Open Meeting 2019

Date: March 7, 2019 19:00.

Speakers: SE Olaf Kjelsen (Swiss ambassador), Karl Reber (director of the Swiss School) and Hedi Dridi (University of Neuchâtel).

Venue: National Hellenic Research Foundation, 48 Vas. Constantinou, Athens.

The fieldwork of the Swiss School in 2018

Karl Reber, director of the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece, will present the School’s fieldwork in 2018:

• Eretria (Euboea): excavations in the South Palaestra
• Amarynthos (Euboea): excavations in the Artemision
• Kiladha (Argolid): underwater survey near Franchthi cave

Guest lecturer, Prof. Hedi Dridi

The Carthaginians in the Aegean

Evidence for the presence of Phoenicians in the Aegean is consistent (Rhodes, Paros, Delos, Attica, Eretria). The same about their Western counterparts is not true. Yet according to litterary, epigraphical and archaeological evidence a number of Carthaginians —and more generally of Punics— visited the Aegean as early as the 5th century BC. The presentation will focus on their status and activities.