Amykles Research Project: http://www.amyklaion.gr/ Maître de conférence Ancien membre de l'École française d'Athènes Agrégé d'histoire CV: https://cv.hal.science/adrien-delahaye Address: Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 UFR 3 Route de Mende 34199 Montpellier Cedex 5
Adrien Delahaye, Christian Mazet, « Sanctuaire d’Apollon amycléen – Sparte / Amykles I » [notice archéologique], Bulletin archéologique des Écoles françaises à l’étranger [En ligne], Grèce, mis en ligne le 29 mai 2023.
H. Aurigny et L. Rohaut (éd.), Quand on a la terre sous l’ongle, Aix-en-Provence, Errance, collection BIAMA, 2022, , p. 318-327 , 2022
Les figurines archaïques de terre cuite modelées des sanctuaires spartiates sont regroupées dans ... more Les figurines archaïques de terre cuite modelées des sanctuaires spartiates sont regroupées dans des catégories typologiques aux limites assez larges et semblent avoir souffert d'un désintérêt relatif par rapport au reste de la culture matérielle laconienne. Ces figurines, présentant pourtant une variété certaine, étaient produites localement et ont été trouvées exclusivement en contexte votif, autant d'éléments qui justifient une étude comparative et contextualisée, à même de replacer ces productions dans le champ des productions péloponnésiennes et de proposer une interprétation de leur fonction votive.
The archaic handmade terracotta figurines from the Spartan sanctuaries are grouped in typological categories with rather broad boundaries and seem to have suffered from a relative lack of interest compared to the rest of the Laconian material culture. These figurines, however, show a certain variety, were produced locally and were found exclusively in votive context, all of which justify a comparative and contextualized study, in order to put the se productions in the field of Peloponnesian contemporary productions and propose an interpretation of their votive fonction. <hal-03327036v1>
Regions and Communities in Early Greece (1200 – 550 BCE), 2022
If spartan history is better known thanks
to the revision of the spartan mirage, Lacedaemon,
howe... more If spartan history is better known thanks to the revision of the spartan mirage, Lacedaemon, however, continues to escape to a great extent from our knowledge. Sometimes considered as a polis, sometimes as a state or a symmachia, Lacedaemon appears to be mainly a matter of regional identity. Spartans and Perioikoi seem to have shared more than political ties and the integration of the latter is based on cultural and ethnic – understood as a cultural construction – factors. Unfortunately, the Perioikoi remain far more unknown and are basically studied as the ‘other’ Lacedaemonians; the laconian material culture is a way to go beyond this aporia. Its use remains problematic as the historians focus on Sparta through literary sources, while the material culture and the production sphere are supposedly in the hands of the Perioikoi. This statement has led us to largely ignore the historical value of laconian artifacts, especially to study the whole lacedaemonian society during the archaic period. The secured perioikic sites are few, but they exist and can be used in a comparative study with the better known and published spartan sanctuaries in order to highlight common features and specificities. Different categories of votive offerings – as the blackglazed pottery, the bronze vases and figurines, the lead figurines and the laconian reliefs – can be used as identity markers. The first results lead to common classes of artifacts, used in the same contexts and seem to indicate common votive practices
HiMa (Revue internationale d'Histoire militaire ancienne), 2021
Cet article propose de partir de la seule et unique scène connue de transport du corps de guerrie... more Cet article propose de partir de la seule et unique scène connue de transport du corps de guerriers morts au combat dans l’iconographie laconienne, pour revenir sur les pratiques funéraires spartiates, d’une part, et les modalités de représentation graphique de la belle mort sur les images laconiennes, d’autre part. L’image interroge par sa singularité. Elle est tout d’abord collective, alors que les images attiques et corinthiennes privilégient le cadavre unique, porté par un compagnon, en suivant le modèle héroïque d’Ajax et Achille. La scène n’a ensuite rien à voir avec ce que l’on croit savoir des pratiques funéraires spartiates en campagne militaire. À rebours de l’apophtegme lacédémonien Ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς (« ou avec lui, ou sur lui », « lui » désignant le bouclier), les corps sont portés sur l’épaule, tandis que, contrairement au témoignage d’Hérodote sur les morts lacédémoniens à Platées, les corps sont emportés
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This article proposes to start from the one and only known scene of the transport of the bodies of warriors killed in battle in Laconian iconography, in order to return to Spartan funerary practices, on the one hand, and to the methods of graphic representation of the beautiful death in Laconian images, on the other. The image raises questions by its singularity. First of all, it is collective, whereas the Attic and Corinthian images privilege the single corpse, carried by a companion, following the heroic model of Ajax and Achilles. The scene then has nothing to do with what we think we know about Spartan funeral practices in military campaigns. Contrary to the Lacedemonian apophthegm Ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς ('or with him, or on him', 'him' denoting the shield), the bodies are carried on the shoulder, while, contrary to Herodotus' account of the Lacedemonian dead at Plataea, the bodies are carried away
Kentron. Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde antique. Dossier thématique : jeu, normes et transgressions, 2021
Place of sociability par excellence for the ancient Greeks, the symposion is also a privileged se... more Place of sociability par excellence for the ancient Greeks, the symposion is also a privileged setting for playing with social norms. Beyond the shared consumption of wine, which underpins the group’s cohesion, the symposion allows values and norms to be reaffirmed, but also to be exceeded, within a circumscribed framework. This constant wobbling between the rules and their transgression often takes the form, in the iconography of Greek vases, of a game of mirrors between civilisation and wildness, in which komasts and satyrs embody a counter-model of civic sociability. At a second level of interpretation, this wobbling can also be interpreted metaphorically, throughout the notion of balance. Excessive drunkenness threatens the drinker’s equilibrium by causing him to lose enkrateia, the control of the senses and the body. The use of games of skill and dexterity – of which the kottabos is the best known – makes it possible to materialise, in a playful way, this tension at work in the...
Proceedings of the International Colloquium «When the clay is under the fingernail». Modelling in the Ancient Greek World, April 3.5.2019, Aix-en-Provence
The Archaic handmade terracotta figurines from the Spartan sanctuaries are grouped in typological... more The Archaic handmade terracotta figurines from the Spartan sanctuaries are grouped in typological categories with rather broad boundaries and seem to have suffered from a relative lack of interest compared to the rest of the Laconian material culture. These figurines, however, show a certain variety, were produced locally and were found exclusively in votive context, all of which justify a comparative and contextualized study, in order to put these productions in the field of Peloponnesian contemporary productions and propose an interpretation of their votive function.
Kentron. Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde antique, 2021
Lieu de sociabilité par excellence des Grecs anciens, le symposion constitue aussi un cadre privi... more Lieu de sociabilité par excellence des Grecs anciens, le symposion constitue aussi un cadre privilégié pour jouer avec les normes sociales. Au-delà de la consommation partagée du vin qui fonde la cohésion du groupe, le symposion permet de réaffirmer les valeurs et les normes, mais aussi d’outrepasser ces dernières, dans un cadre circonscrit. Cette oscillation constante entre les règles et leur transgression prend souvent la forme, dans l’iconographie des vases grecs, d’un jeu de miroirs entre civilisation et sauvagerie, dans lequel les cômastes et les satyres incarnent un contre-modèle de la sociabilité civique. À un second niveau de lecture, ce balancement peut également être décliné sur un plan métaphorique, autour de la notion d’équilibre. L’ivresse excessive menace l’équilibre du buveur, en faisant perdre l’enkrateia, le contrôle des sens et du corps. Le recours aux jeux d’habileté et d’adresse – le kottabos étant le mieux connu – permet de matérialiser, de façon ludique, cette tension à l’œuvre dans le symposion. Ces jeux formalisés ne constituent néanmoins que la partie émergée d’un champ sémantique bien plus large de l’équilibre, qui se déploie dans l’image à travers des jeux graphiques qui associent vin, vases et buveurs dans des scènes caractérisées par l’imminence de la chute.
in F. Gugelot & P. Zawadzki (éds.), Rire sans foi ni loi, Hermann, Paris, 2021, p. 17-36
ISBN : 9... more in F. Gugelot & P. Zawadzki (éds.), Rire sans foi ni loi, Hermann, Paris, 2021, p. 17-36 ISBN : 9791037006639
Kentron. Revue Pluridisciplinaire du monde antique. Dossier thématique : "Approches historiennes des images [I]", 2016
Les satyres, joyeux compagnons enivrés de Dionysos, ne font a priori pas bon ménage avec l'austèr... more Les satyres, joyeux compagnons enivrés de Dionysos, ne font a priori pas bon ménage avec l'austère Sparte. Ce postulat a conduit à les ignorer considérablement dans les études relatives à l'art laconien. Les satyres ont principalement été étudiés au sein de l'iconographie attique, parfois corinthienne, mais très peu au sein de l'imagerie laconienne, et pour cause : ils y sont rares.
Tout à la fois réflexion sur le rire et la violence de l'Histoire dans les images et les oeuvres,... more Tout à la fois réflexion sur le rire et la violence de l'Histoire dans les images et les oeuvres, et tentative d'ouverture à des champs d'investigation renouvelés, cet ouvrage collectif est original à plus d'un titre. Par ses objets d'étude, d'abord : l'iconographie grecque, le collage, le cinéma antillais, le dessin de presse... Par sa méthode, ensuite. Par son ambition, enfin, qui est de montrer la puissance historique du rire esthétisé. Illustré en noir et blanc
'Greek pottery between Aegean and Central Mediterranean in the 8th and 7th Centuries BC. Producti... more 'Greek pottery between Aegean and Central Mediterranean in the 8th and 7th Centuries BC. Productions, styles and iconographies, functions and contexts'. Second preliminary workshop - 9-11 MARCH 2023 - ATHENS, Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene, Odos Parthenonos, 14
Abstract:
While Laconian pottery of the 6th century BC, widely distributed throughout the Mediterranean basin, have received much attention from researchers, the local productions of the previous century have received less attention because they remain less well documented. As far as they are concerned, one still relies on the chronologies proposed by Arthur Lane in the 1930s, partly revised by John Boardman and more recently by Maria Pipili. Based on the material known from the new archaeological excavations, in particular those of the sanctuary of Apollo at Amykles and the publication of the Laconian material from Miletus, our paper intends to propose a vast panorama of the productions of the Laconian ceramic workshops of the 7th century BC, from the Late Geometric to the early Laconian II. We will focus in particular on the transitional phase and the emergence of the orientalising style (Laconian I), on the most recent research concerning the beginnings of the Mediterranean distribution of Laconian production at the end of the 7th century, and on the often forgotten non-pictorial wares of local workshops.
Technology, crafting and artisanal networks in the greek and roman world. Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of ceramics, 2022
Conference “Technology, crafting and artisanal networks in the greek and roman world. Interdiscip... more Conference “Technology, crafting and artisanal networks in the greek and roman world. Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of ceramics". 6-7 Octobre 2022, Turin
Adrien Delahaye, Christian Mazet, « Sanctuaire d’Apollon amycléen – Sparte / Amykles I » [notice archéologique], Bulletin archéologique des Écoles françaises à l’étranger [En ligne], Grèce, mis en ligne le 29 mai 2023.
H. Aurigny et L. Rohaut (éd.), Quand on a la terre sous l’ongle, Aix-en-Provence, Errance, collection BIAMA, 2022, , p. 318-327 , 2022
Les figurines archaïques de terre cuite modelées des sanctuaires spartiates sont regroupées dans ... more Les figurines archaïques de terre cuite modelées des sanctuaires spartiates sont regroupées dans des catégories typologiques aux limites assez larges et semblent avoir souffert d'un désintérêt relatif par rapport au reste de la culture matérielle laconienne. Ces figurines, présentant pourtant une variété certaine, étaient produites localement et ont été trouvées exclusivement en contexte votif, autant d'éléments qui justifient une étude comparative et contextualisée, à même de replacer ces productions dans le champ des productions péloponnésiennes et de proposer une interprétation de leur fonction votive.
The archaic handmade terracotta figurines from the Spartan sanctuaries are grouped in typological categories with rather broad boundaries and seem to have suffered from a relative lack of interest compared to the rest of the Laconian material culture. These figurines, however, show a certain variety, were produced locally and were found exclusively in votive context, all of which justify a comparative and contextualized study, in order to put the se productions in the field of Peloponnesian contemporary productions and propose an interpretation of their votive fonction. <hal-03327036v1>
Regions and Communities in Early Greece (1200 – 550 BCE), 2022
If spartan history is better known thanks
to the revision of the spartan mirage, Lacedaemon,
howe... more If spartan history is better known thanks to the revision of the spartan mirage, Lacedaemon, however, continues to escape to a great extent from our knowledge. Sometimes considered as a polis, sometimes as a state or a symmachia, Lacedaemon appears to be mainly a matter of regional identity. Spartans and Perioikoi seem to have shared more than political ties and the integration of the latter is based on cultural and ethnic – understood as a cultural construction – factors. Unfortunately, the Perioikoi remain far more unknown and are basically studied as the ‘other’ Lacedaemonians; the laconian material culture is a way to go beyond this aporia. Its use remains problematic as the historians focus on Sparta through literary sources, while the material culture and the production sphere are supposedly in the hands of the Perioikoi. This statement has led us to largely ignore the historical value of laconian artifacts, especially to study the whole lacedaemonian society during the archaic period. The secured perioikic sites are few, but they exist and can be used in a comparative study with the better known and published spartan sanctuaries in order to highlight common features and specificities. Different categories of votive offerings – as the blackglazed pottery, the bronze vases and figurines, the lead figurines and the laconian reliefs – can be used as identity markers. The first results lead to common classes of artifacts, used in the same contexts and seem to indicate common votive practices
HiMa (Revue internationale d'Histoire militaire ancienne), 2021
Cet article propose de partir de la seule et unique scène connue de transport du corps de guerrie... more Cet article propose de partir de la seule et unique scène connue de transport du corps de guerriers morts au combat dans l’iconographie laconienne, pour revenir sur les pratiques funéraires spartiates, d’une part, et les modalités de représentation graphique de la belle mort sur les images laconiennes, d’autre part. L’image interroge par sa singularité. Elle est tout d’abord collective, alors que les images attiques et corinthiennes privilégient le cadavre unique, porté par un compagnon, en suivant le modèle héroïque d’Ajax et Achille. La scène n’a ensuite rien à voir avec ce que l’on croit savoir des pratiques funéraires spartiates en campagne militaire. À rebours de l’apophtegme lacédémonien Ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς (« ou avec lui, ou sur lui », « lui » désignant le bouclier), les corps sont portés sur l’épaule, tandis que, contrairement au témoignage d’Hérodote sur les morts lacédémoniens à Platées, les corps sont emportés
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This article proposes to start from the one and only known scene of the transport of the bodies of warriors killed in battle in Laconian iconography, in order to return to Spartan funerary practices, on the one hand, and to the methods of graphic representation of the beautiful death in Laconian images, on the other. The image raises questions by its singularity. First of all, it is collective, whereas the Attic and Corinthian images privilege the single corpse, carried by a companion, following the heroic model of Ajax and Achilles. The scene then has nothing to do with what we think we know about Spartan funeral practices in military campaigns. Contrary to the Lacedemonian apophthegm Ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς ('or with him, or on him', 'him' denoting the shield), the bodies are carried on the shoulder, while, contrary to Herodotus' account of the Lacedemonian dead at Plataea, the bodies are carried away
Kentron. Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde antique. Dossier thématique : jeu, normes et transgressions, 2021
Place of sociability par excellence for the ancient Greeks, the symposion is also a privileged se... more Place of sociability par excellence for the ancient Greeks, the symposion is also a privileged setting for playing with social norms. Beyond the shared consumption of wine, which underpins the group’s cohesion, the symposion allows values and norms to be reaffirmed, but also to be exceeded, within a circumscribed framework. This constant wobbling between the rules and their transgression often takes the form, in the iconography of Greek vases, of a game of mirrors between civilisation and wildness, in which komasts and satyrs embody a counter-model of civic sociability. At a second level of interpretation, this wobbling can also be interpreted metaphorically, throughout the notion of balance. Excessive drunkenness threatens the drinker’s equilibrium by causing him to lose enkrateia, the control of the senses and the body. The use of games of skill and dexterity – of which the kottabos is the best known – makes it possible to materialise, in a playful way, this tension at work in the...
Proceedings of the International Colloquium «When the clay is under the fingernail». Modelling in the Ancient Greek World, April 3.5.2019, Aix-en-Provence
The Archaic handmade terracotta figurines from the Spartan sanctuaries are grouped in typological... more The Archaic handmade terracotta figurines from the Spartan sanctuaries are grouped in typological categories with rather broad boundaries and seem to have suffered from a relative lack of interest compared to the rest of the Laconian material culture. These figurines, however, show a certain variety, were produced locally and were found exclusively in votive context, all of which justify a comparative and contextualized study, in order to put these productions in the field of Peloponnesian contemporary productions and propose an interpretation of their votive function.
Kentron. Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde antique, 2021
Lieu de sociabilité par excellence des Grecs anciens, le symposion constitue aussi un cadre privi... more Lieu de sociabilité par excellence des Grecs anciens, le symposion constitue aussi un cadre privilégié pour jouer avec les normes sociales. Au-delà de la consommation partagée du vin qui fonde la cohésion du groupe, le symposion permet de réaffirmer les valeurs et les normes, mais aussi d’outrepasser ces dernières, dans un cadre circonscrit. Cette oscillation constante entre les règles et leur transgression prend souvent la forme, dans l’iconographie des vases grecs, d’un jeu de miroirs entre civilisation et sauvagerie, dans lequel les cômastes et les satyres incarnent un contre-modèle de la sociabilité civique. À un second niveau de lecture, ce balancement peut également être décliné sur un plan métaphorique, autour de la notion d’équilibre. L’ivresse excessive menace l’équilibre du buveur, en faisant perdre l’enkrateia, le contrôle des sens et du corps. Le recours aux jeux d’habileté et d’adresse – le kottabos étant le mieux connu – permet de matérialiser, de façon ludique, cette tension à l’œuvre dans le symposion. Ces jeux formalisés ne constituent néanmoins que la partie émergée d’un champ sémantique bien plus large de l’équilibre, qui se déploie dans l’image à travers des jeux graphiques qui associent vin, vases et buveurs dans des scènes caractérisées par l’imminence de la chute.
in F. Gugelot & P. Zawadzki (éds.), Rire sans foi ni loi, Hermann, Paris, 2021, p. 17-36
ISBN : 9... more in F. Gugelot & P. Zawadzki (éds.), Rire sans foi ni loi, Hermann, Paris, 2021, p. 17-36 ISBN : 9791037006639
Kentron. Revue Pluridisciplinaire du monde antique. Dossier thématique : "Approches historiennes des images [I]", 2016
Les satyres, joyeux compagnons enivrés de Dionysos, ne font a priori pas bon ménage avec l'austèr... more Les satyres, joyeux compagnons enivrés de Dionysos, ne font a priori pas bon ménage avec l'austère Sparte. Ce postulat a conduit à les ignorer considérablement dans les études relatives à l'art laconien. Les satyres ont principalement été étudiés au sein de l'iconographie attique, parfois corinthienne, mais très peu au sein de l'imagerie laconienne, et pour cause : ils y sont rares.
Tout à la fois réflexion sur le rire et la violence de l'Histoire dans les images et les oeuvres,... more Tout à la fois réflexion sur le rire et la violence de l'Histoire dans les images et les oeuvres, et tentative d'ouverture à des champs d'investigation renouvelés, cet ouvrage collectif est original à plus d'un titre. Par ses objets d'étude, d'abord : l'iconographie grecque, le collage, le cinéma antillais, le dessin de presse... Par sa méthode, ensuite. Par son ambition, enfin, qui est de montrer la puissance historique du rire esthétisé. Illustré en noir et blanc
'Greek pottery between Aegean and Central Mediterranean in the 8th and 7th Centuries BC. Producti... more 'Greek pottery between Aegean and Central Mediterranean in the 8th and 7th Centuries BC. Productions, styles and iconographies, functions and contexts'. Second preliminary workshop - 9-11 MARCH 2023 - ATHENS, Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene, Odos Parthenonos, 14
Abstract:
While Laconian pottery of the 6th century BC, widely distributed throughout the Mediterranean basin, have received much attention from researchers, the local productions of the previous century have received less attention because they remain less well documented. As far as they are concerned, one still relies on the chronologies proposed by Arthur Lane in the 1930s, partly revised by John Boardman and more recently by Maria Pipili. Based on the material known from the new archaeological excavations, in particular those of the sanctuary of Apollo at Amykles and the publication of the Laconian material from Miletus, our paper intends to propose a vast panorama of the productions of the Laconian ceramic workshops of the 7th century BC, from the Late Geometric to the early Laconian II. We will focus in particular on the transitional phase and the emergence of the orientalising style (Laconian I), on the most recent research concerning the beginnings of the Mediterranean distribution of Laconian production at the end of the 7th century, and on the often forgotten non-pictorial wares of local workshops.
Technology, crafting and artisanal networks in the greek and roman world. Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of ceramics, 2022
Conference “Technology, crafting and artisanal networks in the greek and roman world. Interdiscip... more Conference “Technology, crafting and artisanal networks in the greek and roman world. Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of ceramics". 6-7 Octobre 2022, Turin
Pottery in ancient Sparta was used for storage, shipping, communicating moral lessons, and more. ... more Pottery in ancient Sparta was used for storage, shipping, communicating moral lessons, and more. Dr Adrien Delahaye, French School at Athens, joins the show to explore what scholars know about Spartan pottery in the Archaic and Classical periods.
International Workshop at the Institute of Classical Archaeology Eberhard Karls University Tübing... more International Workshop at the Institute of Classical Archaeology Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, December 14–16, 2018
Amykles Research Project Workshop
26th July 2018
Πνευματική Εστία Σπάρτης
Org. Stavros Vlizos... more Amykles Research Project Workshop
26th July 2018
Πνευματική Εστία Σπάρτης
Org. Stavros Vlizos
Despoina Nika - Prehistoric Amyklaion. The Early Helladic II Pottery: a preliminary study
Adrien Delahaye & Christian Mazet - Archaic Pottery of the Sanctuary of Apollo in Amykles: a preliminary overview
Le rire était vu à Sparte comme une sensation dangereuse qui s’emparait du corps et de l’esprit. ... more Le rire était vu à Sparte comme une sensation dangereuse qui s’emparait du corps et de l’esprit. Sa production artistique nous révèle pourtant un rire lié au vin, mais aussi rituel, transgressif, qui pose la question des normes et de la remise en cause de l’austérité ambiante.
Abstract: The central mountainous region of the Peloponnese is commonly regarded as idyllic and p... more Abstract: The central mountainous region of the Peloponnese is commonly regarded as idyllic and pastoral, but also isolated, backward, poor and semi-impenetrable. While the chains of mountains, commonly rising above 2,000 m asl, presented obstacles to human and commercial mobility, they did not present insurmountable barriers. Paths, trails and even roads criss-crossed the landscape, giving access to the most isolated parts of this region. Pack animals and carts brought commercial goods into and through the area regularly from the surrounding coasts. One very specific source of evidence for commercial mobility in the region is Laconian pottery which was distributed northward through the mountains from its source in Sparta. Laconian lead figurines help confirm ideas about these distribution patterns.
Résumé : La région montagneuse centrale du Péloponnèse est généralement considérée comme idyllique et pastorale, mais aussi isolée, arriérée, pauvre et semi-impénétrable. Si les chaînes de montagnes, qui s’élèvent généralement à plus de 2 000 m d’altitude, constituaient des obstacles à la mobilité humaine et commerciale, elles ne représentaient pas pour autant des barrières insurmontables. Des chemins, des sentiers et même des routes sillonnaient le paysage, donnant accès aux parties les plus isolées de cette région. Les animaux de bât et les charrettes apportaient régulièrement des marchandises commerciales en provenance des côtes environnantes. Une source très spécifique de preuves de la mobilité commerciale dans la région est la céramique laconienne qui a été distribuée vers le nord à travers les montagnes à partir de sa source à Sparte. Les figurines en plomb laconiennes permettent de confirmer les idées sur ces modèles de distribution.
Περίληψη: Η κεντρική ορεινή περιοχή της Πελοποννήσου θεωρείται γενικά ειδυλλιακή και ποιμενική, αλλά και απομονωμένη, καθυστερημένη, φτωχή και ημι-αδιαπέραστη. Παρόλο που οι οροσειρές, οι οποίες γενικά υψώνονται πάνω από 2.000 μέτρα, αποτελούσαν εμπόδια στην ανθρώπινη και εμπορική κινητικότητα, δεν ήταν ανυπέρβλητα εμπόδια. Μονοπάτια, διαδρομές και ακόμη και δρόμοι διέσχιζαν το τοπίο, παρέχοντας πρόσβαση στα πιο απομονωμένα μέρη της περιοχής. Τα ζώα και τα κάρα μετέφεραν τακτικά εμπορικά αγαθά από τις γύρω ακτές. Μια πολύ συγκεκριμένη πηγή αποδείξεων για την εμπορική κινητικότητα στην περιοχή είναι η λακωνική κεραμική που διανεμήθηκε προς βορρά στα βουνά από την πηγή της στη Σπάρτη. Τα λακωνικά μολύβδινα ειδώλια βοηθούν στην επιβεβαίωση των ιδεών σχετικά με αυτά τα πρότυπα διανομής.
"What is left of the ancient city of Sparta remains below the ground level, and is largely concea... more "What is left of the ancient city of Sparta remains below the ground level, and is largely concealed by the buildings of the modern settlement since its construction began in 1834. A considerable portion of the city has been investigated over the years by means of rescue excavations and preventive archaeology, which provided rich results, beneficial to our understanding of the ancient urban environment. In the effort of collecting and assembling these data, an ongoing mapping project aims to georeference as many excavated plots as possible on a digital platform, and connect them with the relevant data deriving from the excavation reports. The talk will present the current mapping work of both the ancient city proper and its surroundings, with a discussion about the methodology adopted, the problems arisen, and potential the employment of this work for researchers, professionals, and cultural management.”
"Ce qui reste de la ville antique de Sparte se trouve sous le niveau du sol et est en grande partie caché par les bâtiments de la ville moderne depuis le début de sa construction en 1834. Une partie considérable de la ville a été étudiée au fil des ans au moyen de fouilles de sauvetage et d'archéologie préventive, qui ont fourni de riches résultats, favorisant une meilleure compréhension de l'environnement urbain antique. Dans le cadre de la collecte et de l'assemblage de ces données, un projet de cartographie en cours vise à géoréférencer le plus grand nombre possible de parcelles fouillées sur une plateforme numérique, et à les relier aux données provenant des rapports de fouilles. L'exposé présentera le travail actuel de cartographie de la ville antique proprement dite et de ses environs, avec une discussion sur la méthodologie adoptée, les problèmes rencontrés, et les usages potentiels de ce travail par les chercheurs, les professionnels et les services culturels."
Following the long tradition of reflections on Sparta hosted by the International Sparta Seminar ... more Following the long tradition of reflections on Sparta hosted by the International Sparta Seminar since the early 1990s, the panel aims to extend the work of the last generation of Spartan scholarship in its deconstruction of the ‘Spartan mirage’, the term originated by the French classicist François Ollier in his two-volume work, Le Mirage Spartiate (1933-43). Ollier was Professor of Greek at the University of Lyon; our panel’s focus on the ‘mirage’ at this Celtic Conference in Lyon is therefore highly appropriate.
Previous scholarship has tackled the ‘mirage’ using primarily literary testimonia. In contrast Lakonian archaeological realia can, however, make a decisive contribution to questioning some of the topoi often associated with Sparta. The numerous and increasingly better-published archaeological projects currently being conducted within the territory controlled by Sparta in the Archaic and Classical periods – the territory known to contemporaries as Lakonikē, comprising Lakedaimon and (until 370 BC) Messenia – make this a good time to evaluate the contributions that archaeological and material evidence can make to our historical interpretation of ancient Sparta from the 8th to the 3rd century BC.
Since the 1990s there have been considerable developments in cross-disciplinary dialogue between ancient historians and archaeologists. However, the limits of these interdisciplinary attempts have also become apparent. These limits and the difficulties in dialogue between disciplines are intensified in the case of Sparta. The sudden eruption of Lakonian archaeology to the forefront of classical scholarship, during the British excavations of the sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at the start of the 20th century, led to a certain degree of historical reconsideration of traditional images of Spartan austerity, at least for the Archaic period. However, if the gap between literary and archaeological evidence was noted for early Sparta – though not for the Classical period – the dialogue between disciplines has sometimes remained superficial. The use of the term ‘Lakonian art’ rather than ‘Spartan’ art is particularly revealing of the obstacles to a true transdisciplinary approach. The difference in terminology is subtle, but has tended to disqualify the use of Lakonian material culture for the study of Spartan history. Conversely, historians’ use of the term ‘Spartan’, instead of ‘Lakedaimonian’, for a range of political, social and cultural phenomena that also involved the perioikoi has had similar effects.
It is time to bring the evidence of archaeology more clearly into current debates, especially recent debates that have questioned one key orthodoxy of the Spartan mirage: the idea that Sparta was an exceptional Greek polis. The archaeological data from Sparta and its territory can increasingly be finely contextualized, compared with other artefacts and images, juxtaposed with or against literary and epigraphic sources and, above all, compared with contemporary archaeological data from elsewhere in the Greek world.
Kentron. Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde antique, 2017
Dossier thématique proposé : Approches historiennes des images. L’analyse et l’exploitation des d... more Dossier thématique proposé : Approches historiennes des images. L’analyse et l’exploitation des documents iconographiques en histoire ancienne (II)
Anastasia Painesi Sièges de pouvoir – sièges de supplice : réflexions sur certains motifs de figures assises dans l’art antique (VIe-IVe siècles av. J.-C.)
Élise Pampanay Divinités ou personnifications ? L’exemple de deux en-têtes de traités d’alliance athéniens
Maria Ángeles Alonso Alonso Imago, titulus et construction de la mémoire. À propos de monuments funéraires de médecins dans la regio X
Kentron. Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde antique, 2016
Dossier thématique proposé : Approches historiennes des images. L’analyse et l’exploitation des d... more Dossier thématique proposé : Approches historiennes des images. L’analyse et l’exploitation des documents iconographiques en histoire ancienne (I)
Christian Mazet La Пότνια θηρῶν ou les frontières de l’Autre. Réflexion archéologique sur la signification d’une image homérique en Grèce orientalisante
Adrien Delahaye Les satyres laconiens à l’aune du modèle attique
Gabriel de Bruyn À propos du groupe statuaire impérial du théâtre de Bulla Regia. L’apport de la documentation épigraphique à l’analyse iconographique
Marie-Sophie Caruel L’attitude des artisans gallo-romains à l’égard du travail manuel. Étude de l’iconographie lapidaire funéraire
Archéologie et images de l’austérité spartiate. L’apport de l’iconographie et de la culture matérielle laconiennes à l’histoire de Sparte (VIe- Ve siècles av. J.-C.), 2019
Résumé
Étudier l’histoire de Sparte pose de manière accrue la question des sources. À la faibles... more Résumé
Étudier l’histoire de Sparte pose de manière accrue la question des sources. À la faiblesse de la documentation écrite disponible s’ajoute le problème du « Mirage spartiate », c’est-à-dire de la construction d’un discours historiographique empreint de fantasmes, en particulier par des auteurs anciens le plus souvent non Spartiates. Si ce dernier est patiemment déconstruit depuis le travail fondateur de F. Ollier, on relève cependant qu’il l’a essentiellement été à partir des testimonia littéraires, tandis que les realia archéologiques restaient peu exploitées. Les vases laconiens, figurés ou non, constituent pourtant une source documentaire qu’il est possible d’analyser dans le cadre d’un questionnement historique. Cette étude propose de revenir sur l’un des aspects essentiels du « Mirage », l’austérité spartiate, dont la mise en place est généralement placée au cours du VIe siècle. La production des figures noires laconiennes, qui connaît son pic de production et son déclin au cours de cette période, constitue un terrain d’expérimentation privilégié pour reposer les termes du débat. Le croisement des données avec et les textes d’une part et l’ensemble de la culture matérielle contemporaine de l’autre – vases à vernis noir, bronzes, reliefs, figurines de plomb et ivoires – permet de mener une approche comparative. La recherche de parallèles dans les séries céramiques contemporaines d’Athènes, de Corinthe ou de Béotie offre enfin le moyen de relativiser la spécificité du cas spartiate. Finalement, l’austérité ne s’avère être que l’une des nombreuses chimères du « Mirage spartiate ».
Abstract
Studying the history of Sparta raises the question of the sources. In addition to the weakness of the available written documentation, occurs the problem of the "Spartan Mirage", that is to say the construction of a historiographical discourse characterised by idealization phenomena, in particular by ancient authors who are usually not Spartans. Although the latter has been patiently deconstructed since F. Ollier's work, it is worth noting that it was mainly based on literary testimonia, while archaeological realia remained little exploited. The laconian vases, figured or not, nevertheless constitute a source that can be analysed in the context of a historical frame. This study proposes to return to one of the essential aspects of the "Mirage", the spartan austerity, whose creation is generally placed during the 6th century. The production of laconian black figures, which experienced its peak of production and decline during this period, constitutes a privileged field of experimentation to restate the terms of the debate. The cross-checking of this data with the texts on the one hand and the contemporary material culture on the other – black glazed vases, bronzes, reliefs, lead and ivory figurines – makes it possible to conduct a comparative approach. The search for parallels in the contemporary ceramic series of Athens, Corinth or Boeotia finally offers a way to put in perspective the specificity of the spartan case. Finally, austerity turns out to be only one of the numerous chimeras of the "Spartan Mirage".
Keywords: Ancient Greece, Sparta, Laconia, Archaic period, Classical period, material culture, ceramology, history of representations, historiography, iconography
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Papers by Adrien Delahaye
Adrien Delahaye, Christian Mazet, « Sanctuaire d’Apollon amycléen – Sparte / Amykles I » [notice archéologique], Bulletin archéologique des Écoles françaises à l’étranger [En ligne], Grèce, mis en ligne le 29 mai 2023.
The archaic handmade terracotta figurines from the Spartan sanctuaries are grouped in typological categories with rather broad boundaries and seem to have suffered from a relative lack of interest compared to the rest of the Laconian material culture. These figurines, however, show a certain variety, were produced locally and were found exclusively in votive context,
all of which justify a comparative and contextualized study, in order to put the se productions in the field of Peloponnesian contemporary productions and propose an interpretation of their votive fonction.
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to the revision of the spartan mirage, Lacedaemon,
however, continues to escape to a great extent from
our knowledge. Sometimes considered as a polis,
sometimes as a state or a symmachia, Lacedaemon
appears to be mainly a matter of regional identity.
Spartans and Perioikoi seem to have shared more
than political ties and the integration of the latter
is based on cultural and ethnic – understood as a
cultural construction – factors. Unfortunately, the
Perioikoi remain far more unknown and are basically
studied as the ‘other’ Lacedaemonians; the
laconian material culture is a way to go beyond this
aporia. Its use remains problematic as the historians
focus on Sparta through literary sources, while
the material culture and the production sphere are
supposedly in the hands of the Perioikoi. This statement
has led us to largely ignore the historical value
of laconian artifacts, especially to study the whole
lacedaemonian society during the archaic period.
The secured perioikic sites are few, but they exist and
can be used in a comparative study with the better
known and published spartan sanctuaries in order
to highlight common features and specificities. Different
categories of votive offerings – as the blackglazed
pottery, the bronze vases and figurines, the
lead figurines and the laconian reliefs – can be used
as identity markers. The first results lead to common
classes of artifacts, used in the same contexts and
seem to indicate common votive practices
***
This article proposes to start from the one and only known scene of the transport of the bodies of warriors killed in battle in Laconian iconography, in order to return to Spartan funerary practices, on the one hand, and to the methods of graphic representation of the beautiful death in Laconian images, on the other. The image raises questions by its singularity. First of all, it is collective, whereas the Attic and Corinthian images privilege the single corpse, carried by a companion, following the heroic model of Ajax and Achilles. The scene then has nothing to do with what we think we know about Spartan funeral practices in military campaigns. Contrary to the Lacedemonian apophthegm Ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς ('or with him, or on him', 'him' denoting the shield), the bodies are carried on the shoulder, while, contrary to Herodotus' account of the Lacedemonian dead at Plataea, the bodies are carried away
ISBN : 9791037006639
Talks by Adrien Delahaye
Abstract:
While Laconian pottery of the 6th century BC, widely distributed throughout the Mediterranean basin, have received much attention from researchers, the local productions of the previous century have received less attention because they remain less well documented. As far as they are concerned, one still relies on the chronologies proposed by Arthur Lane in the 1930s, partly revised by John Boardman and more recently by Maria Pipili. Based on the material known from the new archaeological excavations, in particular those of the sanctuary of Apollo at Amykles and the publication of the Laconian material from Miletus, our paper intends to propose a vast panorama of the productions of the Laconian ceramic workshops of the 7th century BC, from the Late Geometric to the early Laconian II. We will focus in particular on the transitional phase and the emergence of the orientalising style (Laconian I), on the most recent research concerning the beginnings of the Mediterranean distribution of Laconian production at the end of the 7th century, and on the often forgotten non-pictorial wares of local workshops.
Adrien Delahaye, Christian Mazet, « Sanctuaire d’Apollon amycléen – Sparte / Amykles I » [notice archéologique], Bulletin archéologique des Écoles françaises à l’étranger [En ligne], Grèce, mis en ligne le 29 mai 2023.
The archaic handmade terracotta figurines from the Spartan sanctuaries are grouped in typological categories with rather broad boundaries and seem to have suffered from a relative lack of interest compared to the rest of the Laconian material culture. These figurines, however, show a certain variety, were produced locally and were found exclusively in votive context,
all of which justify a comparative and contextualized study, in order to put the se productions in the field of Peloponnesian contemporary productions and propose an interpretation of their votive fonction.
<hal-03327036v1>
to the revision of the spartan mirage, Lacedaemon,
however, continues to escape to a great extent from
our knowledge. Sometimes considered as a polis,
sometimes as a state or a symmachia, Lacedaemon
appears to be mainly a matter of regional identity.
Spartans and Perioikoi seem to have shared more
than political ties and the integration of the latter
is based on cultural and ethnic – understood as a
cultural construction – factors. Unfortunately, the
Perioikoi remain far more unknown and are basically
studied as the ‘other’ Lacedaemonians; the
laconian material culture is a way to go beyond this
aporia. Its use remains problematic as the historians
focus on Sparta through literary sources, while
the material culture and the production sphere are
supposedly in the hands of the Perioikoi. This statement
has led us to largely ignore the historical value
of laconian artifacts, especially to study the whole
lacedaemonian society during the archaic period.
The secured perioikic sites are few, but they exist and
can be used in a comparative study with the better
known and published spartan sanctuaries in order
to highlight common features and specificities. Different
categories of votive offerings – as the blackglazed
pottery, the bronze vases and figurines, the
lead figurines and the laconian reliefs – can be used
as identity markers. The first results lead to common
classes of artifacts, used in the same contexts and
seem to indicate common votive practices
***
This article proposes to start from the one and only known scene of the transport of the bodies of warriors killed in battle in Laconian iconography, in order to return to Spartan funerary practices, on the one hand, and to the methods of graphic representation of the beautiful death in Laconian images, on the other. The image raises questions by its singularity. First of all, it is collective, whereas the Attic and Corinthian images privilege the single corpse, carried by a companion, following the heroic model of Ajax and Achilles. The scene then has nothing to do with what we think we know about Spartan funeral practices in military campaigns. Contrary to the Lacedemonian apophthegm Ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς ('or with him, or on him', 'him' denoting the shield), the bodies are carried on the shoulder, while, contrary to Herodotus' account of the Lacedemonian dead at Plataea, the bodies are carried away
ISBN : 9791037006639
Abstract:
While Laconian pottery of the 6th century BC, widely distributed throughout the Mediterranean basin, have received much attention from researchers, the local productions of the previous century have received less attention because they remain less well documented. As far as they are concerned, one still relies on the chronologies proposed by Arthur Lane in the 1930s, partly revised by John Boardman and more recently by Maria Pipili. Based on the material known from the new archaeological excavations, in particular those of the sanctuary of Apollo at Amykles and the publication of the Laconian material from Miletus, our paper intends to propose a vast panorama of the productions of the Laconian ceramic workshops of the 7th century BC, from the Late Geometric to the early Laconian II. We will focus in particular on the transitional phase and the emergence of the orientalising style (Laconian I), on the most recent research concerning the beginnings of the Mediterranean distribution of Laconian production at the end of the 7th century, and on the often forgotten non-pictorial wares of local workshops.
https://ithacabound.com/podcast/pottery-in-archaic-classical-sparta-w-dr-adrien-delahaye/
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/pottery-in-archaic-classical-sparta-w-dr-adrien-delahaye/id1559088835?i=1000541624624
26th July 2018
Πνευματική Εστία Σπάρτης
Org. Stavros Vlizos
Despoina Nika - Prehistoric Amyklaion. The Early Helladic II Pottery: a preliminary study
Adrien Delahaye & Christian Mazet - Archaic Pottery of the Sanctuary of Apollo in Amykles: a preliminary overview
Résumé : La région montagneuse centrale du Péloponnèse est généralement considérée comme idyllique et pastorale, mais aussi isolée, arriérée, pauvre et semi-impénétrable. Si les chaînes de montagnes, qui s’élèvent généralement à plus de 2 000 m d’altitude, constituaient des obstacles à la mobilité humaine et commerciale, elles ne représentaient pas pour autant des barrières insurmontables. Des chemins, des sentiers et même des routes sillonnaient le paysage, donnant accès aux parties les plus isolées de cette région. Les animaux de bât et les charrettes apportaient régulièrement des marchandises commerciales en provenance des côtes environnantes. Une source très spécifique de preuves de la mobilité commerciale dans la région est la céramique laconienne qui a été distribuée vers le nord à travers les montagnes à partir de sa source à Sparte. Les figurines en plomb laconiennes permettent de confirmer les idées sur ces modèles de distribution.
Περίληψη: Η κεντρική ορεινή περιοχή της Πελοποννήσου θεωρείται γενικά ειδυλλιακή και ποιμενική, αλλά και απομονωμένη, καθυστερημένη, φτωχή και ημι-αδιαπέραστη. Παρόλο που οι οροσειρές, οι οποίες γενικά υψώνονται πάνω από 2.000 μέτρα, αποτελούσαν εμπόδια στην ανθρώπινη και εμπορική κινητικότητα, δεν ήταν ανυπέρβλητα εμπόδια. Μονοπάτια, διαδρομές και ακόμη και δρόμοι διέσχιζαν το τοπίο, παρέχοντας πρόσβαση στα πιο απομονωμένα μέρη της περιοχής. Τα ζώα και τα κάρα μετέφεραν τακτικά εμπορικά αγαθά από τις γύρω ακτές. Μια πολύ συγκεκριμένη πηγή αποδείξεων για την εμπορική κινητικότητα στην περιοχή είναι η λακωνική κεραμική που διανεμήθηκε προς βορρά στα βουνά από την πηγή της στη Σπάρτη. Τα λακωνικά μολύβδινα ειδώλια βοηθούν στην επιβεβαίωση των ιδεών σχετικά με αυτά τα πρότυπα διανομής.
In the effort of collecting and assembling these data, an ongoing mapping project aims to georeference as many excavated plots as possible on a digital platform, and connect them with the relevant data deriving from the excavation reports. The talk will present the current mapping work of both the ancient city proper and its surroundings, with a discussion about the methodology adopted, the problems arisen, and potential the employment of this work for researchers, professionals, and cultural management.”
"Ce qui reste de la ville antique de Sparte se trouve sous le niveau du sol et est en grande partie caché par les bâtiments de la ville moderne depuis le début de sa construction en 1834. Une partie considérable de la ville a été étudiée au fil des ans au moyen de fouilles de sauvetage et d'archéologie préventive, qui ont fourni de riches résultats, favorisant une meilleure compréhension de l'environnement urbain antique.
Dans le cadre de la collecte et de l'assemblage de ces données, un projet de cartographie en cours vise à géoréférencer le plus grand nombre possible de parcelles fouillées sur une plateforme numérique, et à les relier aux données provenant des rapports de fouilles. L'exposé présentera le travail actuel de cartographie de la ville antique proprement dite et de ses environs, avec une discussion sur la méthodologie adoptée, les problèmes rencontrés, et les usages potentiels de ce travail par les chercheurs, les professionnels et les services culturels."
Previous scholarship has tackled the ‘mirage’ using primarily literary testimonia. In contrast Lakonian archaeological realia can, however, make a decisive contribution to questioning some of the topoi often associated with Sparta. The numerous and increasingly better-published archaeological projects currently being conducted within the territory controlled by Sparta in the Archaic and Classical periods – the territory known to contemporaries as Lakonikē, comprising Lakedaimon and (until 370 BC) Messenia – make this a good time to evaluate the contributions that archaeological and material evidence can make to our historical interpretation of ancient Sparta from the 8th to the 3rd century BC.
Since the 1990s there have been considerable developments in cross-disciplinary dialogue between ancient historians and archaeologists. However, the limits of these interdisciplinary attempts have also become apparent. These limits and the difficulties in dialogue between disciplines are intensified in the case of Sparta. The sudden eruption of Lakonian archaeology to the forefront of classical scholarship, during the British excavations of the sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at the start of the 20th century, led to a certain degree of historical reconsideration of traditional images of Spartan austerity, at least for the Archaic period. However, if the gap between literary and archaeological evidence was noted for early Sparta – though not for the Classical period – the dialogue between disciplines has sometimes remained superficial. The use of the term ‘Lakonian art’ rather than ‘Spartan’ art is particularly revealing of the obstacles to a true transdisciplinary approach. The difference in terminology is subtle, but has tended to disqualify the use of Lakonian material culture for the study of Spartan history. Conversely, historians’ use of the term ‘Spartan’, instead of ‘Lakedaimonian’, for a range of political, social and cultural phenomena that also involved the perioikoi has had similar effects.
It is time to bring the evidence of archaeology more clearly into current debates, especially recent debates that have questioned one key orthodoxy of the Spartan mirage: the idea that Sparta was an exceptional Greek polis. The archaeological data from Sparta and its territory can increasingly be finely contextualized, compared with other artefacts and images, juxtaposed with or against literary and epigraphic sources and, above all, compared with contemporary archaeological data from elsewhere in the Greek world.
https://13eccclyon.sciencesconf.org/?fbclid=IwAR2h2r4z-dS2wpih8_EyRORrjyAMDtyDOVz1j6wmTfvPQXGvPUtwc3vz6ws
Anastasia Painesi
Sièges de pouvoir – sièges de supplice : réflexions sur certains motifs de figures assises dans l’art antique (VIe-IVe siècles av. J.-C.)
Élise Pampanay
Divinités ou personnifications ? L’exemple de deux en-têtes de traités d’alliance athéniens
Maria Ángeles Alonso Alonso
Imago, titulus et construction de la mémoire. À propos de monuments funéraires de médecins dans la regio X
Christian Mazet
La Пότνια θηρῶν ou les frontières de l’Autre. Réflexion archéologique sur la signification d’une image homérique en Grèce orientalisante
Adrien Delahaye
Les satyres laconiens à l’aune du modèle attique
Gabriel de Bruyn
À propos du groupe statuaire impérial du théâtre de Bulla Regia. L’apport de la documentation épigraphique à l’analyse iconographique
Marie-Sophie Caruel
L’attitude des artisans gallo-romains à l’égard du travail manuel. Étude de l’iconographie lapidaire funéraire
Étudier l’histoire de Sparte pose de manière accrue la question des sources. À la faiblesse de la documentation écrite disponible s’ajoute le problème du « Mirage spartiate », c’est-à-dire de la construction d’un discours historiographique empreint de fantasmes, en particulier par des auteurs anciens le plus souvent non Spartiates. Si ce dernier est patiemment déconstruit depuis le travail fondateur de F. Ollier, on relève cependant qu’il l’a essentiellement été à partir des testimonia littéraires, tandis que les realia archéologiques restaient peu exploitées. Les vases laconiens, figurés ou non, constituent pourtant une source documentaire qu’il est possible d’analyser dans le cadre d’un questionnement historique. Cette étude propose de revenir sur l’un des aspects essentiels du « Mirage », l’austérité spartiate, dont la mise en place est généralement placée au cours du VIe siècle. La production des figures noires laconiennes, qui connaît son pic de production et son déclin au cours de cette période, constitue un terrain d’expérimentation privilégié pour reposer les termes du débat. Le croisement des données avec et les textes d’une part et l’ensemble de la culture matérielle contemporaine de l’autre – vases à vernis noir, bronzes, reliefs, figurines de plomb et ivoires – permet de mener une approche comparative. La recherche de parallèles dans les séries céramiques contemporaines d’Athènes, de Corinthe ou de Béotie offre enfin le moyen de relativiser la spécificité du cas spartiate. Finalement, l’austérité ne s’avère être que l’une des nombreuses chimères du « Mirage spartiate ».
Mots-clés : Grèce antique, Sparte, Laconie, époque archaïque, époque classique, culture matérielle, céramologie, histoire des représentations, historiographie, iconographie
Abstract
Studying the history of Sparta raises the question of the sources. In addition to the weakness of the available written documentation, occurs the problem of the "Spartan Mirage", that is to say the construction of a historiographical discourse characterised by idealization phenomena, in particular by ancient authors who are usually not Spartans. Although the latter has been patiently deconstructed since F. Ollier's work, it is worth noting that it was mainly based on literary testimonia, while archaeological realia remained little exploited. The laconian vases, figured or not, nevertheless constitute a source that can be analysed in the context of a historical frame. This study proposes to return to one of the essential aspects of the "Mirage", the spartan austerity, whose creation is generally placed during the 6th century. The production of laconian black figures, which experienced its peak of production and decline during this period, constitutes a privileged field of experimentation to restate the terms of the debate. The cross-checking of this data with the texts on the one hand and the contemporary material culture on the other – black glazed vases, bronzes, reliefs, lead and ivory figurines – makes it possible to conduct a comparative approach. The search for parallels in the contemporary ceramic series of Athens, Corinth or Boeotia finally offers a way to put in perspective the specificity of the spartan case. Finally, austerity turns out to be only one of the numerous chimeras of the "Spartan Mirage".
Keywords: Ancient Greece, Sparta, Laconia, Archaic period, Classical period, material culture, ceramology, history of representations, historiography, iconography
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Topics presented fall within the wide-range of the Fellows’ research interests and address in particular the themes of their own projects.
The talks are aimed at providing opportunity for debate and discussion.
Attendance of young scholars and students is particularly encouraged. However, the talks are open to everyone interested.
Up to 50 attendees will be admitted.
To participate, attendees must register by filling up the following form:
Google: https://forms.gle/iqAjFoyj49A7cX2X6
The seminars can also be followed online, via Zoom.
Please email us about 24 hours before each appointments at
IASAseminars2022@gmail.com
and we will send you the link to attend the lecture online.
Thank you!