Yannis Lolos: Sikyon at Work

Professor Yannis Lolos is one of the most experienced field archaeologists active in Greece today. He is going to give a public lecture on his research conducted at Sikyon.

Since 2004, archaeological fieldwork at Sikyon, an important city of the northeastern Peloponnese, has documented ample evidence of various industrial activity on the plateau of the city during the Hellenistic and Roman periods: quarrying, pottery making, iron smelting and glass manufacture, olive oil and lime production, have left their traces on the natural and the built landscape, and on the archaeological horizons.

Sikyon (west of Corinth) is a fascinating city-state that was re-founded by Demetrios Poliorketes on a superb grand scale around the end of the 4th c. BCE. It is still a big puzzle and professor Lolos has been trying, through his excavations,  to put the puzzle together, especially focusing on aspects of the ancient life of the city in the Hellenistic period (sikyonexcavation.gr). Previously he spent a few decades conducting a super-exemplary survey of the chora of Sikyon, which is published in a monumental volume in the Hesperia supplements. Professor Lolos also conducts an excavation at the ancient site of Halos in Thessaly (near Volos).

In addition to the public lecture, Professor Lolos will also address Professor Nassos Papalexandrou’s  "Sanctuaries" class on Thursday April 2nd (2-3:30 at DFA 2.204).

This lecture is co-sponsored by the departments of Art History and Classics.