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Hearth and Home: everyday lives in the ancient world. Dublin Day School 2025

IIHSA Dublin Day School 2025
Hearth and Home: everyday lives in the ancient world

We invite you to join our Day School on Saturday March 29 2025 at 13:00 (Dublin time) at the Trinity Long Room Hub. Join us in person or online (booking details below)

Exploration of the evidence for ordinary, everyday life can offer a powerful window for engaging and empathising with people in the past. What were their homes like? What do we know about some of the daily rhythms of life such as cooking and eating? And, if away from home, how did families keep in touch. Our 2025 Day School addresses these and other questions using case studies from across the Mediterranean and showcasing textual, archaeological and artistic evidence.

Programme

1 - 1.15: Registration and Welcome

1.15 - 1.45: Philip de Souza (UCD Classics)
The 'ins' and 'outs' of an ancient Greek oikos

1.45 - 2.15: Barry Molloy (UCD Archaeology)
Houses and families at the beginning of the Bronze Age in Crete: A view from the IIHSA excavations at Priniatikos Pyrgos

2.15 - 2.45: Amy O'Keeffe (TCD Classics)
Momma's in the Kitchen: Depictions of Bread and Baking in the Archaeology of Ancient Greece.

2.45 - 3.15 Coffee Break

3.15 - 3.45: Alastair Daly (TCD Classics)
Pots and Pans: Household Objects in Greek Comedy

3.45 - 4.15: Marc Martucci Morris (UCD Archaeology)
Messapian Home Cooking: Everyday Meals at the Crossroads of the Greco-Roman World.

4.15 - 4.45: Anna Chahoud (TCD Classics)
Home Abroad: Letters as documents of everyday life at the periphery of the Roman empire

Followed by a small reception sponsored by Odaios Foods

Organised by the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens in co-operation with the Department of Classics, Trinity College Dublin, and kindly hosted by the Trinity Long Room Hub.

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