February 1, 2012
The Athenian Acropolis – from antiquity through to modern times
William St Clair, Author of Lord Elgin and the Marbles, is giving the 21st annual Runciman lecture at Kings College London tomorrow.
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Kings College, London
21st Annual Runciman Lecture
Thursday 2 February 2012
Great Hall, Strand Campus, 18.00
Looking at the Athenian Acropolis: from modern times to antiquity
Speaker: William St ClairWilliam St Clair will discuss the ways in which the Acropolis has historically been interpreted by three main constituencies, the people of Athens, visitors from abroad, and those who only saw Athens in their imaginations with the help of pictures. Beginning in modern times when current viewing conventions were invented, and going back through chronological layers, he suggests how his approach can improve our understanding of how the Acropolis was understood in antiquity.
His starting point is that it was the viewers who made the meanings.
The talk will include images never previously shown.William St Clair, FBA, FRSL, is Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. His books include Lord Elgin and the Marbles, That Greece Might Still be Free and the work on which the approach is based, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period.
Sir Michael Llewellyn Smith will introduce the speaker and Bettany Hughes will give the vote of thanks.
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- William G Stewart to tour USA lecturing about Elgin Marbles : February 26, 2003
- Lecture at Kings College, London on the restoration of the Propylaea : November 21, 2004
- Imperialism, Art & Restitution : September 3, 2006
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- Collections present and absent at the New Acropolis Museum : November 13, 2009
- Lecture in Baltimore on the Parthenon Marbles : April 23, 2012