Seminar 3: In the political arena: the Tyrannicides on the Agora

The Agora north of the Areopagus was a multi-purpose space in Classical times: a site of many cults, public and private meetings and business of various kind, a place for politics and administration (Bouleuterion, Tholos), jurisdiction, trade and shopping, parading and viewing, announcements (monument of the Eponymous Heroes) and display, any kind of exchange and communication.
Issue: statues (a prime means of visual communication in ancient Greece) as focal points of reference for social space: the Tyrannicides
a) the agora as their location: the first honorific statues? heroization? (Azoulay, Hölscher, Keesling)
b) the Tyrannicides and ostracism (Di Cesare)

The seminar is part of the project ‘SiGrH - Sites of Greek History. Monuments, spaces, borders’ (resp. Giorgia Proietti), in the framework of the programme ‘Dipartimento di Eccellenza 2023- 2027’. For any queries: giorgia.proietti [at] unitn.it