Research paths : Despina Chatzivasiliou

The landscape and forms of the city in ancient Greece! These are the subjects of research by Despina Chatzivasiliou, a research engineer at the Institut des Civilisations of the Collège de France.

Follow his webinar " The Pelasges, builders of the Acropolis walls"!

This event, organized by the ChADoC association (Chercheurs Associés et Doctorants du Collège de France), will take place on January 27, 2022, from 6:00 pm to 6:45 pm, via Zoom.

Webinar presentation:

The Pelasges, builders of the Acropolis walls

Herodotus recounts a legend according to which the Pelasges, a seafaring people, built the earliest walls of the Acropolis and, as a reward, the Athenians gave them land at the foot of the Hymette... Thus began a series of adventures and geopolitical claims, which ultimately contributed to consolidating the territory of Attica and reinforcing Athenian superiority in the Aegean world. This ancient Greek legend is linked to archaeological remains that are not easy to date. Today's historians often find it difficult to distinguish mythical elements from scientific data, and our studies are based as much on objective arguments as on interpretative theories...