YORK UNIVERSITY

PROGRAMME IN CLASSICAL STUDIES

Dr. ELENA ISAYEV

(Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter)

will give a lecture, illustrated with slides, on

“Ancient Lucania:

Settlement Identity and the Cult of Mefitis

in South Italy”

THURSDAY 28 APRIL 4.30 – 6.00 p.m.

HISTORY DEPARTMENT COMMON ROOM (2183 Vari Hall)

Dr. Isayev’s publications include 'The role of the indigenous centres in Lucania and their collapse in the IIIrd c. BC', in E. Lo Cascio & A. Storchi Marino (eds), Modalità insediative e strutture agrarie nella Italia meridionale in età romana (Bari 2001), 107 – 128. Her book, Italic communities in Lucania: Social Organization and Political Forms, fourth to first century BC, will be published later this year as a BICS (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies) supplementary volume