Archaeology and history of Lyktos in Crete — Antonis Kotsonas
Archaeologist Antonis Kotsonas presents ISAW/NYU excavation findings from Lyktos, Crete, spanning three millennia of ancient Greek history.
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Primary-source archaeology at its best — Kotsonas draws on active ISAW/NYU excavations to reconstruct an understudied Greek city from the ground up, covering a thousand years of material culture.
Lyktos was one of the most important cities of ancient Crete, yet it remains one of the least studied. Archaeologist Antonis Kotsonas draws on ongoing ISAW/NYU excavations to piece together the social, political, and religious life of this city from approximately 1000 BCE to 100 CE.
The lecture brings together literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence with particular emphasis on findings from the 7th through 5th centuries BCE — a period of dramatic transformation across the Greek world. Kotsonas uses the full range of material and textual sources to reconstruct a community that has long existed in the shadow of better-known Cretan sites.
Free and open to the public at ISAW’s intimate lecture space near Washington Square.