Sarah Morris, Steinmetz Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture, University of California, Los Angeles, will be presenting Out of Anatolia: The Trojan War from Hatti to Hissarlik for the Department of Classics' 2024 Townsend Lecture Series.

III. From Ilion to Hissarlik: The Evolution of Troy as a Sacred Landscape

Finally, the site itself (known as Hissarlik in Ottoman times) evolved as a place of memory, a dimension already active in the Iliad and built into the aftermath of its Bronze Age destruction. Troy became the locus of ritual activity focused on ruins, then a new foundation as Greek and Roman Ilion, site of shrines and cults for heroes and god and their festivals, and a destination of pilgrimage for visitors Hellenic and foreign, throughout its lasting history.

Reception to follow in Statler Hotel.

Lecture I: Out of Anatolia: The Prehistory of the Trojan War

Lecture II: Parallel Lives of Homeric Heroes: Epic Adventures Beyond Troy and Athens