Centre for Hellenic Studies

Newsletter 30 December 2019 Director’s Report The year 2019 started off strong with a fascinating, well-attended Biography of a Modern Nation, will help shape the many ways Runciman Lecture, given by Professor Richard P. Martin in which and the Greek diaspora will be celebrating the (Stanford University). Over the summer, the Arts & Humanities bicentenary of the Greek Revolution in 2021. Research Institute (AHRI) and CHS collaborated closely to A student group visited Athens and Rhodes during the last week overhaul the Centre’s webpages and to upload another rich events of October 2019. Their trip was generously sponsored by the list for the new academic year. Our autumn semester started with Jamie Rumble Memorial Fund. Pictures from their trip and their a celebration. On 30 September colleagues and CHS friends and many adventures grace this newsletter. One of the highlights of donors came out in strong numbers to congratulate Emeritus the tour was a guided visit of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Koraes Professor Roderick Beaton on the special distinction Cultural Center. Also exciting was their meeting, in a classroom he received a couple of weeks earlier (on 9 September): in a setting, with students and peers from the University of the Aegean special award ceremony held at the presidential mansion, Mr Rhodes campus. The trip was an intrinsic part of our newly Prokopis Pavlopoulos, President of the Hellenic Republic, designed BA and MA module, ‘Engaging Greece: Experiencing bestowed on him the Medal of the Commander of the Order the Past and Responding to the Present’. of Honour (Παράσηµο του Ταξιάρχη του Τάγµατος της Meanwhile, plans are under way to celebrate the bicentenary Τιµής). This honour could not be more well-deserved, after of 2021 with a range of events. Our collaborative initiative is Professor Beaton’s decades-long dedication to scholarship, called ‘21 in 21: Celebrating 2021 in 21 Encounters’, and it teaching, mentoring, and service. It brings special distinction to draws in partners across Greece and the United Kingdom. The the Koraes Chair as well. The President singled out Professor activities on off er will be designed to engage broad audiences of Beaton’s exceptional contributions to the study of the formation non-specialists as well as specialists. Also, these collaborative, of Greek national consciousness and of Byzantium’s role in the interactive events must leave legacies of critical debate, published creation of the characteristic legacies of the Renaissance. He work, fi lmed events, archival advances and research capacities. also praised Professor Beaton’s pioneering biography of the poet Stay tuned! George Seferis and his seminal book on Byron and the Greek Revolutionary War, which, along with his latest book, Greece: Gonda Van Steen, December 2019

Emeritus Koraes Professor Roderick Beaton receiving his special award medal from Prokopis Students on the October 2019 Rumble Fund trip Pavlopoulos, President of the Hellenic Republic

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD DONATIONS IN KIND The Board held its annual meeting on 7 February 2019, the day of the Christopher, Lord Terrington (Guy’s 1970), son and literary executor of C.M. Runciman Lecture. Its external members are Professor Dame Averil Cameron Woodhouse, for many years a Visiting Professor at King’s, generously donated (Oxford), Dr Dionysios Kapsalis (Director, Cultural Foundation of the National a collection of books written by his father, including the Greek translations of Bank, Athens), Professor Paschalis M. Kitromilides (Emeritus Professor of the his most important works. We thank him wholeheartedly. University of Athens), Dr Tassos Leventis FKC (Director of the A.G. Leventis Foundation), Professor Sir Michael Llewellyn-Smith (former HM Ambassador to Greece and a CHS Visiting Professor), and Professor Richard P. Martin (Stanford University). NEW ANNUAL STUDENTSHIPS & PRIZES

LECTURE SERIES • The Niki Marangou Translation Prize, also • As in previous years, the Schilizzi Foundation sponsored by Mr Candounas and awarded this once again awarded scholarships to students On 23 May 2019, the inaugural Niki Marangou year to King’s MA student Petros Nicolaou, of Greek nationality to pursue studies in any Annual Memorial Lecture took place at King’s again commemorates Niki Marangou, fi eld at King’s. On behalf ofMr Stephen Schilizzi College London, sponsored by Mr Constantis with a focus on her written work. From FKC, the most recent awards were presented to Candounas. Professor Vayos Liapis (Open 2019 onwards, the prize will be awarded the Schilizzi Scholarship Winners 2019-20: University of Cyprus) gave a fascinating and annually for a literary translation from Charilaos Otimos (International Relations BA), beautifully illustrated lecture on the topic of Modern Greek into English of one poem and Layana Tahboub (Nutrition and Dietetics BSc), Blowing up the Parthenon: Greek Antiquity one prose extract from Marangou’s many and Eleni Xanthopoulou (Psychology BSc). as a Burden and as a Rival on the Modern publications. Beginning in January 2020 Greek Stage. With humour and acumen, (with a submission deadline of 15 January), • The penultimate fully funded visit Professor Liapis challenged our thinking the competition will be open to all BA, MA to Greece for students of the Classics about the classical legacy and its impact on and PhD students currently enrolled in any Department, made possible by the generosity the Modern Greek theatre stage, framing faculty of a London-based university. The of the Jamie Rumble Memorial Fund, took his argument by the notions of colonization next award of £500 will be announced in the place in December 2018. Professor Michael and self-colonization (see also tinyurl.com/ evening of 7 February 2020, on the occasion Squire, who led the visit, writes: ‘Twenty- nmarangou2019). of the second Niki Marangou Lecture. four BA and MA students from the King’s An enthusiastic audience of approximately Please save the date and help us spread the Department of Classics visited around 90 attendees engaged the speaker with news about this student prize. For more twenty museums and sites in Athens, Attica questions over a wine reception afterwards. information, see www.kcl.ac.uk/chs and Delphi. The December 2018 trip formed Hosted by CHS, Professor Liapis’s part of a module on the Classical Art of the presentation was placed under the auspices • The 2019 annual Katie Lentakis Memorial Body: Greek Sculpture and its Legacy, taught of the High Commission of Cyprus. His Fund Award, off ered by the Anglo-Hellenic by Professor Michael Squire. Participants Excellency Mr Euripides Evriviades introduced League to a fi nal-year undergraduate were particularly excited to receive a special the event and paid tribute to the gifted and studying in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities guided tour inside the Parthenon, which infl uential Niki Marangou, to whose memory at King’s College London, in memory of is usually closed to the public (thanks to the lecture series has been dedicated. She the late Mrs Katie Lentakis, was presented on assistance from the Greek Archaeological was an inspirational Cypriot poet, novelist, 17 June 2019 by the League’s Chair, Dr John Service); they also benefi ted from the painter and bookshop-owner, who died Kittmer. The winner of the 2019 award, in opportunity to meet students from the tragically in 2013. As Professor Liapis the amount of £500, was Gina Prat Lilly, for an University of Athens, following a special testifi ed, she drew circles of young student essay entitled Between Dictatorship and Exile: reception at the British School at Athens. As readers to her bookshop at a time when Two Antigones of Postwar Spain. Salvador always, the Department of Classics is very exposure to international literature and Espriu’s Antígona and María Zambrano’s La grateful to our various partners in Greece, learning was hard to come by. tumba de Antígona, supervised by Dr Rosa not least to Professor Dimitris Plantzos, Andujar Mark for his wonderful lecture on The second Niki Marangou Annual Memorial . Specially commended were Mind the Gap: Coomber . Lecture will be held in Athens on 7 February , for an essay entitled The Importance Revisiting Greece’s National ‘Sites of Trauma’ 2020 (at 19:00), and the featured speaker of Christianity to the Imperial Ideology of the Students themselves provide the best will be Dr John Kittmer, Chair of the Empire of Trebizond (12-1), supervised testimony of what these trips mean to them. Anglo-Hellenic League and former HM by Dr Vassiliki Manolopoulou, and Medea Manaz, Students’ testimonies (and videos) can be Ambassador to Greece. In June, Kittmer for an essay entitled Is Acting Madness? A found at: www.kcl.ac.uk/classics/about/rumble- was awarded a PhD for his thesis Ritsos Metatheatrical Reading of Euripides’ Bacchae, fund-trip-201819 supervised by Koraes Professor Gonda Van Steen. as Reader: The Poetics of Eclecticism in the In late October 2019, the Rumble Fund At a well-attended ceremony in the Council Mature Work of Yannis Ritsos. This was a trip returned to Athens and included a Room of King’s College London, the part-time project undertaken across several visit to the island of Rhodes as well. On the League’s Chair congratulated the winner and years and supervised by Professor David Ricks, itinerary were: visits to the Acropolis and shortlisted students on the very high standard with support from Professor Roderick Beaton. the Acropolis Museum, a guided visit of of their submissions. The award ceremony Kittmer is now working on a number of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural was followed by an illustrated and spirited follow-up publication projects. The title of Center, a walking tour of the Ilissus river presentation given by Dr Anastasia Bakogianni, Kittmer’s Marangou lecture (in Greek) is: bank and discussions about urban planning, Lecturer in Classical Studies at Massey Anglo-Hellenism: Adventures in Cultural a walking tour of the old town of Rhodes University, New Zealand. Exchange. He explains: ‘British involvement (including the island’s Templar history and in Greece was strong throughout the the Jewish Synagogue of Rhodes), a visit of nineteenth century. “Anglo-Hellenism” the island’s archaeological sites, a class visit became an institutionalised concept in the and meeting with Greek students studying aftermath of the Balkan Wars. The decline on Rhodes, learning about the waves of of British power and the Cyprus crisis of the foreign migration to and from Greece, and 1950s ended its political role. This lecture watching the 28th October parade. The examines the extent to which culture has sponsored trip was an intrinsic part of the become a substitute means of exchange new BA and MA module entitled Engaging between the two countries, through an Greece: Experiencing the Past and Responding illustrated exploration of emblematic fi gures to the Present, taught by Koraes Professor and ideas. And it speculates about the role Gonda Van Steen, who led the visit. Again, of culture in the post-Brexit future.’ Please the students’ testimonies and pictures speak join us on 7 February in the Cotsen Hall, more eloquently to the success of the autumn adjacent to the Gennadius Library (entry trip, which also enjoyed splendid late summer from 9 Anapiron Polemou Street, Kolonaki, weather. Athens). (See also: tinyurl.com/nmarangou2020) Plans are now in the works for a 2020 late Students on the October 2019 Rumble Fund trip October fi eldtrip to Athens and Corfu.

2 | Centre for Hellenic Studies Newsletter December 2019 CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

WEDNESDAY 23 JANUARY 2019 contextualisation into dialogue with a) Germany, Israel, Sweden, the UK, and K2.29 COUNCIL ROOM, 18.00 – 20.00 critical discourses advanced during the last the USA, with strong representation from Modern Greek Literature through a Translator’s decades, to understand and contextualise Greece. Topics covered ranged very widely Lens (tinyurl.com/mgltrans) the concept of ‘Greekness’ within Modern both chronologically and geographically, Speakers discussed and queried issues of Greek Studies, and b) ethnomusicological going back to traditions older than the 18th translating Modern Greek literature and approaches to the study of music and century and coming right up to date, in an read from their recent translations. The identity. Dr Levidou’s project thus off ers ethnography of today’s urban nightclubs participants were: Professor Patricia Barbeito a revisionist study of Greek art music – a known as pistes and a study of hip-hop (Rhode Island School of Design), Victoria repertory that remains to be investigated in remakes of much-loved rebetiko songs of the Hislop (bestselling author), Panos Karnezis depth – while, at the same time, developing 1930s. The geographical spread took in much (author), Professor David Ricks (King’s College an interdisciplinary methodological of the Mediterranean, with comparisons from London). The event was chaired by Emeritus framework that may serve a paradigmatic role as far afi eld as Scotland and Ireland, Finland, Koraes Professor Roderick Beaton (King’s for the study of other national repertories. Israel, and Hawaii, as well as the Balkans College London). It was co-organised by Eager to disseminate the results of her and former Ottoman lands. In a lively the British School at Athens in collaboration research, Dr Levidou has recently given keynote speech, Professor Michael Herzfeld with Aiora Press, and kindly supported by fi ve public lectures in Greece (in Athens (Harvard) compared the role of music by the Creative Europe programme. Martha [tinyurl.com/levidoulectures], , Giuseppe Verdi and Mikis Theodorakis in Papaspiliou, PhD student and CHS and Kardamyli), and she is preparing a the formation of national consciousness, administrative assistant, published a full book publication for Routledge. Her book respectively in Italy in the 19th century and review of the workshop in the Journal of is tentatively entitled Composing the Nation, in 20th-century Greece. Greek Media and Culture (vol. 5, issue 1, 2019; Performing ‘Greekness’: Art Music in Greece The conference emphasised the available upon request). since the Nineteenth Century. Prior to her crossing of other boundaries as well. current fellowship term, Dr Levidou held Academic disciplines represented THURSDAY 9 MAY 2019, a Visiting Research Fellowship through the included anthropology, ethnography, K2.29 COUNCIL ROOM, 10.00-18.00 Department of Classics in collaboration ethnomusicology, cultural history, and International workshop: ‘It Sounds Greek to Me’: with the Department of Music (January studies of nationalism, gender, and orality Greek Art Music since the Nineteenth Century. 2014-January 2018). in relation to literacy. Some contributions (tinyurl.com/gk2me) focused on the interplay between music and Dr Katerina Levidou led the workshop ‘It FRIDAY-SATURDAY, 17-18 MAY 2019 language, whether written or sung; others on Sounds Greek to Me’, which brought UPPER HOUSE, BRITISH SCHOOL AT ATHENS, visual representation, including presentations together leading experts on the expression of SOUIDIAS 52, ATHENS of recent work by artist Chris O’Leary national identity in Greek art music, theatre ‘Popular Music of the Greek World’, a conference and the acclaimed Greek photographer studies, and literature. She explains: ‘The jointly organised by the British School at Athens Tassos Vrettos. As well as revealing the pun in the workshop’s title functions on two (BSA) and CHS, King’s College London (tinyurl.com/ huge range and inclusiveness of ‘popular levels: taken literally, it indicates a moment bsapopmusic) music’ in a Greek context, the conference of recognition and affi rmation; it poses the Emeritus Koraes Professor Roderick Beaton, also highlighted many ways in which our question of whether and how ‘Greekness’ (a who spoke at the conference, reports: ‘This understanding of the ‘Greek world’, too, perceived Greek character or quality) may be conference complemented a previous joint can be expanded through interdisciplinary articulated through music, Greek art music in venture between the BSA and CHS on the dialogues of the kind in evidence at the this case. Are there specifi c technical means topic of Greek art music and held in Athens British School on these two days.’ involved or is it merely a matter of intention, four years ago. This time the focus was on the Lead organiser was Dr Chris Williams perception, and reception? And if music may ‘popular’, understood in the widest possible (King’s and BSA), supported by an academic indeed express ‘Greekness’, then what is sense. The 21 contributors represented committee consisting of Roderick Beaton this Greek character like, what does it mean institutions in Australia, Finland, France, (King’s, Emeritus Koraes Professor), and to whom? On a second level, the pun Professor John Bennet (Director, BSA), implies the existence of confusion or a lack Dr Eleni Kallimopoulou (University of of understanding, and eventually rejection. , Thessaloniki) and Dr Panagiotis It points to foreignness. Greek art music has Poulos (National & Kapodistrian University provoked all of those responses as a peripheral of Athens). Additional sponsors were exponent of the tradition of Western art the A.G. Leventis Foundation, Dr Chris music with limited appeal beyond (if not also Williams, and Mr Nicholas Petmezas. within) the national borders’. The conference was rounded off on Saturday, Dr Levidou is the holder of a Marie 18 May 2019, with a buff et dinner with live Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship music for all participants in the delightful (January 2018-January 2020) affi liated with surroundings of the Upper House garden. CHS. She has been conducting research in the area of Greek art music under FRIDAY 24 MAY 2019 the auspices of the EU-funded project LECTURE THEATRE 2, BUSH HOUSE GRIDAMUS: Greek Identity in Art Music CHS hosted this year’s Graduate Research since the Early Nineteenth Century: Towards ‘IT SOUNDS GREEK TO ME’: Colloquium for Modern Greek Studies, on behalf of an Interdisciplinary Methodology. The GREEK ART MUSIC SINCE the UK Society for Modern Greek Studies. GRIDAMUS project helps us comprehend The colloquium was splendidly organised the strategies by which national narratives THE NINEENTH CENTURY by doctoral students Lefteris Kefalas and Vicky are constructed and the part played in that Presented by the Centre for Hellenic Studies Kaisidou. It featured ten presentations on a process by culture, and music in particular, The workshop is fully funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (Individual Fellowship) 10.00-18.00 Friday 9 May 2019 wide range of literary, historical, and broadly focusing on the case of Greece and Western Council Room, Strand Campus King’s College London WC2R 2LS cultural topics. art (or ‘classical’) music since the early 19th Booking is free but essential century. Dr Levidou’s approach is cross- itallsoundsgreektome.eventbrite.co.uk disciplinary, bringing historical and cultural 9 May 2019 international workshop poster

Centre for Hellenic Studies Newsletter December 2019 | 3 OTHER HIGHLIGHTS OF 2019

WEDNESDAY 6 FEBRUARY 2019: BOOK LAUNCH was preceded by Orthodox Vespers in King’s performances of her production of Phaedra Professor Paschalis M. Kitromilides, Emeritus Chapel. The Runciman lectures and the I, performed at the Tristan Bates Theatre. Professor of the University of Athens and splendid hospitality surrounding them have Her talk and production inspired King’s BA member of the CHS International Advisory been generously sponsored by the Egon student Eleonora Colli, who is now reading for Board, saw the October 2018 publication of family. a master’s degree at Oxford, to write an essay his most recent book, Religion and Politics on Phaedra I, which she submitted for her in the Orthodox World: The Ecumenical THURSDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2019: CYPRUS LECTURE module requirement in Classical Reception Patriarchate and the Challenges of Modernity SERIES and which has since been published online (Routledge). The speaker and the event were Dr Avra Sidiropoulou (Open University of in Didaskalia: The Journal for Ancient introduced by Bruce Clark, the well-known Cyprus and artistic director of the Athens- Performance. You can read Eleonora’s journalist on The Economist and author based Persona Theatre Company) gave incisive essay online at www.didaskalia.net/ of Twice A Stranger: How Mass Expulsion a fascinating lecture, titled Staging the issues/15/11/ Forged Modern Greece and Turkey. Despite in the 21st Century: Adaptation, Re- a busy lecture tour across China and many contextualisation, and the Ethics of Directing, WEDNESDAY 13 MARCH 2019: THE JAMIE other scholarly engagements, Professor in King’s Nash Lecture Theatre, as part RUMBLE MEMORIAL FUND LECTURE IN Kitromilides is making steady progress on the of the Cyprus Lecture Series, which is CLASSICAL ART much-anticipated Critical Dictionary of the co-organised by the Cultural Section of the The 2019 Rumble Fund Lecture was Greek Revolution (Harvard UP, 2021). Cyprus High Commission in the UK (www. delivered by Jas´ Elsner, Professor of Late culturalchc.co.uk) and CHS. His Excellency Antique Art, University of Oxford, and THURSDAY 7 FEBRUARY 2019: THE 28TH ANNUAL Euripides L. Evriviades, High Commissioner Visiting Professor of Art and Religion, RUNCIMAN LECTURE for the Republic of Cyprus to the United University of Chicago. Professor Elsner’s This year’s Runciman Lecture was given Kingdom, welcomed the audience and topic was Looking East: Early Christian Art by Professor Richard P. Martin (Stanford introduced the lecture. He also thanked outside the World of Christian Hegemony. University), on the topic of ‘Poor the house Professor Gonda Van Steen and Dr Marios Psaras, Details may be found at tinyurl.com/ on Homer’s shores’: Ancient Epic and Modern Cultural Counsellor at the High Commission, rumbleflect2019. Greek Song (tinyurl.com/runciman28) for continuing a long tradition of Professor Martin explains: ‘Contexts for collaboration between King’s and the High TUESDAY, 19 NOVEMBER 2019: GREEK the composition of the Iliad and Odyssey Commission, highlighting the importance ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMMITTEE UK have been debated vigorously, at times of such events for the promotion of cultural (GACUK) LECTURE acrimoniously, since antiquity. The oral- exchange and dialogue between Cyprus and Lydia Palaiokrassa-Kopitsa, Professor Emerita traditional nature of Homeric verse, as the UK. of Classical Archaeology at the National explored by Milman Parry, Albert Lord, Dr Avra Sidiropoulou’s lecture explored and Kapodistrian University of Athens and and others over the last century, has the means by which adaptations of Greek Director of the Excavation at Palaiopolis, answered some long-standing questions tragedy, as intellectual and artistic operations, Andros, delivered this year’s lecture of while giving rise to many others. I look to have been nourishing a chain of arguments the Greek Archaeological Committee song traditions of modern Greece, especially on the limits of directorial interpretation and UK, organised by Dr Zetta Theodoropoulou- Crete, for insights regarding the crafting, the rights and wrongs of artistic autonomy. Polychroniadis, Chair of GACUK, in transmission, and reception of heroic epics in It shed light on the fidelity versus freedom collaboration with CHS. Her topic, Ancient a changing world. In the footsteps of James binary and examined the relationship Andros: A History of Fourteen Centuries, drew Notopoulos, traveling to rural locations between canonical dramatic texts and an audience of some 400 attendees. Dr Zetta where practitioners of the art of crafting song their revisionist stagings, whereby notions Theodoropoulou-Polychroniadis opened the still perform extensive songs for audiences of faithfulness and betrayal are constantly evening, explained the committee’s work, and also for the camera, and where homeric negotiated and redefined. The tenacious and introduced the many young scholars poetry meets the oral tradition of Erotokritos, issue of directorial ethics and the tensions currently funded by GACUK to pursue the Cretan mantinades and the rizitika’. that permeate the source-adaptation doctoral studies in archaeology at leading Professor Martin has long interpreted symbiosis can only serve to remind us that British universities, including King’s. Greek poetry in the light of performance to some extent performances of the classics In her lecture, Professor Palaiokrassa- traditions and social practices. He makes remain bound to the hierarchies of meaning Kopitsa demonstrated how Andros, the use of comparative materials ranging from inherent in any act of reading and rewriting. homonymous ancient capital of the island for fieldwork on oral traditions in contemporary Can a director’s insistence on a relentlessly almost fourteen centuries, spread over a large Crete to studies in medieval Irish literature. ‘credible’ staging sometimes compromise the area and survived from the final Neolithic His Runciman lecture was most informative, originality and creativity of the 21st-century period through early Christian times. The beautifully illustrated, and delivered as a performance, and, ultimately, the significance city’s abandonment in the 7th century was performance itself, with humorous touches in and viability of the source text across time brought on by Arab raids, which caused addition to deep knowledge. It was enjoyed and space? the inhabitants to seek refuge in the island’s by an audience of some 400 people. The More issues were raised in the very lively hinterland. See here for more information: Provost, Professor Evelyn Welch, introduced the question session that followed, such as tinyurl.com/gacukkcl19 evening by paying tribute to the memory of spatiotemporal re-contextualisation and the The vote of thanks was given by Professor the inspirer and founder of these lectures, use of technology in contemporary theatre. Catherine Morgan. The evening ended with a Nicholas Egon, who died in 2017. She also The audience expressed special appreciation reception and dinner generously sponsored warmly thanked Nicholas’s widow, Mrs Matti for Dr Sidiropoulou’s many examples of how by Mrs Matti Egon. Egon, who could regrettably not be present, different approaches have been applied on for her continued support and friendship. stage with references to specific productions THURSDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2019: BOOK LAUNCH The speaker was introduced by CHS that have been presented in Cyprus, Greece, David Braund, Edith Hall, and Rosie Wyles, editors, Director Gonda Van Steen, and the vote of the USA, and the UK. presented the volume Ancient Theatre and thanks was given by Professor Ahuvia Kahane Dr Sidiropoulou is the author of Directions Performance Culture around the Black Sea (Royal Holloway, University of London, for Directing: Theatre and Method (Routledge (Cambridge UP). The book launch was now Trinity College, Dublin). The lecture 2018). Her lecture was followed by a week of attended by some 50 people. Kalotaxido!

4 | Centre for Hellenic Studies Newsletter December 2019 RUMBLE FUND LECTURE IN OTHER HIGHLIGHTS OF 2019 continued CLASSICAL ART The Rumble Fund also sponsors the annual Rumble Fund Lecture in Classical Art. The 2019 Rumble Fund Lecture was delivered on 13 March 2019 by Professor Jas´ Elsner. Please join us for the next Rumble Fund Lecture, which will be given by Professor Salvatore Settis (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) on 25 March 2020, in the Great Hall on the Strand campus (at 18:30). Professor Settis’s topic is A Greek Lady from Persepolis: A Statue of Penelope and her Roman Sisters. For more information about the Rumble Fund and the many activities it supports in the fi elds of Art and Archaeology, please contact Professor Michael Squire

Students, offi cers, and members of GACUK gathered for the lecture by Professor Palaiokrassa-Kopitsa. ([email protected]). PUBLICATIONS

The year 2019 has been especially rich sometimes literally, the ruins of a vanished Eusebius and Empire is the fi rst systematic in publications by members of CHS. See civilisation. This is the story of the Greek study considering the History in the light also the list of ongoing CHS research nation-state but also, and perhaps more of its 4th-century circumstances as well as projects at www.kcl.ac.uk/chs (under the tab fundamentally, of the collective identity that its author’s personal history, intellectual ‘Projects’). Meanwhile, the Routledge series goes with it. It is not only a history of events commitments, and literary abilities. I argue Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, and high politics, it is also a history of culture, that the Ecclesiastical History is not simply an King’s College London (founded in 1993 of the arts, of people and of ideas.’ attempt to record Christianity’s past history with Ashgate) has accepted new projects. The Financial Times of 22 November 2019 but a sophisticated mission statement that Professor Michael Trapp continues to serve as listed Professor Beaton’s book among the uses events and individuals from that past to the general editor of the CHS Routledge best books of 2019 in the broad category mould a new vision of Christianity tailored series, assisted by the members of the of history. Read the article at www.ft.com/ to Eusebius’ time. Eusebius presents elite Publications Subcommittee. The Routledge content/db8e7a86-0b25-11ea-bb52-34c8d9dc6d84 Graeco-Roman Christians with a picture of series saw the mid-October 2019 (nominally (subscription required). their faith that smooths off its rough edges 2020) publication of the following collective and misrepresents its size, extent, nature, and For more information see: volume, a product of CHS collaborations in relationship to Rome. Ultimately, he suggests • Penguin Books: tinyurl.com/beatonpenguin the fi eld of Greek music:Music, Language that Christianity was – and always had been The paperback version will be published and Identity in Greece: Defi ning a National – the Empire’s natural heir.’ by Penguin in March 2020. Art Music in the Nineteenth and Twentieth • University of Chicago Press: tinyurl.com/ The book was jointly awarded the prestigious Centuries, co-edited by Polina Tambakaki, ucpbeaton Conington Prize of the University of Oxford. Panos Vlagopoulos, Katerina Levidou, and Roderick See also tinyurl.com/kclnewsbeaton Dr Corke-Webster also announces the Beaton. (Routledge information online at forthcoming collective volume, The tinyurl.com/musiclangi) • Dr Bouras-Vallianatos has recently co-edited Hagiographical Experiment: Developing OTHER BOOKS BY CHS MEMBERS Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen Discourses of Sainthood (Brill), which he (with Barbara Zipser; Brill, 2019; tinyurl.com/ has co-edited with Christa Gray and which Professor Roderick Beaton’s new book, • brillgalen). He is the author of a forthcoming stems from the BA/Leverhulme-funded Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, was OUP monograph as well: Innovation in project entitled Constructed Sainthood: The published by Penguin Random House in Byzantine Medicine: The Writings of John Genesis of Hagiography. The volume sheds March 2019 and has since received excellent Zacharias Aktouarios (c.12-c.1). More fresh light on narratives about Christian reviews. The publisher’s introduction to the information can be found online at: tinyurl. holy men and women from Late Antiquity volume reads: ‘We think we know ancient com/oupinnov These publications originate in to Byzantium. Rather than focusing on the Greece, the civilisation that shares the same a Wellcome Trust-funded project, entitled relationship between story and reality, it name and gave us just about everything that Experiment and Exchange: Byzantine asks what literary choices authors made in defi nes ‘western’ culture today, in the arts, Pharmacology between East and West (ca. depicting their heroes and heroines: how sciences, social sciences and politics. Yet, 11-ca. 1) and carried out by Dr Bouras- they positioned the narrator, how they as Greece has been brought under repeated Vallianatos under the mentorship of responded to existing texts, how they utilised scrutiny during the fi nancial crises that have Dr Dionysios Stathakopoulos and Professor or transcended genre conventions for their convulsed the country since 2010, worldwide Peregrine Horden. own purposes, and how they sought to relate coverage has revealed just how poorly we to their audiences. The literary focus of grasp the modern nation. This book sets out Dr James Corke-Webster introduces his the chapters assembled here showcases the to understand the modern Greeks on their • recent monograph, Eusebius and Empire: diversity of hagiographical texts written in own terms. How did the Greeks come to be Constructing Church and Rome in the Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac, as well as so powerfully attached to the legacy of the Ecclesiastical History (Cambridge UP, pointing out the ongoing conversations that ancients in the fi rst place, and then defi ne 2019) as follows: ‘Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical connect them. By asking these questions an identity for themselves that is at once History, written in the early 4th century, of this diverse group of texts, the book Greek and modern? This book reveals the continues to serve as our primary gateway illuminates the literary development of remarkable achievement, during the last to a crucial 300-year period: the rise of early hagiography in the late antique, Byzantine, 300 years, of building a modern nation on, Christianity under the Roman Empire. and medieval periods. Centre for Hellenic Studies Newsletter December 2019 | 5 PUBLICATIONS continued

• In her 2019 book, Cassandra and the dogged by confusion and misunderstanding, • Dr Polina Tambakaki brought to fruition Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin but they also show a range of interested a two-year postdoctoral research project Literature, Dr Emily Pillinger explores the parties engaged in creatively ‘translating’ on the literary work of the Cypriot writer miscommunications of the prophet Cassandra meaning for themselves from Cassandra’s and artist Niki Marangou (1948-2013), – cursed to prophesy the truth but never ostensibly nonsensical voice. Moreover, as which was generously sponsored by the to be understood until too late – in Greek the figure of Cassandra is translated from A.G. Leventis Foundation. The volume and Latin poetry. Using insights from the one literary work into another, including edited by Dr Tambakaki, Cyprus: Female field of translation studies, the book focuses into the Sibyl of Virgil’s Aeneid, her story of Voice and Memory in the Work of Niki on the dialogic interactions that take place tragic communicative disability develops into Marangou (in Greek), was published by between the articulation and the realization an optimistic metaphor for literary canon- To Rodakio, Athens, in September 2019. of Cassandra’s prophecies in five canonical formation. Cassandra invites us to reconsider The contributions to the volume are based ancient texts, stretching from Aeschylus’ to the status and value of even the most riddling on papers delivered at the similarly titled Seneca’s Agamemnon. These interactions are of female prophets in ancient poetry. For one-day conference co-organised by CHS more information see: tinyurl.com/corecass

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Both Dr Fiona Antonelaki and Dr Vicky at the University of Hamburg. She spoke on the Byzantine Empire (I.B. Tauris, 2014) ahead Manolopoulou received one-year Postdoctoral related topics at the Universities of Münster of its translation in Russian and Chinese. He Research Fellowships from the Seeger Center (January), Vienna (February), Vanderbilt gave the keynote lecture at the Annual Meeting for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. (April), Rome (November), and Bordeaux of the Belgian Society for Byzantine Studies The title of Dr Antonelaki’s research project (December). As Chair of the Committee for and a seminar paper at the EPHE in Paris, both is The BBC Greek Section, 1939-1957: Radio Byzantine Prosopography, she co-organised a in May 2019, as well as a conference paper Propaganda and Literary Culture, whereas Dr workshop on Linked Data and Prosopography at in Istanbul (August) on his current research. Manolopoulou is working on a project entitled the Institute of Classical Studies (May). She has Furthermore, he gave papers at the University Byzantine Ecocriticism and Sacred Landscapes: been elected President of the British Epigraphic of Athens (December) and the Princeton Monastic and Lay Experiences of Ritual in Late Society, and she serves on the scientific Athens Center (March) on aspects of his Antique and Byzantine Villages c.600 to c.1000. committee for the next international congress past research on the history of medicine, the Comes January 2020, they will be joined of Greek and Latin epigraphy (2022). In the plague, and climatic phenomena of the early by Dr Tassos Papacostas who, during his year that marked the centenary of the Paris Byzantine period. one-semester visiting research fellowship at Peace Conference she gave the Barron lecture Following the recent publication of Adoption, Princeton, will be conducting research on the (May) at the Institute of Classical Studies on Memory, and Cold War Greece, Koraes topic of Architecture and Patronage in Venetian the role played by scholars and archaeologists, Professor Gonda Van Steen has been Cyprus (late 15th-16th c.). and she also gave a keynote lecture at the researching the personal narratives stemming centenary meeting (November) of the Union CHS congratulates both Dr James Corke- from the frequent occurrences of adoptions Académique Internationale, one of the Webster and Dr Ioannis Papadogiannakis on of Greek-born children by American parents unexpected outcomes of the Conference. She their promotion to Senior Lecturer as of 1 through the early 1960s. Through the voices of has been asked to act as Honorary Archivist September 2019. the adoptees themselves and of the parties for the Society for Libyan Studies, because of intimately involved, her newest research Professor David Ricks spoke at the CHS her efforts to put the Society’s library holdings project delves into the biopolitics of this mass workshop, Modern Greek Literature through online (the catalogue of the Society’s archives adoption movement to the United States and a Translator’s Lens (January 2019), at the is now also online, both enabled by King’s Digital also to the Netherlands. In mid-June 2019, ninetieth birthday celebration for the eminent Lab). She and others continue to enrich the Van Steen gave a talk in Greek entitled The Greek poet Titos Patrikios (Hellenic Centre, work on the inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica International Adoptions of Greek Children during February 2019), and on J.W. Mackail, Arthur and the Heritage Gazetteer of Libya. the Early Cold War: A Historical Perspective Waley, and the Formation of Modern English In June 2019 Professor Michael Squire was at a roundtable discussion on Foster Care Poetics at Hong Kong University (February awarded a King’s Education Prize for Sustained and Adoption from the Perspective of 2019). The second of a pair of contributions Excellence in Teaching. This was one of four Psychopathology, at the 11th Panhellenic Child on Tellos Agras appeared in the Greek volume prizes awarded by the Principal across the Psychiatry Conference, organised by the Child honouring Peter Mackridge (University of College, and the only one in that category Psychiatry Society of Greece and the Medical Oxford, and before that King’s), and he within the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. Michael School of the University of Athens. In early contributed the Cavafy chapter to Brill’s received the prize for his teaching in ancient November, she spoke on related themes at Companion to the Reception of Plutarch. He Greek art and archaeology in particular, and the 2019-2020 research seminar series of has joined the Advisory Board of the Archive on the basis of nominations by students in the the Academy of Athens, whose Centre for of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama Department of Classics and elsewhere: the Greek and Latin Literature focuses this year (University of Oxford). award sought to recognise ‘the contribution on forms of freedom and unfreedom. She During 2019 Professor Emerita Charlotte of an individual (or team) over time which has also presented at the British School and at Roueché has been increasingly involved with led to a sustained impact that has significant the National Hellenic Research Foundation in the growing demand for digital approaches benefits to the learning and teaching community Athens, the FIEC/CA and the Hellenic Centre in to Classical and Byzantine Studies. She at King’s.’ London, at the University of Birmingham, and is now serving on international advisory at the Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies. Dr Dionysios Stathakopoulos continued work boards for the Centre of Excellence in This year, too, Van Steen became a member on his monograph on private wealth in the late Digital and Public Humanities, University of the Executive Committee of the Society for Byzantine world. He is also working on the of Ca’Foscari, Venice and the Excellence Modern Greek Studies and of the Council of second edition of his successful Short History of Cluster Understanding Written Artefacts the Anglo-Hellenic League.

6 | Centre for Hellenic Studies Newsletter December 2019 PUBLICATIONS continued and the British School at Athens and held of these Greek postwar and Cold War in Athens on 23 September 2017. The adoptions, whose procedures ranged from Adoption, Memory, conference was sponsored by Mr Constantis legal to highly irregular, has never been and Cold War Greece Candounas. told or analysed before. Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece answers the important Kid pro quo? Koraes Professor Gonda • The 2019 book by questions: How did these adoptions from Gonda Van Steen Van Steen, Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece happen? Was there any money Foreword by John O. Iatrides Greece: Kid pro quo?, presents a committed involved? Humanitarian rescue or kid pro quest to unravel and document the postwar quo? For more information see: tinyurl.com/ adoption networks that placed more than umichadopt 3,000 Greek children in the United States, The topic of the Greek adoptions overseas in a movement accelerated by the aftermath has now also received extensive media of the Greek Civil War and by the new attention, as in the Greek newspaper I conditions of the global Cold War. Greek- Kathimerini of 2 September 2019, based to-American adoptions and, regrettably, on an interview with Margarita Pournara also their transactions and transgressions, (tinyurl.com/ikathadopt), and in an 18 April provided the blueprint for the fi rst large- 2019 episode of the documentary series 360 scale international adoptions, well before Degrees, with Sofi a Papaioannou (tinyurl.com/ these became a mass phenomenon typically ytubeadopt – with English subtitles). associated with Asian children. The story

Dr John Kittmer, who will give the 2nd Niki Marangou Lecture in Athens, February 2020 Athens Scooters

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APPOINTMENTS ACADEMIC VISITORS • Dr Achilleas Hadjikyriacou and Dr Marios CHS and the Department of Classics The Centre for Hellenic Studies has a Psaras, respectively the former and current welcome two new lecturers whose distinguished record in attracting academic Cultural Counsellor at the High Commission appointment commenced on 1 September visitors, from postdoctoral researchers to of Cyprus, who have been assisting with co- 2019. Dr Katharine O’Reilly, who has recently professors emeriti, who benefi t from its hosting events, publicity, and with sharing fi nished an incisive PhD dissertation on distinctive character and resources and their deep knowledge about Greek and ancient pleasure and pain, is our new contribute, on a voluntary basis, to making Cypriot cinema; Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy. Dr Daniel our research environment at once unique • Professor Emerita Judith Herrin, who holds a Jolowicz, formerly a Lecturer at Cambridge, and truly international. Visitors normally three-year visiting senior research fellowship is King’s new Lecturer in Ancient Greek contribute by giving seminars or public (2019-2022) in King’s Department of and Latin Language and Literature. His lectures, by a reading, performance, or Classics with close ties to CHS (see the mid- research explores the impact of Roman exhibition of creative work, by helping to June 22 conference over); culture on the Greek novel. Meanwhile, organise a public event or conference, by • Alumni Dr Loizos Kapsalis, Dr Maria Rizou, Dr David Bullen is serving as writer and advising doctoral students, and by assisting and Dr Polina Tambakaki, who continue to professional director of King’s Greek Play, with planning and publicity. engage very actively in research projects that now in its 67th year! The play, Dionysus in will lead to online and in-print publications; the Underworld: A New Play by Euripides VISITING STAFF IN 2019 WERE: • Dr Giampaolo Salice, funded by the Italian and Aristophanes, is based on Euripides’ • Professors Emeriti Michalis Chryssanthopoulos government, researching infl uential Greek Bacchae and Aristophanes’ Frogs and will be and Georgia Farinou-Malamatari, who are families with British connections (see the 2 presented in a combination of ancient Greek engaged in self-funded research projects on January 22 panel discussion over). and newly translated English. The show will aspects of Modern Greek literature; open at the Greenwood Theatre, London Bridge, and will run from 26 to 28 February 2020. For more information, see tinyurl.com/ greekplaynews2020

Centre for Hellenic Studies Newsletter December 2019 | 7 IN MEMORIAM

Dr Ruth Macrides Born in Boston, Massachusetts, to parents Ruth Macrides was a versatile scholar with (1 October 1949 – 27 April 2019) of Pontian Greek extraction, Ruth studied a wide range of interests in both the history Roderick Beaton, Emeritus Koraes Professor, at Columbia University, New York, and literature of the Byzantine Empire. She shares: ‘We report with deep sadness before coming to King’s. Her subsequent was particularly interested in legal and social the death, aged 69, of our alumna Ruth professional career took her to the University history, and she had a special fondness for Macrides, after a short illness. Ruth of Frankfurt-am-Main, the Queen’s the Palaeologan period (13th-15th centuries). completed her PhD under the supervision of University of Belfast, and the Universities of A Byzantinist by training and by profession, Professor Donald Nicol in the Department St Andrews and Birmingham. Ruth was always proud of her Hellenic of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies in From 2013 she was Reader in Byzantine heritage and was often an enthusiastic 1978. She later published a much revised and Studies in the Centre for Byzantine, contributor to Modern Greek Studies – not expanded version of her dissertation as an Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the least in her recent work on ‘The Scottish authoritative monograph, George Akropolites: latter institution. From 2005, she served Connection in Byzantine and Modern Greek The History (introduction, translation and as co-editor of the journal Byzantine and Studies’, which can be found online at commentary; Oxford UP, 2007). Modern Greek Studies, one of whose founding tinyurl.com/macridesscotcon. She will be sadly editors had been her former supervisor at missed.’ King’s, Donald Nicol.

Both of our regular evening events series, the Late Antique and Byzantine Seminars Series (biweekly on Tuesdays) and the Modern Greek Studies Events Series (biweekly on Mondays), continue to attract visitors and audiences from London and its surroundings and offer lively forums of discussion. Speakers come from a range of countries and disciplines, and topics range from Late Antique and Byzantine architecture to Modern Greek sociolinguistics. All our public events are announced online in September and cover the academic year through June. You can find them online attinyurl.com/chsevents1920 . You can click on the title of each event to find a special page dedicated to it, with precise data on speakers, topics, times, locations, etc. Reminders are also regularly sent out via email to all who have registered their email address at [email protected]. Please pre-register via Eventbrite once the link on the event’s page becomes active, since it facilitates our planning and also your access to the King’s venues. CHS’s online archive of events is at tinyurl.com/chseventarchive

SAVE THE DATES OF THE FOLLOWING HIGHLIGHTS OF 2020

Monday 13 January 2020, 18.00 to 20.00, River Friday 7 February 2020, 19.00 to 20.30, Cotsen Monday 15 June 2020, 17.30 to 19.00, Council Room: Greek Poets in Translation: Ganas and Hall (adjacent to the Gennadius Library), Room: The annual Katie Lentakis Award Ritsos co-organised with the Society for Modern entry from 9, Anapiron Polemou Street, ceremony, co-organised with the Anglo-Hellenic Greek Studies (speakers Joshua Barley and Dr Kolonaki, Athens: The 2nd annual Niki Marangou League (Chair: Dr John Kittmer). Speaker and John Kittmer). Memorial Lecture: Anglo-Hellenism: Adventures topic TBA. in Cultural Exchange by Dr John Kittmer (Chair Monday 27 January 2020, 17.00 to 21.00, Council of the Anglo-Hellenic League, former British Monday-Wednesday 15-17 June 2020, King’s Room: Panel discussion Migration and Diaspora Ambassador to Greece, and recent King’s building (Safra Lecture Theatre TBC) co-organised with the British School at Athens. PhD). The presentation will be in Greek. The International conference: Power and Images: Moderator: Dr Dionysios Stathakopoulos; Niki Marangou lectures are sponsored by Mr Ravenna in a Comparative Perspective speakers: Dr Giampaolo Salice, Professor Constantis Candounas and are preceded by Organiser: Professor Emerita Judith Herrin, Gonda Van Steen, Dr Maria Rizou, Dr Effie the award announcement of the annual Niki who has been studying the role of Ravenna in Pedaliu, and Dr Emmanouil Pratsinakis. Marangou Translation Prize, also sponsored by mediating the interactions between Byzantine Mr Candounas. and Western medieval culture. The conference Thursday 6 February 2020, 18.00, Great Hall: will coincide with the publication of Professor The 29th annual Runciman Lecture: ‘To Hell and Wednesday 25 March 2020, 18.30–20.00, Great Hall: Herrin’s latest book, Ravenna: Capital of Late Back’: The Politics of the Greek Crisis, 2009-2019 The 7th annual Jamie Rumble Memorial Fund Antiquity (Penguin, 2020). Professor Herrin’s by Professor Stathis Kalyvas (University of Lecture in Classical Art: A Greek Lady from current work and also the conference are Oxford). Vote of thanks by Vicky Pryce. Persepolis: A Statue of Penelope and her Roman supported by the Ahmanson Foundation. The lecture will be preceded by Orthodox Sisters by Professor Salvatore Settis (Pisa). Vespers in King’s Chapel starting at 17.15. The The 2020 Rumble Fund Lecture, organised by Runciman lectures are generously sponsored by CHS in collaboration with the Courtauld Institute Mrs Matti Egon and the late Nicholas Egon. of Art, the Institute of Classical Studies, and King’s Department of Classics, will again be owed to the generosity of the Jamie Rumble Memorial Fund.

PEOPLE AND CONTACT INFORMATION FOR THE CENTRE FOR HELLENIC STUDIES IN 2019-20 • Director: Professor Gonda Van Steen, Department of Classics, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, email: [email protected] • Centre Administrators: Martha Papaspiliou & Peter Swallow, email: [email protected] • Enquiries: email us at [email protected] • Administration: AHRI / Arts & Humanities Professional Services, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, tel +44 (0)20 7848 2423 • Centre for Hellenic Studies website: www.kcl.ac.uk/chs • Sign up for this newsletter by email: tinyurl.com/chsmaillist • Follow us: /kingschs @kingschs

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