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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

On June 19th, I graduated from the BAAG Program in the Archaeology at the University of Athens 🇬🇷 Over my four years at BAAG in EKPA, I had the opportunity to make new friendships, participating in community led awareness campaigns in city, learning, and relearning the Greek language and history.

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Yesterday evening, I was honoured to attend exhibition talks "All Spice Michael Rankowitz and ancient cultures" organised by the Acropolis Museum which gave us a brief overview of the history of the region we now call Mesopotamia, and history of archaeological research.

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The Annual report meeting of the Danish Institute at Athens was organized at the Acropolis Museum - Μουσείο Ακρόπολης last week which was really interesting to learn about the latest works done by the institute and connect with many interesting people

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

i attended by the Greek Archaeological association in Athens on Thursday, on the earthquakes and disruptions caused by the volcanic eruption in Santorini thera in the 16th century bce. It was organized as part of the Minoan and Cycladic seminar series.

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Yesterday, I attended the lecture at Polish Archaeological Institute about the topic of changing natural landscapes of priene and Miletos and the importance of these polis in the late Hellenistic period onwards. An interesting lecture combining historical records, epigraphic evidence& archaeology

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Finally, on Friday we also attended the 36th Annual meeting of The Norwegian Institute At Athens at the Acropolis Museum is an institution which which gives us a greater knowledge of the current programs done by the institution, future steps and the keynote speaker had an interesting topic to hear

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

On Friday morning our class BA Program in the Archaeology, History, and Literature of Ancient Greece went to a visit to the Archaeological site and museum of Brauron We discussed from the Mycenean finds found here, to the famous temple of Artemis - the aktia festival, clearing my misconceptions to

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

On Thursday i attended an interesting lecture on Mycenean religion accompanied by some classmates from my BA Program to the The Australian Archaeological Institute to give us an answer of worship and incorporating selective ancestors around 1250bce, combining text and preexisting traditions found

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Last week I attended the book launch of Dr Constantinos Lagos held by the The Athens Friends of The Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens on the initial German offense in Greece during the 2nd World war- focussing on the battle of the forts (book is in Greek)

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Yesterday I attended the 2nd Paris Arnopoulus lecture series organised by The Canadian Institute in Greece which focussed on the topic of migration from the antique past to present, with three enlightening talks by the speakers about the culture of hospitality in the Mediterranean sea

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

On Tuesday alongside my team of Excavate in Greece i attended the lecture organised by Diazoma and the ephorate of antiquites in Preveza about the project to restore the ancient roman theatre of Nikopolis, archaeological remains found and the current usage to stage performances.

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Yesterday I attended the lecture Mimetic tradition engaging artists with greek poetry organized The Norwegian Institute At Athens which was an interesting talk about how poetic lines would be using direct speech as an artistic innovation and choral dances would help in audience engagement

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

A few days ago, I attended the lecture From sling throwers to warlords: warfare in the Aegean bronze age organized at The Norwegian Institute At Athens. We had a great Q&A session with many suggestions and ideas flowing freely!

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

On Friday I attended an interesting lecture on the LBA Molchos Crete organised by the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens which talked about the new unpublished research which shows the activities of the people in Molchos during it's final stages of settlement. Thank you for inviting me!

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Yesterday I attended the Islands between palaces, Mycenean civilization revisited organised at the British School at Athens this talk was really interesting as it shows possibility of a more interconnected aegean in the late bronze age period and invites us to go deeper into Dodecanese islands

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Yesterday I attended the wonderful talk by Dr Despoina iotif from College Year in Athens at the Swedish Institute at Athens AGRS seminar, about the role of Fear in the early Christian literary worldview to form common bonds and it's different meanings in the sophist world.

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Yesterday I visited the Canellopoulos Museum and explored numerous exhibits from ancient Greece as well as the ottoman period and early modern greek state religious iconography amd folk traditions!

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Yesterday we students from BAAG Program attended the essentials of clothing yarn and jewel industry in the paleolithic world lectures organised by theUniCrete the first talk given by Professor Olaf Joeris about Paleolithic clothing - hard soft and artistic evidences, where we went all over Europe!

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Yesterday, we students from the BAAG program went to visit Kykladitisses: untold stories of the Cycladic women, an temporary exhibition at the Cycladic museum. The topic and themes chosen were interesting, however there felt to be a constant discord between the exhibits, which dampened my enjoyment.

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Furthermore ,I attended the wonderful 2nd day of conference at Finnish Institute at Athens in honour of the great greek philologist Holger Thelseff and talks revolving Platonic dialoges where I got to hear his theories, development of the discipline in Continental Europe and the USA further researc

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Last week,I was fortunate to participate in the 2nd India Greece international conference held in Thessaloniki at the school of theology Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The 2 days were filled with great networking sessions and informative talks on a wide range of topics!

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

These two days, I was able to attend the 50 years celebration of the Fitch Weiner lab at the British School at Athens where exciting results from the current and past research in the lab was presented. I enjoyed my participation there!

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Yesterday i attended an interesting lecture organised by Papyrology program NKUA on Aristophanes and later reception in antiquity, and was really interesting to learn about the sentiments of romans, using both textual and papyrological tools. thanks for inviting us!

Thoughts of plutarch on Aristophanes being discussed here

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This week my BA Archaeology program organised the Pallas Athena lecture about Samothrace, which went in detail about the digital archaeological conservation and restoration efforts made by an international team lead by Dr Bonna D wescoat. It was really interesting to listen to the talk!

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Today the Irish Institute in Athens held a talk on which Myceneans? Focussing on analysing the published archaeological research in gla, orchomenos of Biotia and building a framework of how the draning of the kopias basin, lead to a communal identity furthering palatial goals and links with Thebes

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Thursday i went to another interesting lecture organised by the Norwegian institute in Athens titled looking at the divinity in the eye, sn MA thesis by Mrs.Sunniva Haug which using actor network theory explores the cult of Antonious in the patronage of Hadrian, it's modern use in museums and agency

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Tuesday was a fascinating lecture on 35 years of archaeological research on the island of Kythnos at École Française d'Athènes which gives us an idea of the previous surface surveys, university excavations both on land and underwater done by the university of Thessaly! Waiting for their 2025confere

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

This and other comments were really helpful to massively expand my following of great archaeologists and professionals in my studies!

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

For all my new followers (which was more than i expected in an hour haha) I'm Supreeth, 3rd year undergraduate student in the English taught BA Archaeology in NKUA greece. I also work with Excavate in Greece, ICORB (Roman bio archaeology) as organizers plus with Yoga schools, foreign schools Athens

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

@fabienbp.bsky.social @flintdibble.bsky.social Thanks for both of these professionals for giving me such a huge number of archaeologists to follow in bluesky! It will definitely help in keeping track of latest news much easily from around the world! Thanks for doing such great work team Appreciated

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

On Wednesday an enlightening lecture on the economy of female lyric poetry by Professor Cecilia Nobili of the University of Bergamo was held in the campus of philosophy school which we students attended! It was truly interesting and some interesting discussions were held!

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

On Thursday we had an interesting lecture at the Norwegian institute on the activities of SapienCE institute and their concluded excavations in Cape town region of South Africa during the paleolithic period and discussions were held on human connectivity and shared understanding during this period.

The introduction slide to lecture on origins of art and symbolism in southern cape south Africa

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

Yesterday was an wonderful celebration at the Herodion of Atticus for the 200th year death anniversary of Lord Byron, It was organised by the Philhellene society and museum, it's remembering Lord Byron and other 80 philhellenes who contributed to the independence movement.

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 23/06/2024

Wednesday we had the 3rd annual meeting of the PAIAthens organised at the @efathenes with a keynote lecture by Dr. Christopher hale it is truly warming to hear all the wonderful work the institute has done to bring discussion with students, academics from Greece and Poland!

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 16/06/2024

Today was the celebration of the 10th International day of Yoga- yoga for women empowerment organised by the Hellenic Yoga Association and the India in Greece at The Gardens of Zappeion megaron! I personally really enjoyed the day!! 🥳

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 16/06/2024

Om Thursday we had an lecture on Academy of Athens classical reception series after WW2. '4 weddings and a funeral' online. It was a wonderful lecture!

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

We also had the Annual report of the activities done this year by The Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens The keynote lecture on the new surface surveys and excavations in Hera Perachora is very exciting from the initial reports!

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

On Thursday our students from the BAAG Program visited the Athenian agora, it's small museum with our professor Dr Sofia Anizeri where we were introduced to the structures of the athenian government chronologically and the inscriptions associated with them in situ.

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

Yesterday evening was a wonderful lecture at the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens - IIHSA about the reports on the decade long excavations in the Minoan site of Koumasa in the mesara. Many important details were discussed on this day!

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

Yesterday evening the Aegeus Society was held at the British School at Athens and it was a full house! The esteemed professor talked about the current research and opened a space through his discussion on terminologies to decolonization of Aegean prehistory and greek Archaeology

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 18/05/2024

Today evening was another fascinating lecture at The Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens on Excavating classical Sydney, which focusses on how the reception of classical greek and Roman archaeology in the 18,19th centuries influenced the ceramic evidence!

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

On Wednesday was an interesting lecture at Polish archaeological institute on sanctuary of Apollo in Didyma and Miletus, which focus on it's officials in charge, their roles and how it weilded the power it had to give oracles and gain support from Hellenistic and Roman kings. Really great lecture.

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

Yesterday was an informative lecture organised by Polish Institute on the motifs of Dance seen in Attic Geometric pottery. The lecture was focused on (pottery) to bring it closer to the tradition of Chorus, Line and circle dances and how the community interacted with it.

The photo has the screen of Adam Milscheviz University, Poland from which the professor is affiliated to

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

On Saturday, our BA Program in Archaeology took us on a class to Mycenene Tirnys and Nafplion with our professor Vassilis Petrakis explaining us the Mycenean bronze age and their burial customs through it's monumental Tholos structures. It was a wonderful day for me! Loved the classes

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

On Tuesday evening i attended this really interesting lecture at the Swedish Institute at AGRS series about Spontaneity of Athena by Prof Susan Deacy whose initial theories were presented. I'm really glad that past year i have been able to attend lectures like this and have been noting them here

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

On Thursday evening, there was an interesting lecture by the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens - IIHSA on Sexual violence on war captive women in ancient Greek warfare by Dr Sussane Lynch.We also had a discussion later on the topic aboutThucydides and his represent about this topic.

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

Recently I also attended the lecture by the athens greek Religion Seminar organised by Swedish Institute at Athens about Miletus from Minoan period to it's destruction in 490BCE held online It was very interesting and while i wasn't able to stay for long enjoyed every minute of the lecture.

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

Currently attending the conference ABC of European Heritage: Archaeology of the Byzantine Commonwealth Thanks for Polish Archaeological Institute at Athens and Excavate in Greece for informing me about this wonderful conference!

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Supreeth Prashanth @supreeth.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

A podcast series i sometimes follow to get an new perspective adjacent to my studies. Do give it a listen everyone!

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