UNCA to Host Talk on the Greek Temple of Apollo

UNC Asheville will host a talk on "The Recently Discovered Archaic Temple of Apollo in Thessaly" by Manolis Korres at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, in UNCA’s Owen Conference Center. Korres, a prominent archaeologist, is a professor at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. The event is free and open to the public.

The recently discovered Temple of Apollo was built between 600-480 B.C.E. This time period represents an important developmental phase in Greek architecture and marks the first evidence of Greek temples constructed entirely out stone. It was a period of experimentation, documented by only a few remaining temples in Greece and elsewhere in the Mediterranean.

Korres is the current American Institute of Archeology’s Samuel H. Kress lecturer. Since 1975, he has participated in the Ministry of Culture of the Hellenic Republic’s program of studies on the structural restoration of the Acropolis monuments. For the past 20 years, Korres and his team have identified thousands of Parthenon fragments from some 70,000 pieces of stone scattered about the Acropolis. He is the author of several books and holds doctorates from the National Technical University of Athens and the Freie University in Berlin.

The talk is co-sponsored by UNCA’s Classics Department and the American Institute of Archaeology.

For more information, call Laurel Taylor, UNCA adjunct professor of classics, at 828/251-6466.

Media Contacts:

• Dr. Laurel Taylor, UNCA Adjunct Professor of Classics, 828/251-6466
• Jill Yarnall, UNCA Public Information Assistant Director, 828/251-6526