Lecture: "From Palace to Polis on Crete" by Leslie Preston Day

• Event Date: Thursday, October 24, 2013
• Time: 7:30 pm (CDT)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Talk

The speaker is the Charles D. and Elizabeth S. LaFollette Distinguished Professor of Humanities Emerita and an experienced field archaeologist. The lecture considers the transitional period between the palatial society of Bronze Age Crete and the rise of the Greek city-state (1200-700 BCE). Its focus is on a number of recent excavations that shed new light on this period. It reveals a picture of people living agricultural lives in mountain sites but constructing elaborate communal buildings for worship and feasting rituals.

This event is organized by the Central Illinois Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and hosted by the Spurlock Museum.

Visit http://www.archaeological.org/societies/centralillinoisurbana (external link) for more information.