ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS EVENING LECTURE

The Greek City State on a small scale: Hyettos in Boeotia and its territory from 6000 BC to 1900 AD

by Professor John Bintliff FSA

Since 1978 the Boeotia Project, directed by John Bintliff and Anthony Snodgrass, has been conducting landscape history research in the Central Greek province of Boeotia, primarily using surface fieldwalking, supported by geophysics, soil geochemistry, the recording of traditional buildings and historical sources. Apart from discovering several hundred rural sites of all periods from prehistory to the early Modern eras, five ancient cities have been intensively studied. This lecture will focus on the results from the small ancient city state of Hyettos, in the north of the province. A sample of its rural hinterland was surveyed as well as the entirety of the city itself. From this focused subproject, we have been able to trace the history of this landscape and its focal Greco-Roman city. The narrative begins with a village and farms of the first farmers of Neolithic and Bronze Age times, followed by the rise and florescence of the city itself as an independent city-state, then through its life as a dependent town under the Roman Empire. Just as important was the afterlife of the city, where we could trace the cycles of population and settlement in a village and farmsteads of the Byzantine, Crusader, Ottoman Turkish and finally early Modern times in this small landscape. In many respects, the Hyettos landscape is a microcosm of Greek prehistory and history, as well as a case-study in the use of state-of-the-art techniques to write landscape history.

This lecture is offered when the publication of the Hyettos subproject is going to press, and we anticipate that the monograph from the McDonald Institute, Cambridge University will be available by spring next year.

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This event will be both in person at Burlington House and online. Please select the appropriate ticket below.

Attendance at Burlington House:

• Open to anyone to join, Fellows and Non-Fellows.
• Places in person will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
• The event will begin at 17.00 GMT. Please arrive in plenty of time.
• Tea/Coffee for Fellows is served from 16.30 GMT
• Registration is essential for non-Fellows but we encourage Fellows to register as well.
• Fellows must ensure they sign the guest book and sign their guests in.
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The schedule for the evening if attending in person:

• Refreshments for Fellows are served from 16.30 GMT in the council room.
• The meeting begins at 17.00 GMT with the lecture starting at approximately 17.10 GMT.
• Lectures run for approximately 45min and are followed by a short Q&A.
• Sherry is served in the Foyer following the lecture.

Attendance by Live Stream:

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• Once you have registered we will be in touch regarding how you can join via Zoom video-calling.
• The event will be live-streamed to YouTube here.
• Places through zoom will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
• The event will begin at 17.00 GMT.
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• Attendees’ cameras and microphones will be off throughout.

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