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The adventure of human curiosity: Travelling from antiquity to modern recreation

The Athens Dialogues

Dates

Prices

Free admission

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Friday
Time
10:00
Venue
Main Stage

Information

Tickets

Entrance to all the events in the “Talks and Thoughts” Cycle is free and on a first come, first served basis.
The distribution of entrance tickets begins one (1) hour before each event.

Language

Simultaneous translation is provided in the case of speakers using a language other than Greek.

Prominent scientists from around the world as well as from Greece will participate in this event.

Discovering the unknown, concern about survival but also war, colonization and commerce became the driving force for the need to travel throughout the course of human history. Traveling fulfills one of the most profound human needs for mobility, discovery and ultimately evolution.

The Roman road system was developed in order to achieve better communication within the empire but at the same time marked a revolution in the form of travel and movement. These routes were preserved throughout Late Antiquity and in some cases became part of the pilgrimage routes of the Middle Ages.

Travel continued to evolve along with the technological and cultural innovations and it drastically affects related developments. Financial and cultural welfare of contemporary man created the sense of travel for recreation and as a consequence the industry of tourism.

The purpose of the colloquium is to explore the human need for adventure as expressed in antiquity through the texts of Pausanias, the pilgrimage travel of the Middle Ages, travel in the age of Romanticism, to the modern form of travel for pleasure.

Credits

  • Speaker

    Petros Themelis, Professor of Classical Archeology, University of Crete

  • Speaker

    Richard Stoneman, Honorary Visiting Professor, University of Exeter

  • Speaker

    Antigoni Zournatzi, Historian, Archeologist, Senior Researcher of the National Hellenic Research Foundation

  • Speaker

    Gary Vikan, Former Director of the Walters Art Museum

  • Speaker

    Veronica Della Dora, Senior Lecturer in Geographies of Knowledge, Bristol University

  • Speaker

    George Tolias, Director of research at the Institute for Historical Research / NHRF

  • Speaker

    Alexandre Farnoux, Director of the French Archaeological School in Athens

  • Speaker

    Maria Kostaridou, Historian, Researcher and professor of English Literature

  • Speaker

    Ioli Vingopoulou, Researcher Institute for Neohellenic Research/ NHRF

  • Speaker

    John Walton, Research Professor, Ikerbasque Foundation, University of Bilbao

  • Speaker

    Magia Tsokli, Journalist, Co-creator of a Travelling TV programme called “Travelling with Magia Tsokli”

  • Speaker

    Ismini Morou, Executive in the travel industry, Coordinator of the tourist services DIMAR

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