Event: VIRTUAL PIZZA TALK: Methone - The Movie


Date & Time

April 15, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
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Contact Information

Michelle Jacobson
mjacobson@ioa.ucla.edu

Location

Online

Event Type

Pizza Talk

Event Details

In 354 B.C., the ancient city of Methone, a close ally of Athens, was besieged by Philip II, the father of Alexander the Great. In the course of the siege, Philip not only destroyed the city, but he famously lost his right eye, struck by an arrow or bolt from Asteros of Methone. Excavations at the site by the Ephoria of Pieria since 2003, and as a collaboration between the Ephoria and UCLA under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens since 2014, have uncovered a thriving settlement, continuously occupied since the Late Neolithic period. Methone: the Movie, shot during the last season of fieldwork in 2017, tells the story of Methone and its excavation.

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