• The Southern Mani Archaeological Project: Fieldwork at the End of the World

    303 Paterson Hall Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Speaker: Chelsea A.M. Gardner (Acadia University) The Mani peninsula is the literal (geographical) and metaphorical “end of the world”, since it occupies the southernmost point of mainland Greece and the […]

  • Sparta and Totalitarianism

    303 Paterson Hall Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Speaker: Susan Downie – Carleton University The ancient Greek city-state of Sparta has never really left the imagination of western civilization. From political philosophers like Plato and Aristotle to modern political parties such as Greece’s Χρυσή Αυγή “Golden Dawn”, the Spartan state and its citizens have represented an ideal for which to strive.  What elements […]