Professor Michael Scott visited The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion on 23rd May 2019, to give a paper entitled “Walls And the Ancient Greek Ritual Experience”. After the seminar, Jessica Hughes and Michael Scott were joined by Dr Emma-Jayne Graham and Dr Christine Plastow to record an audio discussion about ‘walls and boundaries' in ancient Greece and Italy. The discussion also featured the voice of Professor Kristin Hass, talking about the design of the Vietnam Veterans memorial in Washington DC.

Programme structure and timecodes

0.00 Intro

0.40 Michael Scott on boundaries in Greek sanctuaries, Eleusis and the Mysteries

4.42 Christine Plastow on boundaries and the spaces of Athenian homicide trials

9.57 Emma-Jayne Graham on walls and boundaries in Roman Republican sanctuaries

15.56 Kristin Hass on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

20.38 Studio responses to Kristin Hass

29.02 Michael Scott on the temple of Zeus at Olympia

31.12 Emma-Jayne Graham on the sanctuary of Juno Gabina at Gabii

33.02 Christine Plastow on the Areopagus in Athens

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