Dukakis Center welcomes renowned classicist Angelos Chaniotis

Angelos Chaniotis, Professor of Ancient History and Classics at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, was the featured speaker at the American College of Thessaloniki on April 17, with a humorous yet informative lecture on "Graffiti in ancient cities – Images and voices of daily life" in the Bissell Library, attended by a large and enthusiastic audience of students, faculty and staff, and friends of the college. Professor Chaniotis' basic premise was that mute images can be brought to reveal the voices of times past if the proper attention to context is observed by the historian. He showed slides of a host of graffiti he has studied in the ruins of Aphrodisias, near the modern city of Smyrna in Asia Minor, which pertain to all sorts of scenes of daily life in that important and bustling site. This was Professor Chaniotis' first visit to ACT and Anatolia, but promised not to be the last.