolis. I emperor Probus minted in Alexandria numismatics. I visited the upper storey stood him on the corner of the in 277/8 AD, which meant that it was of the Stoa of Attalos II and walked on Parthenon and showed him the inscribed in Greek (hence my and my the grounds of the British and stylobate curvature and the columnar father's inability to read its "Latin" American Schools. I found myself inclination and spacing. I didn't take a inscription!). But how did such a coin listening to archaeologists and talking photograph and I have truly forgotten get from Egypt to Scotland, especially with archaeologists. I noticed how the date. There's one thing though I in a time after the abandonment of the they dressed and how they behaved. I will never forget: Antonine Wall? From that point on, began to understand what they were The smile on his face. I've been hooked, principally by the like. All this study was probably idea of the stories, the unknown enough for an actor, but certainly Nikitas Terzis history, that coins must have insufficient for a writer. You see, a witnessed and perhaps could be writer must proceed even further; he Visit my website: www.nikterzis.gr induced to tell. So, I make it my must convince his readers that he is an and my blog: scholarly practice to pinch pennies archaeologist himself. nikitasterzis.blogspot.com until they squeal their secrets, which It took more work to manage that, Follow me on Facebook & Twitter I've been doing in recent years for and when I thought I had grasped it, I Read my 3 novels: excavations at Mytilene, Stymphalos, started writing my new novel. And the The Edge of Oblivion (2004)--A man Helike, and Kenchreai. I didn't, people I had met in their professional with amnesia investigates his turbulent however, write my dissertation on a lives soon stood in as my characters. I past on the island of Karpathos, Mount numismatic topic --something which, gave them fictional private lives of Athos and Toronto. as an advisor told me, would be the course. It's one thing to be muddled- Fantasy Land (2008)--Love, "kiss of death" when trying to find an up personally and quite another to friendship and revenge on the island academic position-- though my work muddle the very people who have of Ios. on Roman Delphi did involve some helped you. The result? My new book, Bird of Prey (2010)--The auction of a coins. Bird of Prey , is now available from stolen coin becomes a struggle without I have been interested in Amazon.com. Dr. G. Schaus and Dr. rules. Mystery, intrigue and peril in astronomy for even longer, ever since Tomlinson have said some nice things the archaeological community in I got a book on the subject for my about it, but more important, they Athens. Bird of Prey is available seventh birthday. Indeed, until I was offered me the chance to write through Amazon at in grade twelve and discovered that something in the CIG Bulletin. http://www.amazon.com/Bird-Prey- professional astronomers are really You may feel that I am out of Nikitas- just a kind of mathematician -- place. What am I doing writing Terzis/dp/1453771670/ref=tmm_pap_t something I could handle, but totally something in here? Call me a fake, if itle_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1285295926&sr devoid of romantic appeal-- I was you like. I won't be offended. A story- =1-7 planning to do astronomy as a career. teller is a fake by definition. But in Nevertheless, I've kept up my interest writing a mystery-thriller with an in backyard observing and have a archaeological and numismatics The Star of Destiny couple of telescopes in my garage (a background, I was given a very real 90 mm refractor and a 200 mm place in your world. I am being treated I have been interested in ancient Schmidt-Cassegrain). like I am one of you . Do I deserve this coins since 25th January, 1983, the The idea to combine these two honour? Well, you should be the judge precise day when I happened on a interests in the paper that I of that. Buy, borrow or download my London, ON coin shop, in whose presented at AIA and will be doing new novel, and read it. Hopefully I window display was a velvet-lined again for CIG next month came to will not only convince you that I know tray bearing a few, dark coppers and a me while I was walking the picket your world and its sinister side, but card reading "ROMAN COINS! Your make your heart beat a little faster, line during the three-week faculty choice: $15 each." I couldn't believe strike at the University of Windsor make you miss your bus-stop, force my eyes, so I went inside to find out you to sit up while you are reading it in the fall of 2008. Fresh air, more: could they possibly be genuine? exercise, and an indefinite in bed. And after you read it, you may A few days later, I returned with a pass your verdict. Am I a convincing coin, reputedly Roman, that my postponement of professional fake, or not? Does my place here

8 commitments greatly foster a state visible from Antioch, the capital of of creative lassitude, I find. the Seleukid Empire, I found a set I had often been struck by the of very favourable occultations of odd iconography on the reverses of Venus as well as of Jupiter in the very common tetradrachms of Cancer by the Moon at the Antiochos VIII, an obscure beginning of his sole reign in Seleukid ruler. So far as I could January 121 BC, i.e. around the tell, it was a unique representation time he killed his mother, the of Zeus with a star hovering above overbearing Kleopatra Thea. This, the palm of his outstretched right I felt, was the explanation for the hand and a crescent Moon just coin type. above his head. Given the lack of Why was this type so short- obvious parallels or inspiration, I lived, i.e. just seven years, until he began to wonder if the crescent was expelled from Antioch by his Zeus and the star actually referred to brother, Antiochos IX? The answer real, astronomical bodies and were here, I believe, is also astrological: received an email out of the blue not simply decorative elements (as a series of very baleful from one Owen Jarus who puts out so often is the case). The more I occultations by the Moon not only an online magazine (Unreported looked into the culture of the late of Mars and Saturn but of them Heritage News), had read my Hellenistic period, the more I both at the same time, a very rare abstract for the AIA paper, and thought that I was on to something event that happens only once every wanted to do an interview by here, i.e. that some kind of 2000 years or so, soon marred his telephone. I obliged, and a few astronomical phenomenon was sole reign and foretold his days later I had word from him being represented and reinterpreted expulsion from the throne. that my story was now online, both in some astrologically favourable at his site: way. A big help here was the work (http://www.unreportedhertitagene of Michael R. Molnar, an ws.com/2011/01/2100-year-old- astronomer who also collected greek-copin-may-have.html ) ancient coins (e.g. his Star of and at another one: Bethlehem; The Legacy of the (http://historyoftheancientworl Magi book, Rutgers U.P., 1999). d.com/2011/01/2100-year-old- Various spectacular events greek-coin-may-have-marked-rare- (solar eclipses, comets, a astronomical-event/ ) supernova) are attested for the 2nd One of these two postings century BC, but they are only seems to have been the source of a special to a modern observer, and story in a Greek newspaper, Ta not at all significant or beneficent Antiochos VIII Nea , which ran a version of my to an ancient expert. The only story a few days later, on January possible phenomenon that could th I gave my paper at the AIA 17 : involve both the moon and a bright meeting in San Antonio this (http://www.tanea.gr/default.asp?p object represented on the coins by January and it seemed to be id=2&ct=4&artid=4613426 ) a star, and that would be both positively received at the time. I significant and propitious to the was pleased but didn't think much Since then, I have had astrologers of the Hellenistic of it until a few days later when I sporadic emails from interested period - after all, why advertise a people around the globe who are disaster, literally a dys-aster? - was curious for more details. At this the lunar occultation (or eclipse) of point, I am strongly considering a planet. working my paper up as an article When I looked up what for publication. occultations would have occurred in the time of Antiochos VIII and Robert Weir

9 Mission to the with a trickle cascading about 200 similar underground rivers waiting to metres straight down a precipitous be discovered. Underworld cliff into a small stream of the Krathis Modern speleologists traveling river, which flows into the Gulf of around the small lakes in inflatable For several years, I have been Corinth. It was this waterfall that rubber boats have discovered studying the archival papers of the late Gilbert and his friends trekked to see. Neolithic tools. The same region of Prof. Gilbert Bagnani in preparation After taking a train from Athens ancient Arcadia was known in for a book on his life in Greece from to Diakopto, the travelers went up to classical antiquity for its caves, when 1921 to 1924. When you are pursuing the cave monastery at Megaspeleion in Greek mythology the maddened research, it can lead you to very (which later blew up in a disastrous daughters of King Proitos believed unexpected places. explosion in 1934), and on to the that they were cows and took refuge in In August of 1923, an Italian historic town of Kalavryta before a cave. border mission was trying to define hiking up Mt Chelmos and on to the This underground river is the frontier between Greece and waterfalls of the Styx. In late summer strikingly reminiscent of what we Albania when its members were there was not even a trickle of water to think the ancient Greeks envisioned as forcibly removed from their car and be seen, and then they hiked back to the entrance to the Underworld. It can shot to death. In retaliation, Mussolini, the coastal railroad at Akrata. Today hardly be a coincidence then that the who had only recently seized power in there are several hiking paths in the River Styx of ancient Greek myth and Rome, sent his navy to bombard and area but those closest to the waterfall legend was located in this area, and so occupy the island of Corfu, and he itself are arduous and treacherous with may have been inspired by such also demanded a public funeral, an loose stones and, since the cliff can be underground rivers. enormous fine and an investigation seen from a distance, it seems likely Thus it was that researching among much else. that Gilbert and the ladies hiked only Gilbert Bagnani’s spy mission of At this time, Gilbert Bagnani was within viewing distance of the 1923, which had been conducted studying archaeology at the Italian cascading Source of the Styx. Even so, under the guise of a hike to the Source School. His father Gen. Ugo Bagnani, the waterfall is several mountainous of the Styx in Arcadia, led me to an had served before the war as a military kilometres inland away from any underground river flowing straight attaché in London where he met Count railway line, and a very credible cover from the Underworld. Ferdinando Perrone, who was now the for the real reason for his trip there. Italian military attaché in Athens. When I was driving around the Ian Begg Perrone asked Gilbert to check out the area in a rented car and studying the military possibilities of the railway local topography to determine the along the south shore of the Gulf of easiest “assault” on the arduous trek to Student Conference Corinth, and especially what points the waterfall in order to retrace were vulnerable from the sea. Three Bagnani’s steps, I came upon a local On March 18 th and 19 th the Greek decades earlier Italian engineers had tourist attraction, the Cave of the and Roman Studies Department of the constructed a very narrow gauge Lakes at Kastria near Kalavryta, Το University of Victoria hosted the railway running southward up a Σπηλαιο των Λιμνων. On a hot biannual CIG Graduate Student winding gorge from Diakopto on the summer’s day it was irresistible to join Conference, entitled ‘People and Gulf to Kalavryta. In addition, the a tour group and enter the cooler, Peripheries: Living on the Edge’. Italian ambassador asked Gilbert to nether regions. Graduate students and undergraduates report on the political feeling in the Part of the length of this from the University of Victoria, Peloponnese. serpentine cave consists of a long Wilfrid Laurier University and the For his first effort at “spying,” as series of small underground lakes and University of Toronto presented he wrote to his mother in Rome, he pools. In places it is perhaps about 40 excellent papers spanning decided as a cover to invite two older metres high and is at least a few Mediterranean history, culture, and Greek ladies to join him on a hike kilometers long, with only a half archaeology. The keynote speaker was through Arcadia to the so-called kilometre being publicly accessible Professor Mark Lawall of the Source of the River Styx. (“Photographs forbidden”). Distant University of Manitoba, whose talk, One of the legendary rivers of the vistas beyond enormous hanging ‘Blurry Edges: Transport Amphoras Underworld, it was famed for its stalactites are awe-inspiring, and and Economic Zones in the Eastern miraculous powers, whether protective certainly well worth the visit. Mediterranean (ca. 550-100 BC)’ or lethal, and to take an oath by the Although water gushed out above perfectly encapsulated the tone of the Styx was the most sacred oath. Oddly, ground from a lower level in 1922, the conference. The quality of papers was both Hesiod and Pausanias described upper levels were not discovered until excellent, and attendance was very it as a high waterfall, now identified about 1964. The region’s geology healthy with several members of the suggests that there may well be other

10 CIG Board of Directors in attendance, ultimately reflected a desire among Athens, 26-27 June 2009. including Board President Gerry not just the Boeotians, but most Publications of the Canadian Institute Schaus, and members Elaine Godwin, Greeks to train their citizen troops to in Greece . No. 6, Forthcoming 2011 Brendan Burke, in addition to Mark defend their territorial integrity in a For further information about CIG Lawall. world dominated by predatory monographs, see “Publications” on the superpowers. Institute website: http://www.cig- With papers like this the icg.gr conference attendees were confident that the study of the Greek past in See also: Stefanie A. H. Kennell (ed.). Canada has an excellent future. On Site: Canadian Archaeologists in Greece. Motibo Publishing 2005 Brendan Burke Open Meeting Ryan Hughes, Jessica Romney, Agora The Canadian Institute in Greece / Brendan Burke L'Institut Canadien en Grèce Annual Meeting / Réunion Jacques Y. Perreault (ed.) Women and Byzantine Monasticism. Proceedings Annuelle of the Athens Symposium, 28-29 Prof. David W. Rupp (Director / March 1988. Publications of the Directeur) Canadian Archaeological Institute at The activities of the Institute, Athens , No. 1, 1991 2010-2011

Efthalia C. Constantinides, The Wall Prof. Robert Weir (University of Paintings of the Panagia Mark Lawall, Elaine Godwin, Gerry Olympiotissa at Elasson in Northern Windsor) Schaus Thessaly. Publications of the Antiochos VIII and the Star of Canadian Archaeological Institute at Destiny Athens , No. 2 (2 vols.), 1992 Thursday 12 May / Jeudi 12 mai, David Jordan, John Traill 19.00 (eds.). Lettered Attica: A Day of Attic Danish Institute at Athens / Institut Epigraphy. Proceedings of the Danois à Athènes Athens Symposium, 8 March Herefondos 14A, Plaka Group photo at end of conference 2000. Publications of the Canadian Reception Archaeological Institute at Athens , One excellent paper (among No. 3, 2003 Το Καναδικό Ινστιτούτο στην many), may serve as an example: Ελλάδα Ruben Post, a graduating student from Nigel M. Kennell, Jonathan E. the University of Victoria, examined Tomlinson (eds.). Ancient Greece at Ετήσια Εκδήλωση the development of an official military the Turn of the Millennium: Recent Καθ. David W. Rupp (Διευθυντής) training regimen in the Boeotian Work and Future Perspectives. The activities of the Institute, League during the Hellenistic period. Proceedings of the Athens 2010-2011 In the early fourth century BC, the Symposium, 18-20 May Boeotians, known as military 2001. Publications of the Canadian Καθ. Robert Weir (University of innovators, became predominant in Archaeological Institute at Athens , Windsor) Greece, but this hegemony was lost to No. 4, 2005 Antiochos VIII and the Star of the Macedonians in 338 BC, and the Gerald P. Schaus, Stephen R. Wenn Destiny Boeotian League soon after slipped (eds.). Onward to the Olympics. Πέμπτη 12 Μαΐου, 19.00 into political unimportance. In the Historical Perspectives on the Ινστιτούτο της Δανίας στην fourth century BC, training programs Olympic Games. Publications of the for citizen infantry had been all but Αθήνα Canadian Institute in Greece , No. 5, Χαιρεφώντος 14A, Πλάκα nonexistent in the Greek world, and 2007 yet by 245 BC it became compulsory Δεξίωση for Boeotian men to train intensively D. W. Rupp, J. E. Tomlinson et al . in various forms of combat from the (eds.). Euboea and Athens: age of twelve until they left military Proceedings of a Colloquium in service around sixty years of age. This Memory of Malcolm B. Wallace.

11 Financial Statements

CIG Assets/Liabilities as of April 21, 2011 ("book values" for Funds) CURRENT ASSETS CANADA 2011 2010 2009 2008 Cash (on hand and bank accounts) 14,898 7,903 5,838 17,811 Operating Endowment Fund 257,100 172,640 93,147 82,791 Rosenbaum-Alföldi Fellowship Fund 90,200 77,816 47,987 44,473 Desmarais-Foreman Library Fund 61,600 55,398 53,522 52,038 Thompson Fellowship Fund 89,700 78,160 60,313 56,018 Leipen Fellowship Fund 200,900 164,621 1,078 Building Fund 10,700 9,808 21,329 15,968 Director's Honorarium Fund 8,800 6,758 6,860 5,281 Total 733,989 572,964 290,073 274,380 CURRENT ASSETS GREECE Cash on hand* 4,463 4,169 (3,591) 1,308 Dollar account 5,193 188 9,929 8,357 Euro account* 3,325 13,569 6,365 4,778 Transfer from Canada - in transit 15,000 10,000 - - Total 27,981 27,926 12,703 14,443 Canada and Athens: Net current assets 761,970 600,890 302,776 288,823

N.B. All figures are reported for information only and are unaudited. * as converted to Canadian Dollars

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