Monday 25 May, 5pm at the Lecture theatre, Faculty of Classics, Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies, 66, St. Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3LU
Towards an Archaeology of Cult in the Main Urban Sanctuary of Selinunte
Clemente Marconi (Università degli Studi di Milano- Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
Part of the Classical Archaeology Seminar, Trinity Term 2026
APRI: Archaeology of Preroman Italy
Supported by ICI London
In continuity with the Sybille Haynes Etruscan Lecture, traditionally held on the first Monday of Trinity Term (27 April), this seminar series explores recent research on pre-Roman Italy, broadly defined to encompass various populations and regions of the Italian peninsula, including Magna Graecia. It highlights new excavations, fresh insights into material culture, and studies on the interactions between Greeks and local communities.
4 May – 8 June, every Monday at 5pm at the Lecture theatre, Faculty of Classics, Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies, 66, St. Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3LU. Drinks afterwards
No need to book, just come along!
Organisers: Angela Pola, Christina Monroe, Isabella Jäger
with the support of the Faculty of Classics and the Italian Cultural Institute, London
Clemente Marconi is the James R. McCredie Professor of Greek Art and Archaeology at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Università degli Studi di Milano. He is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute, a member of the Academia Europaea, and editor-in-chief of The Journal of Ancient Architecture. He directs the excavations at the acropolis of Selinunte. After earning his PhD in Classical Art and Archaeology from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in 1997 under the guidance of Salvatore Settis, he taught at Columbia University (1999–2006), held the Elizabeth A. Whitehead Professorship at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens (2010–2011) and a visiting Professorship at the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens (2019). His research focuses on ancient Mediterranean art and archaeology, with an emphasis on Greek settlement in the western Mediterranean and the archaeology of Sicily. In these fields, he curated major exhibitions at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art (2013, “Sicily: Art and Invention between Greece and Rome”) and at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples (2023, “Picasso and Antiquity”). He has published extensively, including key monographs such as The Metopes of the Heraion of Selinunte, Greek Painted Pottery: Images, Contexts, and Controversies, and curated The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture.