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Sunday Function. The 2025 Gale AAIA Visiting Professor.

Sun, 14 Sept

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University of Queensland, Saint Lucia

'Homer and Archaeology': Is the quest worth pursuing? Professor Alexander Mazarakis Ainian, University of Thessaly.

Sunday Function. The 2025 Gale AAIA Visiting Professor.
Sunday Function. The 2025 Gale AAIA Visiting Professor.

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.


'The Trojan Horse'  source: Wikipedia
'The Trojan Horse' source: Wikipedia

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    What is QFAAIA?

    The Queensland Friends were established in 1986 by members of the academic staff and students in the department of Classics & Ancient History.The job of the QFAAIA was to promote the work of the AAIA within the University of Queensland & the wider Brisbane community.

    The group also forged links to the Brisbane's Greek community which then created the Greek Community Archaeological Scholarship. QFAAIA's additional role is to raise funds to support AAIA activities in Greece such as archaeological field work.

     With the Greek scholarship established, a UQ student was selected to participate in the AAIA dig at Torone, northern Greece in 1987.

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