EVAN LEVINE: EXILE, AND EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE ROMAN CYCLADES

Far from Roman cultural centers like Delos, ancient authors and modern scholars paint the small islands, bays, and rural hinterlands of the Cyclades as spaces filled with pirates, exiles, and bandits. Recent scholarship has complicated this narrative, raising new questions concerning the extent to which bodily control, criminality, and exile can be detected in the archaeological record.

In this lecture, Evan Levine will share results from the Small Cycladic Islands Project (2019-2024) and the Paros Palaiopyrgos Archaeological Project (2024-) to explore how current archaeological fieldwork in the Cyclades is fundamentally reshaping our understanding of the region’s most remote landscapes. By placing these results in dialogue with historical and literary scholarship on the region’s Roman period, he will interrogate how we might fruitfully engage with archaeologies of exile and bodily control on island landscapes.

The lecture begins at 7 PM and will be followed by a discussion led by Kristina Winther-Jacobsen, associate professor at the University of Copenhagen.

After the event there will be a wine reception at The Danish Institute.

To attend online, register here.