Appropriate the sea: the marine animals in the daily life and imagination of the Aegean society of antiquity
Tatiana THEODOROPOULOU (CNRS Research Chair, Cultures and Environments, Prehistory, Antiquity, Middle Ages)
The sea is an omnipresent element in the Mediterranean landscape, shared between steep mountains, fertile plains, and wet coasts by waves.
The Aegean archipelago is a characteristic case of this Mediterranean world, half-terrestrial, half-marine.
The archaeological, historical and ethnographic records of the Aegean Sea testify to the dual identity of the populations that inhabited around the sea; It was the peoples that Strabon called “amphibians”, people who attached themselves to the land and the sea.
This presentation proposes to offer a panorama of the relationship of the peoples who lived around the Aegean with the marine environment, and more precisely with the marine animals, in Antiquity.
We will use the material witnesses of the past, archaeological, textual and iconographic, enriched by tools recently provided by the sciences applied to archaeology.
Conference
Thursday 11 December 2025 de 18:30 à 20:30
Cimiez Archeology Museum
Within the limits of available places
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Free conference
Everyone