Dimitri Nakassis from the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto will present "Paupers and Peasants and Princes and Kings: Reconstructing Society in Late Bronze Age Greece" at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25, East Asia Room, Chester Fritz Library.

Studies of Mycenaean Greece often focus on the vast division between the most powerful and the least powerful individuals - the king and the officials of the palace on the one hand, and lowly laborers on the other.  Between those extremes, however, were local leaders, administrators, and skilled craftsmen whose activities we can document through texts and the archaeological record.  This paper proposes a new model of Mycenaean culture that incorporates evidence about kings, slaves, and the middling ranks of society.

This lecture is sponsored by Cyprus Research Fund and the UND Department of History.