Sunday Function. The 2025 Gale AAIA Visiting Professor.
Sun, 14 Sept
|University of Queensland, Saint Lucia
'Homer and Archaeology': Is the quest worth pursuing? Professor Alexander Mazarakis Ainian, University of Thessaly.


Time & Location
14 Sept 2025, 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, St Lucia QLD 4072, Australia
About the event
Since Heinrich Schliemann's excavations in the nineteen century at Troy and Mycenae, there has been a continuous quest to prove the presence of historical truth underlying the Homeric epics. From the mid 20th century onwards, thanks to new archaeological discoveries, this debate was greatly expanded by scholars who tried to link numerous aspects of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age material culture with the poems, with opinions varying significantly. Homeric issues even became the focus of political manipulations within the modern geopolitical views in the Aegean itself. This talk reviews these developments and assesses whether it is still worth pursuing a connection between objects and epics, or is it pointless to continue posing such questions.

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