Professor Lin Foxhall (University of Liverpool), “Re-imagining ancient Greek landscapes“

Abstract: Ancient Greek landscapes were both like and unlike those we see today. Landscapes are dynamic and change over time, sometimes very rapidly. The human relationships within local communities linked together a variety of urban and rural spaces and locations. Survey archaeology and excavation provide evidence to show that in rural landscapes no one site or location makes sense without reference to others with which it was entwined. This talk will explore how people lived in these landscapes, and what it was like for those who curated and exploited them.

Bio: Lin Foxhall is Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology, University of Liverpool. Previously she was Dean of the School of Histories, Languages and Cultures at Liverpool. She served as Professor of Greek Archaeology and History University of Leicester and Head of the School of Archaeology and Ancient History, where she played a major part in leading the team that discovered the body of King Richard III. She was Editor of the Journal of Hellenic Studies 2021-2025. She has held posts at St Hilda’s College, Oxford and University College London, and Visiting Professorships in Germany, Denmark and the USA. She studied at Bryn Mawr College, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Liverpool.

An active field archaeologist, she has led and participated in collaborative research projects in Greece and Southern Italy, and has written extensively on agriculture, rural economies, landscapes, land use, material culture and gender in the ancient Mediterranean, and especially the Greek world, mostly between the Bronze Age and Classical periods.