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2023 - 2024
Building Community at Ancient Eleon: Monumental Constructions of the Mycenaean and Archaic Ages
Professor Bryan Burns, Wellesley College
Date: Tuesday, March 6
Time: 5:15 p.m.
Location: Herter 301, UMass Amherst
Greek-Canadian excavations have documented several phases of activity at Eleon, a small settlement in eastern Boeotia. This talk will present the architectural projects that redefined the site at two critical moments. During the Early Mycenaean era, a group of tombs were consolidated within a perimeter wall and then mounded over by a massive mud brick tumulus. In the Late Archaic period, a complex polygonal wall framed the location of religious activity on the elevated acropolis, part of a larger network encircling the dispersed constructions of a lower town.