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C. Brian Rose – Troy and Gordion: An Excavator’s Perspective on Two Legendary Sites in Anatolia
November 12 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Sponsored by: AIA-Baltimore Society
AIA Society: Baltimore
Wednesday Nov. 12, 5:30 – 6:30, Johns Hopkins Homewood campus, Room TBA
C. Brian Rose
James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania
Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section, University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Troy and Gordion: An Excavator’s Perspective on Two Legendary Sites in Anatolia
Heinrich Schliemann began excavations at Troy in the 1870s, and claimed that he had found evidence there of the battles between the Homeric heroes. Gordion was the capital city of King Midas, famous for his Golden Touch, and the site of the Gordian Knot that was severed by Alexander the Great. In this talk Brian Rose will highlight the positive and negative aspects of working at both projects, focusing on the extent to which regional, national, and global developments have shaped the research agendas there. He will also reflect on the discipline of archaeology in Turkey and the Near East in the early 21st century.
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